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Which witch switch glitched?

I recently had a conversation like this with an autistic person, and their perspective was interesting.

I have a lot of strange niche interests that other people seem to think I know a lot about. An autistic person and her autistic friends thought I might be autistic too, which I took as a compliment because I interpreted it as them saying they think I’m like them.

I don’t think I’m autistic, but I’m not bothered by the possibility, so I suggested we both take an online autism test. As we took it, the differences were apparent before we even finished.

I had no issues answering the questions and found them very easy. She struggled to know what they meant and what the “correct” answer was. I finished in about a third of the time that it took her. When the results came in, I barely scored on the autism possibility scale while she scored very high as likely autistic. Her mind was kind of blown because it reframed what she thought a neurotypical experience was like.

After more discussions with her, I realized she had a bit of a prejudice against what she interpreted as neurotypical qualities, but in my opinion, those were just the qualities that make up someone who is either kind of a jerk or just callous. As we’ve known each other longer, she has been amazed at my ability to let arguments go, do gross tasks without a problem, not fixate on things that bother me, and a host of other abilities that she struggles with, even though she also notices that I am passionate about certain subjects and tuned in to how I act most of the time.

The thing I think some people on the spectrum don’t realize is that it is possible for a neurotypical person to learn and display positive qualities that are associated with autism. The reason why autism is considered a disability, in my opinion, is that it is harder for an autistic person to learn and display neurotypical qualities (though not impossible).

So, if I were a fern guy, I think it would be totally possible for me to write an eight volume series about them single-handedly. The trick is that I would have to want to, and it would not be something that I was fixated on, but rather something that I chose and endured to the end for.

I dress for myself. I like being memorable and looking good. I like taking style risks sometimes, but it seems to work for me.

I get complimented on my style often, and that makes me feel more confident in general.

Because there are three forms of power in this world: politics, violence, and money. Every monolithic entity worth its salt tries to get their serving of all three, and money is often the easiest to obtain.

It’s from The Card Counter.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11196036/

Idk, I think Egypt is pretty cool.

Makes sense to me—Ubuntu forcing users to grab snap packages, and Canonical thinks it’s cute.

Uh…I didn’t. I am a supporter of maximizing individual freedom and vote for the person who seems most in line with that, but I also feel that none of the options are bold enough. I think that if healthcare, housing, and education are considered human rights, then the bullshit grind of living gets reduced to a reasonable level and people can pursue their full potential.

Yes.

Ghost Blog. Open source, flexible, loads of potential uses, works every time.

I’ve been keeping up with this.

She is alright, she has been spotted in several countries lately, most recently Finland. She has a new girlfriend named Flutter, and she’s still active on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

“I’m sick and tired of these fly fighting frogs on this Monday to Friday airplane.” - Samuel L. Jackson

I am a man, and I’m here to ‘splain.

Extra effort was put into all of the images of the Thoth tarot. It was, by far, the biggest advancement in tarot since the Rider Waite designs. Every square inch and chosen color is very deliberate, and there are several books that dissect each image for its meaning.

When it was reprinted in the 70’s, James Wasserman of the OTO worked overtime to make sure that the original colors were accurately preserved so that none of the meaning would be lost. The Thoth tarot is a labor of love that has spanned generations.

When you find out, let us know.

I like to think that at least a dozen would think “oh yeah, that guy, he was cool back when I knew him.”

That’s good that you enjoy it right now. How do you see this working long term?

I don’t really understand why you think a lot of these things are losing causes. FOSS is the backbone of IT. Anti-car urbanism is common in some areas of the world. Lemmy and the Fediverse have been doing great over the last 2 years. Socialism/leftist ideology is on the rise alongside the fascist takeover—it would have been unheard of to have “the squad” in the 90’s.

So where you see losing, I see slow and steady progress happening alongside capitalist fascism that is trying and failing to stop it completely.

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