do you feel like your life has a meaning?
_________________
ever changing evolving and growing
I am pieplup i have level 3 autism and a number of severe mental illnesses. I am rarely active on here anymore.
I run a discord for moderate-severely autistic people if anyone would like to join. You can also contact me on discord @Pieplup or by email at [email protected]
Nope no meaning, unless you make it meaningful.
Some solutions to your problem:
1. Seek out other people in groups and meetups with similar problems to you. It may be easier for you to be in the company of those kinds of people, that also includes people on the autism spectrum. Go on Facebook or google to search for groups in you're area. If you don't find anyone maybe you can move to another place with more opportunities and activity?
2. Buy yourself a Virtual Reality headset to meet people online. I do that. It's a good place to practice being social and finding people similar to you. VR is good because you can see, hear and speak as well as touch stuff, you can't do all those things in a chat You feel as if you're in another world with VR and people being actually there with you. And if it's too intense you can easily just leave or block or mute people, can't do that in real life haha The VR headsets with the most social applications are Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. I can recommend VR Chat and Rec Room as places to meet new people and practice being social The cheapest and best offer right now is the Oculus Rift at $349. But you'll need a very powerful computer and that can be expensive. Don't buy cheap VR, it's not worth it and not the same as the high end stuff.
Last edited by Enceladus on 25 Nov 2017, 6:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.
RetroGamer87
Veteran
Joined: 30 Jul 2013
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 10,932
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Some solutions to your problem:
1. Seek out other people in groups and meetups with similar problems to you. It may be easier for you to be in the company of those kinds of people, that also includes people on the autism spectrum. Go on Facebook or google to search for groups in you're area. If you don't find anyone maybe you can move to another place with more opportunities and activity?
2. Buy yourself a Virtual Reality headset to meet people online. I do that. It's a good place to practice being social and finding people similar to you. VR is good because you can see, hear and speak as well as touch stuff, you can't do all those things in a chat You feel as if you're in another world with VR and people being actually there with you. The VR headsets with the most social applications are Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. I can recommend VR Chat and Rec Room as places to meet new people and practice being social The cheapest offer right now is the Oculus Rift at $349. But you'll need a very powerful computer and that can be expensive. Don't buy cheap VR, it's not worth it and not the same as the high end stuff.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just socialise in real life?
_________________
The days are long, but the years are short
Of course, but it's an alternative. Also VR gives you some extra options that could make it easier
practice being social. You're anonymous, can mute or block people or just quickly leave if it becomes to intense or make yourself a new avatar that people don't recognise if you fail and feel embarrassed. You can't do that in real life
I like that youtube channel
_________________
ever changing evolving and growing
I am pieplup i have level 3 autism and a number of severe mental illnesses. I am rarely active on here anymore.
I run a discord for moderate-severely autistic people if anyone would like to join. You can also contact me on discord @Pieplup or by email at [email protected]
Some extroverts appear to be constantly talking. To someone else, on the phone
It's like they can't have a thought or emotion without announcement
Broadcasting
That doesn't sound, to me like their lives have meaning or purpose, just because they socialize a lot
Not sure I understand what your point was? It's easier to give a clear answer when I get a question
Yes extroverts get energy from being with people, introverts get drained in social situations and have to spend time alone to recharge. In between there's the ambiverts, thought there's a spectrum. But we're all social animals to some degree we need other people to feel ok.
I'm an introvert. I can spend weeks alone without feeling any need for people, though if I go to long without socialising I will begin to feel strange, or rather I'll feel a need to meet people. The more time I spend alone the weaker my social skills become, it's like a muscle I have to maintain from from getting weaker. I think OP (foxant) describes this situation very clearly. And that is why I recommended some social situations and tools that might ease the burden of being social for people who struggle in social situations.
Being social might give some degree of meaning to ones life, for others to a lesser degree and maybe some no meaning at all. We're all different. We have to make life meaningful, to go look for the meaning, whatever that might be.
