Me, thinking about the Walnut Sticky Bun, Bowl of Bing Cherries, and large handfuls of Corn Chips I ate when I realized I forgot to eat breakfast: Ummm... kind of a salad.
What are your thoughts on self-diagnosis being belittled by many in the autistic community?
For clarity, I’m not asking to start a debate, just a genuine discussion. I currently don’t have the option to get a diagnosis, but feel fairly confident that the research I’ve done over the past year and a half has been legitimate and credible.
I don’t feel comfortable saying that I am definitively autistic, but I am ok with saying I’m “self-suspecting.” #actuallyautistic@actuallyautistic
Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!
I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.
That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.
I never watched "Seinfeld" back in the day, but I'm pretty sure "extreme left", "PC crap", and "woke" are pretty indicative that Jerry's spewing some bullshit.
@yakkoj I mean, I kind of like it because, well this could have been an email, but I would not expect that sort of shenanigans without a single line entry box and a free-form text box that are very clearly and obviously a subject and text box.
I was an avid reader of fiction when I was a child. Novels about challenging issues or strange fantasy worlds. In many ways reading was an escape to a safe place, but those books were also places where I could learn about how “people” worked. How they thought, felt & behaved. The diversity in those things.
I loved The Little Princess and The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, because they were about children who were different & how they coped. I loved The Chronicles of Narnia because, although quite dated now, the girls had real adventures alongside their brothers. There was a series of books about witches, good & bad, which I loved but can’t remember the titles or author.
I loved Ivan Southall’s books, where tweens & teens faced dangers, often without the support of adults. (Marsden’s Tomorrow when the War Began is reminiscent of Southall.)
And as an adult, I still like youth & YA fiction, probably for the same reason, because I’m still learning how humans work. I also like adult fiction, but the naivety of youth fiction appeals.
And TBO, I read much more non-fiction than fiction nowadays. Obviously there’s the Autism & ADHD stuff that is currently dominating my reading, but also social commentaries of all sorts, by feminists, sociologists, etc.
@ginsterbusch@pathfinder@Susan60@actuallyautistic I just started reading Pratchet and I actually really enjoyed The Color of Magic the series (currently[?] available on Prime). I think it may have pulled from a couple of his books because I don't remember it exactly from when I read the novel of that name. Samwise played a very excellent Twoflower 😂
@Susan60@actuallyautistic if you have not yet, I expect you would enjoy Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest series. The basic premise is that Princess Cimorene is, well, a Princess. However, her magic lessons, fencing, and other practical arts are continually put a stop to because those things are Not For Princesses. So she runs off, and finds her way to the dragons.
It's YA FIC, but I've (re)read them several times, including to my children.