Notices by Murdoc Addams 🧛🏻:ri: 🇨🇦 (murdoc@autistics.life)

@nddev @stevenrosenthal
There's also accepting that girls and women can have autism, as well as non-white people, and people with adhd.

@hellomiakoda
I hate to listen to real radio, but love a lot of the GTA ones, especially in 3, and will listen to them in other games, on my phone, wherever I can. The commercials are particularly cathartic given my aversion to advertising.

So which LC are you listening to, 3 or 4?

@hellomiakoda
So sorry to hear this. 🫂

@hellomiakoda
So in a way, poor people (actually poverty) are (is) a drain on society! 😛 (😥) Investing in health care, education and other supports like #ubi costs society less overall.

@hellomiakoda
Hence why I say that I'm not convinced. If he had said it more than once, and in almost any other setting, that'd be different. But I don't like the way that this looks like what was most likely a joke suddenly gets treated as fact by the media. We have enough misinformation about us running around out there.

I get what you mean about the gatekeeping part. I already caught hell from someone accusing me of that once.

@hellomiakoda
While I'm sure there are 'bad' ones out there, I'm not convinced that he is autistic. Aside from him being a well known liar, so far the only evidence I've seen is just the one time he mentioned it, and that was on Saturday Night Live, not the best venue for accurate information. Every other source I've found has just been media outlets talking about that one time. And then there is the interview I heard about where he referred to that time, saying "...or whatever it is I said I was." 🙄

@hellomiakoda
I'd love to see a proper study on where NDs vs. NTs end up on the compass. I mean, I have suspicions, but I'm too autistic to jump to conclusions.

@hellomiakoda
Wow, that's pretty close to my score, which I can't seem to find at the moment... but it's close to that. 👍

@hellomiakoda @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic
And even just self sustaining. I feel like I am being kept from doing what I need to get out of it. Like being too sick to go see the doctor or buy medicine.

@hellomiakoda
I think I was around 7-8 when I had my regrettable brush ("experiment") with electricity. I had been a little more careful than this, but not quite enough.

Oh wait, I had another earlier than that. Not sure what age, but it was simple pattern-matching of an ice-rink token with an electrical plug. Seemed perfectly logical at the time. ⚡ 😬

I hope you weren't hurt in yours. I wasn't more than really scared with mine.

@clacke @Sheril
I didn't know about that. Interesting. I did however see a reading that someone did with visuals done on youtube. It didn't cover the whole work though. It's amazing the amount of fan work that surrounds this book (art, other fanfics, etc.).

@minego @hellomiakoda
Well said. I have several stuffed animals. I know several other people that do too.

I think that I've told this story on here before, but it's somewhat related. Last time I went to Vegas it was with my mother. I had no interest in gambling like she did though, so I ended up mostly spending time in the video arcade of our hotel. Now this arcade also had a midway section next to it. Right in between them was a row of 8 or so copies of a motorcycle racing video game (the kind you ride on). I forget what it was called, but it was one that I happened to be good at. And also it was the only video game you could play for midway prizes. So I did. And I won, a lot. Enough that people would not approach if I was there, so I would have to go away, wait until others got ready to play, then come back quickly (carrying all these stuffed animals). :blob_cat_giggle:

I ended up with a collection of maybe a dozen or so stuffed animals, some of them big. When I got home I gave them away to friends and family (my mom got the biggest one); no one seemed to think that it was a problem. I only kept one. I still have her today.

@Sheril
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

And yes I'm serious. :BlobCatSmiley:

@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.