Finally watched “Glass Onion” last night, and enjoyed it a lot. Probably not a rewatch, unlike “Knives Out”, but it was great fun, and Janelle Monae was so good. Amazing cast, but with Kate Hudson, Janelle, and Daniel Craig chewing up the scenery, the other just faded into background :)
I liked how mask use indicated character too. Sadly accurate.
Best of all, It was a huge troll of Elon Musk, and I am so here for that❤️ (and for Phillip. We need more Phillip in the next movie!)
@anathema_device I'm just the opposite. I like the second movie more than the first one and have watched it multiple times. Maybe it's just because I love Ed Norton being pwned by Daniel Craig? Idk. They're both great movies.
@actuallyautistic#actuallyautistic Anyone ever tell you that you were being "too negative" or a "Debby downer" when stating facts about something? Just happened to me earlier with my family. In this case it was reasons why I prefer not to travel often (routine change haha). The whole time I was thinking, "but I'm not trying to be negative..."
@chevalier26@actuallyautistic oh yeah. Definitely. Especially when, like you said, I'm just trying to state the fact. Most people don't want to know the facts!
For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!
@RickiTarr I need 100% alone time when I am not working (one-on-one with people). I can spend days on end by myself with no problem as long as I have some media and can text some friends.
Socializing in person just two or three hours a week is too much for me at this point. I have to budget my recovery time very carefully, especially when I know that I'm going to see family. Even if I'm hanging out with my neurodivergent friends, who are fairly equalizing, I have to be careful.
Zooms exhaust me. A text conversation or email chain can wear me out (I had an email absolutely ruin three nights of sleep for me last week, and the fallout is ongoing). An actual phone call? It takes days to recover.
I wasn't very social before the pandemic started. I'd be in the corner with a book, under the table with the dog, doing dishes, or outside looking at trees or birds or stars at any given social gathering.
Any pretense of being able to survive an in-person social activity has dissolved since March of 2000 (I loved lockdown -- except for the no work part). Especially since 2021, when people started rabidly gathering to make up for perceived lost time once they were charged with "saving the economy" by getting out there and doing capitalism again. I could not go that fast or throw my precautions to the wind.
Sometimes when you learn how something works, you think, Thanks knowledge, that really helped, everything makes more sense, and other times you look up how wrists turn, and it's like WTF?!
@RickiTarr Hahaha whenever I try to explain this action to my clients, they are gobsmacked! I try to make it as accessible as I can, but the idea that these two bones are crossed most of the day when we're doing stuff with our hands really doesn't compute with most people. Bodies are weird!
I’ve been reading about “stimming in autism”, which up until now was very confusing to me mostly because that’s the one point kept being repeated in the community being a must for an autistic individual. And I can’t relate to that at all.
Then I came across something that describes the purpose of ‘stimming’ is to deal with extra energy. Then it kinda hit me, I’ve never had the need to stim because I’m a low energy person in general.
I get overwhelmed with activities when they involve raising heart rates (yes, THAT too). I like quiet things, dead of night etc. Once at a time in my life, I was pretty sure I could hear flow of electricity.
So my question to the #ActuallyAutistic community: do you think stimming is a must for autistic people? Do you relate to it? Anyone know of any low energy stimming that gets overlooked?
I tend to be more of a low- energy/exhausted individual as well, and I can usually hear sounds that other people can't hear (that are actually happening, not just in my head).
My few stims are subtle, unless I am on overwhelm. Then, they tend to be harmful, so I work really hard to suppress them.
I remember asking other kids in middle school if they could see the different color of fluorescent lights and that they were flickering. I wish someone had known then that I was neurodivergent. Though neither the school nor my parents would have known what to do with that information!
I was helping a farmer friend today get her car up to her mechanic's place, which is about 10 miles out of town.
On the drive back, she took a call from someone who was looking for raw cow's milk.
She's only on Facebook as far as social media goes, so she hasn't seen any of the news stories about people seeking out raw milk in order to try to infect themselves with #H5N1 to "gain immunity" from it.
She was gobsmacked!
I was trying SO hard not to laugh while she took the call.
I told her that I've seen a number of news stories about people doing exactly this. I said what scares me the most is, the mortality rate is over 50%. One in two people! Why would anyone think this is an acceptable risk?
She appreciated the information I gave her and said that she would adjust her response when she received more calls.
Apparently she's received a lot of calls recently.
She's not even a dairy farmer!
I know 100+ years ago when we didn't have #vaccinations, #antibiotics, or #antivirals, exposing yourself to pathogens was one way to possibly gain immunity from whatever was going around.
But thousands upon thousands of people were sickened and died from things that we can now prevent or treat with drugs, #sanitation, #hygiene, #masks, and vaccines. It wasn't all bread and roses in pre-modern America. Our average life expectancy was almost half what if is today.
"Natural" is not inherently superior. Immunity debt is fucking bullshit. Exposing yourself willingly to a deadly pathogen does not increase your chances of living longer or being healthier afterwards. If someone did this to their kids? It would be flat out child abuse.
Yet, I always forget that most of the population doesn't read a book after they leave school, doesn't believe in science, and thinks if something is on the internet, it must be true.
Even and especially, people in my profession and allied professions believe the wackiest ideas about how the the human body works that are simply not true.
I'm pretty tired of the stupidity of other humans at this point. Go ahead. Drink the raw milk. Take yourself out of the gene pool. I know I can't do anything about it once you've made up your mind to do something so risky and stupid. SMH
@mentallyalex This absolutely is what's going to happen. This kind of idol worship and health supremacism is rampant in the natural health and wellness community. 🙄
@mentallyalex I do have friends in Austin, but I haven't been for a number of years because pandemic. I may have to go on a McConaughey reconnaissance mission!
I tend to think of patchouli as more of a 1980s thing, but I was a little kid in the 70s and wasn't around a whole lot of people who wore it. My college boyfriend wore it. I swear all of his stuff still smelled like it 10 years later!
Sometimes the way people phrase things is so telling. For instance, telling women they should be "taking care of" their husband and children. Another adult doesn't need taken care of like a child, what you want is for women to be a Sex Mom.
@farah@RickiTarr I once watched a (former) friend pretend that he didn't know how to fold tee shirts. He simpered and whined as he was sitting there in the living room trying to put the rest of his laundry in order, until his wife came over and started folding all of his tee shirts for him. I don't know why they bonded over learned helplessness like that. It was gross. It was also an incredibly weird thing to do while a friend (me) was visiting, but he was a weird person.