But I'm just speculating. I don't have the fact's, I believe no one does that. Maybe we get some impressions if we look at it more scientifically, maybe with statistics or surveys asking people about the meaning of life.
Though I think Monty Python did a pretty good job explaining it all in their movie "The Meaning of Life" in their own absurd way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yCRrwufQiA
Some extroverts appear to be constantly talking. To someone else, on the phone
It's like they can't have a thought or emotion without announcement
Broadcasting
That doesn't sound, to me like their lives have meaning or purpose, just because they socialize a lot
Not sure I understand what your point was? It's easier to give a clear answer when I get a question
Yes extroverts get energy from being with people, introverts get drained in social situations and have to spend time alone to recharge. In between there's the ambiverts, thought there's a spectrum. But we're all social animals to some degree we need other people to feel ok.
I'm an introvert. I can spend weeks alone without feeling any need for people, though if I go to long without socialising I will begin to feel strange, or rather I'll feel a need to meet people. The more time I spend alone the weaker my social skills become, it's like a muscle I have to maintain from from getting weaker. I think OP (foxant) describes this situation very clearly. And that is why I recommended some social situations and tools that might ease the burden of being social for people who struggle in social situations.
Being social might give some degree of meaning to ones life, for others to a lesser degree and maybe some no meaning at all. We're all different. We have to make life meaningful, to go look for the meaning, whatever that might be.
But I'm just speculating. I don't have the fact's, I believe no one does that. Maybe we can get some answers if we look at it more scientifically, maybe with statistics or surveys asking people about the meaning of life.
Though I think Monty Python did a pretty good job explaining it all in their movie "The Meaning of Life" in their own absurd way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yCRrwufQiA
nick007
Veteran
Joined: 4 May 2010
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Posts: 27,059
Location: was Louisiana but now Vermont in the police state called USA
The band Disturbed believes the meaning of life is sex
_________________
"I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem!"
"Hear all, trust nothing"
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ru ... cquisition
What gives "life" meaning?
Work? Only have had jobs like Cashier, burger flipper
Religion? "The opiate of the masses"
Good cause? Maybe. But do not feel it. Child labor, pollution, animal rights, et cetera
Hobbies? Do not like many things. Not good at anything
Relationships? Keep getting dumped
But, whatever
Meaning or no meaning, "life" goes on
Hitler's life had meaning
A homophobic precious lil "person" had the nerve to tell me "the meaning of life is helping people!"
"Helping people"? (Rolls eyes)
He had a "holier than thou" attitude, like he has never done anything wrong before in his entire precious lil life
"Helping people"? Mussolini was helping Hitler
SilverProteus
Veteran
Joined: 20 Jul 2007
Gender: Female
Posts: 7,915
Location: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Silver Proteus
That is a good point
Hitler's life had meaning
That was not necessarily a good thing
Some meanings are good and some are bad
It's like does everyone's life have a different meaning, or does everyone's life have the same meaning?
One homophobe had the nerve to tell me that "the meaning of life is helping people"
He sounded like he believed he was awesome, innocent, etc
Why does life have to have a meaning? Sure, I can find a sense of meaning in my life but that doesn’t mean I’m preordained to life that way or that there is some objective purpose to life.
Personally, I don’t want my life to have meaning. Or at least I don’t want something or someone else deciding that for me. I don’t think there is a God and even if there was I don’t think they or the universe or whatever has the right to have any plans for me. I have a finite amount of time when I get to experience consciousness and that time belongs only to me.
I guess in a strange way that is my purpose in life.
Similar Topics | |
---|---|
Should I feel bad for having few friends |
26 Mar 2024, 5:35 am |
How interesting do you think your life is? |
10 Jan 2024, 12:29 pm |
What was life really like in the late 60s? |
18 Jan 2024, 2:44 pm |
No one's life is a failure. |
02 Mar 2024, 4:35 pm |