acidic chew @acidic_chew@schelling.pt

Self awareness and its consequences have been a disaster for the autist race
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RT @MorlockP
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I'm going to be That Autistic Guy and assert that everyone who is dating is ALWAYS conducting a statistical analysis of their partner to determine if they're worthy of continuing the relationship.

Non autists don't understand what they're doing / do it subconsciously. https://twitter.com/VarangianSkull/status/1421103711837884424
https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1421104257693065226

back in my day schizo autists spent their time coding the third temple of jerusalem, not updating their mental worldmodel according to planet movements

retvrn

being forced to learn how to navigate this type of shit is the silver lining of growing up in the balkans
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RT @KenBearIsland
Woke culture discriminates against autistic people who don't like rules that are implicit, inconsistent, and unquestionable.
https://twitter.com/KenBearIsland/status/1420683246908674050

type of guy that emigrates to the US for the singular reason that adderall is legal

How dare your self-healing mechanism be triggered by such a stupid fucking thing. I am automatically disqualified from this just because I'm not <95 IQ? Not fair! Yet this subgroup of postrats can override their BS detecting mechanism for their own good... I'll proceed to seethe

I will however admit I am jealous of the ease with which placebo works. Just like homeopathy, I am not really mad about the widespread fraudulent practice, there are many such cases in society. It's the fact that it _does_ work for many that annoys me.
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RT @acidicchew
i sympathize with the postrat-y assessment that "humans/society is far too complex to properly use bayesian reasoning/formal logic for so you're better off using someth…
https://twitter.com/acidicchew/status/1420289647691894784

i sympathize with the postrat-y assessment that "humans/society is far too complex to properly use bayesian reasoning/formal logic for so you're better off using something else" but for some this somehow translates to magick and astrology which is quite hilarious

maybe you'd end up being the best sex they ever had if enough trust was cultivated, rendering [pic related] irrelevant. how does this simple fact escape the p*ly brain
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RT @yashkaf
What is true is already so.

Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.

Not being open doesn't make it go away.

You're not the best sex your partner ever had or could have, and if the only thing between you and a total breakdown is their tactful silence on this…
https://twitter.com/yashkaf/status/1419418592047779842

obv this is old news im just tryna get into the tweeting habit

the sexual tension between me getting mad at people who aren't self aware and my desire for that state

Not only have you taken on piles of cognitive debt (even if running as daemons), emotional life is starved and depression is kinda inevitable. Congrats, You are now emulating an NPC while You are dying. You are also emotionally a teenager. Welcome to the land of high functioning!

at the extra cost of having to build/maintain the cognitive model & its agents explicitly, stripping them of real agency in the process. Being good enough at this to satisfy expectations is in this sense a curse. Worse, it is a trainable skill, although model building can be fun.

I suspect the normie answer to this is they don't. Adaptations are subconscious enough that they do not diverge from normal personality/character progression. It's only masking if it creates a non-converging divide between outer manifestation vs instinctual/flow response (cont.)
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RT @fvathynevgl
Oh, one more thing: how does masking/compensatory strategies differ from self-development / self-improvement?
https://twitter.com/fvathynevgl/status/1304730706363535364

demoscene creator: hmmmmmm today i will [create audiovisual piece of art by writing code not exceeding 4KB]
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RT @literalbanana
Universal ways to make things fun if they have become boring:
1. give yourself arbitrary obstructions
2. pay attention to small details/sensations
https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1416917671262646272

to treat an outlier, the psychiatrist must make a diagnosis not based on the outlier's symptoms, but the symptoms *they would have exhibited* if they were a normie

psychiatry doesn't work on outliers because they express defects in other areas of behavior than they would if they were normies for the same underlying causes

a way to see if you're neurodivergent is taking substances that affect different mental aspects and seeing which produce a larger experiential difference than most people report.

people who have both autism and adhd may think they have neither because the behavioral filter applied for masking autism consumes cognitive space, and bottlenecks the potential attentional chaos that would ensue if the cognitive space was free

Maps = universal, aesthetically pleasing, useful for building mental model of the/a world, enhance complexity admiration, first exposure to meaningful data viz

Map games = zoomers thinking they know how international relations work because they minmaxed the engine's algorithm
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RT @theproudestmom
I’m convinced men are only good at geography because of the lame map games they play on their computers
https://twitter.com/theproudestmom/status/1409982224385126400

Yeah I'm an engineer (when I'm emptying a bottle I hold it at the optimal angle to maximize the output rate by allowing just a tiny bit of air to pass through)