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@Susan60

If I see people out of context (a co-worker at a grocery store) it's jarring, and I freeze up for a second. I'm supposed to know them, but this isn't right...

@pathfinder @Dremmwel @hosford42 @LordCaramac @GTMLosAngeles @foolishowl @26pglt @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence

@MeanwhileinCanada

And it comes back as fertilizer! Very clever.

@hosford42

That sounds a lot like me. I could describe a nose, a mouth, eyes, eyebrows - all the components of a face, but it doesn't stick together in my head unless there's something memorable about it. Otherwise it's just a face, like any other face.

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

@nus@mstdn.social

Lots of follows with few/no followers and few/no posts is what pings my suspicion radar.

@CuriousMagpie@mastodon.social

I know he feels it when I scratch the itches he can't reach, and when I snuggle him.
He comes up to me and paws at the part of his body he can't reach, so I know where to scratch.

@f1337 @housepanther @AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic

@mcnado

They're trying to make child labor grate again.

@Hey_Beth

He mustered votes! He got two less, so he mustered them for someone else, but still...

@CuriousMagpie@mastodon.social

I used to tell my dog how great he was, all the time. Now he's a very old Little Man, and he's almost completely deaf, and he can't hear me say it. That makes me sad. 😥

@f1337 @housepanther @AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic

@Susan60

I do the same, but sometimes I struggle to come up with a metaphor the students will relate to, if the subject is excessively technical.

@26pglt @actuallyautistic

@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