4mo ago

Autism rule

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"So what's wrong with me, doc?"
"Says here you strongly oppose injustice, have an increased range of empathy, and are completely immune to mind control tricks."
"Isn't that good?"
"Afraid not."
- believing yourself immune to suggestion is one of the greatest vulnerabilities against suggestion tbh
  
  Nah, I won't believe you.
  
  Rule no. 1: People are stupid. A person will believe a lie because they want it to be true, or they fear it might be true. A person's head if full of information, most of it is wrong. People are also convinced that they are perfectly able to determine truth from lies, which makes them all the easier to fool.
  Bonus points if you get the reference without googling it.
- Lol, I’m the autistic where I just believe other people. Shockingly, it’s worked out poorly.
  
  You're normal in that respect:
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aur.1962
  In fact, the idea that autistic individuals are immune to propaganda is, itself, media propaganda. The study that those articles report on was a single study that found that autistic individuals show less of a framing effect on their own preferences. It's much more easily explained by autistic individuals having strong, internal preferences for their own likes/dislikes than it is by autistic individuals being immune to propaganda.
  Speaking from experience here, too.
  
  Same. If it wasn't true, why would they say it?
  I am... Not smart lol.
  
  i am really naive. i hate that. i made many mistakes by trusting people.
- it makes you shitty in flirting and smalltalk, at least thats what i experience
  
  x: your eyes are as bright as a star
  my dumbass: actually, did you know that the sun outputs 3.83×10²⁶ W? that's so much that the energy output by the Sun in just one hour could power the Earth for about 56.1 trillion years at the current global consumption rate. Or, if you ....blah blah blah something something Kardashev scale....
  yeaaaa not my proudest move

Resisting peer pressure is easy if your peers never try to pressure you. Or hang out with you. Or talk to you.

tips forehead
Gotta have peers to get peer pressured.

Adults: people would try to pressure you into drugs.
Adults with drugs after being rejected: "I got you! no problem"
Adults with alcohol after being rejected: "what do you mean you don't like alcohol?? Just try it! You're going to like it!!"
- i had to quit a whole friend group, because i quit drinking when i switchted to ritalin,
  after a while they were saying that ritalin changed my personality to the worse kind. I realized they didnt like it when I said "no" and wouldnt budge. Or when i spoke my mind, or when I just left a situation when i had enough. or when i didnt want to go to bars anymore, or sitting aroung and listening to their drunk talk.
  before ritalin, i was drunk almost everytime we hung out together.
  i think the last time i drank a glas of whine was last chrismas; and before that, i has one year without alcohol.
  i drank like 10 liters of beer each week for more then ten years. sometimes less.
  
  as someone who just doesn't like the taste of alcohol, being the only sober guy in a friend group where everyone's drunk sucks so much

Same with ads. Never could figure out why they did anything.
- Ads are subliminal and you are kidding yourself if you think you are immune.
  Edit - except for perfume ads, those are pointless.
  
  Ads can only do so much subliminally. The biggest thing is getting you to know about the brand for when you want to buy that type of product. You're more primed to think of their products first. Second is triggering insecurities that make you want to buy that type of product more. In that case, you can train to resist by paying specific attention to the ad and what it's trying to do.
  At this point, ads do more to make me dislike a product than make me want to use it. If it's something I found early and actually like, I know that its days are numbered and it'll go downhill thanks to corporate rot. If it's something I know nothing about, I want to avoid it and look for alternatives if I ever need that type of product. If it's something that preys on the vulnerable or is morally repugnant or is just flat out annoying, it only reinvigorates my hatred for capitalism.
  
  Look at this sexy woman. Look at this cool refreshing air conditioner she's next to. Isn't she sexy? Isn't it nice stepping in from the heat to stand next to an air conditioner? So anyway. Associate coca cola with all the feelings you're feeling
  
  I am not immune they are distracting my thoughts and stirring my deep hate for them.
  Ads are assault. Adblock is accessibility.
  Ethical advertisements can exist, its super rare.
  
  The ads are subliminally manipulating the sort function of my spreadsheet that calculates the unit cost of every product in a category.
  
  You're kidding yourself if you think I'm kidding myself.
  
  Arguably for a lot of stuff that folk encounter that some count as "subliminal" just means they don't understand the language and employ of framing devices, juxtaposition, abstraction or rhetoric. We need to start teaching that shit as basic literacy in schools because once you understand them it's not "subliminal" anymore as it becomes readable text.
  The simple presence of an ad in your peripheral vision definitely counts as properly subliminal though and it's still a menace.
  
  I can remember exactly one ad from when i was like 7. If i see an ad i just zone out. And everything i buy is because i researched it, it's the only thing of that type in store, or i tested it and decided i liked it.
  I don't think the majority of people are as vulnerable to ads as you think
- 🤓 They dont! Or rather they do much less than they used to, and the effect of all the product hype has been deteriorating since anthromorphic cigarette boxes have been letting you know a particular brand exists and you may like it during the half-hour show intermission in the fifties.
  We're not completely sure why, because it's complicated. For one thing, while were blasting adults with ads, we're also desensitizing the next generation from the same intensity, so to influence them we have to up the hype, and guess what that does to their kids.
  Another factor is competition. Even ads for non-competing products are still competing for your time, your memory, your attention, so while Coke and Coors are trying to tell you what to drink you're still thinking about the hot woman in the Toyota ad. PS Sex sells, but mostly it sells sex. People remember the hottie twerking on screen, not that Raytheon sponsored her. If we're thinking about banging the green M&M, we're not thinking of her as tasty chocolate candy.
  And then there's the matter that ads now try to convince you you need this product rather than simply informing you this brand exists, and you might like it, on the assumption you're already on the market for a new hair shampoo. And the advertising sector is saturated with false products, e.g. shampoos that allegedly (but don't actually) make you irresistibly sexy to hottie passersby, rather than merely clean your hair. So we trust modern household products the way we trust politicians.
  Advertisers have been losing the war for your attention since the fifties, which [each] successive more expensive ad campaign being less effective than the last, all the while further enshittifying the medium space they occupy.
  Curiously, bad decisions by marketers are compounded by bad decisions by upper management, who insist on unethically sourcing their materials and labor to make shoddy products and then blame their marketing team when their business model tanks.
  /🤓
  
  If we're thinking about banging the green M&M, we're not thinking of her as tasty chocolate candy.
  Hey, speak for yourself.