Mastodawn

I think the inserting of advertising and product placement in the middle of content is a huge problem for me in autism. YouTube is full of this, and so was commercial television in the USA.

Example: The abrupt tone change of advertisement for a hamburger in the middle of a science story about NASA finding something on mars.

Neil Postman's media ecology book from 1985 "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" goes into more than just advertising. Like how TV news stories would tease you with "coming up at 6:00pm we have a story about" and how information is fragmented. On the Internet, news stories are sliced / diced / clickbaited to attract different audiences. One may be a single paragraph summary, another story in-depth.

I suspect for some people this leads to autism burnout. Especially if you have associative thinking. (My associative thinking is less visual and more experience and concept / metaphor based than described in the book by Casey "Remrov" Vormer, Connecting With The Autism Spectrum: How To Talk, How To Listen, And Why You Shouldn’t Call It High-Functioning )

I also suspect, like Neil Postman, this has society-wide implications beyond even autism. Autistic people just may be more sensitive to mental context changes, hyperfocus.

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Intro:

Autism, "Context Blindness" theories of "Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution (Understanding Media Ecology, 10)" January 25, 2022
by Eva Berge

I was friends on Facebook with Eva and found out about the book from a page on here, and she had several quotes which I have since lost from 2022. I have not read the whole book, but it combines three topics that I have found to focus on: 1) Autism, 2) Context Blindness aspects of autism, 3) Media Ecology.

Based on her introduction blurb she views a kind of "induced autism" or amplified by digital media. Meaning not purely genetic causes. But I think there is an underlying issue Media Ecology as defined by Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman in autism.

Further, I think ADHD + autism and other

WRITER NOTE: Geesh all this context build up and I'm exhausted before I get to my point.