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Disappointed in Nicholas Hoult. Series has always been trash.
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What's frustrating is there are a lot of things that come easily to me that most neurotypicals struggle with immensely, but if dismiss their inability to do these things the way they dismiss my limitations, they shockingly get really mad about it.
In "A Disability History of the United States," Kim E. Nelson talks about how disabled people were, in many ways, treated better in pre-industrial times, since work could be tailored to the worker and eugenics hadn't exploded in popularity. But i think there's another reason:
Due to the widespread comforts of industrialization, most first-world abled people never come up against their physical limits. The world is far more engineered for their comfort than it was 200 years ago. As a result, a lot of them can't comprehend the idea of having limits.
Every ADHD hack sounds like that tweet where that intern was like "i have a great idea to help the company. Have we tried increasing our revenue?"
NTs not believing ADHD is a real thing is directly tied to that "every guy thinks they could win a fight if they went 'berzerker mode'" tweet. People believe sheer willpower can win out over actual physical reality.
(from replies) im realising neurotypical ppl are actually *terrified* of the idea that ADHD is real.
if being late isnt a moral failure, if being disorganised can be out of your control, then their cruelty towards the failing and ego about their own success are threatened.
Anyway the way some of y'all talk about neurodivergence, it seems like you genuinely don't believe brains exist. Like you think skulls are actually filled with dreams and soulstuff and anything is possible if you wish it hard enough.
I think a lot of NTs are totally unaware of how much work their brains do automatically in the background and how reliant on that background processing they are. It's like someone who has a team of butlers who thinks their laundry magically folds itself.
The best metaphor i have is that your brain is an automatic and mine is a shitbucket stick shift. I CAN get from A to B but it requires total focus the entire time because i am manually doing all the stuff the chip in your car does for you.
Anyway i talk about cognition and this sort of thing a lot on YouTube.
youtu.be/Tcj-KIMp1VQ?is=oBJI…
Face blindness is a benign example of this. That most people can tell the difference between two new faces based on minute differences is incredible, yet most people don't think about how much background processing it requires and think that theyre interperting raw visual data.
Sometimes i'll get YouTube comments where someone is like "you overexplained this, i got the point immediatly, its obvious that you meant:" and completely miss the point
As someone who has bad knees i think people who have no legs complain too much. Get a cane, take responsibility for your own life.
