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Struggling with Modern technology

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All my adult life, I've struggled with Modern Technology and I'm wondering if this is autism related, I was diagnosed as autistic last August and I am currently struggling with adding contacts on my Yahoo mail contacts list via ,mobile phone and I gave up in frustration that I can't work out how to do it.

is it because I'm a 52 year old man and Modern Technology is for the younger generation or is it definitely Autism related?

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  • If its any consolation to anyone, I became even more of a "technophobe" after I was automatically deemed a "computer whiz" due to being labelled with Aspergers Syndrome, and being criticised, moaned at, whinged at, and even having threats of violence made against me because I didn't have the faintest idea how to repair someone's computer problem.

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  • If its any consolation to anyone, I became even more of a "technophobe" after I was automatically deemed a "computer whiz" due to being labelled with Aspergers Syndrome, and being criticised, moaned at, whinged at, and even having threats of violence made against me because I didn't have the faintest idea how to repair someone's computer problem.

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  • in reply to mp500

    I'm definately becoming more technophobic, all these things that are supposed to be intuitive and aren't, well they might be if you have every previous model. I just end up feeling frustrated and disheartened before I even start, wondering what new hell I'm about to have inflicted on me and how much more complcated its all going to be?

    It wouldn't be so bad if I felt I had any choice in the it, but any ability to chose is being rapidly eroded, with no real way to to do anything other than get someone else to do it for me, which I don't have, or walk away, which is getting more and more difficult.