Published on 12, July, 2020
I wish I were automatically able to multi-task without having to struggle at it - even though multi-tasking is something that is not possible for those on the autism spectrum. I also wish people would stop with the lack of empathy! I just wish my parents would stop accusing me of making excuses for myself when I clearly find myself becoming overwhelmed as a result of sensory overload. It's not that I don't use my brain OR that my head isn't screwed on properly. Having an autistic brain means that I struggle to get my fragile brain to work the same way as that of a neurotypical. I try to think before carrying out any type of task - I only end up going into sensory overload followed by meltdowns/shutdowns. I don’t get why life is so meaningless and unpleasant for someone with my mental condition.
I don't expect to be able to cope when I start living on my own - I see myself being unable to cope with life. I'm not even keen on living in any house or apartment, I am considering looking at residential mental health care facilities for autistic adults until I get referred for mental health support and provided with a special needs mental health team.
** A D V I S O R Y A N D C A U T I O N A R Y N O T E **
Dear fellow human members of the NAS community, and those who have contributed below.......
Whilst I do not deny that useful comments and discussions can flow from these (95% certainty) bot-instigated threads, I think it is wise to be increasingly aware of "what" has started a discussion......and "what" the motivations for "it" doing so might be.
For the uninitiated (ie those people who are not aware of my fascination with bot activity in this place).......a reliable tell for a certain class of bot, is when the OP displays zero "points" to their name, despite posting that OP - and they often have a reasonably long rap-sheet of previous OP instigations.....but NEVER respond to anyone, ever.
It isn't just the machines watching us......some of us watch the machines, that appear to have been tasked with watching us......because knowledge is power, folks. Just because I might be paranoid, doesn't mean that there is no reason to be so.
With warm human sentiment towards keeping us all as safe as possible in this mad, mad world,
Number.
Oh how fascinating. I didn't know what that was for or how points were added. LOL
I guess I rarely care seeing that it's been zero times any code has been able to predict what I'm saying, looking for, attempting to do, let alone understanding what I'm trying to communicate. I think they're programmed to understand NT nuance and drifts in linguistics. But thanks for the tip!
JuniperFromGallifrey said:I think they're programmed to understand NT nuance and drifts in linguistics.
So...harvesting information to enable better imitation of humans then...to understand and predict the masses better....see how they all tick.....what motivates them and elevates them, and how they will demonstrate which emotions, at what speed...and for what duration etc etc......?
We can see how easily "jumpy" the world is at the moment, and I'm not sure that helping some anonymous corporate data shed to further their seemingly fantastical vision of our futures is something that I can passively pass without observing with fascinated horror and amateur slouthing, worthy of The Secret Seven or the Famous Five.
I wonder if waterstones will come a-nosing now?
I do appreciate that I may seem odd to many, in many regards.
Your welcome, kin folk!
We can agree to disagree on this one then. I believe in the mathematics involved with being able to harness "the wisdom of the crowd", ie with a large enough sample size and simple but laborious computation, significant advantage over that "sample" is readily available to whomever.
I think it is a widely held, widespread and dangerous misconception to think that, if "personal data" is kept separate then the other resultant information is somehow made benign.
As you might imagine, I could go on.....but it gets boring for everyone....so I'll fold up the soap box....till the next time.
But you can't harvest the RIGHT information if your code or formula is off. Change a variable and the interpretation of the out come will be wrong.
I tend to think of this this way: I'm worlds more complex than a programme. I can sense NT social nuance and catch on enough at this point to understand. To a degree. But I still can't quite always play along. What's more, is the historic wealth of info on Non-autistics lining the shelves of libraries, not yet online. Being able to put all the pieces together might be something a programme could do - but only if prompted. And there's too many things remaining secret to get the Right results by asking the Right questions. Even mining in this thread, we've successfully created all kinds of wrong computations. That only Autistics would notice. LOL