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.
baking did exist as far as i know well back into the 1970s
Being a gentleman scholar? Yes, I think so.
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.
Probably couldn’t get good weed so opium den here I come!
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
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.
Most of them did not, although information posters would be the closest precursor to my beloved PIFs and PSAs.
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.
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?
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.
Bread.
Bread, and it would be so much more fun without Wonderbread destroying the industry
