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#Autism as an out-group. How #Autistic people are treated in multiple societies across Earth for being different / different communications and behavior / thinking, associative thinking, choices.

#RoundSparrowToDo WARNING ABOUT THIS POST, INCOMPLETE.
- I have struggle to finish complex ideas and put them into words / language. Part of it is the culture - I feel language has been damaged of many good deeper meanings that connect humanity - which is why I have found James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Professor of English Marshall McLuhan's thoughts and teachings on Finnegans Wake to be a topic of interest.

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Second, technology driven society and burn-out. Based on 15 years of witnessing others in autism group support (mostly online and some hospitals), there are a large number of autistic people who self-isolate because they do not enjoy challenging and irritating other people. Workplace environments, high-energy social outings (weekend nights at popular and busy places, etc)

Third, I've been convinced of the need for world peace. I think there was a technology aspect of Japan, Italy, Germany and others in World War Two and the world has come together with airplanes, communications, shipping - to a point that war and hate between groups both large and small (including nations or even groups of nations) has a huge impact on our personal lives and identity as humans. It bothers me in the USA when I see people purchasing and using products made in China while saying they hate China - and I'm not saying we should stop purchasing the products. I'm saying that hate needs to be left behind in history.

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INCOMPLETE / I may or may not revisit this post. I'm really in a struggle with my communications and faiths.

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RoundSparrow Sep 19, 2024

Crying in public has been a theme since I joined this Mastodon instance.

One of the problems I have is I can name off the October 7, 2023 Palestine conflict, and I can name Russia vs. Ukraine and NATO, and I can name Sudan... but it gets a tangled up impersonal thing when you don't name others that are less known. And it really jams up what I feel vs. what I can put to words on postings.

Yes, everyone has these problems, for in my life these are the crisis points in my "special interest" and "hyperfocus" of autism. The mocking of world peace has been bothering me for decades and I traveled to Africa in 2010 and to the Middle East in 2011 to study these aspects of myself, shortly after getting diagnosed at age 38 with autism. And now in 2024 I still struggle with it. The pandemic global attitudes and conflicts only further had me focus on people being much more understanding, kind, compassion with each other. For years I've been saying: we had a world wide disease that touched all our hospitals and funeral homes world-wide, why isn't the clergy / religion leaders of the world organizing a series of yearly remembrance funerals for those who died in quarantine / isolation during the pandemic? And celebrating survival and all the medical people and essential workers who worked so hard during the pandemic?

These are my crying in public kind of things that many may just dismiss as 'ranting', but it goes way deeper and I've had to face that these concerns I feel run deep enough in me that I should express it even incomplete and messy because my heart and mind isn't letting it go.

More incomplete poorly written expression.

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RoundSparrow Sep 19, 2024

And I've come to face that Finnegans Wake by James Joyce and the topics of English and global language translation...

My autism experience and 15 years in autism support group study has me viewing language as a conflict area. People can and do fight over language. And Finneagns Wake is one of the most powerful tools to address and illustrate this.

I'm not here to make pretty prose and poetry and songs about world peace and ending hate and expanding compassion teachings and understanding for all the Earth.

I'm not here for the words, I'm here for what is beyond the words. I'm here for the actual goodness that comes from a world where conflicts are far more peaceful and kind.

It isn't about impressive words to me. It's about the experience of an actual Earth with more love and compassion group interactions, society attitudes.