Autism and the internet.
The internet was built by people with our brain. That is not a romantic claim. It is a demographic observation about who has spent the last sixty years designing computer systems, networks, protocols, and interfaces.
The internet was built by people with our brain. That is not a romantic claim. It is a demographic observation about who has spent the last sixty years designing computer systems, networks, protocols, and interfaces. A lot of us.
The consequence is that online space, at its best, has always been more Autistic than offline space. Text based interaction removes the pressure of face and voice. Asynchronous communication lets us take the time we need to respond. Communities of interest form around SPINs, and the intensity that would be unusual at a dinner party is the price of admission online. The small talk layer that exhausts us in person is largely optional in text.
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