I feel like almost all of it is blatantly obvious everyone the surgeon with the cooler, since I’m not aware of any child organ harvesting epidemic (and I maybe don’t want to be).

I am still so confused about this one. Is this like a thing? Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised anymore. All the rest is pretty real, we basically “sacrifice” children by giving religions so much power, war, unregulated fast food, etc.

My mom (border of gen x and boomer) explained all the references to me when I was a kid watching Futurama for the first time. Honestly, Futurama and seeking out information related to the references (either my parents would tell me or I’d look it up in the 2010s when I really started having access to the internet) is probably the biggest way I learned about past culture. At this point I’m explaining the references to my kid but he really is just so far removed from it. Because they’re from like 4 generations ago and have been referenced so much since. Still interesting but I do feel like it, “hits different” as the teens say.

My bikes and lawnmower are in a really small shed. I do wish we had a bigger shed though mainly because we have to stack the bikes on top of the lawnmower so it’s a big hassle with my wife and I both being disabled to unpack and repack the shed every time the grass needs cut. So a garage would help with that too. I guess I want a small garage now, you’ve sold me haha. Still can’t afford it though.

That’s a good point, we do have hail and tornados where I live. But I guess growing up poor we just accepted damage to vehicles. Not that I’m saying it’s ideal, just that I hadn’t really considered it an avoidable part of life.

I don’t know the full context of this conversation, but is it normal for homes to have large garages? I live in a 620 sq foot house (way too small, I have only one kid), and no garage. I wouldn’t even want a garage, I have a driveway? Some of my neighbors have garages but they are not that large, they certainly don’t make up 50% of their space, but some of them 1/3rd, if their house is smaller. Most houses in my neighborhood are bigger than my house but not huge.

I found man and go, but not mango.

I know, I was so excited when I read the first part until I realized it was just another autism-supremacy post. It’s like all these internet “autistic” people are just narcissists who want to repeatedly gaslight NTs into thinking they’re the whole problem. The truth is, this rhetoric is standing in the way of actually accommodating autistic people so their voices can be heard.

I say all the time “I feel like I have a native language unique to me” or “I feel like I have no native language,” or “I feel like ALL languages are a foreign language.” I’ve been saying it so much for years now that I actually wonder if someone heard/saw me say that and adapted it into this nonsense. I’m not saying “I’m better than NTs,” I’m simply trying to explain that there is, in a sense, a “language barrier.” To be clear, I am fully verbal. But no one understands any points I’m trying to make. This isn’t the fault of typical people, nor is it the fault of me. Just like there’s no superior language in actual languages, no one is superior here. Am I special? Well sure, but pretty much everyone is special in some way. I struggle with this “language barrier” and it is frustrating that no one understands me, but that isn’t their “fault.”

I really cleaned. I’m too exhausted to get into it, but it was a terrible mess and now it’s clean. I have a lot of disabilities including severe chronic ankle and back pain and endocrine issues that make me tired all the time, but I did it!

It seems like the implication was “due to language barrier…”

Not specifically in order to do upvote or downvote, but I enjoy looking through profiles when someone is interesting or seems extremist etc. While I’m there I might do some voting. I’m most interested in people who are either very nuanced (rare these days) or off-the-wall extreme.

Your post is well-written. I’m feeling more colloquial at the moment.

I can’t even with these groups. Denying people the right to label themselves or their children in a way that helps communicate their struggles in a quick and widely-understood way is borderline bullying. And I’ve seen it devolve into bullying, especially bullying parents of level 3 autistics. I’ve also seen people bullied for calling themselves “high functioning.” It’s not like they’re bragging, they’re just trying to communicate their diagnosis and likely their needs. They may even be trying to be considerate by not overstepping as in, “I am/my child is high functioning so this might not apply to your child, but have tried…?”

The language policing is completely out of hand. The way they try to control your opinions is out of hand. Many online groups are essentially cults. A lot of socially disabled/handicapped autistic people are really experiencing a lot of pain from the way things have been. The groups/communities that try to counter this strict, high control atmosphere are a little better, but a lot of them let “free speech” go too far and they end up containing bigotry. Which sucks because most of the people seem good and these groups are even more diverse in that I’ve seen a lot of level 2s in them (whereas they get kicked out of the high control groups because they struggle to reform their vocabulary, or perhaps they refuse to ‘play games’ with controlling moderators).

I understand it’s difficult because autistic people tend to like rules and rigidity, but we really do need to find the medium between hyper controlling every member in a group (and shunning people for even slight difference of opinion) and a total free-for-all (and not banning anyone even if they’re trolling or being bigoted etc.).

I haven’t looked into it yet but it does seem interesting to research.

This isn’t something I would be too excited about, personally. Online groups intended to be for autistic people quickly get overrun by people who do not respect autistic persons’ individuality, do not respect that some people are profoundly disabled by autism, and frankly get very cliquey if not culty. I would assume this sort of thing would be worse in a living environment. They can’t just kick you out of a group for disagreeing, they can kick you out of your home. You cannot log off to escape the bullying and harassment so prevalent in online “autistic” communities.

I love other autistic people on an individual level. And in fact I’m quite certain many of the people who are causing the problems in these online communities are not in fact autistic. Autistic people can cause problems too, of course (anyone can), but I don’t believe the online autistic communities would have these specific problems if they were really compromised of at least a majority of autistic people. Or if there was a way to include severely and moderately-severe autistic people in our communities more. It feels like we’re leaving them behind in the ‘nothing about us without us’ realm and in our communities.

It’s 2am and I’m sleepy, sorry for the lack of coherence.

“first the firefighters, then the math teachers, and so on in that fashion.”