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03 Mar 2025, 12:07 pm

I'm officially super privileged as an autistic now.


The weird nothing feeling I felt these past few weeks?
It's a default mode network reset.

A full-blown reset.

Why?? Because, apparently, whatever chronic illness I've been dealing since 5, was very, very tied to it.

Now that it's not there. :lol: It's not "active".
There's nothing for me to fight.


I can build a better me. :twisted:
And I know what I want. 8)

I got better EF without the crap now.

Maybe I can turn myself into an early bird?
Maybe I can give myself a super healthy routine?

Maybe I can finally quit fried stuff?
Which I ought to tell mom because the next paycheck and thus grocery will happen soon.

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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03 Mar 2025, 5:00 pm

It's a good job we're not all alike innit


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03 Mar 2025, 6:10 pm

babybird wrote:
It's a good job we're not all alike innit

Mine was taken to an extreme though.

To a point I couldn't relate to either autistics whose whole fight is their niche as an ND (which people tend to believe are the privileged as an autistic), or their own ND-ness against wanting to conform (the types who either had no choice or 'wanting to live like a human').

Because their main focus was the social and physical external environment; former would control the physical environment in their favor (routines, sensory favorites, career and interest matching), latter would want to control themselves in favor of social environment (masking, studying humans, studying cultures).

Can't even relate anyone attempting "both". Can't relate to anyone failing at "both" either, because they tend to express aspirations of either/both.

My focus as an autistic is outside those perimeters for reasons outside my own neurodivergence.

And it worked out for me: it's like suspecting, pursuing and jailing the right suspect without any further doubt.
It's like fighting the right demons, the correct target, the right cause.


What other people thinks as privileged in autism: being able to mask, high IQ, getting therapy and medication for comorbidities, supportive environment, being closer to NT-like... Being able to 'gain' more...
Your typical "high functioning" model.

What it could be: no severe commodities to deal, masking as a choice, not needing therapy and medication, no executive dysfunction, being freer than NTs... Being able to lose unwanted crap including causes of mental illness...
Just "lower support" regardless of "severity".


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03 Mar 2025, 7:22 pm

I'm starting to think that the entire theory of college is based on the assumption that people are sleeping 2 hours each night. I can't do that and that's why I don't have enough time for anything. I wonder if I could call this discrimination.


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03 Mar 2025, 8:42 pm

I vaguely know my sister’s boss’s kid, who’s also autistic, queer, and around the same age as me. 1/3 of the times i go out, i cross paths with them.

Our interaction today when we spotted eachother at the park:

Me: You again
Them: You’re stalking me /j
Me: no, you’re the stalker /j
Them: noooooo

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03 Mar 2025, 9:04 pm

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03 Mar 2025, 10:41 pm

I want to clean up the giant crap of a mess of my whole life that is my :roll: "sick-me's" mess.

All of them preferably.


Sick-me only thinks of daily living. And only herself. Only present. Irrelevant past, and nonexistent future.
Appropriately, like someone living with chronic illness and because she is.
Sick-me is involuntarily more selfish and just as involuntarily self obsessed.

Now-me is more responsible.
Now-me isn't too busy fighting any chronic illness, so there's no stupid mentally unwanted thought enabling body.
Now-me can choose to be selfish or not.
Now-me can finally just choose to focus less of herself and more of everything else.

Sick-me has no accountability. Has nothing to own responsibility over.
Sick-me has an inability to be responsible regardless of incentive.

Now-me has a choice. Now-me can choose to be responsible or not. It's all on me, 100%.


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03 Mar 2025, 11:43 pm

I've spent a lot of time in bed resting so my sprained knee would heal.


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04 Mar 2025, 12:36 am

I think I've managed to awaken my own spirit by listening to bagpipes. My heritage is British, mostly Scottish, some English and some German. I wonder if my spirit is Scottish.


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04 Mar 2025, 6:51 am

I love the pipes I do


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04 Mar 2025, 10:46 am

I'm glad I don't take part in a lot of social media


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04 Mar 2025, 11:07 am

I wonder how long it will be until we start getting taxed on fresh air


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04 Mar 2025, 11:43 am

I don't think some show companies make shoes for actual feet


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04 Mar 2025, 12:07 pm

I'm getting excited for cake me


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04 Mar 2025, 12:12 pm

Oho what kind of cake


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04 Mar 2025, 12:14 pm

I'm thinking that I'll get a big tray of cupcakes


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