As the title says.
Yes I would!!! I just want to be normal and accepted in the world. Being ASD is tiring and not a lot of fun half the time. My time at school was awful from the start to end because I was singled out for being different, no one wanted to know me because of that difference and it's kind of like it in adulthood as well. I would give anything to change the way I am.
There are quite a few good philosophies out there interrogating psychoanalysis and what is "Typical". I used to wish I was more like everyone until I started becoming irritated with how many are content to behave and live life.
My summary is this: For the most part, Autistic thinking can escape majority programming (even if immediately swept into mass hypnosis, things don't tend to 'stick'). Autistic and ADHD hyper-sense could help bring a balance to technology.
***As a reminder: everything is in a sort of degree or intensity, so nothing is really an absolute, but a soft polarity. We can have added disabilities further hindering growth.
The origin of Neurosis (previously said to be the Typical State of Being Human) had to do with being better suited to send and receive information with the majority in a collective, to be able to predict a social atmosphere, and therefore somewhat project expectations of others through learned social response.
When this perception is skewed by trauma or a lack of discipline / maturity, it might create social anxiety, presuming to know what others are thinking and feeling, projecting into their words and expecting others to also read my mind. At another extreme, it can cause a sense of feeling 'too much' like everyone else along with a fear of being too different and marginalised. I wish I was authentic AND I am terrified to do anything too unique. At yet another extreme, one might find irritation with hierarchies and revolt in small obscure or even rather dark ways which render ethics useless: what can I get away with, how can I manipulate the social system. Using fluid words to play with meaning and so on. In certain cases, neurosis can become a psychosis. One empathises with everyone and lacks compassion using their ability to relate as a mechanism to dominate.
It's beens suggested this social wiring is Left-hemisphere stuff. And at the expense of critical thinking to the degree it can more easily override bias (with the correct instruction)
What is also Typical historically speaking, is Desensitisation or Filtering Out unwanted 'noise' (noise can include scent, sight, and on. It can be the opposite of Active Listening)
Desensitisation is thought to go hand-in-hand with Repression of... motives, drives, or instinct. Contrast this from engaging a survival mode of withdrawal for safety or shutting down from overwhelm. It's a habitual practice turned intuitive and a sort of internal gaslighting. The psyche intentionally displaces a problem so the solution is 'fixable' creating a sense of resolution. "something smells off, adverts have reminded me it's probably a lack of scented things which smell good". So instead of cleaning or professionally checking a room for VOCs or other harmful smells one buys candles and incense, plug-ins and such which might contain formaldehyde or other toxic chemicals. Cutting oneself on repeat ends with a plaster rather than blunting the sharp object. Headaches require a prescription rather than exploring potential stress or too much of a vitamin / mineral producing a warning signal in the body. And so on.
I've spoken with those who believe desensitisation is an evolutionary advantage to get along in our society. While I understand this, I 100% disagree. It may be a necessary evil, and some people are better wired to filter out harmful frequencies, but it seems to me natures way of "weeding" out danger at an elevated pace. In other words, not an advantage but perhaps evolutionary.
Which doesn't imply we're not all susceptible. It simply means the ability to notice can advocate for a human approach to life which is compatible with our Mother Earth. For instance, One reason I try to buy natural fibres, including wools is due to microfibres in forms of water: Ocean and Air, and toxic waste. Wool is highly sustainable and more temperature regulating for humans than most other fibres, and requires a working-with/caring for nature. But we're also finding the negative effects of toxic agents in polys being absorbed by our skin.
The real issue here is the ability to pay attention to our sense-response needs to be Valued by our mentors and care-takers, so to help teach how to listen to this information and how to further investigate why or how, so to be better prepared and equipped to protect oneself from harm.
Being Autistic can come with all sorts of issues. But there are advantages which have simply become MORE ignored in our present reality due to a change of values in society.
