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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Jun 2018
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    Every time I meet an interesting non-neurotypical who clearly has a lot of interesting things in their head but finds it painfully hard to connect with others, I’m struck by the sheer, overwhelming difficulty of human connection. We’re still in the Stone Age of human sociability.

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      2. MOURNING CROW PUNISHER Derek‏ @PereGrimmer 27 Jun 2018
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        Same, and similar observation for NT, as they often do not even sense how strange they can be. I have made various little proposals, such as metaphor and reference translators across generations and subcultures, or a Domesday book of mental states - but no real drive.

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      3. nothing has prepared us for the strange times‏ @enkiv2 27 Jun 2018
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        As an autistic, I learned all my social skills from psych texts, & it left me better able to communicate in many cases than NTs

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      1. Di Dang‏ @dqpdang 26 Jun 2018
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        I think also of this from Gustave Flaubert in Madame Bovary: “Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

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      1. Daniel Gollahon‏ @danielgollahon 26 Jun 2018
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        Reminds me of this line from Dexter: "They make it look so easy. Connecting with another human being. It's like no one told them it's the hardest thing in the world."

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      2. Reuben Chauhan‏ @Reuben_Chauhan 27 Jun 2018
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        Communication/connection is proportional not to (linguistic/ empathetic/conceptual) vocabulary of the individual, but the shared vocabulary of the group. Can't communicate/ connect easily/at all, if you don't have those models ready. /1

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      3. Reuben Chauhan‏ @Reuben_Chauhan 27 Jun 2018
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        Thought experiment: 2 people on a desert island, million word vocabulary each but one in Swahili, one in Inuit. No other language in common. They will have to revert to first principle communication, signs and sand drawing. /End

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      2. Alex Bowles‏ @alexqgb 26 Jun 2018
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        This is why I think there's so much ridiculousness in the "omg if the robots take all our jobs what will *we* do?" panic. We build better cultures.

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      3. Scott Smith‏ @sakohts 27 Jun 2018
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        The work week was at 20hrs by the end of the Stone Age. Vanishes only if we don't care to redirect the acts of other humans.

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      1. Aaron Naparstek‏ @Naparstek 26 Jun 2018
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        Have I got a Kickstarter for you!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/167681950/the-animated-mind-of-oliver-sacks …

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      1. Matthew Clark‏ @mhc_theus 27 Jun 2018
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        Ive met two types of individuals that make it challenging to connect with; there are those that refuse to seek understanding or even listen to a subject/individual not to their liking, or those that fail to see the value in relationships altogether. Both prohibit relatability

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