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this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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This is so well-written. I overhear people at work talk about using AI for a meal plan, or a workout plan, and I always think, "Someone in your life would love to share their passion for cooking or exercise with you." Screw it, I need to start bringing it up with those people.
There is a reason people talk to ai instead of people, unfortunately. If you don't know for a fact that someone has people in their life who enjoy listening to them, you shouldn't suggest that those people somehow exist, not unless you're sure that they do. You have to be sure as in you really know, not sure as in "I'm sure they mean well." People often do not actually mean well.
The thing with is: if you have passion for something you want to let others experience these feelings as well. And i dont need to know someone to tell them about my passion projects and they only need the tiniest of positive response for me to enjoy helping them... I hope you have something you are passionate about to understanding what i am trying to convey. The crucial part is the "i dont need to know someone well to enjoy helping them" and i know for a fact that a huuuge percentage of people share that mindset. Sooo:
I know there is someone in your life that would love to share their passion for cooking with you!
And btw: suggesting there is someone in your vicinity to help you with your problem leads to them masking around for help leads to the person broadening their circle which makes it evermore likely to find someone which actually wants to help.
If I was needing help with something you like to do, would you enjoy helping me?
Some people don't get a positive response. I know that's really hard to believe. And from an outsider's perspective you see why they get a negative response, because a lot of these folks just "say things wrong." It's really hard to explain unless you've seen it before.
That is not hard to believe. But I believe their social skills will improve by beeing social. ie the solution for these people is to ask more people for help.
While some individuals with developmental delay (AN INVISIBLE DISABILITY AND NOT AT ALL WHAT YOU'RE PICTURING) can improve their social skills by being social, for many, their disability (NOT WHAT YOU'RE PICTURING, STOP USING YOUR IMAGINATION), is something that they were born with, is permanent, and requires outside assistance. It is not helpful to tell people with no social circle, whether due to disability, poverty, depression, or something else, that they can magically be social or become social somehow without outside assistance. You may be capable of just being social and you probably have been since the day you were born. There are a myriad of reasons why someone wouldn't have a social circle, and many of those people cannot simply "be social." That isn't how it works.
I have been trying not to say the words disability or poverty or depression because I knew your brain would shut off and you'd focus only on your own imagination and not what I'm trying to say. You'd also probably imagine that I'm talking about a small population of people.
Edit: Why don't you write a poem about paying psych workers at least $40 an hour?
Your assumptions about me are off by a lot. (Except for me thinking of a small population, which made me reflect, thank you)
I did improve my social skills by forcing myself to talk to people for half a year every Thursday. Someone telling me that "beeing social" is a skill would have helped me.
And it's obvious you believe it helps some people if I say "be social". Why is an advice "not beeing helpful" to some reason enough not to say it?
It's not you in particular. Most people, when they hear autism, intellectual disability, or developmental delay picture a drooling helpless patient wearing a helmet who barely knows he's indoors. Those guys exist, and they deserve care, but they do not represent the vast majority of disabled people.
No, I don't think it helps at all. The people who are capable of being social are already social. Some may or may not use AI but the people who are capable of hearing "be social" and acting on it are largely already social and do not totally depend on AI. The reason you're seeing "normal people" get AI psychosis is because THAT IS WHAT DISABLED PEOPLE LOOK LIKE. THEY LOOK ""NORMAL."" Vulnerable people do not have a sign on their forehead that says I'm Vulnerable. That isn't how it works.
Because it's exactly like saying "you should just make more money," in my opinion.