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09 May 2025, 5:52 pm

A temptation to go the gym again for a second round.


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09 May 2025, 6:36 pm

Everything is changing around me and I can't keep up and I'm not sure (I really don't want to) if I can adapt and conform. I've always been a nonconformist and a rebel. People are changing and things and the world ... where to start and finish. The people I'm surrounded by are fickle. I've lost faith in humanity and I want to get it back but society isn't making it easy. Sorry, guys, just getting things off my shoulders. I just don't know anymore. I (fully) realize what I wrote reflects more on me than others because I can't change others or the world or the USA mess. Sometimes (most times) I wish I was never born at all. It says more about me.


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09 May 2025, 7:23 pm

Someone I used to work with has recently been diagnosed with autism, which amazed me because it felt like she was the opposite from autism when I used to work with her. She seemed more socially accepted and included and favoured, to the point where I just saw her as an extroverted NT with a strong personality. I felt like the autistic one more because I was quieter and excluded from social activities outside of the workplace, even though she didn't know the others there before she started. We both started at the same time.
I knew she had mental health problems but it didn't really make her socially quirky. To me she just seemed like a mouthy, troubled and obnoxious NT with an "Essex" style about her.

It just seems that anyone could have autism these days, and the line drawn between autism and other neurological conditions/disorders is becoming so hazy that soon all neurological conditions will end up just being on the autism spectrum somewhere.

Or maybe autistic women that drink and smoke and wear a lot of make-up just automatically get socially accepted by their peers.


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09 May 2025, 7:40 pm

I'm gonna have to just take it day-by-day; I guess. No expectations.


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09 May 2025, 8:31 pm

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Someone I used to work with has recently been diagnosed with autism, which amazed me because it felt like she was the opposite from autism when I used to work with her. She seemed more socially accepted and included and favoured, to the point where I just saw her as an extroverted NT with a strong personality. I felt like the autistic one more because I was quieter and excluded from social activities outside of the workplace, even though she didn't know the others there before she started. We both started at the same time.
I knew she had mental health problems but it didn't really make her socially quirky. To me she just seemed like a mouthy, troubled and obnoxious NT with an "Essex" style about her.

It just seems that anyone could have autism these days, and the line drawn between autism and other neurological conditions/disorders is becoming so hazy that soon all neurological conditions will end up just being on the autism spectrum somewhere.

Or maybe autistic women that drink and smoke and wear a lot of make-up just automatically get socially accepted by their peers.


I'm not one to argue the legitimacy of professional diagnosed autism. Though it is possible that she's developed strong masking skills which has profillerated in her social skills. While social difficulties are a common occurrence in aspies, it's not the be all and end all of a diagnosis. The diagnositic criteria is strong enough that she would have had to face many difficulties in her day to day life.

But I feel some of your assessment is right, the word autism gets thrown around a lot in modern society. Whether it's a bluring of the lines or a result of a greater understanding of the condition is up for debate even amongst those who study the condition.


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09 May 2025, 9:16 pm

Germany. I've spent the entire day in my own little country with a cold. I'm missing Schultz and I'm missing my favourite Olympic athlete as well. So much for a healthy body image. At least I didn't buy Doritos today.


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10 May 2025, 12:25 am

the dissadvantage of the internet is that we're subjected to the clowns in office every few seconds. ideally i'd like to go back in time where you only heard about them every 4 years. The world is way more interesting than politicians in suits.


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10 May 2025, 12:50 am

If I were rich enough.

I'll only get low end devices.
Optimize, minimize.

The high specs are mostly for games.
If not artistic stuff.

Better in multitasking to the max; I used to imagine getting my hands on a tech that I can play several online game clients, with few browser tabs and while drawing -- but even if I do now, it never happened.

My laptop is... Over 2 years old now and I rarely ever used it for anything other than storing.
I still lament over the old data that some idiot decided to reformatted the old PC.

Sigh.

It reminds me of that colored lead that I've been put aside; that I'll start using it when I'm super competent to a level that I strive in drawing.

But that never did. The lead remained untouched somewhere.

Because the need never came up. The desire never came up.


The same with games and making arts since...
... I forgotten now.


The same goes with many, many things.


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10 May 2025, 2:38 am

I love crumpets me
But the reality of them is somehow never as good as the fantasy


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10 May 2025, 3:09 am

It's funny how everybody knows that everybody is different but everybody still expects everybody to be the same

It's like a conundrum


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10 May 2025, 3:22 am

babybird wrote:
It's funny how everybody knows that everybody is different but everybody still expects everybody to be the same

It's like a conundrum

I tend to make them break the illusion and expectation that one is the same like most people when I meet people.

The latter is supposedly the human fundamentals that everyone is supposed to have, not individual traits and circumstances like how the former supposed to work.


I've been wondering myself if most people cannot reconcile both statements.


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10 May 2025, 7:11 am

Yeah I get what you mean Edna


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10 May 2025, 7:35 am

I think you just have to take hunger as it comes sometimes

Like yesterday I wasn't hungry so I didn't have much but today I am so I'm having noodles

It's literally that simple :lol:


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10 May 2025, 8:37 am

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10 May 2025, 9:05 am

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10 May 2025, 9:08 am

babybird wrote:
I think you just have to take hunger as it comes sometimes

Like yesterday I wasn't hungry so I didn't have much but today I am so I'm having noodles

It's literally that simple :lol:


I had noodles today too. :lol:


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