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emergent properties of the syndrome

who else has the forbidding and incomputable Pile of Mail 💀...

“No Way Out Except From External Intervention”: First-Hand Accounts of Autistic Inertia (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/6713283...

shout out to anybody facing homelessness due to neurodivergence

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/5546920...

shout out to anybody facing homelessness due to neurodivergence

As someone facing homelessness myself due to issues beyond my control, I just wanted people to know they’re not alone....

consensus/discussion driven to a fault?

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/5236945...

v thoughtful suggestion, I had not considered (discuss.tchncs.de)

who else's brain takes a long time to "warm up" or stabilize after waking?

I suspect this probably varies across the entire population to some degree, but for me it feels like my senses and my mind aren’t fully “bound together” properly when I wake up, and it takes a while of being conscious, QUIETLY, for them to come together and be functioning right. This process takes far longer if I’m in a...

the experience of being perceived

I’ve been lurking/participating in forums for people on the spectrum long enough that I see “issues with being perceived” type posts pop up every so often. This is relieving to me because I have issues like that, and they are difficult for anyone who doesn’t experience them to understand. So it’s nice not to feel alone...

wish there was more traffic??

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/4450613...

anybody else realize decades later you can't tell whether people like you or are just pretending?

I think in my case this is a combination of 2 factors: having very self-absorbed parents (I would classify one as non-N and one as N) who really just didn’t give a crap about my interests or inner life most of the time, plus one symptom of my being on the spectrum is that one very specific input wire is pulled and I have...