Do you ever get days when you feel even more autistic?

I think today is one of those days, although to be honest I'm feeling mroe and more disconnected from the world in general. I feel like there are very different overlapping worlds, theres one where people live in large urban areas, especially within the M25, where all sort of cultural things happen, theres better public transport and services. People have trendy clothes and make-up, go on holidays to exotic places, etc. Theres the one I live in, rural, low tech, fewer services, little culture, little money, few shops and over run with tourists who treat us like servants. I suspect theres another one or two in the middle, but I don't know what they are.

I don't know if I should be concerned at my disconnection? It's no good asking others because they will answer depending on how they live thier own lives and how these two or more world intersect for them and on how they'd like to live.

I suppose I am concerned about it or I would write about it so much, or maybe a better word would be confused, everything's changing so fast I really can't keep up and there seems no way of keeping up, even getting a new telly seems to need a degree to understand and nobody seems able to anser a straight question either.

Some of this is just age. Even NTs get set in their ways, less flexible and more conservative as they get older.

It is not helped by a lot of the new services, features and options not really making things better. It's why some die out, others get revised etc. A lot of the change is either done for the sake of it to get people to buy more stuff, to promote new services you don't want, or to drive down costs to improve profit margin. The job of the marketing people is then to convince you that you need it all, when you don't.

When you are younger you associate it all with progress because you don't know any different.

I also get concerned about being left behind so am trying to catch up with some things I have resisted for years. But I am a Luddite even though I work in tech.

I think you just need to be clear about what you need to run your life and do what you want, then focus on them, and ignore the rest.

No-one can answer questions about stuff because it is too complicated and they don't make it, they just sell the boxes that they bought in.

I'm sure some of it is age, but I don't agree that some things can't be explained as they're to complicated, I think people have a script that they cannot deviate from, like the woman who said I could pop into the mobile phone shop and they'd show me how to answer calls, I asked if she thought the person would still be calling, but the time I'd driven 20 miles, parked and waled to the shop? Or do you do these shoes in a size 8? It's not a difficult questions really is it? I don't expect to be told to look on their website, also websites lie, they say they do things that the person in store say they don't do.

I'm sure some of it is age, but I don't agree that some things can't be explained as they're to complicated, I think people have a script that they cannot deviate from, like the woman who said I could pop into the mobile phone shop and they'd show me how to answer calls, I asked if she thought the person would still be calling, but the time I'd driven 20 miles, parked and waled to the shop? Or do you do these shoes in a size 8? It's not a difficult questions really is it? I don't expect to be told to look on their website, also websites lie, they say they do things that the person in store say they don't do.

Sorry, my response was poorly worded.

Things are not too complicated to be explained by someone that knows what they are talking about. The issue is the average store person is not that person.

Either people in the store don't actually know because they are just there to shift boxes and have no involvement in the product, or they are not paid enough to get the right calibre of staff, or they don't care and are not trained and just say yes to get the sale.