These look great, cheers!

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Let’s just say I’ve lived in three of the four corners, and one of those was in the southern hemisphere 😊 I’m glad you haven’t had the same experience as me though, because my experience has involved getting stung a lot.

Patently untrue. Source: I always mind my business and wasps go out of their way to fuck with me. Also they murder bees, and I like bees. Fuck wasps, and fuck the world for making them an integral part of the ecosystem.

I disagree that this is a rule to be followed. I think there’s two premises at play here:

1. Some people want to speak, but not listen. This implies they think what they have to say is interesting enough that other people should listen, but that anything anyone else has to say has no value.
2. Some people are wrong and don’t care about the facts.

Neither of those are people I particularly want to offer courtesy, as the attitude itself is so discourteous. The point of this place is public discussion of ideas; if someone doesn’t want to participate in that, they can stop posting and keep their thoughts to themselves instead. In my opinion, as long as you’re following the rules, you’re good 👍

I feel you bud, and if you have to delete your comments for your own peace of mind then no troubles. But as I said above, the whole point of commenting here is public discussion. Fuck anyone who tries to stifle that. As long as you’re following the rules, like not harassing anyone, you’re good.

I’m with the people who think this concept is dumb. It’s a public forum, the entire point of posting here is to put your ideas out there for people to talk about.

Nah dude, I’m seconding GPT4All. It’s free and SUPER easy to set up, so there’s no harm in seeing if it’ll run on your system. It should; I heard someone got it running on a raspberry pi, so your system is almost definitely strong enough.

Hey that’s fantastic news! I’m glad they’re taking it seriously and supporting you like this 😁 And obviously, post here whenever you feel like it about your journey! It’ll almost definitely help someone else going through similar, even if it just makes them feel less alone 🙌

Can I ask why you’re not comfortable talking to your parents about it? Don’t get me wrong, I understand the reasons a person might not be comfortable with it, my dad was not an example of a model reaction to it, but everyone’s reasons are different. Do you fear they will reject you? Hurt you? Punish you?

I was diagnosed around 11 or 12, but my father warned me (like a threat) that I wasn’t to let it interfere with my school work. I got no help with it, and I did not trust therapists so I was not in therapy. I largely ignored it, it was an interesting fact about me that most people couldn’t pick up on and so were surprised to learn.

Around 32-33 I was berating myself for the nth time why I can’t just be normal and go out to bars and clubs and have fun socialising, or why I always seem to say the wrong thing at work, and it hit me like a tonne of bricks that being on the spectrum isn’t just some funny little quirk. I thought back over everything I could remember, started looking up studies on adult outcomes for autism, and found in them the pattern of my life (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3769945/ will get you started, if you’re interested). It explained so much about myself and made it possible for me to get a handle on some of the things that have made life harder.

At work, for example, I can now step away if a conversation is overwhelming me. And I know that fidgeting like “flapping my knees” (I dunno… Feet together on the ground, I swing my knees out and back together without hitting, in sync; my parents used to yell at me for it) is actually “stimming”, and I shouldn’t stop myself from doing it. I know I don’t have a temper, I have very specific triggers for meltdowns - amongst which is not feeling understood/able to communicate. Quite a common one, that. I can feel a meltdown coming now that I know what to watch for, and this makes it easier to walk myself back from the edge. This is important because I do harm to myself, when I have an episode. There’s a video floating about the internet of some asshole harassing the front desk clerk at a hotel and the poor kid starts hitting himself in the head repeatedly while the cunt behind the camera shouts at and berates him more… I saw myself, in that kid.

My relationships have suffered because I was unaware of symptoms that presented themselves through negative behaviours. This i don’t feel like going into very much, but suffice it to say I’ve become a better partner, and my partner is better able to support me in the ways I need as well.

I would recommend getting tested, personally. If you are indeed on the spectrum, knowing the details will help you and those around you make accommodations, and your life will probably get subtly easier in just about every way.

If you have a device you can install GrapheneOS on, there’s a button to record the call built right in to the phone app. It’s also a remarkably functional daily driver; I’ve been using it for months now and the only app I “lost” was Google Wallet. I can, somehow, still use all my banking and other finance apps that normally don’t work on custom ROMs.

NTs be like https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c5/f4/23/c5f423c0f0d36b0a97296cc6ac6a660b.gif

“The solution to pollution is dilution”, certainly! It’s just pretty risky business IMO, so I feel the warning stands especially to people who haven’t tried a sinus rinse before and don’t know how to size the dose, but yeah: if you don’t have anything else…

I had a septoplasty and inferior turbinoplasty many years ago, and had to rinse my sinuses every few hours to keep the wounds clean. I’d recommend Flonase sinus rinse, as some others in this thread have. The kits are pretty cheap, and the salt mix they provide is dosed so it’s much less harsh than table salt and won’t irritate or dry out mucous membranes in your nose. Using table salt for this purpose like some others are suggesting here is madness! Even before my surgery it hurt like hell, trying that.

I’d also recommend talking to an Ear/Nose/Throat specialist in case there’s something wrong that can be corrected, like enlarged turbinates. That was my issue - blood was pooling in the tissue when I lay on my side due to gravity and low blood pressure - hence the turbinoplasty. It was better for a bit, but did come back over time; dunno if this is normal, if they grew back, if the surgery didn’t work, or if the doctor was just wrong 🤷

If you want extremely low code, I recommend GPT4All. The prebuilt binaries/exes run locally on CPU and give you a choice of model to use so you can try out a couple to see which you like the best. It’s remarkably quick on my Ryzen 7 3700X, and it doesn’t take long to get a little web server running with Langchain if you want to put in a bit more effort, too.