Until I noticed what community I was in, I interpreted it completely differently. The women is engaging in a niche hobby of making something in a particular and esoteric way, and the man just bought a mass produced version of the thing; thereby completely missing the point of what she was doing.
Like, if I wanms building a chair using hand tools and an unproccessed log. Sure, you could go to a furniture store and buy a chair, or maybe Ikea and “build” one; but that completely misses the point.
It’s more to the point that tasks are easier for neurotypical people to accomplish because the world was built for their minds. Neurodivergent people have to build up skills and workarounds for functions that seem to come naturally to NTs, eventually creating a mosaic of little crutches and scripts to follow in order to fit in or even function at all in modern society.
NDs don’t have “the box.” NTs are born with “the box.” Society says you must stand on the box (that it’s assumed everyone has inherently) in order to participate. So the ND makes their box out of the many tiny tools and workarounds they build to “stand on the box” that they don’t have.
Huh, I suppose the reason I didn’t come to that conclusion is because, the person’s facial expression didn’t seem satisfied with the end result of their assembling of the blocks.
I assumed they were given the blocks as opposed to purchasing them intentionally.
Until I noticed what community I was in, I interpreted it completely differently. The women is engaging in a niche hobby of making something in a particular and esoteric way, and the man just bought a mass produced version of the thing; thereby completely missing the point of what she was doing.
Like, if I wanms building a chair using hand tools and an unproccessed log. Sure, you could go to a furniture store and buy a chair, or maybe Ikea and “build” one; but that completely misses the point.
It’s more to the point that tasks are easier for neurotypical people to accomplish because the world was built for their minds. Neurodivergent people have to build up skills and workarounds for functions that seem to come naturally to NTs, eventually creating a mosaic of little crutches and scripts to follow in order to fit in or even function at all in modern society.
NDs don’t have “the box.” NTs are born with “the box.” Society says you must stand on the box (that it’s assumed everyone has inherently) in order to participate. So the ND makes their box out of the many tiny tools and workarounds they build to “stand on the box” that they don’t have.
Huh, I suppose the reason I didn’t come to that conclusion is because, the person’s facial expression didn’t seem satisfied with the end result of their assembling of the blocks.
I assumed they were given the blocks as opposed to purchasing them intentionally.