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A little bit of Facebook drama

So it looks like one of the Facebook groups that was created to house refugees in the UK got closed down today. The last post I saw was from a lady who said she’s looking for accommodation under Homes for Ukraine scheme and someone pointed out that her Facebook profile states she’s Russian and lives and works in Hungary.

That, together with other things that happened there and that I already described briefly before must have been really annoying for the admins! However, I’m thinking, how come they didn’t predict that happening? They are neurotypicals, I assume, so they should have known better. At least that’s how I understand all the explanations that autistics lack social imagination – it means that neurotypicals don’t so they can easily predict what is going to happen in every, or at least most circumstances.

Magda Regula

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4 responses to “A little bit of Facebook drama”

  1. Adelaide Dupont Avatar
    Adelaide Dupont

    The metaverse has messed a lot of people’s minds and hearts up.
    We do tend to think of individual things online.
    [and offline too].
    For example I found a Hungarian pancake house called Kurtosh.
    Also there is a Social Imagination museum and art gallery that young people [15-26] have created. It is up some stairs.
    Rooming together has a way of keeping people honest!

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    1. Magda Regula Avatar
      Magda Regula

      Thank you, Social Imagination museum sounds interesting, although I would think Social imagination gets better with age? Or maybe it doesn’t?

      I think I can imagine people reaction better as I get older, but the speed of improvement is much slower than in the neurotypical population so the gap is getting wider anyway!

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      1. Adelaide Dupont Avatar
        Adelaide Dupont

        Some aspects of social imagination do get better

        [or they get different].

        I think even a lot of neurotypical people are overwhelmed with social imagination or it doesn’t matter a lot in their lives because they don’t need to do much imagining [as you have seen with some of the responses to refugees].

        Or being in and out of people’s comfort zones.

        I think there are peaks when it comes to the speed of development and the depth of development and how social imagination is integrated with the rest of your life [like interaction and communication]

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      2. Magda Regula Avatar
        Magda Regula

        It’s all a really complex subject I think. Thank you!

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