For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
Dinner at 4pm
6 hours after lunch is a good time for dinner.
The streak of white in my beard?
The fact that 75% of my media consumption is things I’ve already seen before?
I can maintain eye contact in a conversation and at no point do I want to fuck/fight the other person nor do I believe they want to fuck/fight me?
I can maintain friendships.with people who do not share all of my views on things, with a select view even having opposing views?
Comfort wins over style every time, with zero exceptions?
Why is every sentence a question? This comes off as defensive.
It’s more of a take your pick as to which of those is my “old” trait.
I’m confused by the fuck/fight portion. Is it normal to want to fuck or fight every person who maintains eye contact? Have I been unknowingly threatening/coming into all of my work colleagues?
A lot of Zoomer/Alphagens have said in surveys that the perceive prolonged or maintained eye contact in a conversation as a sign of aggression or attraction. I was using hyperbolic language for brevity.
Oh no. I worked so hard to be able to maintain eye contact in conversations (autistic) and now I’m questioning it.
Its almost like neurotypicals just think they know what ‘normal’ body language is, when in actuality they all disagree about almost all of it, each have their own plethora of weird quirks and ideas, and its just that they assume their standard is correct, because they hardly ever consciously, actively think about or analyze body language.
Personally, maintaining eye contact during a conversation shows me that you’re actively paying attention and processing what I’m saying. I mean you might not actually be doing that, but I at least feel you are. And it’s a good sign. When I have some Alpha at work explain that bit about how their generation views that level of eye contact I audibly scoffed.
Yeah thats big ‘old man yells at clouds’ vibes.
Its not me that could be wrong, no, its the children.
Kids have different body language norms than me?
Pff, that’s stupid, my illogical feelings and inaccurate, non-universal heuristics are what’s important here.
There’s a difference between respectlfully attentive eye contact (flits to other things occasionally, but refocuses), fighting eye contact (straight staring, tense facial expression), flirting eye contact (flits between eyes and lips, soft facial expression), and autistic eye contact (direct and unwavering eye contact that drills into your soul for seemingly no reason).
Most likely, everyone just knows (at least implicitly) that you are autistic.
I’m turning 50 soon, and almost all of this hits close to home. Almost all. My media consumption is as it’s always been: new books all the time. But also no TV, and I know all about a given movie from reading a few reviews, not actually watching it.
Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy a good read every now and again, but when I discovered indie films as a teenager I was hooked. Not to mention I was a classic “nerd” who liked comic books, Farscape, and BSG at a time before liking those things hit the mainstream.
Napping
That and still in bed early, for me. But I’m also up before sunrise, for reasons.
Does joint pain count? I’ve had the back of a 90 year old since I was a teen and the rest of my joints weren’t far behind
Physical media.
I’ve never installed a banking app.
Woah
No, I do not have whatever stupidly named money transfer app you’re using this week, and no, I will not install it.
Honestly when Bitcoin was new I had hope that we’d all switch to that. I’d still prefer it to the slow-ass (US) banking system (*cough* NACHA) but now it has an entirely different reputation.
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I don’t download every new random chat app that’s in vogue. I’ll give you my phone number and we can text or talk without having to go through more 3rd parties besides the telephone companies we get service from. I hated needing a bajillion different text apps to talk to everyone I knew in the 2000s, I sure as hell ain’t gonna start that shit up again 25 years down the road. Unless someone makes something like Trillian, fuck off with your WeChats and WhatsApp and Velcro or whatever the fuck.
Most of my friends don’t even have my phone number, let alone a messaging service. We do postal mail or just go to each other’s houses. I mail out about twenty letters a week and get that much back, on nice stationery.
It’s good to feel loved.
Last time I ever wrote letters was while I was in the service. Kept every single letter.
Paper mail is so underrated.
I need to get a wax sealing kit.
And a fountain pen. Or six.
Dude or dudess, if true, f*cking awesome. And i envy you
There is absolutely nothing stopping you from doing the same thing.
Make a friend’s day, give them mail that’s not bills or ads or packages.
Postage stamps, in this economy?
Joke aside I think that’s pretty cool.
Postage is expensive, but I look forward to checking my mail. Mixed in with the ads is real human sentiment!
that’s awesome but my God my ADHD ass could not wait weeks for a response 😭
id leave them on read for like 4 months because I can’t find a stamp or something and forgot about it
It’s interesting because inside the US, this is a totally valid opinion to hold. Outside the US, many people end up having to pay per message, but can use data for free via WiFi, so it makes more sense that these apps are popular there.
