I highly doubt it. I think it skews self-identified autistic… because the self-diagnosis IME gives people more ‘runway’ to be assholes.

I also take this not just form the internet, but from real life social interactions. The biggest assholes always would front-loud their shitty behaviour by being like ‘oh i have this condition’. And that way if you tried to call out, you were the asshole.

And you also notice a the majority of their posting is all about how ‘hard they have it’… etc. Which is also how a lot of non-autistic people frame their lives, as perpetual struggle… they just don’t frame it around autism, they frame it around some other defining ‘flaw’ like lack of money, beauty, childhood, etc.

Plus the legit autistic people I have met… tended to be way nicer than the self diagnosed ones.

A lot of folks just… loathe being held accountable for their actions. And a lot of disorders/diagnosis are viewed as a ‘get out of responsibility free’ card and… a lot of folks exploit that whole dynamic.

remember when every tech person though they could code away human psychology problems and we’d all just be harmonious global society thanks to the internet?

tell that to all the power users/mods here who act just like reddit power users/mods.

thanks for being a teacher. i wanted to be one, but i saw the ‘writing on the wall’ coming with ID politics and I just decided it made no sense to pursue a career where I’d be punished for doing a good job and people would hate me for trying to educate them.

I was in grad school in 2010 and the kind of crazy shit people, at the graduate level, were saying was scary as hell and it’s so sad that… their ‘everything is racist, etc. if i don’t like it’ attitude bled over into the rest of society.

I miss the 2000s when people who did that were considered insane and everyone ignored them. Now they are the norm. I wonder if they even have debate topics anymore like abortion, I would guess in many places they are simple verboten to discuss.

if they did that they wouldn’t use the platform anymore.

every platform, including lemmy, wants more users, and one way to make sure you don’t drive users away is to never ‘punish’ them.

you don’t get it because you’re not using the internet as a source of validation/affirmation of yourself and your life. the vast majority of people… are doing that. they are operating on their immediate feelings of upvote = good/feel good, downvote = bad/feel bad

also there are instances that punish and call out users for their voting patterns and the votes cast on them, like piefed.

they take it as a person insult, and use it as a person insult.

and some people mass downvote you, regardless of where/what you posted because they are angry at you because they think they are ‘punishing’ or 'getting back at you.

it’s mostly dumb people who take internet stuff way too seriously and have it tied up with their personal self worth.

they don’t love telling you that.

the media loves telling you that, and loves making rich white peopel panic and go out and buy all new cups/cookware/appliances based on the new latest scary study.

and i have relatives who do this. every 5 years they re-buy everything in their kitchen based on whatever is the latest scare trend is. non-stick, plastics, pfas, bpa, etc. it’s like clockowrk, every 5 years there is a new boogeyman think that you have to go buy all new pots and pants and dishware to ‘avoid’. or water bottles.

i bet in 5 years we’re going to start hearing how eating of out steel cookware/cups is bad for you and we all have to go back to plastic because that’s safer.

no, because that’s gay.

and big strong straight men never read history, they think their deep original profound thoughts that stand for all time by themselves, in their bedroom, after masturbating.

you missed the part where the meta physicians claim what they aren’t doing is metaphysics but science and logic, or something… and their inability to admit or understand that any logic of science is a metaphysical system…

history of philosophy is often a lot of finger pointing and posturing about ‘my philosophy isn’t metaphysics! it’s common sense!’

personally I’m more interested in the implications of idealism as a system in practice, but i’m a filthy pragmatist interested in the real world as it is, not as it ought to be.

yeah but human beings are so arrogant they want to believe that nothing exists without them perceiving it.

people like to make an argument out of it, but what they don’t acknowledge is the arrogance of the idea nothing exists outside your perception, which basically makes you into a god-like figure it your own reality.

and nobody likes to talk about how social media has warped so many people’s brains into this way of thinking, that previously they had no access to because they were boxed in but a reality that didn’t let them sit on their ass and think delusional thoughts hours a day. Used to be only weirdo philosophy people did that, now it’s what your average person does with their social media feed.

nothing. you live your life as you will.

it’s not your job to change the world. only yourself.

you will just make yourself the enemy the more you try to ‘fight’ your fellow citizens. they will not welcome you or view you positively, they will simply hate you.

the issue is the western leaders systematically won’t address the problems. they just ignore them and they get worse and worse. because the leaders are all part of the top 1% and they see nothing but good times and better times coming and think the the 99% are all idiots for not being born into wealth and power.

maybe I’m gay but I never understood what directions have to do with feelings.

lots of people are saying she should be set free. that’s why the case is so big on social media. it’s been drivin by insane weirdo women who think the husband did it and they have a massive massive following on tiktok.

he’s easy to make fun of. he’s hyberbolic and hypocritical

and he’s ‘controversial’. the press can’t get enough of building him up into this big figure, when he’s anything but, but when they do they weirdly fixate on how ‘hunky’ he is, which is even more bizarre.

lots of people on the internet are arguing she is innocent, some here in this thread are implying it.

he’s also got drug abuse problems and serious mental illness that trigger the ‘i can fix him’ instinct

can’t let reality get in the way of your perception that everyone is sexist and evil.

but also this account is a troll account.

so don’t buy it. I’m glad to have bought a switch 2. Worth every penny.