Well I can certainly say I do all that same stuff on social media LOL. But I see that being more about having views that don't mesh with the pop culture zeitgeist trend-hivemind. We do pay the price of being left out of what others get from being into whatever comes along but personally I'm happy with what I like and find like-minded folks so its chill. Honestly, if you ask me, all the cool kids reject the trends and do their own thing instead.
I also drive (i collect and daily drive classic cars, actually!) and all that but I don't do jobs. I can't squeeze myself into that bleak "adult" career mindset, its just depression to me, since when I tried to do it that's all I felt. I do odd jobs because I have a skillset full of stuff you just don't see these days with everyone doing content or whatever. I do quite well on that, and there's a couple of folks who do things I'm into who call me to get things done because I'm the only one they know who knows how to do it that way & without an app. I'm also a YouTuber though and I've managed to make a decent amount from that without having to do what everyone else is doing. I've also got a dot com boom trust fund but don't tell anyone ;3 Turns out I function my best when I'm let to basically continue what my childhood was like.
Media, yeah gosh I got Pokemon Gold Version when it came out and I got soooooo wrapped up in it, imagining the whole world beyond the literal in the game. I found my original copy and replaced the battery and I can still do that like I had never left the Johto region. The remake is kind of a let down imo! I've got all my old tapes and I watch them whenever I get the chance, along with more I've found and shot since then. Cartoon Network now sure LOOKS different, but I want to go on record as one of those die-hard 1990s and early 2000s CN lovers saying WOW its still friggin good. I love Gumball, Craig of the Creek, Teen Titans GO (YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT), Clarence, The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe, Regular Show, Apple & Onion, et c etc. and I know its Disney not CN but Bluey is my jam, if I didn't know better I'd think someone made that show about me and my sister when we were little.
As for neurodivergency, yeah me too. I'm autistic, and while I've never been tested for it I definitely have ADHD too. I manage the these things without medication- i felt dead while taking that stuff. I do smoke pot medicinally, but that's for the clarity. I've found I have a lot more in common with folks on the spectrum who were my age in the 1960s-1990s, including my hobbies, interests and the kinds of places and people I seek out.
Honestly, I find that I'm the most mature one in the room these days, despite that I feel like a kid who just grew up in size and learned to handle things I couldn't before. In my opinion (based on observation) the instant gratification and dopamine addiction that comes with high tech & all that modern flim flam just makes people more reactive and that comes across as very immature due to the fact they don't really know what they're talking about as they say it. There have always been people like that, sure, but I had a whole family of people who got really awful to be around as they got into all that. I've had other words for this phenomenon but honestly, I think immaturity packs a real punch, since they seem to feel its important enough to claim because I don't fall in line rank and file that somehow I'M the immature one, even though they can't drive without a touch screen flashing glizzies in their face. shrug. I believe immaturity is less about how you feel and more about how you react to the world around you. I was a very open-minded kid so nothing really surprises me or makes me "cringe". And I call back to that, this time as a girl, for my little lifestyle. Really, I think the other reply had some legs: immaturity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
who knew?
