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

@Sci_Fi_FanGirl

A few days ago I started to tell hubs about something that had made me really angry, then I stopped and said "Just letting you know, this is not the time to tell me I over reacted, or roll your eyes." I told him, he didn't downplay it, and it actually turned into a good conversation (not an argument) about the times he *has* been dismissive.

@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic

@subpanel@mastodon.social

I'd rate myself as having little or no Functional Fixedness. I can't begin to count the number of times I've looked around, seen something, and thought "Ah! That will do!"

@anomalon @hosford42 @sentient_water @SQLAllFather @markusl@fosstodon.org @cwebber@octodon.social @ginsterbusch @dpnash@mastodon.online @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity

@hosford42

I'm wondering how much overlap there is between PDA and DSM's "Oppositional-Defiant Disorder", and how many people might have been misdiagnosed.

@anomalon @hellomiakoda @dbc3 @markusl@fosstodon.org @cwebber@octodon.social @ginsterbusch @dpnash@mastodon.online @sentient_water @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity

@anomalon

Monotropism Score: 187 / 235

@nellie_m @actuallyautistic

@hellomiakoda

Everyone knows microwaves are used for covert surveillance.

@hosford42 @dbc3 @markusl@fosstodon.org @cwebber@octodon.social @ginsterbusch @dpnash@mastodon.online @sentient_water @Tooden @actuallyautistic @neurodiversity

@nellie_m

No problem.

@nellie_m

I didn't block them. Yes, they're trolls, but they're pathetically bad trolls. Pity was the most they inspired in me.

@hellomiakoda

@hellomiakoda

I have enjoyed past discussions debating that kind of topic, but they can't get anywhere unless everyone agrees that words mean things, and it's important to know what they mean before you use them.

@ellenor2000 @actuallyautistic

@hellomiakoda

Rando is random. 😂

@actuallyautistic

@dcc@annihilation.social

This isn't going to be productive for either one of us. You aren't interested in learning what you're trying to talk about, and I'm not interested in teaching you. I'm going to end this here.

@actuallyautistic @Tooden @ScruffyDux@fosstodon.org @Zumbador @CatHat @DayneKnite @Elowen@ohai.social @hellomiakoda

@dcc@annihilation.social

That's completely inane, shallow thinking - and it's comparing apples to motorbikes.
Communism is an economic system, as is socialism and capitalism. Nazism is a political ideology.

@actuallyautistic @Tooden @ScruffyDux@fosstodon.org @Zumbador @CatHat @DayneKnite @Elowen@ohai.social @hellomiakoda

@hellomiakoda

I've had stronger reactions to things like that, as I've gotten older. On weekends I have a route I walk for exercise, and there are a lot of black beetles out this year - all the rain has boosted their population, I think. I stagger down the sidewalk, avoiding stepping on the beetles because, hey, they're alive, too.

@ScruffyDux@fosstodon.org @Tooden @Zumbador @DayneKnite @Elowen@ohai.social @pathfinder @CatHat @matthewtoad43@climatejustice.social @actuallyautistic

@hellomiakoda

That sort of puts stepping on a Lego into perspective. My whole body clenched when I read that.

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

@hellomiakoda

I used to do the same thing, without realizing it. I couldn't wear skinny jeans, or zip up a pair of knee-high boots I got for a costume, because my calves were too big. I also started wearing boots, because it's impossible to walk that way.

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic