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

@hellomiakoda
I very recently gave up on tokodon because I couldn't get it authorized. I think it got problems.

@hellomiakoda
Oh jfc. Always new ways to screw things up.

@hellomiakoda
Agreed. Plus they invented the automatic callback a long time ago. There's no need not to have it as an option.

@hellomiakoda
I would totally feel that way too. 🫂
I hope to goes/went well. 🤞

You know one of the things I hate most about being self-realized (aka self-diagnosed) autistic/ADHD? It's that it essentially puts me (us) in the same category as the "I did my own research" crowd. Don't trust the experts, the science is wrong, etc. I feel dirty.

I love science. I love what it has done for humanity. I think we need to appreciate and support it far more than we do now. I much prefer to defer to experts who know more than me on any particular subject. I do keep in mind that anyone can be wrong about any particular thing, but the majority of the time they are more likely to be right than me.

So I'm left having to justify to people why my research is right and the "experts" are wrong in this particular case and not others. I sound like "I'm right and the everyone else is wrong." Ugh.

I know that there are good reasons why self diagnosis for us NDs is valid, if you take the time to go through them and understand them*. But getting other people to listen to it all is hard. Plus, like I said, it just goes against the grain for me. It makes me feel like a hypocrite. It just sucks that this one branch of science is lagging so far behind where it should be. So aside from reading over the reasons yet again, I can only take small comfort in this one quote I've posted on here a few times already:

"There is probably no field of scientific investigation in which more resistance has been encountered than in those domains which have affected the superstitions men have entertained about themselves."
-Technocracy Study Course, 1933

* https://codeberg.org/alicewatson/asd-self-dx/src/branch/main

#ActuallyAutistic @autistics #neurodivergent

@hellomiakoda
Yeah, thanks. I didn't mean it like that though. Just the stupid double meaning of "sorry". I meant more "I feel bad for you, but not responsible for what caused it." I wish there was a better way to say it.

And I didn't even think of "Miakoda" like that, because that would be "mia Miakoda", but I can certainly see how you'd get that.

I was just playing on the sounds, inspired by one of my favorite Joker lines, from the movie "Batman and the Mask of the Phantasm", where he tells an old mafia buddy of his: "Mi cosa nostra es su cosa nostra." Transliteral puns are great.

Anyway, yeah. 🫂

@hellomiakoda
Ah. Sorry. ☹️

@hellomiakoda
A play on "mi casa es su casa". My house is your house.

@hellomiakoda
Sure, just like the old saying "Miakoda es suakoda."
😛

@BeAware
There's the usual thing about needing to go to a room, and then forgetting why by the time you get there. But does anyone else ever get the thing where you go to a room, wonder why you're there, and then realize that you actually never had a reason to do so? Like I'd get distracted by a thought and then my body will autopilot to somewhere else, seemingly taking advantage of the distraction, and then I suddenly realize I'm in the other room for no reason. I remember going there, but was just too distracted to stop myself. Like a really short sleepwalk while awake or something. Now that's weird.

@hellomiakoda
Glad to hear. I can't wait to be able to afford one so I can get away from android finally.

@apps
Ah yes, freedom for "safety", a song as old as the hills.

So either I get a non-google phone by 2027, or this one becomes just a phone to me.

@hellomiakoda @courtney
I would so do that, if I had the money and focus. :blob_cat_aww: For now I just have my independent temp/humidity sensors littered around my place.

@hellomiakoda
I would feel the same way. It wouldn't occur to me to touch someone else's stuff without asking, and least of all something like their computer. That's super personal.

@youronlyone @autistics @actuallyautistic
You've watched the whole thing? It only came out today, right? I've only watched one episode. Still good though. 😸

@hellomiakoda
Goodness, this would apply even to my water and plastic darts-with-suction-cups guns when I was a kid. 😮

@bmacDonald94
😆 I hadn't read or heard that before, but I have myself called them "black holes for both time and money" for a long time.

@hellomiakoda
Basically like a good video game tutorial does.

@hellomiakoda
Did you have to pay? I stopped when it was no longer being included with your internet package.

@hellomiakoda
I completely understand, yeah I like to do that too with such ideas. Info-dump away. :BlobCatSmiley: