Meme: Two panels. Left panel is an Uno card that reads, "Understand situational context or draw 25." The right panel is labelled Me and has a drawing of the number 25 with the pencil placed underneath.
Just sent this to someone. Thank you for sharing ❤️
I've been having such a hard time. I think that I have unknowingly built a life of insisting on environments that aren't good for us, so I haven't had much success. Still, I have found some by staying vigilant for autistic traits. Once I notice them, I try to be near them more often so that there are opportunities to engage. If they come up, I try to engage with something that is autism friendly, like pointing out how loud it is or asking a question that shows I'm trying to thoroughly understand an ongoing topic. Basically, I'm will ask something to try to get any interaction and unveil my 'tism, even if it isn't engaging. If I can't think of anything, I can compliments something of theirs that doesn't follow the standard trend, especially by focusing on a specific detail (e.g. I like the color of your cool glasses; they match well with the hat of the guy on your shirt). My aim is to establish recognition of each other in case more opportunities come up in the future. It's slow, but seems to be working. A major limitation that I have experienced with these environments is that they don't really leave us with much time to engage each other in autistically meaningful ways (i.e. deep conversations). In the rare cases that they do, we might have already expended our executive functioning fuel on sensory stimuli, navigating the social scene, or whatever else we've had to endure.
The other avenue I'm trying is something I've been learning recently. I would like to get into autistocratic (made that term up right now, thank you very much) environments, but it's been hard for me to get my foot in the door because I would have to break the door to put my foot in it (jk! lol 👉😉👉). But seriously, I have difficulty going to new places by myself and starting conversations with people. I end up coming off a bit odd to others. Anyway, I found a group for autistic adults through a local organization that provides services for autistic people. I've only met with them twice, once virtual and the other in-person. It's been pretty nice so far, so we'll see where it goes. Maybe that will lead to other autistocratic spaces, either through recommendation or invitation. I'm hoping that I will eventually find a space or group with lots of us so that I can have many opportunities and diversify my social network rather than depend on just a few people or groups so that I'm more socially adaptive and stable.
Fyi, this instance has a Matrix chat room that is pretty active. Maybe it will help to join and engage with users there. Relevantly, your question is a common topic in there. Seems like many of us have trouble finding each other in-person. Here is the link to the chat room.
That's basically what the Trump Administration did, tho they were voted out. When Trump was complaining about the Biden economy during that talking point ad disguised as a debate, I kept getting frustrated that Harris didn't say they were cleaning up his mess...in retrospect, I imagine that she wanted to distinguish herself from Trump's repeated that wasn't me that was you strategy.
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Trump used all the financial emergency tools when the economy was good. He lowered taxes and interest rates. This supercharged the economy, but left us vulnerable to normal market dangers since we had nothing stable and reliable left in the event of an unforeseen contraction. Despite economists objecting and even resigning in protest, he still pushed it through because the general population doesn't understand how the economy works. All they would see are Trump POTUS = good economy.
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Obama left us with a pandemic response team to stay ahead of any possible pandemics at the advice of leading scientists. Trump disbanded the entire thing for no objective reason, just power, control, and hate. Then, COVID happened.
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The COVID pandemic alone saw the worse market sell-off since the Great Depression. We were hitting multiple circuit breakers per week to stop a complete market sell-off. It was so bad, that just owning futures of oil was literally a loss because you had to pay to store it since no one was buying. People went bankrupt from one day to the next for merely owning oil.
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The money printer go brrrrr meme happened under his admin to prevent the economy from spiraling out of control. GAS GAS GAS!! The underlying joke was that they kept saying that inflation wasn't going to suffer the largest creation of currency in the country's history. It was straight lies because how is an immense injection of trillions of dollars with no remarkable increase in production of goods not going to cause inflation? It's impossible.
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The low-ass interest rates with a halted economy left very few places to invest money, so that went into the stock market and corporations buying houses. Interest rates were lower than stock market returns, especially since the government showed it would intervene, so wealth was flowing from one to the other creating absolutely no tangible value yet accumulating wealth for the people that could afford it. It was basically a relative wealth robbery of the middle class right out in the open.
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To solve the inflation crisis, Biden had to jack up interest rates. Now, no one wants to sell their house to get into a new loan with double the interest rate, which is exacerbating the housing shortage. Meanwhile, house insurance is skyrocketing due to climate change and the government hasn't done ahit about it.
I don't think anyone could get away with effectively hurting the economy worse than Trump did. Someone or the general population would've intervened.
These blatant lies are ridiculous. Seriously, from the economy to pointless rally attendance numbers, everything those people say is the opposite of truth. Whatever they blame on someone else is what they did. Whatever they claim they did is what someone else did. It's like living in a crazy opposite land. Freaking, they stole the playbook right out from George Orwell. ughh!!
