I'm supposed to know everything already somehow .

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...My general helplessness with celpp-/smartphones and technology so goes against the supposed grain for an autistic person , I am supposed to instantly on tune with every computer , every little bit of technology but I'M NOT ! !! !! !! !! !! PLEASE , can't someone help me get better with phones and clicking and dragging and putting icons up and so forth ?
PLEASE ?
It would help me try to better myself SO much .
As it now stands , to-day it took me 70 minutes or so to make the four blocksish from the shelter to the library .
Maybe I shouldn't go at all but I have NOTHING to do otherwise , just hang around the dark shelter with me in my bunk almost all the time , like jail lockdown , which is how they tend to have me have dinner , too , making me have it in my (shared) room , with just a bed ~ Like I said , jail lockdown .
Maybe I'm tempting a heart attack coming p here but I have to do SOMETING , therse couple hoursish ar all I have . (There is no Wi-Fi at the shelter , and , even when I'm somewhere w/Wi-Fi , my tablet is all but totally frozen , as far as Internet functioning .)
If only someone would HELP me ! !! !! !! !! ! I'm not asking for money , or gifts . Just help . Please .
Before I die???????????

I wouldn't say that all autistic people are good with technology. I think it depends on the person or their interests. I don't think that you are supposed to already know these things. Everybody is different.

How do you think people could help you to learn? I think many people would be willing to help, but it would probably have to be somebody that lives in your area so that they could show you in person. I don't really know of any other way, but maybe someone else will have better ideas.

...Yes , . I would like to be shown some of the stuff I've spend 15-plus years never learning , improve my skills .
If I am supposed to , as Kraftiekortie has suggested , bus across the country , I'd have to have the ability to contact people , as people nowadays have .
As I said , I am not asking for money or gifts .
Can't someone help me ?
I could , maybe , swing getting another low-end phone IF I knew that people would back me up in trying to learn it ~ I can't afford buying another " Let''s buy another phoneI can't get going " ! !! !! !! !! !! I've done that so many times already .
There's 7.1 million people in the Bay Area

...Another thing ~ I've been told I should really cut down on salt , but the main dishes at the shelter might as well , practicaally , be salt licks for cows , they are so salty .
So , I should go die >

I'm quite good with computers, but that's only because computer science is one of my special interests and even so I am no computer whisperer and I am quite dependent on internet forums.

I'm terrible with technology. You're not alone.

You're using Android?

What would you like to learn to do?

Phones and tablets don't have many uses when they are not connected to the internet,

I think you can:
Write documents
Compose music *
Edit video *
Play games

I haven't done the things that have stars next to them.

...I want to do " the basics " - put pictures up , icons , the general stuff !
You just don't know how behind I am , how , when people start to explain things to me , they go into territory I know nothing about , and I'm befuddled .
It was another 75 minutes or so to gwet to the library , perhaps I had not had enough lie-down rest , or that I didn't have a lunch ~ When I got up here I bought 20 ounces of Dr. Pepper , maybe not the healhiest choice , I I rather wanted to caffeine myself while at the keyboard .
I do have some things to read but I am in my bunk fairly much 23/7 .

I'm a retired mainframe computer applications programmer. I was quite good at it and I got bonuses and awards. However, I am so cell-phone challenged, it's pathetic. I hardly know what an "App" is and I don't know how to download an App. I've never texted anyone. That's how clueless I am with cell phones.

Each icon opens an app

There is an icon that is white with black dots, it shows you every app on the phone,

To put an app on the desktop of the phone for easy access just hold down a finger on an app's icon and it will start following your finger then you just drop it off at the desktop (otherwise known as the phones main screen)

Consumer Cellular still provides basic flip phones for people who just want basic phone service.

...I don't want " just phone service " , I want " the cool stuff " .

In that case, you need to spend the time to learn, practice, and polish your skills, just like normal people.

I once surprised a medical intern by using some medical equipment far better than her--no kidding--I ought to having putting in the hours using it.

I don't know about Andriod, but I know that iPhones have a "tips" app that exists on there by default that tells users how to do various cool things on the device.

...Well , I NEED HELP ! !! !! !! !! !! (Not money or gifts ~ to say that for the umpteenth time ~ just HELP , guidance , information to start from my level of knowing NOTHING ) Please ?

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/new-androi ... hone-work/
Here is a tutorial. Sorry I can't provide hands on experience--all I need is a flip phone.