Fortunately he was cured of the crazy obsession of being happy and giving a fuck about things.
Damn, and they even pathologized it. I guess some things never change.
Maybe we should pathologize neurotypicals' tendencies to pathologize anything they can't relate to.
It's certainly xenophobia at the very least
Imagine being the ruler of that city and letting him get "cured" instead of having him infodump / give daily reports about this.
Can you imagine a better person to appoint for your harbormaster? Or even a harbormaster assistant, this guy would do it for free and do it better than anyone.
An underappreciated part of civilizational development is social technology, as opposed to material technology.
Sometimes people just don't think of seemingly obvious ways to do things for hundreds or thousands of fucking years. Human society is a funny thing.
One wonders how it manifested itself before ships were invented, or in the ancestral hunter-gatherer environment. Surely there must have been autistic nomads.
Shamans.
"Look, he said he knows where all the fruit bearing trees in this forest are. Not a lot of them, all of them. He pointed out a squirrel the other day and told it he was glad to see that it made it through the winter. I don't know how he does it, but if he says we have to move because the squirrels are starting to move to new trees, who am I to argue? We move."
This feels so true. Modern day version maybe. Always been drawn towards spiritual things and the amount of dark stuff I trigger in others is crazy. It's been a journey to understand and accept. But it's good doing some healing, for others and myself.
probably witnessing mammoths or other animals return to their nest.
However I don't think the happiness would last long
What did that doctor do to him?
probably leeches
gave him a mask
Where's the part where he suffers?
It came after "the cure" when he never felt as happy again
Boatspotting
mfw normies existed in ancient Greece reeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Sports nerds vibes
welp, allistics seem to think happyness needs to be cured sometimes
What's the derogatory term for boat foamers?
Neurotypicals at what they can do the best pathologizing what makes others happy and joyful!
