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  • I started watching live stream on twitch of a specific category that interested me. The people who stream this category collaborate with one another and each have their own community of people who follow.

    I watched some really small streams and chatted with people. I do mean small as well, probably originally most of these streams had something like 6 viewers. Over a long period of time you come to know people in a stream group - and then because of the collaboration you come to know more people. There is usually a discord server or some such where these people talk when there is no stream as well.

    Now, 5 or more years later, I’m probably in something like 18 discord groups where I talk to a lot of people regularly, or DM with quite a lot. By proximity and a loose shared interest, we all now know quite intimate details of each others lives and talk about all kinds of anything and everything.

    Friendship is not really a fast process, but you just have to find places to plant seeds and see what grows.


  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat's it like to have a low IQ?
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    There was a guy on youtube once who uploaded a video talking about this who has the channel name “crazydumbsick”.

    Unfortunately I can’t seem to find the video as it looks like he regularly deletes content, and it currently only goes back about a month on his channel at present.

    Take everything below with a block of salt because this is from memory, and it was a few years back where I watched his video once, so I could be misremembering one or more things here.

    If I recall correctly he has Schizophrenia, Crohns, and an IQ of ~45, hence his channel name. He talked a lot about how hard it was to live, particularly pertaining to his IQ. He said that he has a hard time with remembering things and therefore most of his meals are made from pre-made microwaveable packages as he is capable of operating the microwave without too much difficulty, and he found it generally easy to follow the instructional lists on the packaging.

    He made note that operating any kind of machine much beyond a microwave or TV remote was largely beyond him, except his computer and camera which he had recently figured out well enough to be able to record and upload content - but outside of those actions, he really had no idea how to use them.

    I believe he also said that due to one or more of his conditions, he could not drive, which largely compounded the difficulties of his life.

    He talked about how finding work for someone in his situation is basically impossible and just as impossible to hold onto for very long. I believe he talked about a couple jobs he had been fired from and why, and while I don’t recall the specifics, I believe he had talked about how he was not even entirely certain why he had been fired. I think he said that he had done some things incorrectly, and at the time, had some vague concept of them being incorrect, but despite this, he was unsure why he had gone ahead and done them anyway.

    Overall, he seemed very sad in the video; he was terribly aware of how hard it is to live life being himself, and knew that there were basically no solutions to it.

    Having said all of that, he continued to upload videos and there were some good events and some bad events. I believe at one or more times he discussed having tried to take his own life. Other times he seemed fairly upbeat and was trying to better himself - trying to read through a textbook on auto work for example.

    Anyway, I think the original video I spoke about is one of the better videos I’ve seen uploaded to the internet. It was somewhat sad, but it was highly enlightening and certainly one of the most honest videos I’ve ever seen someone upload.






  • I live in a rural area. Come visit me and see how much I spend on gas. Jump into someone else’s shoes for just half a second. It’s a minimum of $400/month. Transit isn’t an option. The grocery store is 1/2 hour by car one way.

    So what you are telling me is that transit would cost you more than the gas as well because not only would you be paying for tickets, but you would have to have the handful of people in your rural community pay actual millions of dollars in taxes to build that infrastructure in the first place.

    The point of my comment was to point out that the cost of gas is not always the same as the cost of transit, so it does not make for a great argument. That’s all. I never said this is the case for everyone everywhere. Stop jumping to conclusions and making up my thoughts in your head.

    Do you realize you sound just like my parents? Baby boomers who could give a fuck about anyone but themselves. Selfish. Unable to understand that not everyone is just like them. Unable to change in any way if it affects their lives in the most minimum of ways.

    Do I realize that I sound like your parents? No I have not met your parents, so I wouldn’t realize that.

    I like the piece here where you follow up “Jump into someone else’s shoes for just a half a second” with “based on a single comment I have read from you, without ever having met you, or even spoken to you beyond this, I am going to make the assumption that you only give a fuck about your self, are selfish, are unable to understand not everyone is like you, and are unable to change in any way”.

    Kind of hypocritical to preach about sympathy and then immediately demonize someone based on a single comment. As a result I’m not finding much value in what you have to say, and to put an end to this immediately, because this is useless to the overall conversation, I’ll just block you. Recommend you do the same with me. Have a good one.