monsterpiece42 @ monsterpiece42 @reddthat.com

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If you're autistic, there's a good chance that autistic masking is the root cause here. If you have social anxiety especially, your mask will kick in automatically (subconsciously) and come off as fake to most people, and they will not like you for it. A quick test for this is, are you good at making a good first impression or short time of friendship and then it kinda falls off with time? If yes, masking is likely in play. I highly recommend the book Unmasking Autism even if you're not autistic. It applies to others as well and it is excellent.

The short term (maybe long term..?) solution is to make autistic friends. They'll understand "the weird" and it should be much simpler. Try searching around your local area for autism or neurodivergent clubs and see how you feel around other similarly-minded people.

Green and yellow need to be swapped.

The fun bus has no brakes.

🎵 And I should have died 6000 more 🎶

I love old machines but 7 years old is a lifetime in computing and especially laptops. Most normal laptops last like 3-5 before they fall apart. One thing that is cool about Thinkpads is that they are often obsolete before the fall apart.

Super tall mountains do stay snow-capped but that starts at elevation roughly double of where I live.

So that is true in terms of convection heat. Aka the sun gets the air hot, then the air gets you hot. When you're in the shade, this is how you feel heat in high altitude. At sea level this is also mostly how you feel heat.

The difference is radiation heat. When you're in the thinner atmosphere you get more UV light and it heats you directly. UV can also penetrate skin a certain amount so it heats you inside too. You also burn super fast up high.

Logically I know that of course.

Friendly reminder, this is specifically a thread about petty and pedantic topics. I self-nominated as pedantic here.

I like that and it's probably the right metric tbh. But in terms of just linear distance it makes my blood itch lmao

Yes! That's another one for sure. I personally can let that one go however. But as for heat, I have studied it formally and something about makes me need to fix the misinformation.

So not to be pendantic (lol), but this is the definition of a pendant:

noun noun: pedant; plural noun: pedants

        a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.


  

With pedantic of course meaning acting in that way. I feel like pointing out my technical knowledge is unnecessary in the grand scheme of things but even if I try to let it go my brain will hang on to it until I tell them, even if that is much later on.

That said, hopefully it's not pointless to share!

I live in a high altitude area. It gets very hot. People will say that it's because we're "closer to the sun" as if the _6000ft/1800m difference is what matters vs the 93,000,000mi/150,000,000km distance to the sun is affected by something so small.

The difference is the lack of atmosphere to soften the various types of light from the sun.

Our teeth do much better when we eat a diet that's more in line with our evolution. Check out pictures of primal tribes. They very often have beautiful smiles.

Awesome. How do you like having a Whippet? I have always liked them an Greyhounds from afar.

Destiny 2 should be in that list. It's all meta builds.

I'll also mention the opposite. I got back into Rocket League. I originally had about 300hrs in it and stopped playing for a couple years. I have put maybe another 30hrs in since coming back and it's exactly as I left it. Maybe a couple menus have changed but it was very simple to get back into.

Thanks for the cool pic! Is this your pup (guessing from username)?

My new phone background!

Yeah definitely a stupidity problem and not an education problem. /s

Yeah basically a kneecaped PC with horrible data policy. Example, if you have a game with a 3rd party save/account like a lot of games do, Sony owns it and you can not migrate it to other platforms. I bought my nephew a gaming PC and he lost about 2000hrs of progress in Apex because Sony owns his account.

I'm not even a snob against consoles, just Sony sucks balls these days. I'd go with an Xbox but by then you're basically buying a PC... Although you can prob get a cheaper price on an Xbox especially if you're not building your own machine.

If you go with the T480 (not sure about the S model) you can run dual batteries and it's runds FOREVER

So I'm not a doctor but as I understand it, CAT-Q effectively is a booster for the RAADS-R. A lot of the RAADS-R is either understanding or recognizing the symptoms of autism, but people who are high masking (aka "camouflaged") have often learned to hide/not notice their autistic traits. Reminder of course, the "A" in CAT-Q means "autistic".

That said, I think 100+ on RAADS-R before a fairly high CAT-Q is something worth considering alone.

I have a special interest in psychology and if this was something related to a mental health condition I would be the first to tell you that the best way to learn is peer-reviewed studies, published references like the DSM-5 (imperfect as it may be) and so on. However, autism is not a psychological issue, it's a neurological difference. This means that the best way to learn is to talk to autistic people (which you currently are!) and see if the little things that make you/them "weird" resonate with each other. If you're feeling more introverted than that, you could maybe find an autistic YouTuber that "clicks" with you and see how their experience compares to yours.