1. All public transport now runs on schedule. I love schedules.
  2. It’s illegal to show up at someone’s door unnanounced. You must text first.
  3. No music in supermarkets. Also, ordering groceries to your address is now free.
  4. Instead of engaging in meaningless small talk, people ask what topic someone has been obsessed with lately.
  5. Ads are abandoned.
  6. Working from home is now default.
  7. Restaurants carry common “Safe food” menus, and silent seating options.
  8. Social capital is no longer about how much you earn, and what kind of success you have, but about knowledge of obscure movie references.
  9. What’s on TV? Oh, it’s your comfort show on rerun again!
  10. People of support level 2 and higher will be granted magical powers to compensate for their difficulties. Not sure how I’ll implement this in practice but I’ll damn sure give it a shot.
  • LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    16 hours ago

    Ok. So I’m not even sure if I’m autistic. ADHD for sure and I know those often go hand in hand. But this post made me think of something that I find kind of disabling. Wondering if anyone else has this problem.

    Ads. Ads have ruined my brain. I have become so good at completely ignoring ads and very “eye catching” signs and graphics. My brain usually looks for useful information “in-between” those lines. It’s very helpful for filtering through bull shit.

    But a side effect of this is that my brain will literally filter out important warning signs. Signs that are meant to be very very obvious so you follow them. “Do not enter” type of signs.

    I find myself missing really really obvious signs like this in public and it’s often embarrassing. I finally realized it was because of how I’ve trained my brain to ignore advertising. These “obvious” things I have taught my brain are not useful information in 99% of cases since they are usually advertising.

    Does anyone else have this problem?

    • howrar@lemmy.ca
      4·
      15 hours ago

      I can definitely relate.

      For instance, BG3 has this launcher window where you have to click a “play” button to start the game. The first few times I launched it, I could not for the life of me figure out how to get past that screen without help. It turns out the button was highlighted in a way to grab your attention such that I just couldn’t see it.

      We also have an app here for reading store flyers. Sometimes a certain store gets “featured” and they get this huge banner-like look instead of the usual thumbnail. They might as well not exist anymore at that point.