For me this is the most frustrating thing about being autistic. I care about things way too much, and it’s debilitating. I wish I could be apathetic because it’s absolutely an essential trait to have in the insane times we find ourselves in.
The news is downright traumatizing and has been for years. It’s destroying my health. Of course the fact that I’m seeing this shit on the news instead of being bombed myself means I’m quite privileged.
Yeah, I had to stop reading the newslast year, it was affecting my mental health way too much. Of course being able to just “ignore” a lot of it is extremely privileged, I do recognize that.
A strong sense of fairness / righteousness is officially regarded as a symptom/trait of autism.
Technically its a good trait to have, but by god does it suck in this reality. It automatically pushes you politically to the left (you know, human rights and stuff…) while at the same time completely removing your ability to look at issues that you can’t control with a certain level of apathy.
300 years ago that meant you would help your neighbor out with food if they had a bad harvest and got fucked over by the tax collector. Today it means you are following every bad thing happening globally, fully knowing where this all leads due to your pattern recognition skills, while slowly being driven insane due to the fact that most of the population simply doesn’t seem to care.
Just clarifying for everyone else, having a ‘strong’ sense of justice is not exclusively autistic but in autistic people it often is something we can’t just look away or ignore. It has caused me so much social friction because I just cut off people from my life or when I point out stuff they did that bothers me, everyone in the room is just like “relax man, it’s not a big deal” “just pretend you didn’t see” “why do you have to be so difficult”.
I mean, you are on Lemmy, odds are much higher already. Whenever I try to convince a neurotypical to switch to a more open social platform they get visibly bothered and I feel like Im crazy. I know trans people who are still on twitter, wth
For me this is the most frustrating thing about being autistic. I care about things way too much, and it’s debilitating. I wish I could be apathetic because it’s absolutely an essential trait to have in the insane times we find ourselves in.
The news is downright traumatizing and has been for years. It’s destroying my health. Of course the fact that I’m seeing this shit on the news instead of being bombed myself means I’m quite privileged.
Yeah, I had to stop reading the newslast year, it was affecting my mental health way too much. Of course being able to just “ignore” a lot of it is extremely privileged, I do recognize that.
Is that a part of autism?
A strong sense of fairness / righteousness is officially regarded as a symptom/trait of autism.
Technically its a good trait to have, but by god does it suck in this reality. It automatically pushes you politically to the left (you know, human rights and stuff…) while at the same time completely removing your ability to look at issues that you can’t control with a certain level of apathy.
300 years ago that meant you would help your neighbor out with food if they had a bad harvest and got fucked over by the tax collector. Today it means you are following every bad thing happening globally, fully knowing where this all leads due to your pattern recognition skills, while slowly being driven insane due to the fact that most of the population simply doesn’t seem to care.
Just clarifying for everyone else, having a ‘strong’ sense of justice is not exclusively autistic but in autistic people it often is something we can’t just look away or ignore. It has caused me so much social friction because I just cut off people from my life or when I point out stuff they did that bothers me, everyone in the room is just like “relax man, it’s not a big deal” “just pretend you didn’t see” “why do you have to be so difficult”.
I think I might be autistic.
your copy of Das Kapital is in the mail
I mean, you are on Lemmy, odds are much higher already. Whenever I try to convince a neurotypical to switch to a more open social platform they get visibly bothered and I feel like Im crazy. I know trans people who are still on twitter, wth
A strong sense of justice is a typical trait of autism, yes.