Published on 12, July, 2020
I need to write, my brain is bursting with ideas and I need an outlet for them. I am not a historian, but I think britain is screwing itself, how many old people want to go back to the old ways, long for the old ways of doing things. The problem with that is the philosophy was all about fitting in now there is a problem with this. Neurodivergence. Human brains are fundamentally different. So you force everybody to fit in then you can't let people access their full strengths. Especially neurodivergent people, how much of their energy has been wasted because they were using that energy to fit in instead of finding ways to use their brain to their own advantage. Neurotypical people with their neurotypicalness have more flexible brains which means they can mimic what neurodivergent people have inherently and achieve great success by also having social skills, the problem with this is I think it was working at reduced efficiency. Neurodivergent brains are designed for a purpose whereas neurotypical people have to train themselves to do what neurodivergent brains can already do. What if we focused instead on improving the advantages of neurodivergent brains, What heights can we achieve then. There is a fundamental problem with making everyone fit in and not taking risks, you disadvantage people with ADHD, they are explorers natural risk takers, they are 300% more likely to start their own business, it is not a genetic flaw, it is a genetic necessity in order to improve we need to be willing to take risks, but if these people are forced out then that means that less people are willing to take risks which means eventually we decline because we always take the safe option. So in order to change this we need to actually improve the awareness and diagnosing around neuroivergence, because it is not just an individual issue it is a societal issue, in the case of ADHD medication can have a dramatic effect on peoples lives, but it needs to be combined with appropriate help in order to let them perform at their best. I think I read Richard Branson has ADHD, how many people with ADHD are locked up because they don't have a diagnosis or can't access treatment when instead their minds can be used to improve society as a whole with the correct measures. The things about old people is what happened in the past led us to where we are, not willing to take risks means we didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had because we took the short-term safe option, because there were no risk takers as they were all driven out, they caused our decline and they are now blaming it on us because they f*cked up, with their neurotypical idiocy. Alan Turing, helped with cracking the german navy's enigma code, and yet he had to spend a decent portion of his energy hiding his homosexuality. (Not neurodivergence but the same principle) What lunacy, what could have happened if he was able to just be him and he was allowed to perform at his best. How much more advanced could we be as a society, this is why we are declining because we aren't allowing people to take advantage of their full strengths which is utter lunacy. Another problem is dyslexia and dyscalclia, if we build a society around information and computers, then that means we must be limiting who can access this information. Their brains must be amazing at certain things, I think for dyslexia it is visual spatial stuff and yet they are not able to access their strength because our society is built around exams and test taking and writing, so we can't access their abilities because they are being driven out. This is utter idiocy. The number one priority of this country should be neurodivergence, what could happen if everybody was allowed to perform at their fullest instead of being handicapped and letting neurotypical who can fit in take advantage of this. Neurotypical make complicated systems to screw over neurodivergent people but they are actually screwing over themselves because neurodivergent people are necessary, and then they have the bl**dy gall to blame their failings on neurodivergent people. Screw them. They are responsible for their failings and it is because of the underappreciated neurodivergent that probably made the wheels keep turning with any thanks that we actually got anywhere, with their incompetence running the country. How many of the things that actually made britain great was because of neurodivergent people, whose ideas were stolen by neurotypical people. Rant over.
LucyLandRover said:you are so observant in your comment on the older generation still voting for the Torys
I'd like to see some stats on this.
Of course, some will but lots won't.
I'm a Labour voter and so are my friends (all 2 of them).
My friends in the past were Labour voters and I see no reason as they age for them to suddenly become Tory.
I think that this idea is using too broad a brush to colour people, personally.
Baked Potato,
you are so observant in your comment on the older generation still voting for the Torys. Of course, they get the benefits while we suffer. I am fed up of hearing there is no money when we have record numbers of billionaires. Why not tax them for a change?
Desmond79 said:All because Guardian Readers are now Kingmakers.
Nonsense.
If you think Guardian readers have any influence, you haven't been paying attention.
