Why is society so fucking weird about autistic people?
I mean, obviously any deviation from the norm will be severely punished, doubly so if it in any way makes you a less than ideal worker. Which is to say, fuck society
Why is society so fucking weird about autistic people?
We don't have a means of providing adequate standards of living to the healthiest and most hard working domestic residents. We are literally beyond ourselves when it comes to dealing with differences and disabilities, particularly cognitive ones. If you can't sit in a factory mindlessly churning out widgets, you can't sit at a cubicle mindlessly churning out python scripts, and you can't sit in a back office mindlessly churning out excel spreadsheets documenting the next round of financial crimes, we just don't know what you're supposed to do with your life.
Which is to say, fuck society
This particular society is pretty fucked, but it hasn't always been this way and it certainly doesn't need to continue to be.
I think of it as society being bad at managing our large numbers. I'd argue it's pretty easy to imagine how autistic people would be relatively well cared for and often well valued in tribal units, where all the other like 50 people in your tribe know you and exactly how you are and what you're good at and what you're not.
In modern society, we're all faceless numbers, so anyone nonconforming is not only extra legwork for capitalist overlords, but people don't know them and so struggle with how to act with or how to think of them. It's an issue of understanding individuality among millions that I think we've still not overcome in any good way.
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Why is society so fucking weird about autistic people?
I mean, obviously any deviation from the norm will be severely punished, doubly so if it in any way makes you a less than ideal worker. Which is to say, fuck society
:joker-gaming:
We don't have a means of providing adequate standards of living to the healthiest and most hard working domestic residents. We are literally beyond ourselves when it comes to dealing with differences and disabilities, particularly cognitive ones. If you can't sit in a factory mindlessly churning out widgets, you can't sit at a cubicle mindlessly churning out python scripts, and you can't sit in a back office mindlessly churning out excel spreadsheets documenting the next round of financial crimes, we just don't know what you're supposed to do with your life.
This particular society is pretty fucked, but it hasn't always been this way and it certainly doesn't need to continue to be.
I think of it as society being bad at managing our large numbers. I'd argue it's pretty easy to imagine how autistic people would be relatively well cared for and often well valued in tribal units, where all the other like 50 people in your tribe know you and exactly how you are and what you're good at and what you're not.
In modern society, we're all faceless numbers, so anyone nonconforming is not only extra legwork for capitalist overlords, but people don't know them and so struggle with how to act with or how to think of them. It's an issue of understanding individuality among millions that I think we've still not overcome in any good way.
we're too cool for society :comfy-cool: