Creative Speculation
Related: About this forumWhat would you do if...
Literally everyone you knew suddenly began communicating in a different way? Like the words you spoke were having almost no effect or randomized effect?
Like being in the communications majors equivalent of a twilight zone where you could only ever get reliable but barely useful basics out of an AI chatbot since the rest of humanity just went blank
PJMcK
(22,815 posts)fierywoman
(8,079 posts)MutantAndProud
(855 posts)That is a possibility. I really havent figured it out either despite trying casually on the Scientology front because of some people I knew into it (I think?)
The MAGA stuff is fairly obvious but most of thats clearly pulling strings that I just dont care about.
fierywoman
(8,079 posts)wanted to rub shoulders with some stars.) As she learned, she told me what the words they use mean. I kept laughing and saying, *no* it doesn't!
MutantAndProud
(855 posts)Just to mess around or?
fierywoman
(8,079 posts)MutantAndProud
(855 posts)Someone gets so attached to perceptions (without analysis). I used to intellectually nudge people off the track just to see what would happen. Its had interesting results, can be very illuminating sometimes.
Shermann
(8,538 posts)Ghouls named "The Gentlemen" come to town and steal everyone's voices.
Worth watching, very unnerving. And comedic at times.
MutantAndProud
(855 posts)I vaguely remember that part but not the rest, time to rewatch!
cyclonefence
(4,855 posts)My husband is deafer than he thinks he is and won't wear his hearing aids. I have a very low voice and I confess I do mumble (my throat was paralyzed by polio when I was a kid). It's a little like living alone sometimes; sometimes it's pretty funny when he thinks I said one thing and then I do something he was not expecting.
OTOH It can lead to pretty nasty fights, all based on some stupid (literal) misunderstanding.
But this stuff really does happen when you get old and deaf--I'm a little deaf, too.
It's surprising to me that hearing is such a vital sense, sometimes more important than sight, even.
MutantAndProud
(855 posts)I do have hearing differences between the two
Always had it to a degree from a young age, maybe genetic. My dad had polio and post-polio syndrome, not sure if its something inherited or not like certain traits are.
Never considered a hearing aid until recently.
Think. Again.
(17,207 posts)...in exploring how some people with autism describe their experiences communicating with people who don't have autism.
MutantAndProud
(855 posts)And that aspect of the social circle Im in. Luckily Im not intellectually disabled but culturally there are criminal deficiencies in how people like that are handled. Time for a shift.
Think. Again.
(17,207 posts)...I wonder about our society's habit of assuming that just because something is considered "normal", it must be the more correct way of being, and that any other way of being must be an inadequacy of some kind.
"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society" -Jiddu Krishnamurti
MutantAndProud
(855 posts)Very apt for our current state of affairs