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29 Sep 2012, 8:28 am

It's bullcrap = =+


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29 Sep 2012, 9:40 am

They could have thought of tons of other words to describe one's preoccupation with their cell phone. Autism as a condition is more complex than that...I understand it's a much older word than how it is used today. However, I feel that autistic may become the next R-word.



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29 Sep 2012, 11:39 am

pensieve wrote:
Ganondox wrote:
The word autism is older than it being used to refer to the disorder. I think it is wrong to assume any use of the word autism refers to saidvdisorder (ex. Post-Autistic Economics). The word could be being used literally here, not referring to the disorder, though I doubt it.

It isn't. I highly doubt NTs know the origin of the word.

They like to clean, they're called OCD.
They have a bit of energy, they have ADHD.
They can multitask, they have bipolar.

They generalise these things all the time.

What I don't like about it it the inaccuracy. It's just zoning out or hyper focus - and not proper hyper focus. Hyper focus only occurs in ADHD and is a super duper amount of focus that is impossible to break. I'd have to scream and throw my phone across the room just to break.
I've actually been struggling with it for a bout an hour now. And last night it was more like 6 hours. I've gone for 9 hours hyper focusing on just one thing. It was almost manic. I've got to be careful when I eat fish. It triggers that intense hyper focus.
It's stimulation seeking because your brain is thinking 10,000 thoughts a second and needs to focus on something. NTs just want to talk to people.


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29 Sep 2012, 12:53 pm

Rorberyllium wrote:
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Actually people have used OCD in that context. Some will say they are OCD about this or that or about keeping their house clean.


Yeah but it doesn't make it any less insensitive to people who actually struggle with obsessive compulsive disorder.


Exactly, this is no different. It's yet another generalization that makes those of us who have the real condition seem like a bunch of complainers when the reality is, everyone else who is calling it "digital autism" just want to be able to text at work with all consequences without getting into trouble, thusly shoving those of us who have the real condition down into a deeper hole than society has already put us in. *takes a huge breath* lol

This is one of the behaviors I myself have noted in "humanity" (see my signature under number 1)


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29 Sep 2012, 3:11 pm

Jaden wrote:

(to StarTrekker: I'm a trekker myself, I've always liked voyager the best, awesome quotes as well *thumbs up*)


Yay! I found another one!


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29 Sep 2012, 9:47 pm

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(to StarTrekker: I'm a trekker myself, I've always liked voyager the best, awesome quotes as well *thumbs up*)


Yay! I found another one!


lol yeah it seems rare to encounter trekkers randomly anymore


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