[RANT] I don't get it.

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Don't worry....we'll zap all the miscreants!

I sense that you might get sucked in at first....but then you ask the proper questions.

I'm a naive sort myself. I can get "sucked in." And I have been "sucked in."

I've learned the signs that somebody wants to "suck you in."

The good thing is:

The people who I have seen make the attempt to "suck people in" don't usually do a very good job of it.

Adding to my earlier post there is the autistic traits of narrow hyperfocus and repetitive behaviors. When this is combined with thinking one is worthless and hopeless, the NT world is hopeless for me to navigate and hopeless in general it becomes a destructive "negative thought loop".

Of course, destructive negative thought loops, a sense of entitlement, social media enabling are things plenty of NT's engage in also. I think autistic traits enhance these and make them harder to change.

Off topic a bit, I agree Ezra is bright and engaged. While you might not agree with his politics as a student in a special needs school you should listen when he debunks the overly positive autistic stereotypes, the stereotypes as autistics as only the victim. And since us old farts were forced to engage in the NT world with varying degrees of success and failure when we try and debunk negative NT stereotypes or advise how to navigate their world we might have an idea of what we are talking about.

Yeah ... when I was growing up in the 1960s, it was common practice to ignore a parent spanking or slapping a child in public. The common assumption seemed to be that children deserved whatever punishment their parents gave them, no matter how severe (short of maiming, crippling or killing the child, of course).

I admit that I received such public humiliation ... and that the bullies at school picked up where my father left off ... and then my father would beat me up for getting beaten up at school ... then the bullies (et cetera) ... then my father (et cetera) ...

But, my father is dead, and so are most of the bullies. While I remember what they did, the memory no longer makes me sad or angry, and it certainly does not motivate me to take aim at a crowd of people with a weapon or vehicle.

Sure, a lot of people had pain-filled childhoods -- but, in my opinion, it takes an exceptionally weak mind to blame today's violence on events that occurred 50+ years ago.

People who couldn't take subtile suggestions?
People who can't distinguish between a lost cause, from some ego tripper, and from a person who really needs a lift?


I dunno... I'm rather conflicted.
A part of me is trying to be foolishly sympathetic, yet another part of me would rather beat the crap out of them carelessly.

Doesn't help that words and terms are not my friends.


And, in real life, I'm more or less surrounded by what the OP says called 'enablers'. None of them are or had to be autistic -- or even knew of me. It's just how it is in my province. They can't truly distinguish a lost cause from a lost soul. Well, I couldn't either.
I know what was like when I'm blinded by my emotions to lure them in, let them know to be lenient to me or whatever, and wanting it to last. I also know what was like to be sick of them 'giving', and had enough with making me 'take' what they 'give'.

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They've been here 2 weeks, you were gone for like 2 years. I wonder who their previous incarnation was.

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