Are Nt's going to have worse social skills in the future?

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Those who are able to multi task can multi task their technology, yes, but this topic seems to be more about social skills than an increase or decrease in communications. A person can be talking to someone beside them and texting at the same time, but one cannot deny the detachment which is associated with the social interaction that has been reduced to text on a screen.

That it takes place mostly through the written word should not demean its potential power.

Your posts are all fives, sand. Is that what I said? I did not mean for it to come across that way. Do you think your online relations greatly differ from your personal ones?...maybe it is just me.

My online relationships do differ markedly from my personal contacts since they deal with specific views on specific areas and I can be much more vigorous and less diplomatic in confronting them. In general, people in this forum think more deeply and with greater force than in personal contact where the preservation of civil relations may over ride strong opinions. Powerful intellectual medicines are regularly dispensed here and if I lose the interest or respect of a poster here in the light of a powerful strongly held opinion the consequences are far less than if a long friend is tossed off or acid relationships arise between family members.

Again this is for my book. I want to ask for advice. I want to know what will happen in real life if this situation occured.

In my book, again in Malawi, a Great National Heatwave, which pushes temperatures to 110-120 F (45-50 C) which creates low levels of water and drought which in turn creates shortages of crops. To avoid famine, the government imposes price ceilings, anyone caught violating them is arrested and fined 10% of their income.

What will happen, realistically?

In these times, I can safely say that most nt's have devolved into literal cyborgs. No longer do they talk to each other face to face, now they all text each other or communicate via internet. Since they are losing their ability to live without technology, in a way they are cyborgs. We aspies communicate via machines because we don't always necessarily like direct social interactions like nt's do. We feel safer communicating to our computers rather than face to face with people. Maybe, in the near-future, they'll have more social issues than us. I took these ideas of symbolic cyborgs and began writing a short story about the near-future where most humans are no longer organic. They have replaced their bodies with robotic prosthetics to better themselves, but in truth they are worse. They can't feel, reproduce, and their emotions have diminished. Even worse, they persecute organic humans and go so far as to begin ethnic cleansing. In the book, the mechanics coexist with organics until a mechanic leader who is based of pol pot and hitler influences them to kill. The mechanics start to become nothing more than indoctrinated husks of what we are today. Some mechanics fight back against the new regime by helping humans escape the cleansing.

My trouble with this is that many aspies and auties seem to also act like cyborgs. That is, we have a rough time expressing interaction, emotions, etc. I know many NTs that aren't as interested in computers as I am and many of them do in fact communicate to me from face to face. If anything, I think I must seem like a cyborg with rigid interests and belief systems. It takes a flexible mind to look at the whole big picture and a lot of people with aspergers have great insight but most of us lack the ability to encompass other factors vital to our knoweledge. We tend to hyperfocus on one set of tasks and if anything, I've seen a wide genre of posts on this site. Plus we've had a good number of members here who have also shared similar opinions and beliefs expressed by "NTs."

I might be wrong, but painting a broad brush stroke is like the pot calling the kettle black imo.
If anything, Hitler was quite fond in pointing the finger and blaming people for the troubles in Germany and the social world and what's more sad, he got away with it.