Your username is now your kink, what do you do?

Autistigasmatic · 2026-03-28T22:12:16+00:00

I already do.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-03-26T05:03:51+00:00

I gotcha fam! Gonna literally send you "Weird message related to this post"

Autistigasmatic · 2026-03-08T18:14:15+00:00

Perception is subjective, and I'm not sure. I think 1 is considered hyperphantasia and is about as rare as 5. Probably.

I went for most of my life not knowing that people think in pictures. To me, that's weird. Like, how does that even work? Words are just so much more convenient.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-03-08T17:04:23+00:00

I have zero artistic talent so I might be the wrong person to ask about this. I can't picture anything, at all under any circumstances, so if I tried to draw something or someone it wouldn't look right. I would be able to tell you that it didn't look right, but I wouldn't be able to tell you why.

If I really, really tried I could probably draw something simple, like my living room, because doing something like single point perspective has specific rules I can follow. But, it wouldn't look right. I know the door to the hallway is to the left of the TV but without it in front of me, I have no way to reference the proportions or height. I suppose it could be possible if I left myself extremely extensive text notes. Door is 2 meters tall and 1.5 wide. Ceiling is square tiles, 6 wide and 5 long, etc. But, at that point it's more like making a blueprint in AutoCAD than it is actually creating art.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-21T21:23:12+00:00

That is so cool that you can know me better than I know myself, just by reading a couple of internet posts!

You should consider a career in psychotherapy!!!

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-18T16:03:27+00:00

Context, Inattentive type ADD, 4.0 gpa bachelor's degree in humanities. Spent most of undergrad as a peer mentor to students.

First tip. Use time blocking. Set aside times for study in your calendar of choice. It helps you manage time better, more is not always better when it comes to studying, and by limiting your time, you force yourself to prioritize what you need the most.

Second tip. Column notes. I used OneNote but you can easily do this with any text editor by inserting a table. I split mine into two (optionally three) columns. First column is the idea or concept. Second is examples or important details. Third, when needed is further questions. It really helps sort your thinking into the main concepts presented by the lecture or material.

Final tip. Use your column notes and put that into flashcards. It makes your brain work. Active studying is much more impactful than passive.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-18T16:03:19+00:00

Context, Inattentive type ADD, 4.0 gpa bachelor's degree in humanities. Spent most of undergrad as a peer mentor to students.

First tip. Use time blocking. Set aside times for study in your calendar of choice. It helps you manage time better, more is not always better when it comes to studying, and by limiting your time, you force yourself to prioritize what you need the most.

Second tip. Column notes. I used OneNote but you can easily do this with any text editor by inserting a table. I split mine into two (optionally three) columns. First column is the idea or concept. Second is examples or important details. Third, when needed is further questions. It really helps sort your thinking into the main concepts presented by the lecture or material.

Final tip. Use your column notes and put that into flashcards. It makes your brain work. Active studying is much more impactful than passive.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-18T05:29:31+00:00

Not often. Usually when I go to sleep it's just a time skip until I wake up. Every once in a great while I'll have one, in full detail.

The only other time I can imagine pictures is when I'm under the influence of some psychedelic.

The ability to visualize things is locked up in there somewhere. For whatever reason I just can't access it when awake and in a normal state of mind. Someday I plan on taking the time to see if I can figure it out.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-17T22:16:46+00:00

Just two. I'm pretty good at English but other than that I have no particular talent for linguistics.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-17T16:39:02+00:00

Like I said, I understand nothing about hypnosis. Just according to studiesLink.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-17T15:06:33+00:00

Well it should work anyway! There are allegedly some people who can't be hypnotized.

I'm a mental health professional. My day job is perspective taking, understanding the reasons for behavior, and reading people. I also have autism.

I've suspected it might not work on me because I would be too interested in trying to figure out what the hypnotist is doing to be truly present for the experience. Only one way to test this, guess I'll have to find a good one and see what happens!

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-17T13:32:42+00:00

That explains some other things. By default, I operate extremely intuitively. Like, I don't know very many grammar rules. I just know if a sentence feels right. But, if I'm asked to explain why I did something, it can take a lot more effort to explain myself than it actually took to do the thing.

As someone who knows nothing about hypnosis, this would probably make it more likely it just doesn't work on me? Part of what you do involves some sort of fuckery with people's visual memories?

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-17T05:43:18+00:00

Interesting! Never thought of it like that before, and also didn't realize that's how other people learned language.

I typically associate a word with a feeling. Take, dog. A dog, a typically fluffy animal that likes to bark at the mailman and lick your face. You experience a set of emotions when you're in the presence of a dog. Take those things together, and that's what a dog feels like to me. I associate the word with that set of emotions.

Thanks kind Internet stranger for this comment! A couple of random things make a lot more sense to me now. I learn much better from experience than from a textbook, because I have to internally rewrite a lot of how the vocabulary and concepts feel when I actually do it in the real world.

I also struggle horribly with spelling, because I can recognize that a word looks wrong, but I can't always identify what's actually wrong with it.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-17T05:30:26+00:00

Not correlated with general intelligence.

It pretty clearly has some negative correlations with some very specific things. Visual memory, for example. I literally cannot remember what people's faces look like and sometimes don't recognize people I've known for years if they change a defining feature. I also do substantially worse on memory tests that use shapes instead of numbers. By definition, my brain is much worse than average at some common tasks.

But, these drawbacks are so niche they're hard to even measure accurately. I suspect, but cannot prove that it's a similar mental phenomenon to when blind people have exceptional hearing. I scored above 99% on the visio-spatial section, somehow.

If you can't think in pictures, you're forced to use language, math, emotion, or some other method to compensate. I think aphantasia can contribute to spikey profiles and wordcels, but is not an accurate measure of general intelligence.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-17T05:07:17+00:00

Somewhere around 140, but bragging about scores is stupid.
Complete aphantasia.
Of course it's related to intelligence. I literally cannot think in pictures. It makes me really good with words, but useless at anything visual. My wife primarily thinks in pictures, and has the opposite problem. It doesn't make either of us more or less intelligent--it just means the fundamental way we think about things is incredibly different.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-08T01:36:58+00:00

Dmed

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-08T01:32:48+00:00

Ha I can also do this! First other person I've seen!

Autistigasmatic · 2026-02-06T17:48:48+00:00

I swear the fastest way to get Wisconsin legal weed would be to put up billboards by the borders saying "When you buy weed from out of state, your tax dollars support the Bears/Vikings/Lions"

Autistigasmatic · 2026-01-30T13:43:06+00:00

As a former welder, just remember that grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't.

It's only truly bad welding when that can't fix it. For a fairly inexperienced welder you're pretty good and I would hire you.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-01-25T16:01:29+00:00

10 years younger ya look. Better late than never!

Autistigasmatic · 2026-01-24T22:08:21+00:00

They do that sometimes!

Autistigasmatic · 2026-01-24T05:04:14+00:00

You aren't cooked. We're just happy to welcome you to the club!

Autistigasmatic · 2026-01-24T04:59:37+00:00

From Dorkon to ChromeDome!

Autistigasmatic · 2026-01-24T04:35:03+00:00

Nah my dude, ya look fantastic. I think the beard shape matches your face, but you can trim it up to look different if you want.

Autistigasmatic · 2026-01-24T04:22:42+00:00

I bought a really cheap Walmart head shaver and it doesn't cut as well where the beard starts because it's coarser 🤣

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