My neurodivergent self is having a really hard time reading that article.
For us spectrum jockeys—avoidant, overwhelmed, and overstimulated as we are—community can be as slippery as the spectrum itself: something you surf along until you’ve slid straight through whatever you thought the end point was, before arriving back where you’ve always been, alone with your perpetually “other” self.
That’s the second sentence. And that’s all only one sentence. I’ve re-read it multiple times and I’m still scratching my head at most of it.
Anyway, I’m not sure I can relate to the sentiment that the internet was once more welcoming to neurodivergent people. I’ve never felt a sense of community online. It sure was a good tool for discovering new music, however.
I also agree that it hasn’t really changed attitudes toward ND people. Heck, the first thing I thought about was how the Internet has always been fairly snarky and sarcastic; something a lot of other autistic people struggle with identifying which often leads to misunderstandings and arguments.
I reject their entire premise. I’ve been on the internet since 1989, and the idea that the internet is for oddballs and outsiders might have been true once, but that ended in the late 1990s when AOL and Prodigy joined the internet.
My neurodivergent self is having a really hard time reading that article.
That’s the second sentence. And that’s all only one sentence. I’ve re-read it multiple times and I’m still scratching my head at most of it.
Anyway, I’m not sure I can relate to the sentiment that the internet was once more welcoming to neurodivergent people. I’ve never felt a sense of community online. It sure was a good tool for discovering new music, however.
Funny how culture shapes perception. As a German that sentence didn’t even strike me as overly long.
Me, who’s gonna start a German class for the first time next semester: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
Don’t worry, I’m sure you won’t have to translate any overly long sentences in the first semester.
I also agree that it hasn’t really changed attitudes toward ND people. Heck, the first thing I thought about was how the Internet has always been fairly snarky and sarcastic; something a lot of other autistic people struggle with identifying which often leads to misunderstandings and arguments.
I reject their entire premise. I’ve been on the internet since 1989, and the idea that the internet is for oddballs and outsiders might have been true once, but that ended in the late 1990s when AOL and Prodigy joined the internet.
Eternal September ruined everything.