zaxxon

zaxxon, 9 days ago to random

I think I need to live in a commune as a sort of jack of all trades.

Honestly, I don’t think I have the mental makeup, skills, and talents (let alone interest) to “succeed” in our capitalist society.

I’m a tinkerer who enjoys working with wood as much as I enjoy working on computers, researching accounting (or real, anything) as much as I enjoy reading about science*.

Maybe I should start Communauty.

*Oh, but I hate gardening.

pathfinder, 25 days ago to Autism

@actuallyautistic

Autistic brains be stupid. Well, obviously not stupid, they just seem to work, or not work, in mysterious ways.

The main one that has always got me, about mine, is that I have no memory for sound, absolutely none. I can't remember a song, or a sound. I can't remember what my parents sounded like and none of my memories carry, for want of a better word, a soundtrack. I can remember what I was thinking and what others were saying, but not hearing them say it, nor any other sound. I also don't dream in sound, at least as far as I know. All my dreams are silent.

And yet, and it's a big yet. I have an excellent memory for voices and sounds. Like many autistics I have near perfect pitch, at least when I'm hearing others sing, or music playing. Just don't ask me to reproduce it, because I can't. If I meet someone I haven't met for a while, then I will almost certainly not recognise their face, or remember their name, but there is a very good chance that I will recognise them from their voice. I am also very good at detecting accents. Even the slightest hint of one in, say, an actor pretending to be an american, will get me searching Wikipedian to see if I am right about their actual nationality.

So, if I can tell the sound of a Honda CBR engine two blocks away, or a voice, or an accent buried deep, I must have the memories to compare against. And yet... nope.

So, as I said, autistic brains be stupid.

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic

Cassandra, 29 days ago to random

Well, I'm getting faster at processing when something has upset me.