Just saying it in case any one needs to hear it. Even if you practice perfect mindfulness, always cognitive of what you’re thinking and the sources of your thoughts, eliminate all extraneous sources of influence from your life, you’re still not immune to propaganda. Your behavior can still be modified by what you see and consume.

This isn’t for people who are mindful of how they’re influenced. This is for people who are autistic, see this meme, and assume it means they’re immune. Cause you’re not, we’re actually an at-risk group overall for manipulation. Just blatant, loud advertising tends to not work the same on us as it does on allistic individuals.

Unfortunately, I believe we can be even more vulnerable to propaganda, if they make it directed at us, based on research…

“This article of clothing will be sad and very upset with you if you don’t buy it”

My Wernerpartner has autism and is incredibly susceptible to whatever shows up on their reels that day. Well, they have improved but 3-4 years ago it was a daily thing.

The newest blatant attempt in grabbing my attention: AI generated “feel good” commercials. I dont give a shot what you are selling, the video makes me HATE that company and product immediately

You are less vulnerable to usual propaganda. Other forms are super effective to compensate.

This is only true because companies didn’t consider autistics a valuable enough demographic to bother with. Now you can see companies like Loops market their overpriced shitty earplugs towards autistics, which actually seem to be popular.

I’m immune to advertisements simply because they piss me off. Like you wasted my time showing me something I did not care about in the first place. Not only am I not going to buy your product but I am also going to avoid stuff sold by you in the future in the hopes that you will be unable to afford future interruptions

Anecdotal, but my most autistic friends are most definitely not immune to propaganda