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'My autistic son is calmer as Iran's missiles fall on Israel. I'm trying to learn from him.' (CW: out of context Isntraeli media) (lemmygrad.ml)

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[-] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

Ah! I wanna read the article! It looks like such a top-notch hate-read!

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

https://archive.ph/uAZyz

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

God fucking damn. I hate these people

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Once again we're in a state of emergency. But, bizarrely, states of emergency actually calm my son. Maybe it's because of the surprising synchronization between his internal world and the outside situation.

He's finally not the only one experiencing anxiety and disruption; everyone is anxious and tense and everything is disrupted, so he doesn't have to be the guard at the gate. He can simply let it go and trust us to worry for him.

Not sure where I'd even start looking for references, but I have read about this phenomenon being observed repeatedly in different conflict zones, where people who struggle in "normal properly functioning society" due to "mental health" problems tend to have significant relief of their symptoms when society re-adjusts to less abstract concerns like "get some food for the day and don't die."

Obviously autism isn't a "mental health problem" and I'm not trying to conflate the two at all, in particular its the symptom of anxiety that the mother mentions that makes me think autism aside this is probably the same thing manifesting.

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, it's very evident that our way of life is unhealthy and many mental health issues can be aggravated or even caused by the abstract and arbitrary and unnatural way we are forced to live due to the capitalist mode. A lot of people recoil in ways subconsciously from participating with a society that they feel, rightly, isolated from because they are in a cruel, depersonalized and alienated society. This manifests in a lot of stress, trauma and defense mechanisms - overloading from things human were never expected to do until recently.