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   Fi 🏳️‍⚧️ (munin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 16:20:04 JST Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

   I use a cw when I want to consent-gate the content.

   This can be because it's an emotional or traumatic subject and I want to ensure you're looking at it deliberately and with intent.

   This can be because I don't want to talk about it at a top level visibility for any number of reasons, usually around limiting the audience to those people who choose to engage with that topic.

   Sometimes it's because I think it's funny to structure a joke in such a fashion.

   In all cases, it's about my preference with how I want to structure my timeline.

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   josh susser (joshsusser@autistics.life)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 02:17:51 JST josh susser

   How do we fix the internet's social layer so it's not 100% tuned for neurotypical cognition and actively hostile to many (most?) neurodivergent people? This new "attention economy" has created a public space (the internet) that is the worst parts of NT society turned up to 11, and a lot of ND people can't function there.

   What's the problem? Well, it's the constant attention grabs, the distracting background music, the intrusive ads, the information-free clickbait headlines, the pervasive gamification that assumes default NT neurological risk-reward mechanisms and social motivations, the take-no-prisoners mode of personal destruction for even tiny misundertsandings, how everything is a popularity contest we can't compete in let alone ever win, how facts matter less than feelings about them, how a cute smile is more convincing than a rational argument, how no one will listen to what you have to say if you don't say it in a way that makes them feel good about themselves. And that's just for starters.

   I assume that capitalism and market forces have brought us to this point. NTs are, by far, the biggest market segment. All it takes is a feedback loop and a little time to evolve any product to where it's close to ideal for NTs but effectively excludes ND folk. How do we even fight that?

   A simple example: A company sells a product that needs a lot of documentation to understand how to use it. That company creates a video with all the information, and makes the video fun and engaging by adding music, animations, and a little game so you can tell when you have learned everything. That approach might work great for NT folk who need some help to stay focused on learning and retaining new information, but it can be an insurmountable barrier to Autistic or ADHD folk who don't process video information well and can't easily filter out the distracting music and animations, or who learn best by reading a written document that lets them jump around and absorb information in a non-linear fashion.

   In the USA, the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) requires public facilities to accommodate disabled people by making their facilities accessible, like with wheelchair ramps. I think we need some new law that does something similar for websites, apps, and other computer-based systems. Public facilities have to be accessible to everyone, and if apps or websites serve the public, they must be made accessible to ND folk as well. I don't know what a ND-accessible internet would look like, but I know it will get built by including ND folk in every stage of design and implementation of it.

   #ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #autistic #ADHD