Neurodivergents Will Inherit the Earth

Neurodivergents Will Inherit the Earth(erikmcclure.com)

2 points by blackhole 3 years ago | 4 comments

I am very sympathetic to the claim that urban and residential environments are filled with irritants and distraction. However...

  > Unfortunately, in our modern society, houses have little to no interior
  > noise insulation and almost every single electronic device makes a constant
  > high-frequency drone. Neurotypicals either do not hear these sounds, or tune
  > them out after a few minutes (and then claim the sound doesn't exist, having
  > immediately forgotten it). These houses are then built right next to roads
  > with noisy cars, often without sidewalks, and sometimes with ubiquitous
  > traffic noises when buried deep inside the city. How distracting these
  > noises are depends on the person, the noise, whether it is speech, music,
  > a kind of music you don't like, or a ticking clock. Many places make these
  > sounds inescapable, like restaurants with loud music and conversations, or
  > offices with ticking clocks in every single room.
  > 
  > In contrast, in VR you can wear noise-cancelling headphones and put on music
  > no one else can hear [...]

I don't think you have to be in VR to wear noise-canceling headphones. That said, I also don't think noise-canceling headphones are a solution to incidental, sudden ambient noises, since they are pretty clearly best suited to droning sounds, such as airplane engine noise. In-store music, a baby, a passing truck, and a rattling air conditioning system all easily defeat noise cancellation.

legerdemain 3 years ago |

  > [...] allow plural people to switch between avatars depending on who is fronting.

*Painful echoes of being cornered in college by someone who was very excited about self-applying the label SAPIOSEXUAL and couldn't stop talking about it.*

This really, really reads like the Very Serious Writing of 17-18-year-old people picking up and putting down identities that they desperately want to fit them.

publius_ 3 years ago |

I fail to see how furries are culturally important. Please enlighten me

legerdemain 3 years ago | |

The governing body of the Rust programming language is basically run by furries. As is the Rust subreddit, mainstream Rust Discord servers, and so on.

> Unfortunately, in our modern society, houses have little to no interior > noise insulation and almost every single electronic device makes a constant > high-frequency drone. Neurotypicals either do not hear these sounds, or tune > them out after a few minutes (and then claim the sound doesn't exist, having > immediately forgotten it). These houses are then built right next to roads > with noisy cars, often without sidewalks, and sometimes with ubiquitous > traffic noises when buried deep inside the city. How distracting these > noises are depends on the person, the noise, whether it is speech, music, > a kind of music you don't like, or a ticking clock. Many places make these > sounds inescapable, like restaurants with loud music and conversations, or > offices with ticking clocks in every single room. > > In contrast, in VR you can wear noise-cancelling headphones and put on music > no one else can hear [...]