Autism Is Not An Excuse To Do Nothing

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Why do we have to "improve" to a certain standard that's set by other people, though? Why not just live and let live?

Besides, not everyone believes life has a meaning, or that there's a destination we all must strive to get to.

I think we should improve because we want to improve. I believe we should aspire to evolve...always.

If somebody is content with their "present condition," I don't judge. I, myself, have been complacent for a long time; I haven't really "evolved" in a long time, in real terms.

It bothers me, though, when people just give up and preclude themselves from evolving--ever.

Because it's impossible to know the benefit that someone is getting from their activity.
Video games keep coming up as they represent some accepted standard of valuelessness. There was a time when I played games relentlessly and it helped me to work out some things I was going through. I haven't played a game in years, but I wouldn't say they are valueless.
Activities have to be put in context.


Again, your criteria lack context. And what is wrong with singularly focusing on a project? Some great ideas have come from such behaviour. I see that as a strength of autism.

People don't have to improve in anything if they don't want to.
It's their choice to improve in something, if they want to.
Some may want to, and choose to, but not be able to.
Others may be able to, but not want to or choose to.
Others may want to, choose to, and do.

I would say that Einstein, when he was a certain age, was absolutely obsessed with quantum physics, to the exclusion of everything else.

Wouldn't you say that was a pretty healthy obsession?

^ If he didn't "succeed", he would have been a "failure" and it wouldn't have been healthy. It wasn't healthy even though he did succeed.

It was certainly "healthy" for the subsequent evolution of physics.

I don't believe Einstein suffered too much because of this obsession. He was actually a pretty amiable, witty man later on in life, with a few quirks.

I know!

That's why I read books and drink booze!

http://blogs.capecodonline.com/cape-cod ... rd-carver/
From what I've read and seen, Elmer Crowell spent much of his life making wooden bird carvings--this story says he routinely did it six days a week.
Tons of photos of his work on the web--I got a chance to see a lot of his work in a barn somewhere...

What kind of animal is this?
Don't you think it should be out there doing something productive instead of sitting around eating and twiddling it's ears? It's obviously going to get nowhere in life with that attitude.

LOL.....but Nature determined that "twiddling his ears and doing nothing" is an optimal existence for this creature. Should this creature try to do something productive, he/she will be ostracized by others of his/her species.

Haven't read all this thread, but, we're all different, so it's different strokes for different folks.

As someone free range unrecognised as ASD for over half a century I personally don't need an excuse to do nothing. The work ethic is a bubbling crock of excrement in my humble opinion. So's Pride.

That said, I'm fanatical about sax playing, but, the Universe being so big, how much does it matter whether I do it or not? Suppose it keeps me fit, and can't actually smoke whilst playing the thing.

"Consider the lilies of the field . . . " - that's an old saying.

Certainly the few jobs I've done have been a waste of time and a time of waste.

Last edited by Alexanderplatz on 06 Mar 2015, 7:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Exactly. Nature determined that animals should only be productive enough to meet their basic needs. It's only human society that thinks collecting and storing up a million nuts is a good thing.

I agree. When people go on about their success, I feel like I am being indoctrinated into some validation of their worldview rather than what's in my own interests.

Thank you androbot, I love your use of language here.

Thanks