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   Alice McFlurry :bc: (alice@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 11-Aug-2025 09:11:15 JST Alice McFlurry :bc:

   I don’t have Tourette's but I do have this thing where I'll latch onto a phrase and then repeat it and this is compounded by the fact that I have a LOT of weird stuff sloshing around in my head so the phrases are often weird AF.

   A little bit ago, I was on a brewery patio and there was one of those little squishy faced dogs (like the type where they look like they've been misbred to the point where their nostrils are like one cocktail straw's distance away from their butthole) and this dog was trying SO hard to drink out of this bowl but it could barely reach because it had a short fat neck like a high school bully and I was just cheering it on like "slurp it up, buddy!" but now this phrase is locked in, so I’m living in perpetual fear of saying this whenever I see ANYONE drinking water, so apologies in advance if I appear rude while you're trying to get hydrated.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Aug-2025 09:11:09 JST Miakoda

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     • Kevin Davy

     @pathfinder @Gorfram @Alice You might be missing some of the benefits that stereo can provide.

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     Kevin Davy (pathfinder@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 11-Aug-2025 09:11:11 JST Kevin Davy

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     @Gorfram @Alice
     It's repeating words, phrases, or sometimes just noise. A common comorbidity of autism.

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     *sparkling anxiety* Evelyn (gorfram@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 11-Aug-2025 09:11:12 JST *sparkling anxiety* Evelyn

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     • Kevin Davy

     @Alice @pathfinder
     I’m feeling too lazy to look up what “echolalia” means, but it sounds like something that would make a really fancy dessert: “After dinner, we shared an echolalia with pink sauce.”

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     Kevin Davy (pathfinder@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 11-Aug-2025 09:11:13 JST Kevin Davy

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     @Alice
     Classic echolalia. 😀

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Aug-2025 15:38:32 JST Miakoda

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     • Kevin Davy

     @pathfinder @Gorfram @Alice It's a line from the title screen music from Top Gear 2 for SNES, and has been a recurring echo this entire time since.

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     Kevin Davy (pathfinder@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 11-Aug-2025 15:38:33 JST Kevin Davy

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     • *sparkling anxiety* Evelyn

     @hellomiakoda @Gorfram @Alice
     Sound, speech and music, is something I actually struggle to remember. Or, perhaps, it's more that I can't really access the required memory to repeat it. The way words or phrases feel, is what I latch onto when I find myself repeating them.