You know what? FUCK neurotypical "empathy" that only works if they'd feel the same way, and is all "don't be upset, it's nothing" and "pull yourself together" otherwise.
Starts with a promisingly astute observation: “It would be so tedious for you, wouldn’t it, to have your research interrupted every so often by cultists wanting to worship the thing you were studying? In my department, now, we don’t have such problems.” “Good heavens, Harriet—you study money! All sorts of people worship that.”
(In STEM, we get crackpots, but our cultists are usually violently denying our findings instead of worshipping them.)
@quidcumque Well, my smaller child would say your child definitely has a point. But her hate of the stroller was so big, we put the stroller in the attic when she was about three months.
Still not in the mood for "Exordia" and heavy ethics, so I'll read Pleiti and Mossa's new adventures next, as @older's sequel to "The Mimicking of Known Successes" is just out!
Welp, these long titles don't make good hashtags, do they.
Partner, apropos of nothing: "a Dutch James Bond parody would be so great. Chases by bike and through tulip fields, jumping off a movable bridge, fighting on a big RV's roof while driving 120 kilometers per hour,..."