• Flax@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    I saw someone making this argument and was offended until they were like “you’re not autistic unless you’re looking at train maps or something like that…” and I immediately less offended somehow

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        3 months ago

        In the social context it probably means you don’t display obsessive autistic characteristics unless you’re engrossed in a train map. That’s the only demonstration this friend has seen

        • GladiusB@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          I mean I’m interested in them. I wrote a thesis on the New York subway system and the technological marvels needed to make it happen.