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I loved the 3-button navigation because there are rarely any errors with navigation. The taps are too different from each other to get confused compared to the gestures. The thing I like about the gesture bar is that it makes 1-handed use possible for me, so I'm stuck with the gestures. But at least 3 times a day, I accidentally signal the back gesture when I only meant to swipe left to right. Soo frustrating. I'm getting good at self-soothing tho 😎
American here. I have never paid rent in cash to a landlord I had a lease with. Only times I have paid in cash was when I was either living with a friend or giving a roommate my part of the rent. It's possible some people pay in cash, but I would say it is not common.
Here is my unsolicited judgemental review of your personal choices that have nothing to do with me:
Do not disturb 👍
Light mode 👎
Proton VPN 👍
Chrome 👎
Firefox 👍
12h clock 👎
Android 👍
3-button navigation 👎
Signal 🫳🫴
It's all about how you perceive it 👌
Latinoamérica is all Spanish, Portuguese, and French speaking countries in the Americas plus Puerto Rico. Quebec, Louisiana, and Miami are not part of Latinoamérica. Latinoamérican ethnicity is anyone whose culture comes from Latinoamérica. Examples:
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People born in Miami aren't Latino. However, if they were raised in a Latino family, then yes.
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A person born in Puerto Rico to an Anglo-Saxon family that rarely if ever socialized with the local population wouldn't be Latino.
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A person born in Australia to Mexican parents and raised with Mexican culture would be Latino.
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A person born in Mexico to an Australian family that acculturated and integrated to the local culture would be Latino.
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A person born and raised in Spain as Spanish is not Latino.
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French-Canadians are generally not considered Latino because they have been culturally isolated from Latinoamérica.
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A person born in Ancient Rome would not have been Latino even if they spoke Latin.
Big money. Big prizes. I love it!
Supposedly it's being "reclaimed" by the alt-right on Twitter.
omg I would love to see some examples! is it like when they claimed that, "We are all domestic terrorists"? I would pee my g-string if I saw that they seriously said, "We are all re******" 😆
One day redneck and hillbilly will be considered slurs too. Mark my words.
They already are
What's up with July 29, 2024?
Contramuffin. (2024). Describing my job: I do science. Lemmy World, 78(9), 69-420.
I guess it's another way of asking, "What event in your life had to most effective impact?"
I'm a fan of FOSS and reasonable privacy with data. I also often look for and install software on my computers for random tasks as they come up. Today, when I was looking to install an extension to Firefox called Wikipedia-EN that helps me search Wikipedia by highlighting a word, the Mozilla page for the extension states:
> This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.
As someone that is not educated in programming or perpetually current on tech news, what can I do to assess the safety of this and other software? Is there a site that transparently evaluates software and publishes its findings?
Ever been to the bean section of a Latin grocery store?
caption: I don’t struggle with autism. I’m actually very good at it.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.autism.place/post/311746
> Recent in this question is however you define it 🙂
Recent in this question is however you define it 🙂
Image: Lisa Simpson giving a presentation with a determined disposition.
Caption on the screen: The "double-empathy problem" is misnamed because it is not a problem. It is a theory that explains why we observe limited empathy between autistic and non-autistic individuals. Not only is it not a problem, it is a solution because it helps us understand why things are the way they are. Stop calling it a problem. It is now the "interneurotype empathy divide"...or something. Idk, but it is not a problem.
Probably why sometimes it takes me a while to recognize people.
Image: 2 panels.
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1st: Someone holding up two cards, one is a picture of Michael Keaton and the other of Bruce Willis. The caption reads, "Corporate needs to you find the differences between this person and this person."
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2nd: Pam from the office labelled as Me saying, "They're the same person."
Edit: Gemini believes that they're 2 different people.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27136809
Image: A skeleton with its mouth open squatting with a barbell carrying 4 plates on its back.
Caption: My body is a machine that turns complex social situations into flashbacks.
Coming out of paralysis and into power. Time to catch up on everythingggggg 🤘😎🎉
Queen the band sucks. I don't get why anyone likes them. Aside from Bohemian Rhapsody, their songs are bland and fall short. Their rock is dry. And the opera-style singing is cringe. Examples:
Another One Bites the Dust
- Catchy bass line, fun to direct at an opponent, CORNY AF. The song is about people being killed, but sounds like a funky Michael Jackson song with an Opera singer.
We Will Rock You
- Good solo, repetitive and annoying simple beat. Boom-boom-ch. So lame.
