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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I wonder if he ever read the 5th book, Mostly Harmless. In that book there’s an aside which describes how the people of the planet Golgafrincham tricked all the useless members of their society (management consultants, etc) into thinking the planet was doomed and getting on a ship to escape the planet which they programmed to fly to another salary system and crash into one of the planets there. That part of the book always stuck with me, and more and more I wish there was a way we could do the same to Musk and his billionaire cronies.

    Of course I don’t think Musk has actually read any of the HHGTTG novels, especially not the 5th one so maybe there’s still a chance?


















  • As someone who has recently started the diagnosis journey and who is yet to be actually diagnosed, reading things like this I’m curious (and a little anxious) about how a professional is likely to interpret my experiences.

    For example, I have no problem interpreting facial expressions or gauging the mood of a group of people, but I do find myself getting hung up on explicit/literal interpretation of rules, I get fixated on a single subject, and I do get overloaded as soon as I walk into a situation with more than one activity to focus on.

    However, I also have issues ignoring distractions, focusing on non-stimulating tasks, forgetfulness and fidgeting.

    I’m curious what peoples’ experiences are with symptoms that cross (I guess, for lack of a better phrase) “fields of diagnosis”?