: to neurotypicals, the non-autistic

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: This one never gets old, not even for me, and I'm the one who wrote it. #AspieLife #neurallyatypical #residentalien #theweirdkid

: From 2019 or 2020 over yonder on the IG, this one is. I'd answered a questionnaire about #AspieLife, and I shared this particular answer publicly.

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: This one's from 2015, from my IG. The topic of conversation going around was dissatisfaction with college/university or at least what could've helped, and this was my answer.

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: one of my IG posts from some years ago

Yes, it's about human behavior and my experiences and observations thereon as a visitor to your fine planet.

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: You know what?

I 100% *did* and *still* fuck up those algorithms. I've participated in paid and volunteer beta-testing of that stuff, including ones that also monitor your pulse rate. I don't and will not try to screw them up. I'm just so far out of the bulge of the bell curve that the algorithms blank or throw randoms at me.

I used to get asked back to a tech place in RTP, NC periodically when they had big updates.

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: a blast from the recent past

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: This is usually how things go, and normally what happens is you take all half-truths and data twisted to suit, find out the lies by omission, figure out the foggily-stated, plausibly deniable shit and reverse-engineer it, and you do a little extra digging elsewhere, at which point you find the truth. Do that enough and develop a pretty wicked little Spidey-sense. I speak from experience.

That's how I roll.

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: another #AspieLife thing I somewhat recently wrote about over on IG

It's an issue that's bothered means been a thorn in my side since I was a teenager.

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: Why I am not much a fan of "best foot forward" or "fake it 'til you make it" and why I am not a fan of neither causal nor purposeful disingenuity.

Of course, I am well and truly #actuallyautistic, but that doesn't negate anything, though not few certainly do make the effort to make it seem as if it does.

It's also why my circle is smol and why not few do not much fancy their friends, colleagues, peers, etc. being around me.

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: 'Tis is morning for sharing, I s'pose. This is a 2019 IG post of a 2017 tweet I twote because of an old journal entry of mine I read from 1999. Now I'm sharing it here at the very tail end of 2022.

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: One of the puzzles that bothered me since I was a little kid is one I didn't understand the answer to until I was in my mid-twenties and then didn't finally accept, truly accept, until I was in my late thirties. It was this question, one I often posed:

Why is it okay for you yourself to behave, often repeatedly, serially, in the very same ways you openly decry and deride in others?

I do not like knowing or understanding the answer.

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#7LanguagesToKnowMe

English, of course
Spanish (Castilian and Latin American)
Swahili
Jamaican Patoi
French
Italian
Cockney Rhyming Slang, if that counts

My favorite is Swahili. I know no local native speakers, and so learning like SSL is ludicrously hard for me. It rolls off my tongue smoother than English, though, feels more natural, if that makes sense. I've been told by everyone but Kenyans that this is weird. They said it's sensible.

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: Speaking as an autistic human type person, there's one thing about a lot of people's, a seeming great majority's, continued shock and surprise at the behaviors they see over and over and over and over and over again by usually the same people and groups. And also relying on the same people for solutions that haven't come through with solutions before.

To me that's like being surprised every time that there's thunder after a lightning strike.

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: It's always cool and fun when I am told by any number of people that I can't possibly be autistic because

a) I seem so normal,
b) I don't act at all like their sister's nine year-old autistic stepson,
c) I make eye contact,
d) I speak to/with people,
e) I don't act like Sheldon,
f) I don't act like that creepy MF from "Atypical",
g) I don't act scared or angry all the time,
and/or more.

Alas, #AspieLife.

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