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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/719304

Autistic people, did your special interest exist prior to the year 1800? If not, what would be the closest thing to it?

By exist, I mean something you’d be able to study. For example, dinosaurs existed well before 1800 but that doesn’t mean there was a good way for the layman to learn about them.

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[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Most of them did not, although information posters would be the closest precursor to my beloved PIFs and PSAs.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

baking did exist as far as i know well back into the 1970s

Being a gentleman scholar? Yes, I think so.

[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Probably couldn't get good weed so opium den here I come!

[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I love working on in-depth puzzle solving, anything from everyday problems, to disassembling computer programs... I think I might have been something involving that sorta thing. Not super math related, more like pattern identifying.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

It's mostly tech related stuff, although not consistent enough to get ant sort of tangible benefit out of it.

I'd likely be working as a blacksmith, or doing hr/getting carpal tunnel writing in spreadsheets for some company, while having blacksmithing as a hobby.

[–] jahtnamas@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i guess it'd be a book series about an interdimensional... whatever the predecessor of a train is, because steam locomotives would've been just 5 years out. idk, did sci-fi writers talk about alternate dimensions yet?

[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Sometimes I think about that flying train Doc Brown had at the end of Back to the Future III, I really wanted to see some time traveling train shenanigans.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

It work definitely didn't exist, but I might have gotten into clockwork or engineering instead maybe. Anything which has to do with automation and efficiency

[–] greencactus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Fall of the Roman Empire for me. Edward Gibbons wrote 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' in the late 18th century, so yes, I could've studied it before that.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago