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  • examine the part of yourself that finds other people annoying. typically when we react on such a way to someone else, it’s because something about them is reminding us about something we don’t like about ourselves.

    people who don’t work in mental health or have learning problems tend not to ever think about stuff like this so when somebody is annoying, they’re just annoying and that’s their fault.

    but living with autism you’ll find that most people are going to find very arbitrary and sad reasons to be annoyed with you. if you want to get along more and avoid falling into that trap yourself, it helps first develope some compassion for the things about yourself you feel like weren’t good enough. like, the things maybe you did as a kid then got really ashamed and made yourself stop. for autistics it tends to be simple stuff like talking over others or being stubborn or sensitive.

    it’s not like you have to start being a child yourself again, just notice those things and remember they are all a part of the human condition and everyone is on their own journey to overcome their own problems. then when you notice those things in other people, it won’t feel so upsetting or overstimulating.

    also, you can still have your own boundaries while using empathy and being friends. like, sure maybe swearing does bother her and that’s valid to feel but she isn’t entitled to police your language. this is a boundary you can express and maybe she might respect it if you also respect her too



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    it’s not that entertaining. usually either straight up thirst or just annoying argumentative reddit shit that I’m trying not to be. Fediverse is a beautiful place when we’re using our better judgment. it’s full of people who I feel like disappeared from reddit right before the bad times started and I’m getting back in touch with the part of me that wanted to be like that too




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    that would be wild. that doesn’t sound valuable enough to bother with, even for feeding a shitty LLM.

    this is probably bad evidence but every ui I’ve interacted with is trying to preserve data and only send info once it seems certain you’re posting. even reddit doesn’t count your comments as edited until you make changes several minutes after commenting. since so many of these services seem to store actions in a buffer before sending, I don’t think that’s worth the data cost of live recording your drafts.

    your keyboard app on mobile however… yeah that shit is an info harvest on the scale I think few things are








  • I don’t respond to it well. But I’m not sure if that’s my autism or just bad socialization for me. I think I feel similarly about compliments where I just don’t know what to do with my hands or whether it will sound disingenuous to try and return the positivity immediately or if it’s being given with the expectation of certain behavior in return or not.

    Got a high pain/discomfort tolerance though, that seems related and also noteworthy for autism. But I kind of want to point the finger at the ABA methods I was raised with and say “See, this is why I can’t handle being shown love or kindness”. I was being trained to handle abandonment and overstimulation, not to handle people wanting to be near me or kind to me.

    I don’t respond well to pressure either but I haven’t really had the insight to understand that. I just had to learn late in life to assert boundaries however I can (still not great yet)



  • Okay, thanks. That’s fair, I guess that’s why OP made this post and why we’re talking, right? Yeah. I definitely mean forced positivity that we’re not supposed to question. I’m onboard with trying to remove schadenfreude though. It makes sense that there are people who just get a kick out of ruining things for people. That results in negativity and also misinformation sometimes too.

    I guess that’s what OP is proposing, but they’re asking everyone for criteria to judge a post by for removing it. If I’m being heard and they did decide to allow discussion in the comments about what is or isn’t right about the post, yeah it would make sense to have that discussion also try to stay positive. Assuming people coming to the comments know to do that. As for how to keep a good tone over the internet when pointing something out, I don’t think I know how to. I can’t advocate for that because I tend to have pretty bad tone most of the time. But it seems like a sensible thing to require, you know, constructive criticism?

    You’re right about the comments in question though. I saw the comment ahead of me talk about prohibiting “politics and orphan crushing machines” and needed more context. Maybe I shouldn’t have assumed they meant people who use the phrase “orphan crushing machine” to point out that a post isn’t really positive. That would be silly. I think I was projecting my experience with Reddit onto this community.

    Yeah, I didn’t think you were far off. I wish I could give some better insight to OP though instead of just “here’s how I use the comm plz don’t ban me”