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Out of touch with culture?

aurelis

Does anyone feel as if they are out of touch with their own culture? I’ve grown up and been told that I’m washed from my culture. I’ve grown up knowing some things from family etc, but I don’t know if my autism has stopped me from understanding my culture as something deep in my heart and soul. It doesn’t feel connected, and when others know more about my own culture, it makes me feel as if I should know more.

its like not knowing pop culture. But can I really start trying to „study” pop culture just so I can catch up. Is there even a way to catch up at all?

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  • What do you mean by culture?

    It normally means, history, traditions, customs, laws, traditional clothing, ways of speaking such as slang, even religion, etc.

    You can study all of those. People do. There are courses, degrees, you can do.

    By pop culture I suppose you mean things like media studies.

    While you can study this, you are normally immersed in it and just absorb it. No-one knows all of it, as no-one would want to know every music genre, so you would be part of a sub-culture. If you are not interested in any music genre, studying it will not make you part of it.

    Same for food and art. You can study them, but there has to be something you like and identify with.

    If you don't identify with, know about, like, believe in, get involved or interact with elements of a culture you will be an outsider, which means you won't feel you belong.

    I suppose in a multicultural society you end up with parts of several cultures so you don't belong to any. This is how new cultures are formed over time.

    I think most people don't worry about it too much.

  • in reply to Stuart333

    I think I don't feel connected to my own culture, and 'studying' it seems strange when my peers of the same culture don't feel they need to study it, they just are. They know the references and the food and the history in a natural depth that I have to pretend I know more of than I actually do. And studying it still makes me feel that I'm still not 'in' it.

  • in reply to aurelis
    aurelis said:
    I think I don't feel connected to my own culture, and 'studying' it seems strange when my peers of the same culture don't feel they need to study it, they just are.

    That is probably because the NT peers socialise and talk about this so they get to hear about it from others and make it the subject of conversations. A kind of osmosis effect from socialising.

    When us NDs don't socialise we miss out on this so if we want to remain informed and relevant then we need to do the study thing.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I personally believe so, but I also don't think that is true. And i think if keeping up with it means I start losing my own sense of self then that is probably not a good thing tbh.

    now i try to listen to radio 4, but because it is an easier way to get a broad sense of the different things that are happening in the world without trying too hard.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I personally believe so, but I also don't think that is true. And i think if keeping up with it means I start losing my own sense of self then that is probably not a good thing tbh.

    now i try to listen to radio 4, but because it is an easier way to get a broad sense of the different things that are happening in the world without trying too hard.

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