Wait, touch screen for windshield wipers‽ Fuck that shit. It's supposed to be a stalk opposite the turn signals because it's safety critical. What next, touch screen for your turn signals‽
Finding nutritious safe foods is vital. People super into weights often eat a pre portioned amount of rice and chicken and all the spinach they want, and my autistic wife enjoyed doing that when she did it. Texture is huge but so is familiarity. For western autistic people safe foods tend to be heavily processed "kid foods", make sure your kid's idea of comfort foods isn't that.
Also encourage him to be brave and try new things with the safety of it not being commitment to the food, and as he's older talk to him about what he likes and doesn't about things and check in before trying something new when he's old enough to. My wife has days where she has the mental energy to try something new, and days where she doesn't. Additionally if I can describe what it's like it takes less energy for her to try. And don't pull the "it's just like chicken" thing, go more "these fried mushrooms are tender and slimy with a strong umami taste, kind of like soy sauce but not as salty or fermented tasting"
It's also just easy. My lunch every workday is the same. When I ate meat I'd swap out what kind of lunch meat was on the sandwich, but now it's a peanut butter sandwich with a piece of fruit. My breakfast is often the same on workdays. My variety comes from dinner and weekends. Is it because the idea of doing this is appealing? No, but I never have to worry that I forgot to pack a lunch or that I chose a breakfast I didn't have time for.
My wife on the other hand once spent years eating the same thing and considered it a perk of powerlifting, because that woman is autistic af.
Yeah it's an arbitrary line. Slow changes generation after generation, but where normally those changes balance out (a tall person is not much more likely to reproduce with tall people than short people), when a trait is advantageous/disadvantageous to survival or reproduction or encourages those with it to only reproduce with others with it sometimes it tilts the scales and slowly a proto deer/horse finds itself increasingly adapted to water to the point its leg bones become vestigial
Yeah here down south it's become a right wing tactic to run as a progressive then switch to fascism. It's really bad for democracy to permit, though the alternative is to encourage people to just stay in their party but not vote like it
That's surprising, I bought it but found I didn't really care for the humor and all that so I returned it. Maybe I'll pick it up again someday if I feel in the mood for what it was
It's not even stupid, it's that we're a social species and we do error correction by running thoughts by others. You're biologically primed to assume friends, family, etc are of similar authority on truth to yourself. When we disagree with the crowd we reevaluate. Thats how cults can reprogram smart people by isolating them
Jesus fuck that's bad. And it really reminds me of my experiences being targeted by a delusional woman with a personality disorder, which is something I'd never wish on anyone. In fact it kinda makes me wonder if she was using ai during the whole thing (probably not, she seemed to be lifelong crazy)
Also this tech feels increasingly lovecraftian: we're churning up the destruction of the fundamental particles of matter using a technology made to end the world to create horrible machines to think unthought thoughts that drive people to a destructive madness
As a woman, woody scents are awesome. Honestly I find it really silly how we've managed to gender entire categories of scent like this. Like, hormonal sex absolutely does wildly change our scent, but not in a way that makes flowery scents mix poorly with man stink or woody scents with woman stink. Hell, I personally love the mix of a musky woody scent and woman stink. And a man oughta be able to feel confident smelling like a bouquet if he wants.
There's also a lot of people who take studies like these and use them to argue that medications are all bad and everyone should just exercise instead. The Maha nuts and the naturalistic fallacy lovers they spawned from are prime examples. Mental health conditions that are in the category of "normal thing to a disordered degree" such as depression, anxiety, and adhd have a ton of people who just blanket oppose medication as a solution. And I think a lot of people react to these studies as though they're those people.
Like, I'm a huge fan of regular exercise and time in nature. I think both are vital to most people's mental health and if possible are a great first step for many mental illnesses. But I depend on prescription stimulants to be able to do such things consistently and safely. My first step is meds, and the lifestyle stuff is important and built on that foundation.
Ah 24/7 Walmart, that's how I bought my first stuff for experimenting with femininity, waiting until 2am and going a town over to ensure nobody I knew saw me…
And to answer your question the wild west internet. There was freedom and rebellion there. A whole new world with every weirdo, freak, and nerd at your fingertips. A place where you weren't alone until you found a person who could recommend a place, but instead you could just look it up and find out where your kind of freaks were chatting and they'd even tell you if there was a place irl. Ironically I'm noticing a shift back to needing to know a person to find a place, but that place is a discord server more often these days.
Wait, touch screen for windshield wipers‽ Fuck that shit. It's supposed to be a stalk opposite the turn signals because it's safety critical. What next, touch screen for your turn signals‽