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Having the title of media savant (not servant) does not give me much special privileges in life, but people should not need to get a degree from a college or even claim a title to understand how multimedia affects them. People who have autism have individual reputations of being open while being analytical, so we deserve the privilege of understanding why audio and visual media is sometimes a scary thing to experience.
My background in self-help spans 35 years. I lost a parent early in life, and I became more shy and nonverbal. As I proceeded to shut out the ability of the psychiatry industry to negatively affect me at age 7, I started to allow real life to show me what it considered to be more important. I advocate for the disabled as a function of my existence, and there are many disabilities, often unnoticed or unacknowledged, that affect people.
I am working up to my first public speaking appearances in media and elsewhere, so I have some time to be productive writing something other than a book. Here is some advice I have if you find yourself in a similar situation versus media stimulus as I described in my other post today.
Pointers for navigating a media maze:
(Hint: Please read the bold text first. The rest is details. Or, you don't have to read this. You can, though.)
Know where the power button is on your television, computer monitor, or smartphone.
You can't fix the problem by complaining at a one-way gate like television or Twitter.
If people bully you with media or call you names, report it to your parents or family.
The job of the entertainer is to stay hidden until they have something to show. It's not as fun if they are expected.
The job of the production is to be marketable so they have entertainers to sell to advertisers. Since money is involved, the production team exists to ignore you because they feel liable for you not having their money. (They usually lose in court.)
The entertainment industry exists to float a bunch of logos to hide corporate bank accounts. Some who work in this industry seem to think that rules do not apply to them. You can parse theory from James Randi, if you'd like: The studios are only corporate money magicians.
Twitter exists to data-mine entertainment consumers by putting celebrities in an ivory tower full of fake numbers. Most users get no response from any of the fields mentioned. The industry is still failing by trying to make stars seem like they're better than commoners. ..Is it fun yet?
Consider this: Maybe stay away from social media for a while. The reason things might be more fun elsewhere is that all the money went into you having fun where you found it and not using social media.
Consider this also: You probably don't need music, television, or movies. Anything fake from media that runs on its own clock adds extra noise to life; it's a confuser. Maybe lighten your burden. Take pleasure in the simple things that keep you gainfully happy.
Your family comes first. Talk with your parents or other family if you are concerned.
Television and movie actors exist to seem familiar to you. They are not there to help.
If you ever get the question "Do you think your television is talking to you?", a popular answer is "That's why we invented it. Was your name mentioned on-air too?" Try reading the next list item below if you want some examples of how unrelated names appeal to people.
If you're going the problem solving route like I did, you could try getting the full name of any confusing or concerning reference that you notice.
Just as an example, here is a list of names, most real to my knowledge. There is no obvious relation among these people based on name, so don't get fooled into thinking they're related without being shown proof or evidence. Also, this isn't a test or a trick. You don't need to follow the links provided here.
Ah.. One obvious distant relation, if you research the names listed here, is that these names all individually have something to do with the fields of expression and communication. Don't get lost while trying to figure out name coincidences or similarities, please. It's complex. If you're interested in names, maybe you could ask someone in your family to help you find ancestors you might not know about yet. This field is known as genealogy.
This gives you a hint at how entertainment media makes up fake names for fictional characters, such as the Homer Simpson and Bart Simpson cited in the list above.
Do you understand that there could be thousands of real people with the real name 'Homer Simpson'? There is an old controversy in entertainment fields where actors and performers had to use their real name so their real life presence would bear the burden of their fictional performance. Nobody wanted to bring shame to their name, so only the worst actors made it up on stage, then people looked the other way to get better actors, and here we are today having to deal with the fake names planted in media presentations that seem to be getting worse by the year.
The pre-recorded entertainment industry is fundamentally built as a liar platform. If it's not being performed live, with you there as the spectator, it's not as accountable. Television, radio, and the internet are built so you only get a protected polished portion of what could be shown. That's a capacity thing. Real life communication is genuine. That's an expression thing. It's also why the Internet isn't as trusted as it once was. It helps to be skeptical of things that are pre-recorded, such as social media, including this and other Internet web sites.
Pre-recording something doesn't make you a liar. Just understand that people want to know who to compensate or blame. If you don't consider yourself a writer, you could practice. But if people don't have a way to contact you, consider that they may start to be skeptical. That's why industry exists.
If you catch unspecific elements in media, then ignore them as unimportant, or, instead, challenge them by trying to make them specific, not vague.
I'll talk more about this presentation later. It's convinced me to re-design my website, so I'll try to make sure this post is available if that ever happens. If you have any comments or questions, you can try to e-mail me via the link provided at the bottom of this web page if you want to.
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