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not trying to sensationalize it, but do you feel like a tourist/foreigner in the physical world? like there's a language/cultural barrier between you and people who aren't online natives? interacting with some people, especially more elderly people, it feels like a secret almost. like "you have no concept of the ways i am able to express myself and engage with others and explore knowledge in this other world, you think what youre seeing is 'me' and that maybe i open up when i'm hanging out with friends, but i am essentially unlocked on this electronic platform you can hardly operate" or something idk im making it sound demented but also theres no way my formative years were spent online and that didnt skew my socialization and understanding of reality (add your birth year if you dont mind, i think it's informative in reference to development & the internet - mine's 1998)

Act nice to the natives, soldier.

Yea, it's called autism and I almost cured mine by microdosing lsd

>>74175 is autism just the word everybody uses to capture these experiences, without necessary relation to "actual" autism? i got "comprehensive" testing and was informed i was not on the spectrum. is there internet autism?

>>74172 yes, this describes me

>>74172 its called generational differences. i think every generation has it, but obviously when you compare elderly people who didn't even have tv growing up with people like us from the late 90s/00s who cannot fathom a world without computers, let alone tvs or phones or cars or anything, there is bound to be a disconnect. i'm sure the generation in 50 years time probably thinks we will be weird and odd to talk to because we won't want our brains chipped and live in pods and eat bugs. its evolution, but its just that previously there was little progress to really cause such differences.

>>74172 Same here. I'm a high-functioning autist born in the late 80s. >>74177 It's just one of the common traits of autists: feeling like an alien or a foreigner when interacting with neurotypicals.

Being on the spectrum definitely feels like being a completely different species than people sometimes...

>>74211 You can still feel like an alien when interacting with neurotypicals and still be not even near the spectrum. I myself feel this way and I have no autism. (But I have BPD mybe that's why)

>>74229 Can confirm, feel it as well, no autism but riddled with ADHD

I mean, I also feel this way, but I don't attribute it to any sort of mental health divergence (although I'm sure that plays a part). You've been engaging in, and were potentially socially reared by an entirely different set of semiotics. Symbols and language that some others don't think about. Ill put it like this: If a clerk in a hotel were to strike up a conversation with you, and they told you "yeah I can't stand the washer on floor 8, the thump master right next to the spin tech just doesn't make sense", you are probably able to figure out based on context clues why that clerk hates the washer on floor 8. What you DONT understand is the depth of why. Its an experience your unfamiliar with and have little time exploring. Now, imagine you're old and you would rather spend your time doing something besides learning the experience of a clerk. All this long wind to say, is you basically speak a different language and you certainly DO participate in a different world. It makes sense that there is a barrier. The issues only arise when you start to see everything on your side of the barrier as inherently more valuable than the other side. The most important thing to understand is there will always be more outside if your barrier than inside of it.

>>74172 1983. 23rd of February 1983. I am not disconnected to others around me, I am just above them. We are not lacking in social skills-- we are simply above the need for them. The internet, this electric platform, allows our true spirits to shine and be shown to the other anonymous spirits on the internet. I can speak to those who are not on my level, though I do not feel a "cultural" barrier like you say, I just feel empty-- like this conversation doesn't matter. I only feel emotion when speaking to others on my level, anonymous posters on an imageboard. The only time I can ever feel connected to somebody. Though, to add a small amount of salt to my post, I have been diagnosed with Sociopathy so this may be a unique experience for just me.

>who aren't online natives I feel like foreigner literally everywhere. The only places I don't get consistently derezzed are places I don't visit/don't have active (or at all) moderators. I don't know what's the actual DMS-V TR code for my case. I've been feeling like this since early adolescence. Completely don't belong anywhere. Even in internet, where everything is so dear, close and precious, I still feel like a foreigner. The only reason why I still reach out to people by means of internet is likely because I'm addicted to it, or whatever the fuarrrk. I've been long thinking about complete isolation, like true hermits do, but can't succeed, perhaps because I have wrong approaches to the problem. Whenever I don't have internet I can spend weeks completely alone and be just fine. I wish could resist the desire to leech stimulation off my keyboard.