I got diagnosed last year. I'm 41. My entire life would have been very different. In fact, I believe I was diagnosed as a child but my mom never did anything about it or told me.
Anyway, I can tell that even my wife of ten years thinks I'm exaggerating or trying to make excuses.
I had a Velcro wallet full of supplies like uhh.. some bits of thread, some zip ties, twist ties, rubber bands, stuff like that. I never did anything with that crap. I was a strange one.
Read that short column by Asimov elsewhere in the thread. It's a photo of a column in Newsweek so it should be easy to find. It was written in 1980 - three and a half years before I was born, and he's bemoaning anti-intellectualism and the rising acceptance of ignorance being just as valuable as the opinion of an expert.
If he could have seen what the internet has done, social media specifically, I can't imagine what he'd think. Social media with 24/7 access to anything that will tell you what you feel in your gut is right. Yeah, we're dumber than we've ever been since before literacy became ubiquitous.
You call it an filtered version of history and you're exactly right. I'd say it's more filtered than ever before. Not just history is filtered but the very evidence of the current day from your eyes and ears is filtered in real time.
Like most (all?) big counter-culture movements, most of the people who were "in" it were not really there for deep seated beliefs. It was cool, there were parties and music, sex and drugs were plentiful. Then it was time to grow up put all that stuff behind them.
I don't mean to disparage the whole hippie thing. Lots of people really believed in it and do to this day. I just think the majority were there for the fun then got back to "real life".
I accidentally picked up some Ben and Jerry's oat milk style and it was delicious. I do prefer the regular but I wouldn't mind getting the oat kind. Surprisingly to me, the oat milk version had slightly more calories.
The idea is that it's an inclusive document. I think the two parts that directly say they are rights for citizens clearly imply that the rest of it is for everyone. It's a shame we have to rely on this ancient document, which is in some places poorly written.
Good luck getting 3/4 of states to agree that water is wet though, so rewriting, rewording, or amending the Constitution is off the table. That leaves us stuck with interpretations from the courts, which I hope we can at least agree are largely corrupt.
Good write up and very important to remember. I just wanted to point out that the typo of J vs K at the end there may lead people to think you are remarking on his ethnicity.
You make good comments, I've seen you around. Take it from a 41 year old if you want, you deserve to be here. You're more thoughtful than the average person your age and that will only improve once your brain gets finished cooking 😉
So I tend to tear up when I eat really hot temperature food and then I like to add a lot of chili paste and jalapenos to pho. So I end up crying in my soup. I look ridiculous but I just joke that I'm adding some salt.
I got diagnosed last year. I'm 41. My entire life would have been very different. In fact, I believe I was diagnosed as a child but my mom never did anything about it or told me.
Anyway, I can tell that even my wife of ten years thinks I'm exaggerating or trying to make excuses.