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  • Unfortunately, its impossible to know. We can point to severe cases with non-verbal ASD, and those with uncontrolled violent meltdowns, and others combined with other mental disabilities, but given that JFKs sister was lobotomized for being too promiscuous and California had a mass eugenics program until the 50s we won’t know.

    But I can tell you my uncles and ancestors who were farmers, engineers, etc (extremely conservative men too) - dont like how ASD is a disorder. “Back in our day we called that an engineer.”







  • Is that an ASD thing or an ADHD thing?

    Because I know my ASD relatives are more like “I CRAVE VERY SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THIS THING and will forget everything else (not actually true - they seem to remember just not when they don’t care to)”

    and with my ADHD it’s definitely the “I NEED MOOOOOOAR” combined with no recollection that isn’t intuitive.

    But my AuADHD friends are definitely more “I WILL KNOW ALL about RECENT SPECIAL INTEREST, and honestly I probably remember other stuff I just don’t have the energy to remember it right now.”




  • I respect the mindset but in practice I’m far too paranoid about getting the cops called on me for indecent exposure.

    I know the law is blah blah blah expectation of privacy in a home, but you tell me Karen won’t glimpse me playing beat saber fully dressed in my birthday suit and immediately call the cops tell them the neighbor in basement is flashing himself in his home to her and the neighbor kids coming by.

    If I could remember to always check my blinds, maybe I would. Well. Not when my son is around, cause I remember that as a kid and it was more like “uuuuuughhhhh whyyy?”






  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHamster
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    20 days ago

    No you wanna know how fucked up a human can get:

    Frank Herbert wrote an entire series of novels about a guy who put his finger in a box and was told “An animal caught in a trap will gnaw its leg off to survive.” Then the dude goes on to cause 66 billion deaths and have a son that lives for 7500 years as a giant worm/human hybrid



  • So the Anthem thing I sort of get, at least for like sports. Lemme explain:

    Sportsmanship keeps the games fun. Establishing sportsmanship starts in the mind - “we’re all here to have a good time.” In nation exclusive sports, (NFL for example) the entire stadium gets “in sync” at that moment. It’s also a useful way to start. In international sports, standing for the opponents anthem is a sign of respect for the other team.

    I don’t really remember where else it plays though.