ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

@AutisticAdam

When I need to calm down, or when I'm cleaning the kitchen, I put this on and sing it. A couple of octaves below this, but it matches my voice perfectly.

@actuallyautistic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjGACO45DI

@hosford42

I think so. IQ is taken as "overall intelligence" when it's actually just measurement of a limited subset of capabilities. I test exceptionally well in that subset, but I don't consider myself more intelligent overall than many people I've known who scored lower. I have things I'm good at, so do they.

@GTMLosAngeles @LordCaramac @foolishowl @26pglt @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence

@hosford42

And I remember numbers - all kinds of numbers, just out of the blue. I don't remember faces or names.
I can recognize people if they have a memorable hairstyle. As people sometimes do.

@LordCaramac @GTMLosAngeles @Dremmwel @foolishowl @26pglt @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence

@theautisticcoach

Re-read a favorite story or passage for the nth time.

@actuallyautistic

@independentpen

The problem I run into is that my job *is* one of my special interests. I'm a science fiction geek, I've been one my whole life, and my company works with NASA and ESA and builds things that go into space and do sciencey stuff.
Trying to find a balance here is the hardest thing I've done. Ever.

@actuallyautistic

I'm feeling hermit-like the last few days, and I'm trying to figure out why. I resent anyone trying to talk to me, or be in the same room with me. I resent my to-do list. I resent having to go to work. I resent e-mails in my work inbox.
This just flipped on about a week ago, and I can't figure out why.

@actuallyautistic

@theautisticcoach

My addiction is nicotine. Used to be from cigarettes, now it's vape, but nicotine and I work well together.

@actuallyautistic

@theautisticcoach

Cream of Rice cereal, for hot food, and either milk toast (buttered toast in warm milk) or bread & milk (cubed bread in milk). Not that often, but when it's required, it's all that will do.

@actuallyautistic

@Pineywoozle @JonChevreau

Briefly, sometimes, if they've been sycophantic enough. He stops if he gets bored, or they do something he considers disloyal.

@MarkOnArt

Beautiful.

@Vincarsi

A few years ago I sat in a meeting while a (no longer here) electronics engineer mansplained astronomy to the (female) program lead scientist who was visiting from NASA.
It was entertaining AF when she explained all the very many ways he got it wrong.

@dpnash@neurodifferent.me @actuallyautistic @allautistics

@AllFallDown

Replace cloth with plastic, and I'm right there with you.