If, about a thousand years ago, photography and videography and express travel had abruptly appeared, overnight, like mushrooms in your back yard, would we have been so prone to pillaging and plundering other cultures? Would many of our museums even exist?
The more I want to see of the world, the longer I’d have to work. The longer I work, the less I see of the world. Is this the thought equivalent of a Möbius strip?
So many people make decisions based on fear. How can so many people be afraid of things that they’ve never witnessed or never personally experienced? Isn’t that like giving your power away to an illusion?
I just thought of another reason I’m grateful for my ASD diagnosis even though I didn’t get it until two weeks before my 58th birthday:
My whole life, I’ve been told some version of “you’re too sentitive.”
“You need to develop a thicker skin.”
“Stop being a crybaby.”
“Toughen up.”
“Why can’t you just get over it?”
And that always made me think, “What’s WRONG with me? Why can’t I be like other people? No one else reacts the way I do. What is my problem? I’m so humiliated.”
I was looking at myself as the source of the problem and beating myself up over it. I felt broken.
Now, post diagnosis, when people say stuff like that to me, I think,
“Actually, you judgmental, bullying, hostile ignoramus, I’m autistic, so you have no idea what you’re talking about.”
In certain situations, I think I may even start saying that out loud.
It’s empowering.
What other new perspectives will lift me up?
I just picked up a dime. I realized that I haven’t touched a coin in, probably, years. It felt weird. How long does it take for common experiences to feel foreign?
Why does the question “Why?” cause so much hostility?
Wouldn’t it be great if cars had a mood ring-like paint so you could tell if someone was prone to violence or road rage or driving under the influence or was accident prone? Or sleepy, easily distracted, or inexperienced? But that paint would wind up being used for nefarious purposes. That’s the human way.
How is it that in the Star Trek franchise, the elevator is always waiting at your floor?
Which came first, the sperm or the penis?
I can’t even remember who shot J.R. anymore. At the time it was a big deal. Who did shoot J.R.?
Does the MAGA crowd even know that Trump has 91 charges against him? And do they know that a great many of the judges who don’t rule in his favor were appointed by him, so the witch hunt theory falls flat?
I’m curious. What percentage of Trump’s 91 charges are pie hole issues?
i.e. to quote myself, “If you hadn’t opened your ignorant, racist, arrogant, bullying, irresponsible, evil, opportunistic, narcissistic pie hole, the insurrection would never have occurred.”
It’s often best to keep your mouth shut. Not that I’m very good at that.
Do I spend too much time inside my own head?
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