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

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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.

ShenLong, you're bordering on making rather unpleasant and insulting generalizations about a group of people - that sort of behavior is against site policy. Please keep this in mind in your future posts.

If you're interested, the book 'Antibodies' is an interesting take on the desire some people have to transcend their physical bodies with synthetic replacement/enhancement.


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No, I don't mean everybody. It's just the majority of youth. I don't like antagonizing people or slapping titles on anybody. That's not what I'm about. An example would be that to say all people who were in Hitlers army or who lived in Nazi Germany were Jew-haters which is a lie. Many were too afraid of the gestapo or the government in general and couldn't do anything. It really isn't what I meant. BTW, most of my friends and family are neurotypical. I have no anger against them.

I don't feel excluded. I also don't feel better than anyone. No one is better than anyone but people like criminals and such are worse. I don't feel that nt's are worse either. And I do realize that some of us(aspies) do prefer to talk face to face. BTW, I messed up the poll by accident so don't even bother.

I can definitely agree with the notion that electronic communication, texting, videogaming, hours a day spent on the internet is eroding enough NT's social skills to where they're heading toward being de facto aspies. Then again - I don't know if it'll ever quite be break-even, though admittedly the line between AS and NT could indeed narrow significantly (then again its hard to tell whether that's great for us or a tragedy for them, perhaps a bit of both).

Quick question, why am I always attacked for expressing my ideas rather than the people who make fun of theism. I too am athiest but those discussions are way more contreversial than what I say and offends more people .

I like your topic. I see all the time, people saying our society is becoming more and more social. I do not see how this is possible. If anything our socieity is becoming more disconnected. Technology connects us and makes the world smaller, giving the illusion of heightened social connection; but this connection is distanced and this distance promotes apathy. I see it in others; I see it in myself. I think it is a condition which applies to all modern civilizaions.

Technically I'm pointing something out, something that i've observed. Making fun of religion is usually much more offensive in my experience. As long as you don't mke fun theists or theistic in front of them or where they can hear you, it isn't accetable. Thats why many theists do not like atheists and such. Lets get back on topic.

Have to agree with claire333. When newspaper ads for garbage men list 'team skills' as a requirement, you know the world is focusing on social skills. In fact, I cannot find many jobs that dont list that.

That being said, I think that social skills are eroding. Its just that there is an increasingly high bar associated with the remaining ones.

I'm not an aspie elite. Also, I don't think that it's a good thing for nt's to lose their social skills.