Me too. I went there when I was 10 or 11, and as a child all I noticed was how incongruous it was with everything. I wasn't awed by it, and my parents seemed sort of put out with how I didn't care for it compared to my sisters.

I'd like to pretend that's some kind of deep political sentiment, but really I think it's just aesthetically displeasing if you don't have a thing for monuments

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 21 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

Adults get weird when the indoctrinating they and society put so much effort into doesn't take hold. So much so, that they find some mental illness like Autism to label the child with.

[–] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This implies autism isn't a real thing and that's pretty off base

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I did not imply autism doesn't exist. I implied that kids who don't fall in line with their social programming run the risk of being diagnosed with autism as it's easier then reflecting on where or not the programming is correct.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

“Neuro-divergent” seems to be the catch-all today. Though I guess that’s considered on the spectrum too? Anyway, the majority of these cases seem to be “diagnosed” by YouTube parents.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I was diagnosed by an over ambitious child study team member in kindergarten that convinced my mother I had a learning disability. What followed was 13 years of wasted public education because every success proved the program worked and every failure proved the program was necessary.

If it had happened today, I would have been diagnosed with autism and nothing would be better.

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