Autistic Monotropism Is THE ANSWER

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this blurs topics and I am having a lot of difficulty with communications input/output that has gotten worse with age. I expect this will be difficult to read and understand, it was difficult to write, and probably so poorly written I should toss it away and not share it. But the struggle is real now and my mind has many thoughts in these areas and even if they come out a jumbled mess - it is real.

#RoundSparrowFrustration

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#Autism and listening, reading, hearing other people.

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World peace and humanity having biggest population in all Earth's history and world wars and how all of humanity has been shifting towards more words and communications the past few hundred years and hopefully away from violence and hate.

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James Joyce's writings, books, from 100 years ago and even earlier. Ulysses, Finnegans Wake - and the hard labor he put into the topic of meaning in language, spiritual / religion meaning of language, and conflicts people have - compassion and mercy for misunderstandings instead of hating each other.

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Lesser discussed topic in autism of #ContextBlindness and context changing / context blending. #EvaBerger has a book from 2022 titled "Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution (Understanding Media Ecology)"

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#Autism and sensory overload of processing people's verbal speech. Often in autism support groups and writings /memes you hear people express how a crowded room it is difficult to follow or understand a conversation with the overlapping sensory input.

Eva Berger's book on Context Blindness impresses upon me the topic of how this happens with modern reading / watching of content from news and such. And this gets into many of Professor Neil Postman's #MediaEcology work (he died in 2003, and wrote many books).

I can't finish this right now, the communications is too difficult.

Rethinking Social Skills - Autism Awareness

Over the years, my thoughts and opinions around social skills teaching have changed a great deal. Reading and listening to the viewpoints of autistic people has opened my eyes to the problems that social skills training can cause over time such as masking. When autistic thinking and neurology are not taken into account, social skills tend to be taught for…

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