The Hard Pill

It’s not easy hearing about neurotype, hearing about it and that it means you. I’m sorry. I’ve been trying to bludgeon people with it, I so ought to know better.

It’s not easy for anybody, is it, and of course, it means everybody.

It’s not easy for “normal people,” either.

I think in normal people’s normal paradigm, in the world of “Human Nature,” everyone is all things, at least we all have the potential for all things, like the individual is a molecule of the human element, made of what all of humanity is made of, a fractal sort of idea, as for one is for all, sort of a thing, but the existence of neurodiversity annihilates all that.

Perhaps we are atoms instead, and combine to make only neurotype molecules instead, and humanity is not one element but several, a compound element. From containing the possibilities of all of humanity within oneself to containing only some of them, this can only be a downgrade, a sad bit of learning for us all, but many folks on the divergent side learned it young and have lived with it already. For the Neurotypical, learning it must be comparable to the experience of a late hatching Autistic, what the Hell do you mean I am missing some big pieces and no-one cared to notice?

Except how many are forced to see it, not so many.

The force, ha – the Force – is on their side, and works against their self examination, to their own detriment. To know thyself is critical, but somehow we have evolved in such a way that not to has somehow become even more critical, we are a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, etc., insoluble and so unbeatable or something. There is something about your organizing principles can’t be disturbed if you don’t know what they are, or something.

That’s an intuition, too difficult to express. Don’t worry, it won’t be on the test.

But I have been screaming, “YOU are a neurotype too!,” at people online and getting predictable responses, it’s not going great. I need a real plan.

I need a way to soften it, present it as a positive, somehow.

I’ve considered something like, “Spike’s my friend, ‘cause he’s so big and strong,” and really, I can’t let the idea go, it sort of is the point for me, and that’s a compliment for them . . . but of course that will be the end of it, Thanks Kid, I know.

Sigh.

I’m open to suggestions.

Jeff

March 6th., 2024

3 thoughts on “The Hard Pill

  1. Scarlett March 6, 2024 / 3:08 pm

    It’s difficult for me to have a conversation about what I learnt at uni, even high school physics is beyond most people, I did study a few other things, but all of those are in the same basket.

    I look at things differently after uni, I had almost a decade to reframe biases, conclusions that my biology and upbringing imbued me with. One thing I think about all the time is ‘the great filter’ you know – the Fermi Paradox – where are all the aliens and how come they aren’t everywhere? I really do think the great filter is the answer to Fermi.

    I spent many years looking at the and trying to organise the minute in a way that it might, as physicists are want to do – extrapolate to the not minute. My and our failure to do so represents a metaphor to me, even the little things are so monstrously complex and beyond our ability to reconcile is it any wonder there is nothing else alive in the void?

    I think there is life out there, probably a lot of it, but the moment it gets to -” hey this rock is useful , I can use to smash Dave’s head in so I can bang Jane” it’s more or less over.

    It is nature, maths if you will that we are on a path to violence, on that path we stop to pick up things that affirm the right of the self over everything and anything that gets in our ego’s way.

    I admire people who try to solve the world’s problems, especially social ones, I’m a bit phobic about that kind of thing so I’m going to move somewhere I can avoid people and spend more time with my dog, she is god if you reverse the letters.

    Hope you are well Mx

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    • Jeff/neighsayer March 6, 2024 / 3:17 pm

      you too
      You know there’s a few people who think the aliens are every bloody where, that’s a rabbit hole I’ve been flirting with, but I can’t go down it, there’s too much overlap with the bad guys, it’s all military and such. No-one really knows what or why all that stuff, so despite an apparent mountain of weird shit going on, I can’t get interested, what’s the point is we can’t know WTF it’s all about?
      I feel bad for abductees and victims, but what are you going to do, no-one knows WTF it is.

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      • Scarlett March 8, 2024 / 9:06 pm

        I’ve seen those US Navy vids of UFO’s but I think abduction is the same kind of trauma that causes demons to appear, angels or whatever flavour of gods a person follows. Maybe some form of repression – who knows I don’t.

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