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When my grandparents got cremated, we watched them go in, and took pictures of them right before they went into the furnace.

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When they came out, my cousin tried to take pictures, but the official stopped them. As in, she asked if that was the case, but didn't ask why. I knew why, of course, because I've been outside for so long (skeletons).

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One of the computers I brought back, my uncle was worried about the Windows 10 install, because it was "unsafe".

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When the censorship is super harsh, the population won't even know it's happening, it's just a giant black hole of "this isn't allowed".

One of the things my cousin asked for when she came over was a laptop, which she proceeded to install World of Warcraft on. When she got tired of a job, she just quit, because fuck 996. A lot of the younger generation just hole up at home and work occasionally.

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The other cities are still ok (for now). Whichever city my mom's family is in had street vendors that use QR codes, so there's at least some integration into "Modern China".

Adding on to this nonsense...

• Most of the futuristic paradise is just chinese government propaganda overflowing. Most of the authoritarian hellscape isn't really seen by normal citizens. My aunt saw police catch a pickpocket once. She felt sorry for the pickpocket because they were beating the crap out of him.

• Wechat, yes, sometimes they will ask for your national id in places, but not often because nobody fucking carries that. The good news is I had family all over the place, so they just paid for everything out of their accounts.

• Ads are everywhere, but most ads are just walls of text. I can't read chinese, so it's actually very easy for me to ignore it anyways.

• The last few times I went, we went from dialup to ISDN to DSL. I remember the first time I went back, we got a microwave. We couldn't use it for a while because it would blow the apartment circuit breaker.

• A lot of the niche cultures are just hiding in places. There's a lot of hiding places. Over the times I went back, Beijing went from 3rd ring highway to 5th ring. I had to take like two hours of bus ride to get to a Magic: The Gathering store.

• Chinese PC gaming sucks ass. It's either rebranded western games, or just pay-to-win gacha games. It's been like that since the 90s. Black Myth Wukong is a big deal, because it's one of the first big time non-gacha chinese games.

• Most of the younger generation are very global. They've had a taste of the unfiltered internet and cannot go back. That's not to say they have the correct perspectives on things, but there is a distinct lack of the imperialism that the older generation has. Some of the older generation is global too, especially on western movies. My uncle liked to watch western movies that I snuck in.

• Every time I go, somehow, there always happens to be some government bigwigs in town, which makes all the factories shut down. The air is actually very clean without the factories.

• One of the best and worst things the government did was preparation for the 2008 Olympics. They tore down every single building in the city that was only one story high (and some higher ones), and rebuilt them into at least two story high buildings. In the process, they also redid the streets, which also included clearing out the street vendors. RIP tricycle cooks and kebab vendors.

...uh...static input moving is a sign of being on the schizophrenia spectrum, otherwise known as visual hallucinations...

Yeah, that's a company server, specifically for the local network group

It IS in my normal range, but it is NOT listed on my Router’s DHCP client list.

Why would an internal server change IP all the time? DHCP is for silly things like laptops that turn on and off eleventy times a day

So, as a non-autistic person, something I've noticed, is that people with autism can't handle anything that remotely describes them as stupid and useless (exaggerated sense of self/narcisism). This wouldn't normally be an issue however, except it compounds with this other thing I've noticed, that people with autism have this intense urge to reach 100%, and anything less than that is actually 0% (in other words, yall see things in black and white).

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This interaction produces this awkward logic where anything negative (including personal mistakes) is taken as a personal insult, which produces one of two results, A (you have personally insulted me, that means I get to personally act like a complete asshole on purpose and/or meltdown), or B (somebody/or myself said something negative about me, and that means I'm stupid and useless and sad now).

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Since tone is something that asian cultures have built in to their language, and the lack of ability to understand tone and its effect on communication is incredibly obvious from my standpoint.

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Anyways, long story short, purely neutral descriptive language and judgemental language are very different. Purely descriptive language, especially scientific, often tries to describe a thing in as many words as possibly allowed, because otherwise you run into information compression loss (too much jpg). If you want to be accurate, and accuracy is tantamount in any scientific field, then every possible description from every possible viewpoint is required. This is the opposite of what people with autism like to do, which is "efficient". Yall gonna end up describing a moon rock like, "it is grey and dusty", which is severely useless. Sometimes you cannot describe an object in less than 20,000 words, especially if you've never seen it before.

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Autism being a spectrum of traits in variable degrees of effect, I would expect such 20 page papers when trying to formally diagnose someone.

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If you wanna see some judgemental language and the difference between such and anything not, go on r/roastme and check out the roasts.

Ehh.. it's approximately in line with source material ratings. On the other hand, if the community is small, there would be some odd tilts due to a lack of total variety, so the people who have watched four seasons of Date A Live would obviously know to recommend the fifth season.

You've uhh..never watched The Fifth Element (1997) have you?

To add to this, here is a rough explanation of why "average" people still exist.

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If you take every job in the world, and group them up, you're gonna get significantly more maintenance type jobs, time-gated jobs, tetris type jobs, and basically every job that requires about 2 brain cells to perform perfectly, than any job that actually requires critical thinking.

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So we can either take you, the smartest ~~meat popsicle~~ man on the planet, and make you stand there and hold a stop sign in the middle of traffic in 100F/38C weather for 10 hours straight six days a week,

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we can give that job to somebody else and have you design highway interchanges.

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Take your pick.

I have this hypothesis that masking their authenticity in order to fit in with their respective social group is the normal way also in NT people.

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This is not correct. A "neurotypical" (term is terrible, there are good reasons) does not "mask" in most situations. They are simply using their own personality. People with autism have this nasty habit of trying to find "the correct answer", which is something that simply doesn't exist most of the time. If a normal person is masking, it is likely that they are doing so because they are still trying to maintain some image of civility.

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The other part of this is that a question with no correct answer, however, still has wrong answers. If someone asks you what you are doing this weekend, "researching goatse" is a most certainly a wrong answer. All of this is dependent on the other person. In the case of a random person, it's easier to just leave out everything longer than a single sentence, which is why talking with strangers always feels oddly hollow.

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Example

TALK: "[person you hate] died yesterday."

Normal: "Good, fuck that guy in particular."

Masked: "That's ... unfortunate."

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It is true, though, that an average person doesn't have to think about every sensory input. That's the only real high-level difference. Most people are also incapable of focusing on more than one task. It just seems like multitasking or speedy processing because they can drop tasks at a moment's notice. For someone who actually does have hardware multitasking, high process speed, and acute sense of time, interacting with an average person feels like an eternity. If I had to fancy a fat guess, I'd say this is why people with autism seem to prefer online interaction -- because there's no timelines for said interaction, and the lack of the information that they have to track makes interacting much faster.