“The secret to being as successful as me? Just be yourself!”
SToP ovERtHinKiNg!!
Is this comic speaking to the complexities of autism or, the simplicity of neurotypical people?
It could be inferred many ways. The rich vs the poor is another way.
could also be a reflection of male privilege.
Yeah before noticing that this was posted on an autism magazine, I thought this was about class disparity.
Until I noticed what community I was in, I interpreted it completely differently. The women is engaging in a niche hobby of making something in a particular and esoteric way, and the man just bought a mass produced version of the thing; thereby completely missing the point of what she was doing.
Like, if I wanms building a chair using hand tools and an unproccessed log. Sure, you could go to a furniture store and buy a chair, or maybe Ikea and “build” one; but that completely misses the point.
It’s more to the point that tasks are easier for neurotypical people to accomplish because the world was built for their minds. Neurodivergent people have to build up skills and workarounds for functions that seem to come naturally to NTs, eventually creating a mosaic of little crutches and scripts to follow in order to fit in or even function at all in modern society.
NDs don’t have “the box.” NTs are born with “the box.” Society says you must stand on the box (that it’s assumed everyone has inherently) in order to participate. So the ND makes their box out of the many tiny tools and workarounds they build to “stand on the box” that they don’t have.
Huh, I suppose the reason I didn’t come to that conclusion is because, the person’s facial expression didn’t seem satisfied with the end result of their assembling of the blocks.
I assumed they were given the blocks as opposed to purchasing them intentionally.
And there is no reason they really even should be standing on those in the first place, it’s just “the way things are.”
I bet you could do a lot of really cool things with those blocks that you couldn’t with just one big block if everyone wasn’t just into standing on block all day.
to be fair this comic just makes it look like she could have used a big cube all along
i dont think this makes for a good analogy
I don’t think so
