Arnold Mal

Thanks! Having friends that give hints is helpful, but considering what I’ve learned about social interactions since and my history with this particular person, it’s also crappy realizing that he meant it as a passive-aggressive insult. It’s nice to finally clean house of bullies though. Onward and upward!

I always knew I was different from everyone else. I called myself “weird” a lot and thought I looked strange on video. I often pointed out how I don’t think like everyone else. I also asked people how they knew things about social situations often, or ran social situations by others to get a better understanding of them. It’s like I knew I didn’t think about social matters like everyone else did. To me people either (a) made wayyy too many assumptions about others and interactions or (b) had a 6th sense for social experiences.

One day, I was at a gathering a a friend’s house. It seems that I said something that was not normal, even though I thought it was completely normal, and a friend said, “Don’t mind him. He’s autistic.” That’s when I realized that maybe my comment didn’t land well. The next day, to get my friend back by making him feel guilty, I looked for online autism tests to send him the results so he would be worried that I was ruminating on it. To my surprise, my results kept coming back that I was likely autistic. Later that day when I saw my friend again, I asked him if he really thought I was autistic, to which he responded a bit confused with, “Well…yeah.” After further discussion, I learned that it is pretty apparent that I’m autistic, so my friend thought that I would have been aware. Nope! I always knew that I like people that were “a bit autistic” and even liked toys for autistic kids, but never really thought tat about myself.

I became obsessed with learning about autism, which further lead me to believe I was autistic. Then, I scheduled an assessment with an autism psychologist for a thorough evaluation. She confirmed it pretty easily, so I was diagnosed not only with autism spectrum disorder, but ADHD also (I knew about me being ADHD my entire life though).

I like the story of the black cat, but it doesn’t seem like it would be appealing to the masses.

I’m gonna keep thinking about this and report back.

Google can also kiss my ass

Weird, I’m on desktop. Maybe it’s my theme: darkly-pureblack. Anyway, here’s how it looks on my end:

🔔🔔🔔 Hear ye! 🔔🔔🔔 Hear ye!!🔔🔔🔔

Whereas this petition has been formally requested, I hereby declare and/or proclaim with the memory of Casey Jones and all others present to serve as witnesses that, henceforth, all model trains shall be legally named “Then”!

Disclaimer: IANAL (I am not a lawyer; pronounced: I-anal) and this is not legal or financial advice.

Cool! Btw, how did you get those words to come out purple??

Neutral fact: I’m in my early 40s and went to Red Lobster for the first time in my life 2 weeks ago. While the food was good, the price was too high in my opinion. So, here’s to another 40+ years without going to Red Lobster 🍻

I don’t know how this is directly relevant, but I feel like sharing. I have a childhood friend that is an ER doc here in US. He tells vents to me about work bullshit every time I see him. The vast majority comes from selfish decisions made by hospital administration. They truly couldn’t care less about people/patients. Their only goal is to maximize revenue and limit expenditures. As far as I can tell, the only reason the system hasn’t collapsed is because doctors personally take on the ethical responsibility to make sure patients are treated properly. It’s scary because if you get a doctor that is having a bad day or high in psychopathy, you’re in danger. As a patient, you have no way of knowing if that is the case.

this is so clever 😆

I’m getting so sick of all this bs in the US. I’m too autistic for this.