Also that isn't banter, that is just hurtful comments, it might have been ok then but I think it is a good thing it is not ok now, there are better uses of your time then just being mean.
Having grown up when offensiveness was taken for granted (1970s) I agree.
Well I’m thinking of you and I hope it gets better for you
I know, I am angry and not thinking properly which is why I intended to hibernate but that isn't going so well.
I think you’re putting a lot of words on Desmond’s mouth here and in the process doing what you say he shouldn’t - telling people how they should be.
You can say all of those things if you want. Has someone been prosecuted for them?
I think us men can find enjoyment in many other things.
I don't like this one bit, the things that men enjoy have usually come at the cost of others, always at the cost of others and now they have a voice you are getting angry at them, how many attrocities have been commited by men, that we haven't heard about because people had no voice to speak up, this is not ok. People should be allowed to speak up and say what they want, but those words shouldn't be used to hurt other people. If you enjoyment is through hurting other people that is not ok, it might have been ok in the past, but I don't think it should be now. Why do you have to hold an image in your head of what men should enjoy, men should be this way, women should behave this way, it hurts people, you may not see it but they are suffering. Trying to hold themselves to this idea, that is not ok to be just them, when they are perfectly fine as they are. (I loved key he quans character (don't know the exact spelling sorry) in everything everywhere all at once, he wasn't manly and I liked that, he was goofy, I want to be like that) Society should be more accepting, it is not just the governments fault, yes it has flaws, but so does everything else, the purpose of a government should be to hold businesses and people to account for a collective good and business also have their role in society it is not an either or, or effort should be on improving both so they can hold each other to account instead of campaiging to abolish one. Improvements take time and effort and just shouting get rid of it isn't helping the problem we have got to understand the flaws, which takes times, be willing to be open about mistakes, and say I can do better, I can be better. I love this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjMqda19wk . People should be allowed to be themselves, and accepted for their differences, we may not agree on certain things, which is a good thing there will be no improvement if there wasn't friction that causes things to change, But missing being able to hurt other people isn't a good thing, pining for the good ol days, was usually only good for you and there were a lot of people that were hurt that were silenced in those days. It is ok to make mistakes but it is not ok to stay stuck, you have got to be flexible willing to change. It is isolating being stuck in your own head wishing things were different when if you just opened your eyes, you could see maybe this isn't perfect, but I can be happy with what I have, it is not all about me, it is also about society as a whole, and everybodies voice should be heard not just the loudest, or the the group with the largest number of people, but everybodies, that should be the point of our society, when everybody is truly equal, they can be free to be them at a small cost of not being able to hurt others.
Someone asked Jessica McCabe, the creator of How to ADHD, this "Is there room among the woke, for those still waking" I loved that, it is not about being perfect, making mistakes is ok, as long as you learn from them.
Being an older Irish gay man, raised a Catholic in Rural Republic of Ireland, 30 years in supermarket retailing in both my native Ireland and here in the U.K., living in Dublin for 3 years, living 21 years in a socially deprived area of Manchester, I’ve seen Ireland fall far harder and faster in many respects than even here in the U.K. in all of my years coming home to family on visits to Ireland, even before Covid, but this process has massively accelerated since Covid and the changes that have happened have been frankly heartbreaking, so I do empathise with the original poster as an Irish Catholic patriot - my traditional Irish Catholic faith at this point is the only thing that sustains me at age 53 and even though I don’t have children myself, it is doubly heartbreaking what is happening to the actual babies of today, as I clearly see what we are losing compared to my own childhood in the 1970’s and my teens in the 1980’s - I’m only too well aware of what the lives of the babies of today will be like if or when they reach their teens, let alone reach adulthood long after I’m gone, as they will never get to experience the simple pleasures and freedoms that we once had at that age, even though my childhood and teens were not perfect, yet Covid was a massive wake up call to all of us, just like 9/11, the 2008/2009 credit crunch, Y2K, the 1960’s, etc - I honestly believe and maintain that no earthly efforts of sinful, disobedient, wilful, ungovernable, imperfect mankind can nor will ever resolve this nor turn this situation around, instead, I truly believe that only direct divine intervention can possibly hope to defeat the evil that is in complete control of our world right now - we are dealing with far greater enemies than we have ever dealt with at any point in our history, recorded or otherwise
Desmond79 said:We can longer call Chelsea Fans Rent Boys, of Liverpool Fans Thieving Scousers, without Prosecution
That must be devastating for you.
It's such a pity that being offensive isn't mandated.
The problem is Government ITSELF. Intruding in people's daily lives. Nowadays, you can no longer have banter; due to the PC Brigade. We can longer call Chelsea Fans Rent Boys, of Liverpool Fans Thieving Scousers, without Prosecution. All because Guardian Readers are now Kingmakers.
Anything that Men enjoy has been emasculated, by Cultural Marxism.
Terrible. It happened to me last year, more my fault for agreeing to help from MH services. I hope things change in the future. Hospital is no place for an autistic person.
It is not just the last 13 years, it is fundamentally the problem with our governmental system that has led to this, the news always goes on about small things like luke littler, but there are big things going on that require time to digest but the internet has fucked peoples attention spans, so they can't spend the time learning about how f*cked we are. Sorry about this, this comment is not for you I didn't know who else to reply to. Also tax cuts are fucking idiotic, they should be investing in the infrastructure of this country, through schools, and so on, then companies will want to work here and will invest in the people of this country, but it takes a lot of money and a risk, and the government can't do that because the next one will just change it. They aren't willing to take a long-term bet to benefit this country instead of their party. They might still win, because they won brexit, which is fundamentally because Britain is taught around the idea our past was great, the great british empire, nationalism and superiority and we don't look towards the future for what next, so caught up in the past. This is also the fault of universities for being so caught up in their ivory towers that none of the stuff they actually do makes a difference to this world until a 100 years down the line, because they believe it is for the privileged, they lock information away, there is a divide between their research and what could actually help this country, I understand that is a bit silly complaining about their long termness but I feel like there is a better use for their minds, solving problems that are occuring right now then ones hundred years down the line, where it probably won't even be found it will just be rediscovered when needed.
Unfortunately it's still happening
https://community.autism.org.uk/f/mental-health-and-wellbeing/34760/break-the-cycle-campaign---more-than-6-in-10-people-detained-in-mental-health-units-are-autistic
Yeah that's true. Fifty years ago if you were autistic and didn't hide it you were detained and treated in hospital in some cases. At least now we can be ourselves without fear of that happening. Though neurotypicals don't understand at least we don't have to hide who we are.
I’m not saying everything is great, but almost every measure is vastly better than 50 years ago.
Change is inevitable, but sometimes it's just for the sake of change.
My generation were the Guinea Pigs for today's Social Experiment. Convincing us that we will lead the Revolution. Only to be shafted by endless war and debt.
TV gave with one hand, then took with the other.
They don't see the problems, just a vision of a productive country, built upon their perception of the Golden Age - Victorian England. There, people had few rights and no welfare provision. Most people lived in poverty. Most could not afford medical care. Most were not, nor could ever hope to be, house owners.
Workers rights did not exist. Human rights did not exist. The standard of living for most was impossibly low by today's standards. Charity, funded by individuals who cared about those less fortunate than themselves, kept people alive for a time, the most destitute. There were Workhouses, for the desperate, deliberately made as unpleasant as possible, in order to determine those who would seek shelter there.
For the wealthy, however, it was a true Golden Age. Opportunity abounded to create and enhance their wealth with cheap labour, vast property or manufacturing empires.
For the country was, if unjust, certainly productive.
Britannia Unchained.
13 years of austerity, corruption, incompetence, and failed leadership
Ah, but never fear! Our Glorious Leader has just announced his latest vision- 'Control' benefits and public spending to fund a tax cut for hard-working people!
So, no investment then. And the poorest and most vulnerable in society? Forced into work or ... well, whatever.
They assume the charity sector will save them.
With this they hope to win the next GE.