<p>Really enjoying listening to this as audiobook. Historical and Marxist look at how capitalism and industrialisation started demanding normalcy, segregating disabled people and neurodivergent people from the "norm". <br><a href="/tags/neurodivergent/" rel="tag">#neurodivergent</a> <a href="/tags/neurodiversity/" rel="tag">#neurodiversity</a> <br><a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> <a href="/tags/marxist/" rel="tag">#Marxist</a> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@actuallyadhd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyadhd</span></a></span></p>
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<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@actuallyadhd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>actuallyadhd</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p><p>Well, around 02:10, after opening NewPipe, downloading an ambient noise video & the app not giving the option of playback I tried Podcast Addict, the only viable option out of the 3 possible apps it offered for playback.<br>Okay, let's try for sleep, kill screen as any light just keeps me awake (my eyelids are like tissue paper). Problem, killing screen kills playback 😡.<br>I'm too tired, will look into what options to tweak in the morning or whenever.</p><p>I doze till about 04:30 as I need to roll over to relieve my bones & whatever else is aching. Try getting back to dozing... 30 odd minutes later, my body is deep frying me from the inside 😩.</p><p>Okay, I'm awake but I don't like it.<br>Can't believe how quickly I went thorough my notifications on here, replied to a few & back scrolled Home feed to see what I missed.<br>...</p><p>So now, what do I do?</p><p><a href="/tags/audhd/" rel="tag">#AuDHD</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyadhd/" rel="tag">#ActuallyADHD</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <br><a href="/tags/life/" rel="tag">#Life</a> <a href="/tags/sleep/" rel="tag">#Sleep</a> <a href="/tags/insomnia/" rel="tag">#Insomnia</a> <a href="/tags/sleepproblems/" rel="tag">#SleepProblems</a> <a href="/tags/tissuepapereyelids/" rel="tag">#TissuePaperEyelids</a> <a href="/tags/waferthineyelids/" rel="tag">#WaferThinEyelids</a> <br><a href="/tags/toowarm/" rel="tag">#TooWarm</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a> <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#Autism</a> <a href="/tags/neurodivergent/" rel="tag">#neurodivergent</a> <a href="/tags/adhd/" rel="tag">#ADHD</a> <a href="/tags/audhd/" rel="tag">#AuDHD</a></p>
<p>A gentle reminder that <a href="/tags/neurodiversity/" rel="tag">#neurodiversity</a> is a thing, and the diversity of cognitive neurotypes means that the sweeping generalization you just made about human nature is probably wrong.</p><p>No, not everyone thinks the same way, or even sees the world the same way. But public discourse almost always ignores and excludes <a href="/tags/neurodivergent/" rel="tag">#neurodivergent</a> (ND) folk from the conversation. Our needs are not considered and our opinions are not respected, if the neurotypical (NT) majority even remembers we exist.</p><p>I feel strongly that the path to fixing the world goes through embracing neurodiversity and making the world more inclusive of all neurotypes. The world has been the playground of the NT majority for all of recorded history, and we've seen how that goes.</p><p><a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a> people often talk about our need for justice, or even fairness. There's a study that's famous in the autistic community for concluding that autistic people are impaired by caring too much about ethics and living by our principles, because their study showed that autisitic people would not cheat to get a benefit unfairly. In my opinion, choosing to act unethically when it gets you something is not a good thing. The whole point of ethics is not to do that! "It's OK to cheat if it helps me win" is a deranged thing to think, buy that's the standard the researchers used to conclude that it's autistic people who have a problem.</p><p>This is the kind of bullshit that is strangling our civilization. The people who can see the real problems or could fix them have been marginalized so society doesn't have to step up and deal with this death spiral of cognitive overspecialization. And yet we talk about ableism and neuronormativity like that only hurts ND folk, when it's actually hurting the whole world.</p><p>OK, so maybe this reminder wasn't as gentle as I hoped for. It's hard to talk about this without getting all worked up, but somebody has to say it. <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a></p>
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<p>I have a provocative view. It's <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#ActuallyAutistic</a> people who are willing to go against the grain of the Social norm and push back against "network effects" which eventuate in a psychologically toxic situation of enshittification. </p><p>"Network effects" - which eventuate in a psychological dead end, once the Musks, Bezos, etc types of the world monopolize the very fabric of Society - can't be escaped without the help of the <a href="/tags/autistic/" rel="tag">#Autistic</a>.</p><p>The autistic aren't beholden to the emotional gravity of the "Network Effects" (which are sort of like a "black hole" which is nice in the short term, but becomes a Torment Nexus in the long term) anywhere near as much as Neurotypicals. As an autistic person, would you agree?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@autistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>autistics</span></a></span></p>