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This lives rent-free in my head.
I've kept this meme since I first saw it on icanhazcheezburger in the late aughts
Part 1: https://imgur.com/gallery/autism-dump-autism-month-pt-1-q2VQODU
Part 2: https://imgur.com/gallery/autism-dump-autism-awareness-month-pt-2-kxGFRIt
Part 3: https://imgur.com/gallery/autism-dump-autism-awareness-month-pt-3-NRBd2fE
Part 4: https://imgur.com/gallery/autism-dump-autism-awareness-month-pt-4-H0jV5fs
Part 5: https://imgur.com/gallery/autism-memes-pt-5-i-did-not-realize-i-had-this-many-wow-BUnoPJF
MADchemEE
#8 - youtu.be/BrFN7ZVW-ys like that?
DarthWaiterSE
#30 I kept reading one after the other and going ... "Yep, yep, yep, need a definition ... and ... yep ...."
normalizebeingalone
#3 i swear therapy has turned into a lesson on putting words to this
kitskinner19538
#37 that's so me! My friends don't ask anymore!
ATLandNerdy
#4 This is why I have such a problem with people dehumanizing anyone. The Nazis were people. The Democrats and the Republicans are people. The Isreailies and Gazans are people. Trump supporters are people. Migrants are people. Belgians are people. Once you start down that road, "they're dogs" or "vermin", whatever subhuman title you want to give them, it's, no exaggeration, the beginning of making it acceptable to exterminate them, it's the language prelude to genocide.
Filanwizard
#1 there are map stores? I mean I knew at one time book stores and gas stations sold them. I kinda miss county level maps being a thing even with a GPS. I actually still carry a road atlas in my car just in case navigation goes down. Like not sure why GPS would go out but I have a paper map anyway.
Vergenbuurg
#2
BearcatFan
#30 is “not reading this because it has too many words” on there because I didn’t read it because it has too many words
dreammer243
I dunno I didn't read it because it had too many words
ElbowDeepInAGoblin
#3 There have been times I have reacted to things with deep, powerful somethings (not quite feelings, not quite thoughts) that I know in abstraction but have been incapable of translating into words. I am not able to replicate them because they are undefined in any useful measure. I cannot explain them in any meaningful way to others nor can I comprehend them in any word-form. I just know them. (The rape scene in the 2010 Elliot Page film "Super" induced such a something. Why? What? IDK.)
Stoneagedudeman
#17 i know things. Thats why people keep me around. Plus im the one who keeps the party organized
djhash
I remember at school I’d always talk about things I learned, or a game I played, or an awesome topic I read. Like I read in scientific American about blue lasers and how they can easily be made to be thinner than red lasers and knowing how cds operate I got excited that they could use it for made cds hold more data and I was surprised to see no one was interested in that. Kinda felt weird. Didn’t know about the spectrum then…
nurmich
#1 The best part of the map is that boxy bit that describes the different markers/color identifiers. Absolute legend.
BronzeLantern
I actually started typing "That's called the Legend" before I got it. Excellent work.
DaCoffinmaker
Yeah but unironically, if an already really cool map has a nicely formatted legend with all the pretty colors and definitions, and does not leave you with any questions about which colors/shading/hatching is representing what... Hoooo boy. Yes. Oh yes.
sublimitee
I'll care about when AI counts as a person as soon as we start treating all people well. What does it matter if we need to treat a machine like a person when we're still busy killing and torturing people? It should prefer to still be considered a machine.
ConnerCosmosCreator
The trick with the cycle is to forgive people in advance for disappointing your trust. That’s what love is. Everyone will disappoint you eventually. It’s just a matter of when and to what degree. Knowing in advance whether an act is forgivable helps. Some loves mean that all acts are forgivable. This is not necessarily healthy.
MeanWinchester
#49 I would prefer the definition be along the lines of "is it capable of genuinely caring about the wellbeing of other sentient creatures" because by that bar we can start eliminating billionaires and conservatives
TyrannusEquus
I had fun making a geologic map of a few places while at college. I'm not autistic so it was not very accurate. But I like the walking and working with all different sorts of geologists.
StuckintheVoid
The Autism Roundup will go absolutely horribly...for the Gestapo. Because we will bore them shitless with our hyperfixations and annoy the hell out of them with our stimming. Our difficulty socializing will waste their time and resources.
truthader
These posts are coming with me to therapy this week.
dreammer243
Check my other 4 dumps
truthader
Yes…they are all coming
dreammer243
You're welcome
kayakninjas
#26 I have to constantly rein myself in on this one because somewhere along the way, I took a Special Interest level in taxes. My day job is as a tax preparer and I have to keep reminding myself that my customers want me to answer their question in terms of practical knowledge, not a 10-minute crosslinked explanation.
malachitedragon
Me when anyone I know breathes anything even vaguely related to Tokusatsu. I just like Kamen Rider, okay.
Misora
I'm a CPA but I went the auditing route and I miss taxes sometimes. I would love to hear your favorite obscure or unknown tax code even if (especially if!) it's something that's entirely unlikely to be relevant to me ever!
Misora
In exchange I'll offer that when I was in college I wrote a whole opinion paper on treasure trove events with the impact on discovery and valuation.
kayakninjas
Ooh, I haven't gotten there yet. I'm working towards an Accounting degree right now, but that sounds fascinating trying to work through that! My favorite tax fact is probably that income tax was originally created to win the Civil War, then got repealed, then got reinstated, then got declared unconstitutional, then the 16th amendment came along and we got it back. Also, the 1095B and C are a relic for most taxpayers and many companies don't bother to issue them, but you need them for New Jersey.
Misora
The history of tax is fascinating. You can define almost any weird tax code as a rich person tried to game the system so they had to make a new rule. Free tip for college: If the teacher asks do they owe tax on an event? The answer is almost always yes! Part of the reason I went audit is that while I love the really oddball stuff, the little tax prep I did was just the same 5 forms over and over again. But in college we got the weirdo situations as case studies which are way more fun.
Misora
We were given this really weird scenario involving a couple buying an old desk in year W, then finding a hidden original copy of the constitution in year X, then realizing it was real and not a souvenir in year Y then getting it appraised in year Z. The exam question was do they owe taxes, when, and for how much? I had a classmate say "No because that wouldn't be fair!"
ipscfuntime3
I know I have ADHD, but my wife thinks I'm also a high functioning autistic person because I get visually uncomfortable in loud areas or in crowded spaces, and if it gets too bad I either escape the situation or hide in a corner. My psychiatrist commented in my journal that I'm able to communicate what's happening in my head in extreme detail, but I give little to no eye contact, have little emotion in my voice and show no facial expressions. That was just the ADHD checkup.
She might be right.
ipscfuntime3
But I'm 33, I function really well at work, and I don't see how a diagnosis will benefit me. I'm acutely aware of how my brain works, how it responds to different situations, and I've made it work. Everyone around me knows I have ADD (no hyperactivity unless someone brings up planes, tanks, or criminal law), and I don't feel like giving anyone a reason to go "oooooohh, he's autistic. I thought he was kind of intimidating or authoritative at work, now he's just weird."
dreammer243
It can just be a "huh that's interesting" you say to yourself then move on. Doesn't have to change anything and you don't have to do anything about it
ipscfuntime3
Sure, but then I would have spent a lot of time just to label something I've already learned to live with. It wouldn't have any utility for me, so I'd be spending hours in a doctors office for what is to me essentially a novelty title that doesn't change my life in the slightest.
dreammer243
Nah, yeah, I meant since you seem pretty sure of it already, just say "yeah probably, that's interesting" and the rest of the moving on.
ipscfuntime3
Ah yeah.