Comment on Living a lie

• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  yeah it’s something that makes me quite worried about my dad, i keep hearing him watch AI slop on tiktok and… it’s so obviously fake, it’s always the exact same dudebro quasi-joe rogan voice with a turbopredictable cadence.

  how the fuck am i, a stereotypically autistic person, apparently infinitely better at spotting this shit than he, a quite social person, is? Have they just managed to file away at his sensibilities to this degree over time?

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That was my biggest WTF when I was diagnosed autistic. I always thought one of the main defining features of it was not being able to read people’s expressions and emotions. I am pretty good at that, even without looking in people’s eyes directly.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      i’ve wondered if it’s partially correct but missing important context, like how it turns out autistic people are actually generally really good at communicating with other autistic people.

      like what it feels like to me is that autistic people can be better at reading people, we just aren’t born with a cheat sheet in our brains, so we first have to learn to identify things and then we can pattern recognition the shit out of it.

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    • andybytes@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think when people don’t look into other people’s eyes, it’s because they don’t have faith in themselves and they have a fear of intimacy. Their fear of intimacy is valid because the external factors of the working class life leads to a lot of dysfunction where people have their lives ruined by the desires of capital. I grew up in a age where everybody had ADD and these drug companies wanted to sell us nazi meth. I was diagnosed with ADD, but I really think I just had post-traumatic stress disorder. And I think that life continues to be triggering. I also think people live different lives in other countries. It’s not this bad elsewhere. America has such a horrible record with mass shootings. That it would take the world… I think we’d go to World War 3 before they could get up to the metrics that we have. And a lot of libturds don’t want to admit this, but there is solid evidence that this is all based upon socioeconomics, interpersonal relationship struggles, which all has to do with the lack of capital and a crumbling infrastructure. And what’s interesting is rich people also have these problems too. And I think it’s because everybody needs everybody and we need to live in a more social society rather than an anti-social society because even rich people suffer under this system of abuse. It’s hard to think rich people are also suffering. It almost makes me want to vomit. But I have to go to my higher self and remember money is nothing. These objects are nothing. These material objects are nothing. This is a program, a system that is running through society to benefit a few. The Empire loves people that are willing to sell out and throughout the ages, this is how they’ve made things work. By bribing people, getting people to sell out their own families, their own communities. When you don’t conform to the mode of production, you will grasp that straws, claiming a medical dysfunction. But just like an onion, there are layers to everything.

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• peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In my ex’s case, she was well aware of it. Apparently she “practiced it” since she was a child because she got sick and tired of being told to “smile” and that no one looked good frowning all the time. Self-proclaimed resting bitch face model too.

  While she could take off and on this mask, it was incredibly draining to do it. But she also couldn’t not do it. It was weird.

  Unfortunately for her, she also couldn’t comprehend the emotions of other people at all, and failed to grasp why I might be upset that she cheated on me, and why I might be more than happy to cut her off from the financial security that being married to me provided.

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• andybytes@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think the hierarchy is maintained by levels of suffering. Don’t let them see you sweat. Remember to smile. As long as somebody is suffering underneath your level, and now it might not be hierarchical…but with the whole bottom that we belong to, the herd at the bottom, moving around network of just passing around 20 bucks living off of ancient infrastructure on a burning planet as the psychic vampires suck us dry. As everything, even the nutrition in our food is hollowed out. (I just can’t get no satisfaction. All Work No Play makes a dull, boy.) Where everything is designed to be a drug. Where the machines are designed to destroy themselves. An inverted evolution where the dumbest, most anti-social make their way to the top like the scum on a pond. Everybody is just happy little beast of burden whistling Dixie. It’s a small world after all, and you have to remember, work will set you free. You try to shake them and say, this is like the allegory of the cave, “this is the allegory of the cave” but they don’t like your perception. Even though it’s closer to reality, and then they start to hate you. If you have any little bit of happiness, they want to destroy you for awakening up their minds. The intelligent in the United States pulls the cart of stupidity while the idiot sits on the cart Sipping tea. People here are just in a dream state. I like countries where they’re rude to you at restaurants. Where they say, no, we can’t do that to your food. That’s not how we do it here. You can go elsewhere. The customer was always right, was always a way to beat the working class. Like the bully that gets you to punch your own face. It is just a system of abuse and self-awareness is a double-edged sword.

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• andybytes@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think the hierarchy is maintained by levels of suffering. Don’t let them see you sweat. Remember to smile. As long as somebody is suffering underneath your level, and now it might not be hierarchical…but with the whole bottom that we belong to, the herd at the bottom, moving around network of just passing around 20 bucks living off of ancient infrastructure on a burning planet as the psychic vampires suck us dry. As everything, even the nutrition in our food is hollowed out. (I just can’t get no satisfaction. All Work No Play makes a dull, boy.) Where everything is designed to be a drug. Where the machines are designed to destroy themselves. An inverted evolution where the dumbest, most anti-social make their way to the top like the scum on a pond. Everybody is just happy little beast of burden whistling Dixie. It’s a small world after all, and you have to remember, work will set you free. You try to shake them and say, this is like the allegory of the cave, “this is the allegory of the cave” but they don’t like your perception. Even though it’s closer to reality, and then they start to hate you. If you have any little bit of happiness, they want to destroy you for awakening up their minds. The intelligent in the United States pulls the cart of stupidity while the idiot sits on the cart Sipping tea. People here are just in a dream state. I like countries where they’re rude to you at restaurants. Where they say, no, we can’t do that to your food. That’s not how we do it here. You can go elsewhere. The customer was always right, was always a way to beat the working class. Like the bully that gets you to punch your own face. It is just a system of abuse and self-awareness is a double-edged sword.

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