Melonius

Luv this place wish I could import the emojis in to Microsoft teams

Especially this one

Surely they mean Chinas real estate is headed toward a crisis? I read 65 additional articles about it yesterday

Russia never formally applied, there’s a series of documents they need to sign to do so.

dog-cant-play-basketball based international order

God they're so wet

I've been reading along and haven't been discussing because I feel pretty shocked with how relatable the whole book has been. I also attribute my reluctance with some amount of imposter syndrome. It's very strange realizing all these things so late in life.

This chapter I did want to comment about special interests and how denying children their special interests can be harmful. I have kids and one of them has one. Maybe it's just a temporary interest but we go along with it and pull up videos about it or play pretend with it. His grandmother however says it's "weird" and pretends she doesn't have the item in the house (she does) and doesn't let him play with it. This made me angry at first but reading this chapter convinced me to be furious.

For myself I feel foolish. At work I would do so many things differently than everyone else - and I thought it was because I worked "smarter". I used to literally pride myself in my ability to mirror other people in conversation and get along with anyone. Which is horrifying to me because I realize I almost never present my real self to so many people.

I also assumed this was true of everyone. That everyone has these challenges and has to navigate conversations playing the same routines I was taught that don't really make sense. When I am told neurotypicals want these kinds of interactions I am still doubtful, but maybe I should be more kind to myself and recognize that some interactions are particularly challenging for me compared to other people.

I'm really glad I started reading this. I'll take better notes for chapter 6

I hope they post each contenders stats such as height, weight, special debate tactic, and respective drug cocktail mixes

My tier list:

Uncritical support

Makes a great point

Gotta hand it to them

Critical support

Besides the right turn in to a brick wall at the end (probably a requirement to get the article posted tbh) I feel this a lot. All social interactions feel wrong because everyone is afraid to talk about reality. If you get to close to a real topic everyone is socially trained to change the subject to avoid talking about something uncomfortable.

Is there anything at all that is innovative about this metal brick?

Spent this weekend organizing and cleaning. Kids were surprisingly helpful I remember being an utter nightmare when I was their age

I was legoing some ikea ass furniture inside next to a window. I'm like 10 feet away from construction workers rebuilding the house next door to me in the summer heat. I've always really enjoyed putting heavy shit together but I couldn't help but feel like a toddler playing work next to their parents

Was still a lot of fun I wish more friends would ask me to help assemble their stuff

We had thousands of birthdays to go to this weekend, so the kids had fun. Trying to squeeze in some bike/pool activities in the next few weeks if we can find the time