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has your brain been rotted out by internet usage?

I feel like I'm in a dense fog almost all of the time, and t...
Excitant Mediation
  02/14/20
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Histrionic Giraffe
  02/14/20
absolutely
carnelian soul-stirring hall
  02/14/20
it's done something that isn't good
rebellious background story state
  02/14/20
The internet's been disastrous for human thinking. It's n...
Razzle-dazzle Wine Potus Shrine
  02/14/20
among (many) other factors
sapphire stimulating station pozpig
  02/14/20
Yes. Good post. I wouldn’t have been able to verbalize...
Adventurous flickering half-breed university
  02/14/20
since 2001
razzle balding fanboi milk
  02/14/20
100%. The internet completely re-wired my brain in a terribl...
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  02/14/20
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cocky preventive strike
  02/14/20
Is there anything we can do to fix it? Take a sabbatical fro...
Excitant Mediation
  02/14/20
smash all screens and move to a small cabin in Montana
cocky preventive strike
  02/14/20
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  02/14/20
no because the internet/smartphone culture has so profoundly...
rebellious background story state
  02/14/20
it has blown out my mindhold to a degree that would make eve...
dun impressive macaca hell
  02/14/20
yes for instance I am now writing things like "very odd...
sapphire stimulating station pozpig
  02/14/20
jesus
Excitant Mediation
  02/14/20
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peach idiotic indian lodge
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dun impressive macaca hell
  02/14/20
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razzle balding fanboi milk
  02/14/20
Dunno, but my brain definitely fucking sucks now. Age, poiso...
Cracking chapel
  02/14/20
It is truly awful. I'm trying to fight to regain some of ...
brass scourge upon the earth
  02/14/20
if i'm being honest, yeah it changes how your brain work...
Maroon Geriatric Point Pisswyrm
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Date: February 14th, 2020 4:24 AM
Author: Excitant Mediation

I feel like I'm in a dense fog almost all of the time, and the world seems very derealized and abstract. My consciousness feels like a flow of pure ideas rather than actual sensory experience. My actions and the things I say feel automatic, "out of my control" and external to me. Anyone else feel like this?

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Date: February 14th, 2020 9:36 AM
Author: Histrionic Giraffe



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Date: February 14th, 2020 9:37 AM
Author: carnelian soul-stirring hall

absolutely

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Date: February 14th, 2020 9:37 AM
Author: rebellious background story state

it's done something that isn't good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593579)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 9:44 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle Wine Potus Shrine

The internet's been disastrous for human thinking.

It's not a surprise most people are either becoming or already are hysterical, ADHD morons with ever-diminishing IQs who think in memes and spurts of words and who get exhausted by anything that isn't screen-watching and whose memories are going to shit and who react to every interaction with "awkward!"

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Date: February 14th, 2020 9:44 AM
Author: sapphire stimulating station pozpig

among (many) other factors

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Date: February 14th, 2020 9:47 AM
Author: Adventurous flickering half-breed university

Yes. Good post. I wouldn’t have been able to verbalize it like you did.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593608)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 9:54 AM
Author: razzle balding fanboi milk

since 2001

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Date: February 14th, 2020 9:57 AM
Author: bisexual sepia partner locale

100%. The internet completely re-wired my brain in a terrible way. My attention span is shot. No sustained concentration. Can’t read for any length of time anymore.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593650)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:05 AM
Author: cocky preventive strike



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593679)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:00 AM
Author: Excitant Mediation

Is there anything we can do to fix it? Take a sabbatical from work for a couple years, kayak the PNW and start living again?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593662)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:05 AM
Author: cocky preventive strike

smash all screens and move to a small cabin in Montana

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593681)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:08 AM
Author: bisexual sepia partner locale



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593697)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:05 AM
Author: rebellious background story state

no because the internet/smartphone culture has so profoundly altered everyone else's mind and the general tone/pacing of human interaction, that you will feel like an alien interacting w/ people.

it's jarring. there is this weird manic, ADD undercurrent to all human interaction now, and if you are not acculturated and habituated to it at the micro-interactional level, you will feel that either you or everyone else has gone mad when you engage them.

so the choice, anymore, is between 'unplugging' and being adequately socialized.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593683)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:03 AM
Author: dun impressive macaca hell

it has blown out my mindhold to a degree that would make even modern era “women” blush

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593674)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:14 AM
Author: sapphire stimulating station pozpig

yes for instance I am now writing things like "very odd that we haven't gotten any "tell alls" from Mayor Butt's ex-bfs"

how have I come to this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593708)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:14 AM
Author: Excitant Mediation

jesus

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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:23 AM
Author: peach idiotic indian lodge



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593759)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:23 AM
Author: Maroon Geriatric Point Pisswyrm



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:24 AM
Author: dun impressive macaca hell



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593768)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:38 AM
Author: razzle balding fanboi milk



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:24 AM
Author: Cracking chapel

Dunno, but my brain definitely fucking sucks now. Age, poison, internet... Probably all of them.

Can't concentrate, lack of curiosity, general malaise. It's terrible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593772)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:25 AM
Author: brass scourge upon the earth

It is truly awful.

I'm trying to fight to regain some of my former skills but it is difficult.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593777)



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Date: February 14th, 2020 10:25 AM
Author: Maroon Geriatric Point Pisswyrm

if i'm being honest, yeah

it changes how your brain works to be constantly jumping around from fleet abstraction to fleet abstraction. the real world seems slow and boring in comparison

it doesn't help that clown world is really, really gay and much of current IRL is just repulsive, which makes one feel like spending more time on the internet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4445246&forum_id=2#39593778)