Boy howdy, do I have a book suggestion for you....
Edit: I'm surprised how many people are not familiar with Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. Not as ground breaking as Neuromancer but his biggest commercial/critical success.
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You're surprised that a novel from 20 years ago isn't what everyone thought of on a post about neurodivergence?
you must not be very good at...
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give an example?
Every couple weeks for the last 11 years my blueMaga family members are convinced this latest thing is going to put Trump in prison and then all the bad things they've been hearing about will go away again. Currently we're at "Bill Clinton is going to blow this whole thing wide open".
Same with "Russia's finished this time, Ukraine is about to turn it around!" since the invasion.
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