gronjo

Hello All,

Something I’ve been thinking about more lately is how my auditory processing problems have affected my life.

Just wanted to open this up for a discussion for those of you who also face problems understanding oral instructions.

Do you have difficulties processing what people say despite having a functional chain of hearing organs? Are you able to follow written instructions to the shock of neurotypicals who may sort you into a lower ability bucket?

Thanks, -G

Hello All,

TLDR: Are there any device ecosystems that are worth exploring outside of the major hardware producers?

As we collectively watch consumer rights sink into tar, it begs the question of which mobile platforms (hardware and software ecosystems) one should be exploring.

Unfortunately, my mobile development knowledge is near zero. What options currently exist besides Android for those who want to tinker with every facet of their computing device? A good preference would be to begin learning with tools that will be around and widely accessible 10 years from now.

I’m not looking for a cutting edge, just something I can use to store music, make calls, edit photos, etc.

Thank you all for your suggestions on the previous post. The discussion led to a huge improvement in my search engine results!

Another post in the autism form, given we are here on Lemmy, and increasing collective technology literacy is generally good 😊

Happy Saturday All,

TLDR: I’ve been extremely frustrated with the increasing enshittification of search engines. I made this post to see how we all are coping with this.

I honestly feel like the past month or so, the functionality of web search has just completed dropped through the floor. The only sites that seem to get indexed are those littered with generated content.

I’m not the only one that thinks getting a list of synthetic text, especially one that reads like a machine-translated instruction manual isn’t the most helpful set of resources right? The “articles” go on forever without reaching a substantive conclusion or extending any bits of information to answer my original search query.

It’s very upsetting to see that it could somehow get even worse than it has been for the last few years. I miss finding individual blogs of people nerding out over common hobbies. Curated websites that actually could make it to the first page returned from a query. It also seems that social media websites are primarily indexed if it isn’t polluted with the automatic slopfest pages.

Let me know what y’all think. This really sucks

Hello Everyone,

TLDR; I heard someone mention “The male gaze” The female gaze” and am curious to hear what some of us think about what draws people to look at others. (Other than the obvious)

Lately, I have been online a lot less, but was exposed to hearing the terms during an argument between two passerbyers in Walmart.

However, occasionally I wonder why people bring up these terms so often in online circles. It seems a flash point for incels or overall digital mud slinging.

Unfortunately, I have never understood what healthy eye contact is like. I oftentimes feel I weird people out by not knowing how long I’m supposed to look at someone. Sometimes they don’t look at me at all, but rather past me, sometimes direct staring, and then sometimes there’s no pattern that I can find at all.

Especially nowadays, when it seems most people actively try not to look at each other in stores or even in classes when directly addressing each other.

Eye contact is something I don’t think I’ve ever done “correctly” but it feels odd in a different way than it historically has for me.

How do you all cope with eye contact? How do you make it as healthy as possible and are there any heuristics to improve your natural reaction to it? I’ve never quite understood why autistic brains avoid eye contact either.