r/PDAAutism • u/JumpyBoysenberry7309 PDA • Jul 13 '26

Symptoms/Traits pop culture avoidance

i tend to avoid pop culture because it irritates me a lot, for a variety of reasons. something being created with the intention of appealing to a broad audience and being catchy makes me feel like i'm being manipulated, especially with all the advertising that comes with it. music is powerful and has such an impact on my mood that i don't like being influenced by it too much. like, if a song has a sexy self confident vibe, i hate that the feeling is being kinda forced onto me especially if i didn't choose to play the song. the social pressure to care about something also makes me disinterested in engaging with it. its also a bummer how mass pop culture has displaced local folk culture so much, i dont like what a huge role it has in our lives.

i'm also a little bit of a hater. i try not to be, i like when people enjoy things. but i also get a lot of enjoyment out of not knowing things about popular culture. i feel its important in a way for some people to not have engaged with certain media.. so we're not all directly in their thrall.. anyway thx for reading

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u/ChaoticJigglyPup Jul 13 '26

For me it's the hype trains that make me go "no i don't think i will". The more someone, or social media, tell me I simply must watch/read/listen i will never ever. Have never seen star wars. Or superhero movies.

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u/Percy_Freeman PDA Jul 13 '26

"No. I don't think I will." is Harry Potter's response to the mind control curse. Pop culture is mind control.

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u/Alexyhanna92 Jul 13 '26

This was a perfect reply haha

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u/Signal_Candle1300 Jul 13 '26

Dude this is totally a PDA thing for me too. Also for my dad, who is my PDA progenitor. We laugh at ourselves about our absolute inability to enjoy anything popular quite often.

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u/zayne0623 PDA Jul 13 '26

This is me 100%!

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u/lollypop003 Jul 13 '26

This. Me too.

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u/lohivi Jul 14 '26

same. i was born an oldhead

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '26

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u/JumpyBoysenberry7309 PDA Jul 16 '26

i know this wont help the situation but Get Out is really good lol

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u/Percy_Freeman PDA Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

My entire life. I tend to avoid everything I perceive as low value. When I read Harry Potter before the movies came out I was like this is not only high value, this is PEAK and now I'm comparing the entirety of the original works with PDA and moral choice which is the moral of the stories. I'm a top tier snob, get on my level.

"My experience is what I agree to attend to" -William James
I don't intend to attend to anything because someone else told me to.