Stupid is…everywhere

One of my biggest autistic traits I’ve noticed as of late getting more and more present is my rage at stupidity and my full inability to go along with stupid shit that’s clearly stupid. The problem is that there’s poorly planned stupid shit EVERYWHERE. Systems in medical settings that lack logic. Training programs which work against facilitating learning. Processes designed so badly that they HURT PEOPLE. Protocols that are justified as “required” with no reasoning behind it. Large scale events where the attendee experience wasn’t forecasted well for lunch or registration and bottlenecks piss everyone off all day. Traffic patterns all over my city that don’t account for where MOST people are coming from/going to. Inefficiencies on inefficiencies wasting all of our time. Don’t get me started on government bs………..Why do we do so many things so stupidly??!?!?!?!??

A lot folks will respond back to that question with some version of “it’s how it’s always been” or “those are just the rules” and act as if we’re all just stuck doing stupid shit stupidly simply bc we chose stupid rules. And I’m supposed to act like it’s fun and cool to just be collectively so fucking stupid and I love wasting my life away just bc someone 100 years ago made a bad call and everyone else didn’t think to question stupid shit.

This whole tangent is why I have long said I love complainers. Before I knew I was autistic, I knew that I couldn’t stomach stupid shit and I’m the first to complain and those complaints aren’t (always) empty whining, they’re often pointing out shit we’d all benefit from if we stop letting mindless following and sociological inertia rule our cultural behaviors and systems and we start listening to complaints that have actual value behind them.