Regarding "conflict" as an element of the human social world, and the prevailing modern taste for it, even the praising of it:

All I have to do is read the daily news to see how many people there are in the world, most of whom are #neurotypical persons, who seem to like conflict.

Just read the headlines of any news journal.

Just look at what we're doing to the planet.

Just look at what humans do to other humans.

So, conflict is typical.

I'm #neurodivergent

Not typical.

Give me a quiet, peaceful #green forest, next to a flowing stream, alone or with a friend, just walking, not struggling, just strolling. #peace

Others may differ.

Oh, that doesn't mean I won't fight back when people come at me. It doesn't mean I won't defend myself.

That doesn't mean you want to deal with me once you provoke me past a certain point.

But that's not what I want for my life. I want to get my pulse rate to a calm state. I want to have a healthy life. I want to calm the agitation. I want to get my amygdala to relax.

Because I have a very reactive @actuallyautistic amygdala... and I see everything, feel everything. #intenseworldtheory #IntenseWorld

Thanks for reading.

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“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”

― David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

I found a quote that agrees with my thoughts about Western capitalistic culture and concepts of success. We think all of this output, creativity, production, and accomplishing is the most important criteria of success, and we value people and give them status according to these metrics, but the fact is, this cultural value is killing the planet, and driving us to a point of becoming extinct from all of this "success".

As an an #IntenseWorld person, that is to say, #actuallyautistic, I find myself retreating and withdrawing from feeling alienated from the world of people and all of their expectations and judgements, so at the moment I'm not exactly flourishing.

Which is why I absolutely love this quote I found. It's often misattributed to the Dalai Lama.

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