Today I woke up with an avalanche of thoughts about my relationship with social media. I always feel like there are things that unnecessarily disturb my mind, and it's something I need to manage intelligently so as not to overload my brain with stress, something that has already cost me dearly in previous years.
While it's been helpful and interesting to read and observe autistic people on social media, things get tiresome when "autism" starts to get mixed up with other topics that don't interest me or even disgust me. And it's not that I'm afraid of anyone; rather, I take care not to end up becoming aggressive and intolerant. This isn't because I care about people; in fact, I care very little about them, as I don't have the hypocritical political correctness that most people on social media have. Life is what it is; there's no need to sugarcoat or romanticize it. No one is going to change or improve this shitty world we live in, and I have no intention of making any effort in that regard.
If you want, you can call it the "cognitive rigidity" of autism, or that I'm intolerant, or perhaps you'd rather call me a "fascist," as many people call anything or anyone they don't like or who doesn't kiss their ass and support their absurd beliefs. I don't care; I don't need anyone to love me or approve of my existence.
Specifically, I've decided to stop following the autism groups I used to follow, which were interesting but were getting tiresome with absurd people. I'll continue, perhaps, some hashtags or specific people who don't rave about absurd ideologies or beliefs and share interesting experiences. You can't imagine how difficult it is sometimes to feel like I'm miserably wasting my time reading the childish arguments of gray-haired adults.
I'm autistic, not very sociable, not very tolerant, and I am not, nor will I ever be, an activist or militant for any unconscious gang.
Bye... 👋
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