I have an autistic coworker who’s really into My little pony. I know SO MUCH about MLP now.

Little reminder: autism is a spectrum, and not every person who is autistic necessarily has special interests. :)

Source: https://psychologie-to-go.podigee.io/202-autismus (German)

Yeah once I get into hour three of ranting about the erasure of traditional animation in mainstream media anyone who assumes I’m not autistic based on what they believe is autism will realize they done fucked up

I go in the opposite direction, I’m more likely to think lots of people have a touch of the tism

Man, I actually thought I didn’t have much to say until I made an account here on Lemmy. Which is interesting, because I had been on Reddit for a little over a decade. I really only lurked there, though. Turns out it was just a garbage site.

I keep writing comments on Lemmy that really should just be standalone posts. Some of them would still be considered long, even for a whole post. Some of them are kept as drafts, with the intention of turning into a post, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. If you look at the few actual posts I’ve made so far it’s just silly shit to test the waters from several months back.

Reminds me a bit of the blog days. I’d start a whole blog, buy a domain and everything, make a handful of posts in a short period, then completely lose interest. By the time I wanted to write like that again, it didn’t feel right to put it there. It just wouldn’t feel like me anymore and I was usually onto a completely different topic, and the cycle restarted.

Ah well, at least here you can do whatever, post whenever. I’m a big believer in “strike while the iron’s hot”. (Of course I am, because that’s the only way things actually get done!) Idk why else, but it seems to be the right amount of people here right now, with not too many assholes and few bots. Oh and it seems like it’s harder for comments to get buried, so things actually do get read. A well-made comment, regardless of where it is in the thread, will eventually get surfaced, sometimes even days later. Reddit felt more like screaming into the void. If you weren’t terminally online, and extremely quick on the draw, no one read it (heh).

Whatever it is, I feel more comfortable expressing myself here more often, and it’s a good environment to flex the exposition muscles and not lose that skill. It does come in handy sometimes.

I’m all ears

I mean, if you want to talk about The Tragically Hip I will listen!

Not that I would ever challenge someone on whether they have a condition.

I thought I wasn’t good at monologuing until I had to do a 10 minute speech for a class and in my practice runs I had to keep cutting content I wanted to talk about to finally get to the 10 minute mark.

I thought I was. Maybe I’m not.