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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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  • Hi Craig, I'm 53 and quite ok with modern tech generally, although I struggle with instruction books! Maybe its what you've grown up with, I have computers/consoles from primary school age and feel pretty comfortable with them. 

  • in reply to White_Dragon

    You're 10 years younger than me and you had computers in primary school? We didn't even have them in secondary school, my school had none at all, the top maths group were allowd to go to the adjoining boys schools to have one lesson a week in computers, it was all hole punch cards back then.

    I remember my dad getting a digital watch and a calculator, I remember transistor radio's small enough to be hidden under the bed covers, and listening to Radio Luxemburg at night. I was in my teens when cash machines started to make an appearance.

    All this stuff makes me feel so old, I feel like a resurected ancient artifact.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    You're 10 years younger than me and you had computers in primary school?

    I'm 58 and from a similar area to you (small town on the west coast of Scotland) and we had BBC Micros in school for us to practice programming on.

    I think these were probably the first reasonable priced commercial computer a school could buy so you missed it by aout 5 years from the looks of things.

    TheCatWoman said:
    All this stuff makes me feel so old, I feel like a resurected ancient artifact.

    I just see it as valuable learning material from having seen what worked well and what didn't from wave after wave of technology adoption over the decades. The lessons learned back then are still very relevant now at the people side of things.

    Using this sort of project management approach (the lessons learned and applied side) has given me quite and advantage over my peers in my career.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    You're 10 years younger than me and you had computers in primary school?

    I'm 58 and from a similar area to you (small town on the west coast of Scotland) and we had BBC Micros in school for us to practice programming on.

    I think these were probably the first reasonable priced commercial computer a school could buy so you missed it by aout 5 years from the looks of things.

    TheCatWoman said:
    All this stuff makes me feel so old, I feel like a resurected ancient artifact.

    I just see it as valuable learning material from having seen what worked well and what didn't from wave after wave of technology adoption over the decades. The lessons learned back then are still very relevant now at the people side of things.

    Using this sort of project management approach (the lessons learned and applied side) has given me quite and advantage over my peers in my career.

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