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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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  • Interesting question. I have always struggled with modern technology too but for a different reason. I know how to use it I just don't see it as a valuable or good thing and I find too much time in front of it is overwhelming and bad for my mental health. I think it's actually bad for most people's mental health but sadly the world in general doesn't seem to see that

    I think there may be an element of autism to it. I think too much technology and screen time can be overstimulating for the autistic brain 

  • in reply to Billy87

    No Billy, I just don't understand it. I also don't understand the attraction so many people seem to have with it, I've looked at other peoples faceache and stuff and I just don't see the attraction, I see annoying distractions and I really don;t see the need to look at pictures of other peoples dinners. Nor do I see the attraction of you tube, I know some people find it useful for finding out how to do thngs, but I don't, I find it confusing, the adverts awful, the music accompanying so many vidios makes me want to kill things, so I don't use it at all, I know that makes me weird and possibly unique here, but thats how it is.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I also don't understand the attraction so many people seem to have with it

    I completely agree with you. I see people spending their whole lives on their phones and I feel baffed, I think what can you find on there that is so interesting? But then when I have a phone in my pocket I end up wasting some of my time on it so I guess it is simply addictive. People feeding an addiction rarely enjoy the thing they are addicted to, that is the very nature of addiction. 

    I agree that everything is very distracting. I think there is definitely an element that it exacerbates some of the neurological things us autists struggle with, flashing lights, constant distractions, flicking from one thing to the other, absolutely destroys NT minds let alone autistic ones 

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I also don't understand the attraction so many people seem to have with it

    I completely agree with you. I see people spending their whole lives on their phones and I feel baffed, I think what can you find on there that is so interesting? But then when I have a phone in my pocket I end up wasting some of my time on it so I guess it is simply addictive. People feeding an addiction rarely enjoy the thing they are addicted to, that is the very nature of addiction. 

    I agree that everything is very distracting. I think there is definitely an element that it exacerbates some of the neurological things us autists struggle with, flashing lights, constant distractions, flicking from one thing to the other, absolutely destroys NT minds let alone autistic ones 

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