Huh. Ngl, that’s super weird, but I’m sorry that’s your experience, because this harmony thing I’ve got going on is pretty sweet, and I wish it for everyone. Tho the random bumblebee that finds her way to my living room 2-3x/yr perplexes me..
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It depends on what they have going on. Small talk is literally painful to me to participate in, and I have no intention of trying to fix that because I’m not wrong or broken, just different, with different social needs that are met by people similarly different.
Autistics don’t small talk for a set of good reasons, including that it’s quite pointless and superficial to how we operate in the world, and we don’t get the same things out of it as neurotypicals. We have our own version of small talk, which is diving right into sharing special interests. It tells us what we need to know about the person we are talking to like small talk does for NT.
For us, those small talk conversations aren’t small moments of goodness. They might be for you, and that’s cool, but not us.
This might be interesting to you, or not, as you like. It goes over some of the reasons people on the spectrum don’t like small talk, and how we perform the same functions to maintain our social lives, but go about it differently.
https://www.autisticstudies.com/communication/autisticsmalltalk
You forgot that they also have more than one rock model!
Haha I didn’t even bother. It came out of the blue and I said “ok, well I’m not going to, but good to know you wouldn’t be surprised or care if I did.”
For being almost 80, he’s pretty chill about social issues. His gf is an “I got mine so fuck y’all” sort though..
Admittedly I don’t know much about cryopreservation (looked into it many years ago as a curiosity) but my understanding, and the article says the same, is that they clinically die first and then it’s a rush to preserve them before too much breakdown happens. Since it’s quite expensive, most people only preserve their brain or head, which is removed before being frozen. I’m not sure legally they would be able to do this pre-death, since the harvesting/preserving would directly cause death as we currently understand and classify it, and assisted euthanasia of any flavor is illegal in most places.
Literally never, no. Occasionally they hang from their silk and get close, but not super often.
But my spiders know me. They see me every day and know I’m not gunna bother them even if I see them (I even talk to them sometimes) so they give me a wide berth as well. They mostly hang out where I can’t (or won’t) reach, which works for me. Only downside is cleaning up webs a few times a year.
What kind of spiders are crawling on you? That’s pretty unusual from what I understand, unless they just blow down on their silk or whatever? Or maybe you have a lot more spiders than I do and they just hide better ;)
Land developers don’t have the authority to change regulations. Neither does the auto industry.
It’s just greedy politicians; if not for them the others would have no influence. And they are squarely called out in the original image.
As long as you only want to touch it once, you can!
And who is responsible for zoning policies?
Meanwhile my dad outright said that he wouldn’t be surprised at all if I brought home a same sex partner, but really I’m just asexual ;)
That’s true.