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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this could also apply to the rich and/or powerful vs everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Certainly any time someone doesn't recognize their own privilege.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

to be fair this comic just makes it look like she could have used a big cube all along

i dont think this makes for a good analogy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I don’t think so

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I'm not autistic but this feels like influencers that make false promises and people in tough situation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

In the second panel I thought it was about ordering the colours. Why isn't the blue placed on blue???

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

And there is no reason they really even should be standing on those in the first place, it's just "the way things are."

I bet you could do a lot of really cool things with those blocks that you couldn't with just one big block if everyone wasn't just into standing on block all day.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Is this comic speaking to the complexities of autism or, the simplicity of neurotypical people?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Of software engineering and modularity vs. britleness i guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

This is the outcome of adding unnecessary complexity to things. My wife complains about employees who do innovative things at work. It seems like they lack awareness of how their innovations look to everyone else. She showed me a picture once of what looked like someone who was put on register candy stocking cutting the box to make "dispensers."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Programming for sure.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Until I noticed what community I was in, I interpreted it completely differently. The women is engaging in a niche hobby of making something in a particular and esoteric way, and the man just bought a mass produced version of the thing; thereby completely missing the point of what she was doing.

Like, if I wanms building a chair using hand tools and an unproccessed log. Sure, you could go to a furniture store and buy a chair, or maybe Ikea and "build" one; but that completely misses the point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Huh, I suppose the reason I didn't come to that conclusion is because, the person's facial expression didn't seem satisfied with the end result of their assembling of the blocks.

I assumed they were given the blocks as opposed to purchasing them intentionally.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

It's more to the point that tasks are easier for neurotypical people to accomplish because the world was built for their minds. Neurodivergent people have to build up skills and workarounds for functions that seem to come naturally to NTs, eventually creating a mosaic of little crutches and scripts to follow in order to fit in or even function at all in modern society.

NDs don't have "the box." NTs are born with "the box." Society says you must stand on the box (that it's assumed everyone has inherently) in order to participate. So the ND makes their box out of the many tiny tools and workarounds they build to "stand on the box" that they don't have.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

they are just not very good at lego

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It could be inferred many ways. The rich vs the poor is another way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah before noticing that this was posted on an autism magazine, I thought this was about class disparity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This pattern is everywhere and closely linked to intolerance and discrimination.

Its one step away from “first they came for..” poem. The rich going after the poor is one of the last lines before the rich cannabalize eachother.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I thought it was about that picture with the blocks that represent libraries used in software and some tiny obscure open source library is the reason the whole thing is alive anyways

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

could also be a reflection of male privilege.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

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