I was diagnosed originally at 3yo with Asperger’s. As mentioned by folkrav this diagnosis is outdated, ‘Asperger’s Syndrome’ isn’t a thing anymore. To the best of my knowledge it’s currently all Autism Spectrum Disorder with numbered levels associated with each diagnosis ranging from 1 to 3.
The old Asperger’s diagnosis is, AFIK, translatable to Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1.
In case you ever have to go back to Autism Speaks’ website, or a similar one;
Try running NoScript browser plugin, or something similar. It shut down the distracting notifications for me.
Don’t know which browser you use but I’ve found that if you put a little effort into it and use one that supports some good plugins you can cut out a lot of the most annoying things on the internet.
Mostly just mitigate bad-texture and try to work around it. I try to try new things… actually had a problem with not eating for most of my life so now if I don’t know what something’s like I’ll probably try it if it doesn’t have some clear indicator of bad texture.
I also limit caffeine intake as per doctor’s recommendation, replacing it with water for most of the day. Don’t like water but it’s supposed to be healthy.
Seeing posts like this is always a bit frustrating. Autism wasn’t discovered in the 80s or later, descriptions of it predate WWII. Just a matter of people not caring and some governments being actively hostile… both to the research itself and the people.
And something to hold the TV at a reasonable viewing angle from a comfy seated position.
I’ll go a step further, I’m convinced that our current society is exceptionally sick and going along with the current trend is currently causing great harm.
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I’m opposed to fitting in. Not disinterested, not unable, I don’t want to “fit in”.
People who want that from their associates should probably just not count me among them.
Felt this one yesterday. Just finished a semester with a great and charismatic professor.
He got us all together for a class photo and I felt I should express my emotions so put on a big smile. Could feel how the muscles weren’t used to doing that.
Society is optimized for the majority of people, not just certain personality types.
Eh, more or less. Society is also distorted by those who have a significant amount of economic or political power. It’s still shaped very much with an exclusion of consideration of us but it’s not really something approaching a ‘decent fit for the majority’ rather I would say it’s something more akin to the powerful impressing their demands for the structure of society upon all of us and the majority contorting around it.
Ex. Why doesn’t the US & Canada have a robust passenger rail network? Because of the influence of a strong automotive lobby (they used to and the car companies lobbied for it’s de-prioritization leading to slow degradation to the sorry state they’re in now).
Dreams are a normal process of sleep. What they are, to the best of my understanding, is your brain doing one of it’s sleep-tasks: memory transfer from short to long term storage. Normally, recording new memories is suppose to be “off” during the process. It’s most common to remember them when your sleep isn’t very restful or is disturbed during the part of sleep where that process takes place, REM sleep.
That being said I’m with ThrowawayPermanente, it’s extremely rare that I ‘dream’.
“We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own… Resistance is Futile.” - The Borg Collective (Star Trek)
“If they won’t act, I will. At dawn’s first light - the sources of Gotham’s ruin WILL. BE. DESTROYED.” - Anarky (DC comics, Arkham video games)
Estimating my own ability I’d say that I am pretty good at it. A majority of the time I make good on them, in the event that I don’t I apologize to whomever the promise was to sincerely and try to ensure that I do not let them down again. Further I try not to make promises that I may not be able to fulfill.
With how frequently I see hypocrisy I’m beginning to hypothesize the neurotypicals aren’t good at, at-least, that kind of logical consistency.
Getting diagnosed isn’t free, it can also be counterproductive if you can make-do without support. This is for several reasons, including discrimination. Not to mention it can be harder to diagnose an adult and even more so pointless as most support centers on autistic children (so I guess fuck us once we’re adults/s). I was diagnosed at three years old. My father has never been diagnosed. We’re a lot alike and now that my family knows #1 Autism is a thing, & #2 what at-least one Autistic person is like some of us believe that he is autistic too. There’s not much point in him being diagnosed in spite of him hitting a lot of the same criteria I do because he is able to make-do without help. He very well may benefit if he had support but he doesn’t and has managed to arrange his life to evade most of the things that give him difficulty.
Min/Maxing? In any sufficiently complex game I can determine something that would be an efficient path to victory and pursue it harder than anyone else. I seem to really have a knack for making something work precisely to what I want even if it struggles in other respects.
It’s most apparent when I play Stellaris with friends. I self-impose a penalty not to play particular builds that are the best at my min/maxing preference but my not-tryharding play-style will still put me at twice the research output of the next player extremely quickly. Granted my empire has extreme and exploitable weaknesses that theirs doesn’t but my gamble frequently pays off.
I have a harder time making it work in Civ6 but that’s likely because I play it really infrequently. I believe I’ve figured out what needs to be done to make it happen though.
I think I’d show up to work in something that could be taken for Bill Cypher cosplay just to drive home the point.
The easiest test I’ve ever received was the written portion of a US driving test. I’m sure the average American would need no more than ten minutes of study to pass it. I regularly observe US drivers either willfully ignoring what they know from the test or having forgotten it entirely. Everything is bad here but for transportation I wouldn’t be surprised if it were the worst in the developed world.
Unfortunately ‘Creepy’ is subjective and poorly defined. It’s a feeling rather than ‘this meets XYZ criteria and therefore is creepy’.
I agree with you that she’s not using ‘stalking’ correctly but I believe this was meant to terminate your platonic relationship. It’s upsetting but that’s likely the point.
This behavior is much more in-line with a correct usage of ‘stalking’. I would assume this escalation was taken as being fair game from your refusal to accept her use as stalking. That’s vexing but likely meant just to highlight their desire to terminate the relationship as that wasn’t clear from her first accusation.