: Very few things are as crummy as being told by people that they kinda can't stand you for the same reason they like/love and want to be around/with you.

My #life #experience informs me that they're heading out soon, much sooner than later.

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: I was prescient on this one. Yeah, some autistics, like some neurotypicals, are easy to detect the patterns of and predict, but a large swath of autistics are known to be casually duncing the algorithms because their/our clicks/interests appear disjointed to the algorithms. So they wind up throwing anything and everything at them/us.

It's amusing.

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: I don't know all of the usually to almost-always useless facts/trivia, but when family, friends, and acquaintances have weird questions, they usually ask me.

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: This is, of course, from two years ago. Also, it applies to not just Autism Awareness Month. It applies to everywhere and to everyone.

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: two way so of looking at one of my all-time biggest irritations, peeves, problems, and frustrations with what I'll call casual communication

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: This is a part of #AspieLife that tends to cause for and away more problems that anyone likes to think.

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: from several years ago, a post I made on Tweetar

#experience #observation #personal #performativity #behavior #theroadtohell

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: Those who flirt with me usually have no idea how direct they need to be. -- I ran across this text/meme years ago and felt both seen and personally attacked. To a one, every women I've ever dated has wound up resorting to just up and kissing me, body tackling me, or asking "What does a girl have to do to get you to see she wants you?" (or some variation thereof). Then I get the picture. 🤷‍♂️

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: On the left, those are all me, to varying extents. On the right, that's all me all the time.

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: The same folks who always saying that anything can happen and that possibilities are endless are also the ones who accuse you, sometimes quite violently, of you lying or worse when you tell them something that happened that doesn't fit their personal and/or political narrative. Also, quite often they're the folks who exhort people not to dismiss out of hand the life experiences and perspectives of others.

#experience #observation #behavior #people #neurallyatypical #residentalien #theweirdkid

: Years and years ago, I had t-shirts and bumper stickers made, and on them I had put a quip of mine I pissed off many people and amused a few others since high school through college and into my work life. It was/is:

"Linear Thinking is for squares!"

I first said it in my senior year of high school. I wrote a 20min. short play and directed six cast members in it, all in twelve hours, using only what was at-hand on/around the stage.

#AspieLife #hyperfocus #neurallyatypical #residentalien

: Often there's no difference between the "good guys" and "the bad guys" by their behavior towards one another and towards strangers, and "But they mean well" holds absolutely no water. As the oft-quoted Maya Angelou said quite astutely, "...people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

#pattern #behavior #people #humans #politics #personal #ego

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: Again from the vaults. It's one of my least answers ever. Responsibility is one of the catch-22s of personal freedom, free will, and other popular stuff.

In short, the only person you can control is you, and you're the only example you can set for anyone else. Barring illness or injury, responsibility is a choice.

#onefromthevault #protip(?) #selfcare #mentalhealth #socialhealth #people #behavior #life #hottake

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: Most things in life a) are out of our personal control, especially at large scale, b) happen slowly, almost invariably at large scale, as in tectonic speed, c) don't care about how we feel, and d) require patience to get done, even generational patience.

You'll kill yourself and possibly others by forgetting to breathe.

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: Another from the vaults, from my IG a few years back. As I've written before, I'm a big fan of self-vigilance and healthy emotional self-regulation.

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: I did that "Ask Me Stuff" or whatever it was called some years ago over on my IG. This was one of the Qs, and so I A'd it.

#onefromthevault #protip(?) #selfcare #mentalhealth #socialhealth #people #behavior #life

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: I'd a conversation about this this afternoon with two old friends, one I've known since middle school and the other since college. The former is a professor of maths and quantitative somethingorother at our alma mater, and the latter is an senior actuary at a big, giant insurance company. Coincidentally, we are all autistic and all were finally dx'ed in our late thirties or our forties. We're a kind of #residentalien support group. #semiLOL

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: You've seen me answer questions this way here on #CoSo. Yes, I answer questions so IRL and elsewhere online. This question was about my greatest extravagance. (It took me about a day to come to it. I really thought about it quite a lot.)

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