Nothing says "We care about accessibility and equity for disabled people in STEM like 'Go to Google and let their AI handle it"" #Ableism#DisabledAndSTEM
@ml and the point is not that it is a "zero effort" solution or "not done by human professionals", the point is that AI-generated captions are not good enough in quality to provide sufficient accessibility, and therefore using AI as only accessibility measure is a fucking poor excuse.
I frequently find my inner voices, while being somewhere all alone, to argue and prove to myself that whatever sensory #overstimulation I just experienced, was real and not just me imagining things or being "too sensitive"....
@actuallyautistic As an autistic person, I grew up a social outcast. When I was a kid, it was largely because of poor social skills, like my "conversations" were mostly just info dumps about my special interests. Later, in college and graduate school, I worked on my social skills, so social skills are no longer the problem. In fact, most autistic adults have better social skills than I do. Now I'm able to hold conversations. However, I still find developing deep relationships challenging. I think it's because of my unusual special interests and stubbornness/unusual way of thinking. You know that autistic people often have weird and socially inappropriate special interests.
For example, insisting to bike or take transit in LA has a lot of social ramifications. Most of my colleagues either don't have a bike or can't bike nearly as far as I can or are too scared to bike in LA. Colleagues are the easiest pool of friends, but it's difficult to hang out with them because I'm too obsessed with cycling. The corollary is that LA geography as I know it is very different from what most Angelinos know. I know way more about rivers (due to bike paths and scenery) and rails (because I take the train to cut unpleasant junk miles from my bike trips while MAMILs drive) and nooks and crannies (because I seek them out and because side roads are more pleasant to bike on) than freeways. I can draw LA and San Gabriel rivers and their main tributaries from memory. It's hard not to do infodump monologues when most colleagues don't know about the cool things I'm so fascinated with. As a result, when we talk, it's usually about work, which we have in common.
Meanwhile, I have a very unique way to think about cycling. Because I've never had a car, I think of cycling as a means of transport more than a sport, so the purpose of my bike trips is to check out cool places and philosophize about them rather than athletic performance. Cycling has become more a philosophy and an art than a sport to me. But meanwhile I can bike for a long time for a continuous DJ mix of adventure. I spend a lot of time looking up info about places and planning trips. Most MAMILs I know who can bike for a long time usually ride the same few routes and aren't so interested in checking out strange new places. So it's not so easy for me to find riding partners.
@tortitude thanks for sharing. In my country this wouldn't be an issue, there's outdoor sports groups all around, and bike or hiking trails are being officially tended to and touristically marketed.
@MuppetRat in my case it's both (executive dysfunction IS a disability, and I sometimes feel that posts like this try to make this invisible, although I assume that wasn't your intention at all)
@axnxcamr@MuppetRat I wouldn't fully agree to that. Even in a different society, I would still be pissed that I can't do as much as I would like to. Scientifically, the social model of disabilty is not really being used anymore, we now use the mixed model because we acknowledge that both factors, society/access as well as physical/disability play a role.
@axnxcamr@MuppetRat (but I also know that many leftist/anti-capitalist people don't like to hear the fact that the abolition of capitalism wouldn't solve all existing problems or sufferings)
@Dremmwel Yes I totally agree with that. In a way, the notion that a perfect society would know no disability, is ableist in itself.
The issue DOES also apply to autism, because autism has aspects other than social, e.g. it can impair speech, mental capacity, executive function, and sensitivities. All of those, if in a certain form, are potential disabilities. It is possible that OP doesn't experience any of these forms of autism, which could be seen as a privilege (although the social aspects still make it hard enough in the current hostile society).
@lexx3000 as I've heard, a communist society could very well deal with physical disabilities better than a capitalist one, but yeah that's a whole big topic I'm not really motivated to delve into with strangers online XD
@melindrea I am so glad that you have people helping you. I only recently got help in my daily life, and it makes such a huge difference! I wish I had had my diagnosis early in my life, I might have even stayed in my original job, making enough money to hire personal assistance. Once you are in low income, it's hard to get all needs covered.
@actuallyautistic@actuallyadhd I know this isn't specifically an autistic/ADHD trait, but I have a lot of trouble remembering people's names. Usually I have to write down the name, take a picture of it, or make an association that sticks. Does this happen to any of you too?
@pathfinder@catswhocode because: ADHD >> forgetting things; autism >> tendency to not look at faces, sometimes face blindness, and names can also appear as an illogical concept because from our perspective they mean that several identical things (aka random person I have no specific interest in) have different names for no reason (only for people who become significant for me it makes sense to have individual names).
@catswhocode@pathfinder yessss so weird. How are people that are completely different allowed to have the same name, and others I can barely tell apart have completely different names.
I really have the habit of not asking people at events for their names at all.
The trauma of lifelong #hypersensitivity #gaslighting ( friendica.opensocial.space )
I frequently find my inner voices, while being somewhere all alone, to argue and prove to myself that whatever sensory #overstimulation I just experienced, was real and not just me imagining things or being "too sensitive"....