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To this, after 25 years of self-studying psychology on and off, I would theorize that it shows the contradiction that autistic people often cant function in this environment and go the self stigmatizing and agonizing route of getting tons of diagnoses to somehow get taken off some of the burden which otherwise might lead to suicide.

Can personally relate.

Being gifted (as in having a special talent for e.g. spatial thinking, word association, memory, etc.) is real. People have different capabilities and denying such is ableist and reactionary imo. The difference imo is that bourgois society and psychology uses a binary approach which labels people as gifted or non gitfted, making them two “classes” which makes sense in an oppression perspective

Oh i do think being gifted is real, and I can see how it can be reactionary to flatten the exceptional skills talents and thinking one may have. I was definitely referring to the gifted to burnout paradox, of typing and classifying people to be exploited, and then discarding them.

One thing i feel may be helpful to say is that from my experience, autistic people will mask to pass in these conditions and often that means over self reliance, saying yes to everything, overworking, willingly being maipulated and coerced, and so on. So disabilities become disabilities in this case when the energy stress and strain to maintain that mask eventually fails. This whole process can have dramatic effects, including diminishing and reduction of gifted skills and talents. With the conditioning western societies impress upon autistic people, the idea of binary giftedness can very well manipulate gifted peoples into diminishing these traits.

Autistics are hyper-exploited in capitalist societies but I too hear very little about it’s impact in socialist and dem-soc countries, or in the global south in general. The tension of demanding our (autistics) hyper-exploitation and us being acutely aware of that could be a factor (such as through diagnoses ascribed as ‘pathological demand avoidance’ or other ‘developmental disorders’). Even apparent efforts to reframe autism in a positive light also positions us as exceptional, gifted, and thus groomable and exploitable. Whereas out of that context, epigentic behaviors as impacted by environment don’t seem to be so significant for accomodations (disability).

As a USian I feel like pulling all my “credentials” of my autistic diagnosis, so it may not be used againat me, if that’s even possible. It seems too late.

I’m reading this now despite my covid brain its so good

At the time i was reading Bookchin and was a staunch libertarian socialist. So maybe my moments were back further… I never got into meme sites until later, avoided online almost entirely from 2010-2014, out of circumstance (living in tents while trying go to school and such). I think my pivotal moments were based on: reading increasingly reactionaty books and finding their problems (my “put down in disgust” points were ER Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros, as well as Atlas Shrugged, specifically when the copper baron has a tirade about altruism). But in general growing up, i was in–closet trans in male dominated spaces, so my own identity and femininity and increasing preference for femme spaces and friendships helped keep stopping me from taking the red pill/black pill.

Look at how countries like USA treat their homeless— people displaced from housing and denied a gainful living. The worse scenario is already happening to them. Nevermind Gazans being killed to turn the whole strip into a resort for these presumed philanthropists

yes

I’m starting to read Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant, which goes into how sometimes what we desire are obstacles against our own success. The American Dream is an example, which is unobtainable to most, but nonetheless they try, and end up in a constant state of crisis while trying to achieve it. Also Berlant argues in this process people don’t attach to ideological underpinnings as much as they attach to the emotional quality of these desires and the relationships we form around them. And also, when our fantasies erode and fail around us and we don’t see an alternative, this is a turning point to overcome. So far it’s a dense read, i’m almost done with chapter 1, but I may have taken on too much!

oh good to know about Arkels.

and also USSR losing most of their industrial base as all western Russia was gutted by nazis in ww2 made it significantly harder for USSR to match production against USA. and by the 70’s and 80’s USSR was shadowed by China as well in most sectors…

considerately, China had a comparably similar industrial base to USSR, up until the 1950’s. CPC has been playing the long game with the US it seems

my point was it doesn’t have to do with population as much as it has to do with capitalistic demand and monopoly/cartel dynamics

more population means more artists and artistry, which means more concerts, but please go ahead and make this about “overpopulation”