Notices by Murdoc Addams 🧛🏻 (murdoc@autistics.life)

@bzdev @hellomiakoda @georgetakei
Easy, just make them a territory instead of a province. Or territories. 😁

@bzdev @hellomiakoda @georgetakei
Simply move... then move back? How many of these people do you think have the money to do that for mere political reasons? And the ability to disrupt their lives long enough to make it happen? It's not like we would even have the housing for another Canada's worth of people. To not even mention how badly this would affect the economies of both areas.

@hellomiakoda
Part of the problem with any argument about free will is needing to define it first. Unfortunately, this often goes unspoken with different ideas of what it actually is being argued for. Also unfortunately, the most common definition is that it is some ineffable, romantic thing that is difficult or impossible to understand. "The heart has reasons that reason cannot understand." 🤦

@hellomiakoda
😆 You are so autistic. :blob_cat_heart:

(IOW I've done similar sorts of weird calculations.)

Well that's kinda creepy. What's going on here? Some bot for him monitoring criticism and ridicule?

@hellomiakoda
Looks good. I wish I had gone this route when I had the money to do it.

@hellomiakoda
:blob_cat_giggle: Sorry.

@Remittancegirl @Profpatsch @DarkAthena @johnnyprofane1 @bmacDonald94 @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd
That's a great point.

@Profpatsch @DarkAthena @johnnyprofane1 @bmacDonald94 @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd
I can find only two references to autism:

"Autism spectrum disorders had the highest prevalence in high-income countries, including the United States, in 2021. Similarly, autoimmune diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis, and multiple sclerosis are more commonly diagnosed in high-income areas such as Europe and North America. Overall, the global comparison data demonstrates that the health of Americans is on an alarming trajectory that requires immediate action."

This looks like it is comparing ASD with auto-immune diseases*, and is something that needs to be prevented and/or treated.

"Autism spectrum disorder now affects 1 in 36 children in the United States — a staggering increase from rates of 1 to 4 out of 10,000 children identified with the condition during the 1980s."

No mention of changes to diagnostic criteria or any change in how the condition is viewed.

Soon after this is said:

"This poses a dire threat to the American people and our way of life."

A bit of an aside, but I find it interesting that that sentence is immediately followed by:

"Seventy-seven percent of young adults do not qualify for the military based in large part on their health scores."

Is that how we're measuring the quality of people's lives, their ability to enter the military?

* I initially typoed this as "auti-immune disease". Yikes. 😬

@hellomiakoda
This drives me almost as crazy as the stretching did. I'll have to check out this Handbrake you mention, thanks! :nkoWave:

@hellomiakoda
There's a couple of days each year, in the spring and fall, where the sunlight gets in between buildings at just the right angle to make my living room glow with a soft red. It's wild. Like some weird unintentional Stonehenge. I haven't been able to capture it adequately with a camera either.

Btw, I love rooms with non-right angles. Normal boxes are so boring.

@hellomiakoda
😊 Thank for that, I'm glad for that at least. And I don't mark as many of your posts as "favorite" as I may want to because that still seems a weird reply, but if I do hopefully you'll know what I really mean.

@hellomiakoda
☹️🫂 Wish I could help.

@hellomiakoda
Yeah that'd be less than I'd like it. For me I have several thermometers around my place* and they range between 13-21 c (55-70 f). Great for sleeping but too chilly for everything else.

* I assume that my desire to measure everything is an autistic trait.

@hellomiakoda
:BlobCatSmiley: Similar. Warm under weighted blanket, the rest of my place is too cold (similar temp) so had to text housemates upstairs to raise the thermostat (no idea when they'll see it though).

@hellomiakoda
Likely one of the reasons that for me and my friends, two of our favorite role playing games are Cyberpunk and Vampire, where our characters don't have these issues (or at least less).

I too am up earlier than I'd like on account of various body needs.

@hellomiakoda
The allistic predilection for imperatives triggers my PDA frequently. 😡

@giflian
I'd say that the worst is worse than that. Medical diagnosis focuses on problem traits, not necessarily autistic ones, and the two don't overlap a lot, even if they may coincide a lot. I've heard of people getting misdiagnosed with things like just depression, and then put on antidepressants and left wondering why they don't work. How often this happens I don't know, but it's a real possibility.

But even with an accurate diagnosis, that can come with negative effects too, like employers not considering you.

@jeffowski
Here's an article that may be helpful:
https://www.autismbc.ca/blog/autistic-adults/reasons-autism-self-diagnosis-is-valid/
There's another I know of but can't find right now. I'll post it if I can find it.

Whoa, just had a thought: There are many reasons why Harry Potter is popular, but I just thought of one that may resonate with neurodivergent people in particular.

Child grows up in a world that doesn't understand him and generally treats him very poorly. Then he is told by other people that the reason for this is because he is different, he is special. Now I get that pretty much everyone wants to feel special, but for us NDs, maybe it's something different.

We watch this child go to a place where everyone, despite their many differences, are just like him in a very important way. They understand him, and share and indulge his interests. But most importantly, he receives support from a huge community of people based on this difference from the "normals". He feels at home, and he thrives.

Idk, I just woke up so maybe I'm missing something and this is just the universal appeal after all, nothing special for NDs. I guess we'll see. Let me know what you think.

#neurodivergent #actuallyautistic #ActuallyADHD @actuallyautistic