monsterpiece42
@monsterpiece42@reddthat.com
- Comment on Found a good book 4 days ago:
Yeah I don’t blame you
- Comment on Found a good book 5 days ago:
There’s two on eBay right now, and one of them has a signed letter from the author.
- Comment on Trauma 5 weeks ago:
Aww fuck, is that what does it?
- Comment on Good job! 1 month ago:
Aaaand that’s my new phone background.
- Comment on How do you know if you have a Habit? 2 months ago:
Ok well if you are neurodivergent, a couple things:
Autism self diagnosis is valid if you do your research. University of WA recently did a study that figured that out.
ADHD typically needs a diagnosis from a professional to be sure, but it’s not super hard to guess if you have it. Some symptoms of ADHD can be caused by other conditions (anxiety especially) so navigate that one with caution.
If you are neurodivergent, typically the answer is routines rather than habits. I find them much easier to implement. Just decide the task you want to make into a routine, decide the steps you want to do it in, and then decide to always do it that way, or at least until you want to optimize or tweak it. A simple routine I do is “keys, wallet, phone, ear buds” while tapping my pockets on the way out of the door.
- Comment on How do you know if you have a Habit? 2 months ago:
Not sure if you are per se, but this is a commonly felt sentiment in the neurodivergent community. Especially ADHD and Autistic peeps.
- Comment on Animals 2 months ago:
Jokes aside I think this is a good demonstration of why they do it.
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 3 months ago:
I’m autistic and have much better luck finding “plain” conversation with other autistic people. No idea I’d you are or aren’t but you’ll welcome to join the community of you aren’t a bullshitter.
It can be a little weird to get used to because the whole world lies, but man, is it refreshing once you do and have the trust/rapport to just speak plainly with friends.
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 3 months ago:
Hey, not diagnosing or anything, but maybe give my other comment a once-over and see if it resonates at all.
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 3 months ago:
Hey, not diagnosing or anything, but maybe give my other comment a once-over and see if it resonates at all.
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 3 months ago:
“To be autistic is to be misunderstood”
I have ASD and I have historically worried about the same thing, as has my sister. From the outside ASD and psychopathy can look similar to untrained eyes. The biggest “tell” is how you feel (or dont feel) inside.
I recommend looking into Autistic Masking to see if that explains the “alter ego” you seemed to describe earlier.
While you’re researching this, I will tell you that autism is probably the one thing where you will have better luck listening/talking to other autistic people than to just read data from something like the DSM-5. There are a lot of YouTube people with various profiles of autism and I have had far better luck learning from them and an autistic friend than anything clinical.
There are also different profiles of ASD. The main ones are:
- Classic Autism
- Asperger’s (now called HFA or High Functioning Autism, but there is still a LOT of info out there from when it was still called Asperger’s)
- PDA or Pathological Demand Avoidance So be sure to check out all of them before thinking you aren’t just because one doesn’t fit. I thought I wasn’t autistic for YEARS because I did not know the right profile.
Long story short, ASD is HUGE and largely not understood. If you have questions, shoot me a message. As you look around, I’m sure you’ll learn about Autistic Special Interests. Psychology and especially ASD are mine, so I’m happy to
rantteach about it forever.Good luck in your journey!
- Comment on My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners. 4 months ago:
Beat me too it. First thing that popped into my head for sure
- Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization. 4 months ago:
Silicon is never going to be serviceable or upgradeable and there’s no chance of all that happening out of good will. Look up what goes into making a Fab (Intel has some tour videos).
These aren’t the things that people “with the skills” show up for. It takes a lifetime of studying for some of the layers of these topics, not to mention collaboration between the others (or even finding them, if only the hospitals and emergency services would have access to computers, and therefore professional networking and email).
There are some truly awful jobs on this planet. Look up how sulfur is collected. People literally climb into volcanos to chip it off the walls and carry up sometimes 200lbs on their backs. One trip on that pumice and you’re toast.
People need incentives, and with no money, there would be a power vacuum…for another kind of money. I’m not saying capitalism is great or anything, don’t get me wrong. But you can’t just get rid of money.
- Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization. 4 months ago:
This works at a feudal technology level. Who makes the trains? They train makers need steel and literally no one would work in a forge or a mine for fun/preference.
Who makes computer chips?
- Comment on Fake news, fake penis... 4 months ago:
No, they are in the business of getting fucked so a union would be a bad fit for them.
- Comment on King shit 5 months ago:
You 100% are. Any non-gravy trainer would has strong conviction that they’re not.
The doubt means you must be. Time to go get out quaffed.
I’m sorry you had to learn this way.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 5 months ago:
Consider looking into what was formerly called Asperger’s. I resonate strongly with what you’re saying and recently found out in my 30s, that I’m autistic. I have a good sense of humor and decent social skills so I never even thought to check, but 1) turns out I knew jack shit about what autism actually is, and 2) the ADHD was actually hiding quite a bit of it. If you have questions or want resources feel free to dm me.
- Comment on You can only pick one 5 months ago:
The chrome power is OP AF. YT is decent as well. If you knew all that, you’d have no issues making the money required for all the other ones.
- Comment on How do I stop hating children? 5 months ago:
To follow up, you’ll have better luck saying “high succeeding”
- Comment on Anyone want to join me and my wife? 6 months ago:
Your best bet for this type of thing would probably be a discord channel. That’s usually where you’ll find gamer meetups and such. I wish you luck!
- Comment on God of War Creator Is Unhappy With New Games and Kratos' Story 6 months ago:
Could the author have packed any more bias into the article? Like, we get it. You like the new games.
- Comment on Turn left or right? 6 months ago:
Definitely sticky nuts
- Comment on I love purple. 6 months ago:
For me, Math - red Science - blue History/geography - green Language arts - yellow Art - purple
- Comment on on youtube how do I downvote an ad? or how do i tell youtube that "hey this ad is not something I want to see?" I know ad blockers don't work on youtube anymore but how do I tweek what ads i do see? 6 months ago:
I 100% want trying to be a dick to you, I only said that in case people that didn’t know better tried to search it. Apologies if I came off sideways!
- Comment on on youtube how do I downvote an ad? or how do i tell youtube that "hey this ad is not something I want to see?" I know ad blockers don't work on youtube anymore but how do I tweek what ads i do see? 6 months ago:
Sorry to nitpick, but it’s Ublock Origin. I know autocorrect hates “ublock”
- Comment on Man strong 6 months ago:
There are many options, but this genre of workout device is called a pushup board.
- Comment on What's the best game you played this year (that didn't come out this year)? 7 months ago:
So what’s your pitch on the Outer Wilds? I know barely anything about it and it’s always best to hear these things from someone who knows the game.
- Comment on https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/11/09/1528225/microsoft-wont-let-you-close-onedrive-on-windows-until-you-explain-yourself 7 months ago:
Those spelling errors wiggles are definitely Open/Libre office. A real one would be in Word.
But other than that, this feels very MS.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I’m a new programming student and the single best thing I have done is just start trying to do projects. Sure I have VS Code or Eclipse in one window and maybe Stack Overflow or chatgpt in the other but I slog through it and it has been for more helpful than all the reading and tutorials… I’ve learned far more. I wish I had started this years ago.
- Comment on The mist Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woke 9 months ago:
I am a Yankee from a state with a Canadian border.
I started saying y’all because it’s ungendered!