We can desensitise through prescriptions, but all magic has a price. I'm not sure the degree of re-wiring which may be possible as it's not even explored. No one is asking the right questions and... anyone taking a type of mushroom capable of messing with brain wiring and signalling are saying they've found a momentary freedom from Neurosis.
There are quite a few good philosophies out there interrogating psychoanalysis and what is "Typical". I used to wish I was more like everyone until I started becoming irritated with how many are content to behave and live life.
My summary is this: For the most part, Autistic thinking can escape majority programming (even if immediately swept into mass hypnosis, things don't tend to 'stick'). Autistic and ADHD hyper-sense could help bring a balance to technology.
***As a reminder: everything is in a sort of degree or intensity, so nothing is really an absolute, but a soft polarity. We can have added disabilities further hindering growth.
The origin of Neurosis (previously said to be the Typical State of Being Human) had to do with being better suited to send and receive information with the majority in a collective, to be able to predict a social atmosphere, and therefore somewhat project expectations of others through learned social response.
When this perception is skewed by trauma or a lack of discipline / maturity, it might create social anxiety, presuming to know what others are thinking and feeling, projecting into their words and expecting others to also read my mind. At another extreme, it can cause a sense of feeling 'too much' like everyone else along with a fear of being too different and marginalised. I wish I was authentic AND I am terrified to do anything too unique. At yet another extreme, one might find irritation with hierarchies and revolt in small obscure or even rather dark ways which render ethics useless: what can I get away with, how can I manipulate the social system. Using fluid words to play with meaning and so on. In certain cases, neurosis can become a psychosis. One empathises with everyone and lacks compassion using their ability to relate as a mechanism to dominate.
It's beens suggested this social wiring is Left-hemisphere stuff. And at the expense of critical thinking to the degree it can more easily override bias (with the correct instruction)
What is also Typical historically speaking, is Desensitisation or Filtering Out unwanted 'noise' (noise can include scent, sight, and on. It can be the opposite of Active Listening)
Desensitisation is thought to go hand-in-hand with Repression of... motives, drives, or instinct. Contrast this from engaging a survival mode of withdrawal for safety or shutting down from overwhelm. It's a habitual practice turned intuitive and a sort of internal gaslighting. The psyche intentionally displaces a problem so the solution is 'fixable' creating a sense of resolution. "something smells off, adverts have reminded me it's probably a lack of scented things which smell good". So instead of cleaning or professionally checking a room for VOCs or other harmful smells one buys candles and incense, plug-ins and such which might contain formaldehyde or other toxic chemicals. Cutting oneself on repeat ends with a plaster rather than blunting the sharp object. Headaches require a prescription rather than exploring potential stress or too much of a vitamin / mineral producing a warning signal in the body. And so on.
I've spoken with those who believe desensitisation is an evolutionary advantage to get along in our society. While I understand this, I 100% disagree. It may be a necessary evil, and some people are better wired to filter out harmful frequencies, but it seems to me natures way of "weeding" out danger at an elevated pace. In other words, not an advantage but perhaps evolutionary.
Which doesn't imply we're not all susceptible. It simply means the ability to notice can advocate for a human approach to life which is compatible with our Mother Earth. For instance, One reason I try to buy natural fibres, including wools is due to microfibres in forms of water: Ocean and Air, and toxic waste. Wool is highly sustainable and more temperature regulating for humans than most other fibres, and requires a working-with/caring for nature. But we're also finding the negative effects of toxic agents in polys being absorbed by our skin.
The real issue here is the ability to pay attention to our sense-response needs to be Valued by our mentors and care-takers, so to help teach how to listen to this information and how to further investigate why or how, so to be better prepared and equipped to protect oneself from harm.
Being Autistic can come with all sorts of issues. But there are advantages which have simply become MORE ignored in our present reality due to a change of values in society.
We can desensitise through prescriptions, but all magic has a price. I'm not sure the degree of re-wiring which may be possible as it's not even explored. No one is asking the right questions and... anyone taking a type of mushroom capable of messing with brain wiring and signalling are saying they've found a momentary freedom from Neurosis.
