radicalautonomy @ radicalautonomy @lemmy.world

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My brother's father-in-law had offered to pay up to $15,000 for his daughter's wedding. He gave them the option of taking it all in cash and then getting a courthouse wedding so they could have a nest egg to grow, or spend it all on the wedding of his fiancée's dreams, or anywhere in between.

She opted to spend it all on the wedding. 😒 My gawd did that piss me off.

You're not the weird ones. I used to have joint accounts with my then-wife, but I'll never do that again. Mainly because I will never marry again (ridiculous concept if you ask me - the government charging you money so that they can approve your relationship is bananas to me, and then paying them more to dissolve it if it doesn't work out), but also because I haven't met many people out there who manage their own money well, so why would I ever put them in a position of control over the money I earn?

I gave it up when I switched up my housing situation. I had downstairs neighbors and didn't want to go through the hassle of trying to soundproof. I just moved again, though, and I now have a new bottom-floor apartment, so I'll probably bust out my kit sooner or later.

Clone Hero is great for E-drumming (have to set it to Pro Drums because regular Drums works with old Rock Band and GH kits). I also paid for a year of Melodics and learned a lot from it.

Nuken in de Keuken Club.

I know someone who died from huffing heroin pills.

The Air Force once injected an unsolved, 1000-year-old mathematical puzzle written in another language into the game Prometheus, and an unemployed college dropout genius who lived with his mom solved it, got recruited to participate in a highly classified mission to the planet P4X-351 where he, a crew of Air Force officers and personnel, and a few civilian scientists ended up being forced to evacuate due to an impending planet-wide explosion (as well as an aerial assault by a band of space pirates) by jumping through a stable wormhole whose terminus was aboard the starship Destiny - an abandoned scientific vessel launched one million years prior by a species known as The Ancients who had planned to use it to travel to the center of the known universe.

"I don't claim ownership over any part of this video by 20th Century Fox."

Cognitive empathy is the ability to put oneself mentally in another person's situation and try to understand how they might be feeling (as opposed to emotional empathy in which one experiences those emotions with another person and truly understanding how they feel).

Where I (also ASD Level 1) have long struggled is with emotional empathy. At age 15, I told my mom that I didn't know if I loved her. I understand now that this was a symptom of my autism, that I didn't understand a variety of emotions, apart from excitement about hyperfixation and annoyance at most of the rest of the world for moving and think so slowly relative to me.

And, yes, cognitive empathy was also lacking when I was younger. I did have difficulty imagining what other people's life experiences were like, mainly because I was...well...young and inexperienced, not necessarily because I was autistic.

What I take issue with is the blanket statement that autistic people lack cognitive empathy because it is a sweeping generalization that doesn't allow for nuance. The implication in your statement is that we're born without it and never possess it, and that simply isn't true. It isn't difficult for autistic people can learn cognitive empathy and other sorts of emotional intelligence.

One-inch thick top sirloin steak.  Salt and pepper heavily.  Grill at 400.  Four minutes total.  Flip each minute to get the good grill marks.  Let sit for two minutes.  Down the hatch.

Lol, no. Every autistic person I know, myself included, is engaged in anti-racism, consent culture, body-positivity, and other forms of harm reduction. You're understanding of autistic people is flawed. We don't lack cognitive empathy, and we don't have a difficult time reading other people's emotions. What we struggle with is when people mask their emotions, when they put up an emotional wall, rely heavily on sarcasm, or any other technique that shields them from authenticity. When people are open and vulnerable with us, we are capable of great empathy.

He is 30 now. That was filmed 25 years ago.

At 15:05 it isn't clear...

Did we watch different videos? Because the one I see linked is only two minutes long.

My delicious Thai food.

Loving this meme format.

I forgot my ANOVA when I moved this summer. Now, I'm not that sorry I did.

I edited my comment for clarification purposes.

I had edited my comment. It originally said 7-11 doesn't sell wine (at all), but I realized the lyrics needed more specificity for the joke to hit harder.

Lyrics

Unfortunately, they haven't had my favorite pinot noir there for the past 55 years.

Edit: Is joke. Lyrics to Hotel California: "So I called up the Captain, 'Please bring me my wine.' He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.'"