How are you ASD people handling seeing the images of starving children and infants? It makes me want to die. Ive been struggling with selfinjury lately. But seeing the pictures of these kids dying in real time in their moms arms is too much
I cry, and then resolve to do what I can to prevent that sort of thing happening again.
It’s not much, but it’s never nothing.
Fuck it, you can’t do anything about it. The only thing you can do is participate in the local politics and make fun of people, who enjoy and defend thease terrible acts (spoiler alert, most do). And remember: you are above them and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
I just block them
It’s definitely made my depression worse, but it’s sort of just another example of the thing that makes me depressed in general (aside from the brain juices): We live in a society that’s built around not caring about people. The people in power have so little regard for humanity that they will subject people to unimaginable horrors and cruelty if it means they can keep making a buck. There are tons of regular people who do care, but they’re kept so occupied by their own problems that they don’t have the will to band together to push past the barriers we need to break to help each other. Between stuff like this and the ticking time bomb of climate change, it feels like we’re running out of time while also getting further and further from having the capacity to fight back. And it’s not like I’m above any of this. I have had trouble trying to get involved in stuff because of all my issues and it feels really bad. Having learned more about organizing lately, I’m now pretty convinced that just voting isn’t going to do anything. We NEED to get out into our communities and make connections with people to get things done. Good thing I don’t have crippling social anxiety and autism on top of the depression… hehe.
I’m watching history repeat itself as little more than a spectator… and this might be the last show.
Not great. I don’t deal well with injustice I can’t fix.
I don’t.
At some point I realized there’s infinite awesome and infinite cruel things on the Internet, and people usually wanna show you the cruel stuff because it makes money / keeps anxious.
But you don’t need to fix the whole world at once and no one can fight the alligators when standing in the swamp.
So I don’t, I only get news from friends +& family and otherwise I focus on productive things on he Internet, like nature documentaries, science, entertainment and learning things like coding or philosophy. I know this sounds ignorant but I know this is the state where I am most valuable to myself and therefore all the people around me, so that’s how I wanna live.
Now everyone has to find their own threshold of cruelty they can take on a day-to-day basis, but usually if you care about your mental health you should set a limit, only watch some of it. Rarely can people watch cruel things daily and not get PTSD, which is pertinent for jobs like EMT or the military.
To this I want to add personally, death is a normal part of life. If it’s because of old age or humans killing each other doesn’t make incredibly much of a difference to me. As long as life existed there was death & suffering. Of course I’m against unnecessary death & suffering. But I’m asking myself, why would I myself add to the suffering by suffering when I see others suffer and I can only very barely help them?
I have seen worse and more gut wrenching things. My country is known for their industrial genocide so you learn about it quite early in your life