I’d usually agree with this but SMS is pretty insecure, so I mainly use Signal instead for the end-to-end encryption in a responsible manner (no leaking war plans like a certain SecDef).
It’s cool. I don’t plan on discussing war plans. Just swapping dick and bootyhole pics.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware
Do we really think ICE are the only ones? This also made me wonder if this is why DoD was using an unofficial version.
I absolutely hate AI.
Is this an old person trait? Consider me a curmudgeon then.
I would think so. Given how obsessed people have become with AI and how pretty much everyone and their mother has ingrained themselves with AI. It’s harder to find someone who doesn’t use it at all than those who do. I hate it and everything that comes with it.
Gen Z here. I think you’d be surprised to find that gen z generally hates ai slop. Specifically the slop, most people are ok with some AI use.
For llms It’s seen the same way I imagine search engines were (I was born after Google existed). People can just find an answer for their problem instead of searching for it in a book or asking someone. This can either be amazing for learning new things, or for cheating. My professors even tell me to USE ai to learn, just know how to actually use it to help learn rather than get the correct answer and be done with it.
I can’t bring myself to trust any information from LLMs that I don’t already know.
Anything invented before you turn 15 is just how the world works.
Anything invented between the ages of 15 and 30 is revolutionary and groundbreaking and you should pursue a career in it.
Anything invented after you turn 30 goes against the natural order of things.
At 39, this is becoming more and more accurate to me as time goes on. I remember telling some kid trying to pitch me TikTok when it first came out: “They brought back Vines?”
I remember giving TikTok a go and getting frustrated because it kept showing me stupid videos of kids dancing and I couldn’t find a way of searching for specific topics and I ended up rage-uninstalling it.
After I calmed down it dawned on me that the “stupid kids” dancing were actually around 18-20 years old and I couldn’t find what I wanted because I didn’t understand the UI.
I don’t think AI (aka LLMs) is / are against the natural order, I just think they are a terrible tool for work that requires thinking. And there are a lot of people, including medical professionals, who don’t care enough to verify what is presented to them. At least if I use AI generated code, I can test it.
Yeah, I use LLMs all the time for all sorts of things. Like, I’ll be working on a diy project and will think “I need a thing, and I know this thing exists, I just don’t know what it is called.” LLMs are great for that.
I’m old
Literally everything i do. Im not even old but I could keep a conversation going with a 60 year old easily.
Old cars, reel to reels, vhs, win 95, atari 2600, pentium 3s, 50s music, records and vintage amplifiers and speakers…dos commands…the list goes on
That and I hate social media (i realize lemmy is social media) and my smartphone stays off on weekends. I prefer books.
Nah you hate mainstream social media, you’re a hipster like the rest of us XD
Yeppp
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Ya probably eating something you can’t tolerate. Been checked for coeliac disease? Affects joints, gut, skin, etc…
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Gluten gives me so many ulcers, pisses me right off
Sorry to hear about your aches and pains, I get them too as I’ve been getting older, especially my knees. I have a spinal fusion and a few things have really helped to alleviate my chronic back pain.
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Stretch every day. I pay special attention to my hamstrings, they get most of the stretching because it helps loosen lower back muscles too.
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Try not to sit too much. A sit stand desk helps with that, but I also try to stand if I’m watching tv. It’s weird, but it works.
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Go for walks. I don’t have to go anywhere, I just throw on an audiobook or music and walk for an hour or two around the neighborhood.
These keep my daily pain minimal, most days it’s so low pain, I can just ignore it and I’m fine.
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Fuck yes my dude! The hamstring connection isn’t the most obvious, but makes a lot of sense once you hear it. I spend 5 minutes on hamstring stretches alone and it helps keep a lot of my pain away. I could never touch my toes until I had 2 metal rods in my back! 🤣
I am so glad to hear it’s helping!
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I stopped caring about a lot of pop culture stuff coming out. I don’t hate it. But like it used to capture my interest. Literally never heard of Lebooboo’s until SP27E4.
Basic Fuckenomics I guess.
What’s lebooboos?
What’s SP27E4?
South Park season 27 episode 4, I’m guessing
My age 😁
