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How many of y’all have ever worked with someone who never went to college?
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Alephwyr
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Most of my jobs. Food prep, cashier, gas station attendant, grocery bagger. Didn't start working "civilized" jobs until fairly recently and am still sort of out of place there despite having spent more time in college than almost anyone.
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@cameron
I hear that. The unwritten rules of tech that you miss when working “uncivilized” jobs or growing up outside a specific social strata are really hard to parse as an outsider. Glad you’re here 🫡
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Somehow, developing lucid paranoid schizophrenia after learning to mask my autism balanced out my autism while allowing me to retain a poker face that prevents people from realizing I'm insane. I am always trying to understand people in terms of economies of attention, hierarchy, arbitrary pet peeves: slow, deliberate
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It was hugely helpful to work with mentally handicapped people for a while. Smart people have all the same basic behaviors as mentally handicapped people, just a bigger vocabulary and more autonomy. They aren't used to being policed, so you have to be even gentler ironically
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This is even more fascinating. Have you written this out in longer form?
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@alephwyr
I've written down some of the general perspectives that came out of it. The big thing is my four part blog post "Towards a pseudo formalization of a bad attitude" on Dancefighterredux.WordPress.com and later alephwyr.substack.com. But as for more targeted introspection not really, not yet.
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A lot of my theory is scattered at random in social media posts. I think autism is in some forms just the neurotypical social instinct but that formed a feedback loop with other domains. So an autistic interfaces with their chosen obsession using the same cognitive tools allistics use to interface with each other.
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@saymore please! I identify as neurodiverse but would love to learn more about autism specifically
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It's really just a hunch or intuition. It's based on observing that the confluence of autism and low grade schizophrenia traditionally manifests as shamanism, which is the personification of nature and reasoning about nature as if it were a person. Also that there's no such thing as a meaningless relationship
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