ScottinSoCal ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ณโ๐ @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es
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So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
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If there's any question about whether you're awake or just dreaming you're awake - DON'T USE THE TOILET!
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Your non-violent, harmless autistic traits aren't bad because other people are "annoyed" by them or "don't care for them"
That's on them, not you.
They're part of you. Imagine if we fired people and insulted their moral character because they asked about the weather.
Try Lowe's - they make things easy.
Salesman: so the Camry trunk is about 15 cubic ft.
Me: Okay but how many bodies can I fit in there?
For decades, climate scientists have been talking about the best-case possibility, because they didn't want to seem alarmist and be dismissed out of hand. Turns out we're not getting the best-case. Imagine that.
โThereโs not a โweirdโ acceleration happeningโ in the Earthโs climate, said Noah Diffenbaugh, a scientist at Stanford University. โThereโs an expected acceleration happening.โ #ClimateChange https://mstdn.ca/@shawngoldwater/110996100603381847
I used to, but for the last few years I've been getting a variation on that. I have a rescue parrot, Scooter, who I'm guessing was bred in captivity because she's never learned to fly. Instead of me falling, I dream I'm at some very tall place and Scooter gets hit by a gust of wind, or startles and flaps, and she's falling. It happens a couple of times a week.
I'd guess it's tied up with my being very bothered that she's a bird who doesn't know how to fly.
While that may be useful for NT people, for many ND people, this is how we show empathy. We relate it to something we've experienced that also made us feel [happy/sad/grief/lonely/excited]. It isn't about "look at me", it's "I understand, and I feel for you".
One of the best things about the rise of the internet is that everyone thinks their physical life experience is "the norm", so even when things are uncomfortable they generally think "well everyone is dealing with this so I can't complain." Especially if it's is common in your immediate family!
Now we have conversations with people way outside our families are find out that some things are not widely shared (or are, but in different sub groups).
So helpful <3
Find the right shoes. When I started walking I wore my regular shoes, and they hurt me, especially my joints. I started getting good shoes, with very cushiony soles, and it was immediately better.
I've had good luck with walking. Granted, my pace is faster than most people walk (4 miles per hour), but that's just how I walk. At the end of an hour I've worked up a good sweat, and I'm totally relaxed. A couple of those a day does it for me.
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Aha! I still have that rat mug somewhere.
Willow Springs 1987: crashing on my very first day on the track in the "new racers" school and waking up as a conveyor belt was transporting me inside the dome of a CAT scanner; which, having never been in one before, looked remarkably like the inside of an alien spacecraft.
For me it depends why I'm traveling. For work? Yes, non-stop stress. For personal, with absolutely no agenda, no list of must-do, nothing I can't put off or even scrap if I change my mind? I love that kind of travel. I plan the route and destination down to the minute, but once I've checked into the hotel, I'm relaxed again. Until the day before I leave to go home.
Yes, and it does depend. If I'm around other people, I clamp down on that, hard.
Too many of them would enjoy it.
Looks like the Republican Indiana state Attorney General is now demanding transgender health care records, too.
As @KrissyKat pointed out, they try their tricks out on the trans community first before going after other targets. Probably because we're tiny in number and typically don't have much political clout.
https://sfba.social/@KrissyKat@hoosier.social/110984934397063691
Another book on #autism, "Autism and Asperger syndrome in adults", by Dr Luke Beardon. I had seen him interviewed in a BBC programme on autism and was curious to read some of his work. The book is short and easy to read, and it's written as a dialogue with the autistic reader, discussing things that the autistic person should consider when choosing where to study at uni, where to work, whether to disclose their diagnosis (which he calls "identification", and I love that) etc. It's full of examples from the real life of autistic people and shows how amazing they can be. It's an overview based firmly on the social model, so doesn't go in depth, and it's largely uplifting and provides some practical guidance.
#DrLukeBeardon #AutismAndAspergerSyndromInAdults @bookstodon @actuallyautistic
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- He/Him
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- So gay. So, so gay.
- JoeMyGod
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So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
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