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sparkle , (edited )

Glad to hear that your lobotomy was successful!

sparkle ,

I'm from rural Georgia. Not as blatantly bad here, but still pretty bad. It's unbelievable that I can intentionally surround myself with the most left-leaning queer people in the area, those who are constantly harassed/degraded by the average conservatives, and somehow they still buy into a lot of the conservative propaganda and anti-queer/anti-trans culture war nonsense... I'm fully moving out of this awful corner of the country soon, I will NOT miss it.

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google gender abolitionist based???

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Does a laptop with a built-in high refresh rate display and mechanical keyboard count..?

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where

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lycanscrub, lyescrub, lysob

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Modern phonetic transcription stands no match for the ultra-nasal

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European cops are possibly significantly worse than American cops when it comes to protests. Especially in Italy/Germany/Austria

sparkle , (edited )

When you have this problem communicating with everyone, you’re the problem.

Not really, when you're in the minority of course you're going to be outnumbered. But autistic people tend to have an easy time getting their point across to each other, compared to neurotypicals trying to have a mutual understanding. Neurotypicals tend to be very performative in conversation and don't really say things they actually intend to contribute to the conversation half the time (small talk is a form of this that has gone way too far). They're also usually evasive & implicitness-oriented, the cultural nuances/expectations/perceptions of the "right" and "wrong" way to convey something tend to get in the way of understanding very straightforward and mostly objective things. They're generally pretty condescending when you don't converse how they expect you to, and they judge a lot about your character, emotions, intentions, etc. based on how you speak, and will speak to you very differently based on outside factors. You can take 100 almost-strangers, and neurotypicals will speak in noticeably different ways with different amounts of honesty and indirection for each person in the otherwise same context.

Instead of just saying what they mean and listening to what you say, they throw in a bunch of random culture-dependent social cues and context irrelevant to the conversation that you're supposed to subconsciously/naturally pick up on to interpret their speech in a different way. And you're basically just supposed to guess whether something is socially significant indirection or not.

Neurotypicals basically just have the urge make simple conversation unnecessarily complex and care a lot about invisible or implied stuff affecting the conversation. It's not their fault of course, they were just born that way.

I don't have ASD but I can't keep count of the amount of times I will say something very plainly and the other person will try to find some hidden meaning in it or make egregious misinterpretations/false dichotomies based on a statement (basically the "i like pancakes" "so you hate waffles"? tweet), so I can relate. Autistic people are usually far more direct in conversations in my experience, and don't use nearly as much fluff/unnecessary performative conversation. Of course that's not to say Autistic people are just flat out better socially than neurotypicals, there are many things I personally find difficult to understand about friends with ASD that can make conversation hard (mainly people who have both ASD and ADHD though, not a fun combo for having conversations, getting ultra-fixated on random irrelevant stuff and just flat out omitting important things frequently even worse than neurotypicals do), it's just that they're usually very straightforward.

sparkle , (edited )

What exactly does this have to do with Autism? I might be misinterpreting what you mean, but Autism isn't just having an interest or talking about an interest in great detail, and this Twitter post is DEFINITELY not about that situation. The way you say this definitely makes me think you're seeing "Autism" as "hyperfixation with an object" since the OP didn't even mention anything you just said...

sparkle , (edited )

this reminds me of a post i saw last night on wallstreetbets of a doctoral student 100k in debt that ended up being down 60k trading after initially making 44k. like man why are you gambling money you don't have, especially an amount that most people don't even make in a year

edit: source for the shitshow

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I mean it's the same as literally any other business. There's a reason businesses aren't allowed to discriminate based on things like race/ethnicity, national origin, sex, and in civilized parts of the world, gender and sexuality.

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easy??? most insurance will fight you tooth and nail when you want them to cover it, and even then they usually won't. and i have to be scrutinized by doctors (obviously having to pay for the appointments) every 1-3 months just to get a prescription. i can't even get a 90 day refill which is a lower cost because it's a schedule 2 drug (same as narcotics for some reason). how is alcohol so easy to get but i have to go through all these hoops to medicate?

also one time i had a medical emergency at my house and needed to be transported to the hospital. the police basically saw my medication, checked the amount in the container and saw that it was completely fine for the amount of time i had the prescription considering i took less than one per day, then STILL were like "yea we think it might be an amphetamine oversose". obviously the doctors were able to tell that it was not at all related to any sort of drugs from the bloodwork and symptoms, but one nurse still suggested off-hand on a written note that she thought it was ADHD drug overdose. like bruh how, anyone will see that you take ADHD medication and immediately assume it's drug abuse with no actual basis, even when doctors can clearly see otherwise.

that being said i think access to the medication depends entirely on the doctor and area you're in. which is stupid, yes.

sparkle , (edited )

I think he tried using a dictionary or translation tool, and failed to consider that "eunt" is the indicative form of "eō"/"īre" (to go) and not the imperative form. So he's stating that Romans go home (with extraordinarily poor grammar, mind you), when he probably means to tell Romans to go home ("Romani ite domum!")

Edit: Apparently this is a Life of Brian reference. I am a fool

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you're bad at trolling

sparkle , (edited )

You don't have to be a techie to see it. There's a button right below the email text box saying "Add a user without a Microsoft account" (here's another variation). Sure if you don't care about privacy then you might not notice it, but it's pretty hard to miss if you actually don't want to use an email. It's not hidden behind layers of clicks or a collapsed menu or something, it's a text link that says what it does that's on the same email setup page. Microsoft sucks but don't spread misinformation.

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wow it's just like i'm on twitter again

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i wish i was a wolf

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twitter has fomo?

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ive never used linux, what distro do you recommend? i watch youtube and browse

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