Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@social.cleverlibre.org

@torq Mm yeah, I can see why he can go fuck himself. Thanks for answering.

@torq What'd he do?

@favus Have fun fun!

@rdaily Thaaaaaanks! I'm getting hungry now!

@josemanuel

Reading, watching movies, listening to music, playing videogames. You enjoy them but don't see them as a form of escapism? Most entertainment is a form of escapism, even the ones you listed.

And you seem to exaggerate a lot:
> 'There's something sadistic in someone thinking that a bunch of kids permanently living in their own brains is a good thing.'

What makes you even say that? One classroom activity, and you think they're "permanently living in their own brains"? It looks like a very intellectually stimulating activity to me.

As to _why do they like it_, it is a way for them to try to create order in chaos. It is a coping mechanism. Autistic people will always have trouble trying to figure out non-verbal cues in any given social interaction. It will never get easier. This helps them.

I don't think you quite understand the _scale_ of exhaustion here after social contact. You, _like everybody else_, find social contact exhausting after a while. Yes, of course, that's normal.

But _when_ would you find it exhausting? That is where it differs. Let's talk scale: It might take 10 hours before you need a day of rest. It might take me 1 hour before I need 10 days of rest.

You're still _underestimating hugely_.

@josemanuel

First to make a few things clear:
I am autistic myself.
And I have a fairly good understanding of what those kids might go through.

What if they actually _like_ analyzing data and all that? Computers be damned, they're just tools, doesn't mean humans can't have a shot at it too.
Sometimes I am hyperfocused myself, then I make ridiculous lists of lists and whatnot. Waste of time? Oh, _absolutely_, you bet! But was it satisfying to me? Oh _yeah_!

They'll have plenty of time to learn how to socialize, but does that mean you need to put them in a fascist regime that only forces them to socialize and never have _fun_?

After one evening of socializing, I'll be _happy_ to have 3 weeks of no human contact. I don't hate humans, it is just that social contact is _utterly exhausting_.

Maybe try to understand _that_.

@josemanuel How's playing a game helpful for society in the first place? Let them be themselves, they already have to suppress so many feelings in society.

Although this actually sounds useful. They learn to analyze data and compare sets and apply from one to the other.

@josemanuel Why not?

@gpowerf Oh! That was part of the Stadia hardware? Nice refunding then! :D

@gpowerf Zero? Woh, nice deal then. :D Mine's Nacon controllers Xbox style for about 25 euro each. I try to get them as cheap as possible. But I don't think i can get those things for 0 euro. :D

@paradisewreck It definitely was, in a weird way. I'm so used to the Disney version in general that this was... refreshingly different.

But then, that's Guillermo's thing I guess. I'd seen Pan's Labyrinth as well, and that was so totally weird and different. I should watch that again.

@paradisewreck I found it terribly sad. I really don't know if it's great or not. Maybe it is because it evoked such feelings in me.

@paradisewreck Heh I just finished it as well, and while not quite crying for two hours I did cry at the end as well.

Damn, the ending of Guillermo del Toro's Pinnochio made me cry.

@josemanuel We're not mostly a free speech one, it was always academic freedom but poorly worded before. I'd suggest to recheck our rules page as that's been updated in the past few months. :)

@josemanuel Could be that the instance admins decided to block Qoto, kinda shafting their users with that too.

@josemanuel How do you know you're blocked by them?