Uair

Uair, 8 days ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon

Idea:

Bookstores should group fantasy with horror instead of scifi. Both fantasy and horror are purely creations of the author's mind; scifi is tethered to factual information.

If you need to group scifi, I'd put it with mysteries and thrillers.

Uair, 12 days ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

How are you with animals?

I tend to throw off the wrong vibe for people, but get along with even the iffy animals. Dogs that don't like most people warm to me.

Just wondering how much of that is autism and how much me. My dad hates animals.

Uair, 21 days ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

I can't remember the last time they let me stay asleep for a minute. Literally. I measure my sleep in seconds now.

Uair, 2 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

I've noticed my fellow autists seem to have a well developed sense of style. Everyone has colored hair, for example.

I consciously dress as plainly but practically as possible. I won't advertise for you unless you at least give me the shirt, so i sport no labels or logos. I like plain color tees and sweatshirts. I wear old fashioned, non elastic jeans or cargo pants.Being eds and superstretchy, i buy as baggy as possible.

I dress for forgettability.Anyone else?

Uair, 5 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic @AtheismActually

Did anyone notice that a lot of people seem to have broken their understanding of causality? I mean that people don't comprehend that people's actions cause future effects; they see the world as a chaotic montage rather than the plotted story it mostly is.

I know it's a defense mechanism against serious abuse as a kid, but it seems to be everywhere these days. Is the end of the world just too much for too many to handle?

Uair, 2 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

ABA.

https://www.the74million.org/article/americas-most-popular-autism-therapy-may-not-work-and-may-seriously-harm-patients-mental-health/

Uair, 4 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

Hey, i asked this the other day, but in a confusing manner. I've condensed it, and think it's really worth asking.

We can describe autism in a freudian manner. Autists are stuck in our superego.

So who are our opposites? What's the diagnosis for purely social people who are pathologically stuck in their ego?

Anyone know?

Uair, 3 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

On how little sleep can you function?

I was sick and caught up on my rest friday, still ill but walking around saturday, and yesterday was freaking awesome. I didn't have to struggle to focus, surging rage and despair didn't fuck with me. Time flew.

I got my usual 4 or 5 hours saturday night and last night, and i noticed by this morning that i was back to the man who needs to stifle himself. I bit somebody's head off unjustly because they triggered my shit.

Uair, 2 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic @LeftistLawyer

This nails it. It's what i've watched happen my entire life. We let the baby boomers off the economic treadmill and they got all snotty and refused to be content with kicking down at scapegoats. They even bitched about fighting their generation's war! I mean, jesus! We even had to shoot their leaders.

No worries. The economic draft works just fine.

https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

Uair, 3 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

One of the homeless crazies has been screaming at the top of his voice for the last ten minutes. Either "chow time" or "i got hot sauce, dolla a shot".

It makes it really hard to read and write. Even Wu Tang, "Bring the Ruckus" can't drown him out.

I need to download some Pantera.

Uair, 5 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

Anyone else not see the point of kissing?

I mean, erotic kissing. I've been told I'm good at it, but it really doesn't reach me.

Uair, 5 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

I think my family are just stone evil. They talk like liberals, mostly, but their actions are aligned with the nixon/ reagan/ trump axis.

Imagine how fucked up I am--every single person in my life has been completely artificial, and I never learned how to spot a lie. That's emotional thinking, and I'm not only autistic, I've been disassociated as a trauma response since age 8.

And everyone just took advantage of it.

sigh
1/

Uair, 22 days ago to actuallyautistic

#housing @actuallyautistic

Nothing makes sense any more. It is $1050/mo for a campsite with an electric hookup and $550/mo for non-subsidized government housing in a converted hotel room with kitchen, tub/shower, and queen bed.

My only guess is that they are earning over $500/mo datamining me through the "free" wifi.

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

More adventures in homelessness.

Looks like i'm being driven out of this funhouse hotel roim. I mean, it'd be nice to trade up for a home that doesn't have cameras, and isn't rigged to prevent me sleeping.

Last friday i walked around the block and someone shouted, "call a lawyer", but i was on a drunk and waited to sober up. I even bought a phone.

1/2

Uair, 5 days ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

1/2

I'll put out the call again. Maybe someday...

I need one person who isn't lying to me. I've never had that. Everyone I've been close to, all my family, were lying to me about who they were and who I was all my life. Now, my only source of information is the internet, and I don't trust it. I missed the memo where everyone on the internet became honest and honorable; I still see it as an unregulated wasteland of bullshit and scam artists.

Uair, 1 month ago to retrogaming

@actuallyautistic #retrogaming

64 bytes of RAM:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microvision

Uair, 2 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

Any nail biters out there? I've bitten my nails since i started getting heavily traumatized at age seven. I still rarely have to clip one. Is this stimming?

Uair, 2 months ago to Economics

#economics @actuallyautistic

Idea i'm surprised hasn't happened yet:

MicroCoin. A blockchain currency backed by a tech giant. It seems to me it'd be both crypto and fiat. It could easily become the world's reserve currency. Msft could arrogate all the power of the banking cartel in-house.

Will someone who actually understands economics explain to me why we're still using dollars?

Uair, 26 days ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

I need something to do.

For the absolute first time in my life I'm not filled with surging emotions. Today is like a tabula rasa for me, and I'm hoping to build on it.

I've been stuck in autistic burnout since I was 8yo. The only hobby I ever had was picking through rolls of pennies to pull out the wheatbacks, for one summer as a preteen.

I really could use something to do that isn't computer based. I have books, but want something more active.

Suggestions?

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

Are normal people hungry all the time?

I sunk out of panic mode for a couple days and goddamn if my stomach isn't a lot more aggressive than usual. I hardly ever notice it, normally.

Is this a thing? Constant hunger when you finally calm down?

Uair, 25 days ago to random

I tried to call a suicide prevention hotline, but all they were interested in was gaslighting me. Damn. Oh well. I knew I was on my own here anyway.

Was worth a shot.

Makes me glad I didn't slit my wrists. That leaves too much time to save me and jam me into a looney bin.

sigh

Uair, 3 months ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

A question for non americans:

Does your society admit there's anything wrong with plastic?

Let me count the plactic i dispose of every day. One around each granola bar, up to 4. One around the plastic knife, fork, spoon +napkin at dinner. Styrofoam(!!) cup of milk. One bag for every three cookies. I have a mug, but just saw a man using 2x styrofoam cups to get enough coffee.

I have negative money and live in a homeless shelter. I do a lot better when on my own.

Uair, 19 days ago to science

@actuallyautistic #Science #physics

I was just navelgazing while doing my dishes and a thought arrived. Schrodinger must've really hated cats.

Fuck Schrodinger. Leave the cat alone. Cats are good people. Put a republican in the box.

Uair, 17 days ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

Question, especially for the young'uns out there. Does anyone else see something wrong with this commercial? Would it fly if aired today?

https://invidious.drgns.space/watch?v=C3p-QAQphnE

Uair, 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic

Question for people in the developed world

How many eggs do you fry for yourself?

I live in america on half the poverty line. I'm pretty poor by any measure. When i fry eggs for myself, i usually fry four. I know that's an absurd luxury by the standards of most people in history, but financially it's silly for me to ration eggs.

It's just something i noticed.