We Are the Champions
- Such a self-aggrandizing and braggy song. "No time for losers"? Okay, Donald Trump.
Bicycle Race
- I don't even have to say anything about this one. Everyone knows how corny this song sounds.
Somebody to Love
- Touching topic, cheesy lyrics and even cheesier choir-like singing. It's cringe.
I am happy for the band and their success. I admire Freddie Mercury's unapologetic flamboyance. The dude kept it real. But, I just can't like the music.
I'm sorry if I've offended anyone. I understand we all have different taste and respect everyone's freedom to like and enjoy what they want. I'm not trying to insult anyone for their taste, but merely expressing my own in a somewhat humorous attempt.
And how are those differences relevant to our nutrition and diet?
I changed the logo of the community so that we don't get confused with !autism@lemmy.world. However, this one is temporary while I find a new one. Feel free to look for some draw one up and comment them below as suggestions.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.autism.place/post/236635
> I got back into dancing salsa and bachata (colloquially known as Latin dance) a few months ago. Additionally, I've been trying to find other autistic people to socialize with, but as you might hypothesize, there aren't many of us in that community. It's a bit loud, socially complex, and generally overwhelming. Regardless, I ultimately like it so I'm trying to make it work. > > In the past month, I've spotted two other auties. One was a girl I met in class. In case you aren't familiar with salsa/bachata dance classes, they are setup so that we rotate partners frequently...like every few minutes. As a girl I had never met came up to me during one of the rotations, she said, "I like your glasses," while looking at them and tapping on hers. I responded that I liked hers too. They were a bright semi-translucent mid-dark blue (a little 🤏 darker than this) and slightly shaped like that 70s cat eye style. She smile and thanked me in a way that seemed to convey we both understood each other. Then, we practiced the pattern respectfully without that invasive eye contact that most people use. She was generally quiet throughout the rest of the class. I've seen her a few times in other classes since, and everything lines up. Yesterday, I went to a social which is an unstructured dance practice. Basically, it's a event that plays loud music with the understanding that people are there to learn to dance and patrons are expected to dance with strangers non-judgmentally. During one of my noise breaks outside, I saw her in her car by herself. When I left about 30 mins later, I saw her in her car again. I plan on reaching out to her in a friendly way next time I get a chance to help her feel welcomed and relaxed. Probably will say something like, "I saw you in your car at that social. I do that too! I have to take breaks because it's too loud and chaotic for me sometimes," or something to that effect. > > Two days ago, I attended a chacha dance workshop. There was a guy there that was evidently unique. Unique voice. Unique attire. Definitely has his own way of thinking. During class, it's obvious he is studying the dance. What I mean is that it seems to me that most people try to imitate the teacher and through that, they usually learn to repeat the moves. This guy was analyzing to deeply understand it (ohhh! Now I get why people say that about me sometimes!!🤯). He asked several unconventional questions, and in response to one of them, the teacher said, "I like your attention to detail." When I would glance at him as I do everyone, I would notice that he seemed to me that was checked out a few times. Most people seem generally focused on what everyone else is focused on or something else social like another person. This guy looked like he was possibly thinking about Aristotle, differential equations, dinner, or his shopping list. It's as if his eyes were disconnected from his brain. He did not seem present in the moment. After the class, there was a social. During a few of my noise breaks, I saw him outside too. In the first one, he mentioned he had taken a few breaks already because it was too loud. I had recently returned from taking a walk around the shopping center's parking lot. So I told him that I did that and that once I got around a store across the lot, the noise was much more tolerable. He basically said ok, then went inside ~30 secs later. A while after that, I go outside for another break and I catch him returning from the store area I had mentioned. This guy was also at the same social I was at where I saw the other girls in the car. I saw him sitting down by himself with a bottle of water and looking through everyone as if he were completely not present again, taking a personal 5 minute break by checking out. This social was basically the following meme in real life: > > ! > > I have my suspicions of a few other regulars, but they aren't definitive like the two I mentioned above. Also, since I'm ADHD too, it's hard for me to differentiate between the three (autism, ADHD, and AuDHD) sometimes, so I can miscategorize when the presentation is impure. > > Regardless, we're everywhere! It's nice to see us in places representing and taking care of each other in our own way. It's also nice to know I'm not alone there, and feel validated that we can be in dance communities too. And of course, it's helpful to see what we look like from the outside to others because just like the guy was deeply studying the dance pattern, I am deeply studying the entire environment. > > If you're out there putting yourself in environments that are unusual for us, thank you! There might be another one of us there that has caught on to you and appreciates your presence ❤️
Plug for the instance dedicated to autism: !autismplace@lemmy.autism.place. Check out the current communities at https://lemmy.autism.place/communities