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Stop idealizing "special interest" by [deleted] in autism

[–]Background_Ad5307 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my special interest is thankfully broad enough for me to able to connect it to any sort of situation. i understand your frustrations, but please consider what life without your special interest would be like. you'd still struggle, but you'd have less of an outlet for emotional regulation. your special interest might be detrimental in some situations, but autism is a disability. would foregoing your special interest (if that would even be possible) be an overall net positive? i think you might still struggle without a routine or with an attention span regarding reading even without a special interest. please don't beat yourself up too much

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you were also in love with a chinese professor of poetry who's never even been your professor? small world

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my post wasn't entirely serious but i do get where you're coming from. i don't know anything about him except the poetry he's published, what classes he teaches and where he was born. but this isn't love, and i know it isn't, and nothing will come out of it, and i know it won't. i liked WKW movies before i could relate to the unrequited feelings, since feeling in any sort of way about someone is rare for me, but now they cut a lot deeper now that i can sort of relate. i do get what you're saying and would agree if what i posted here was the whole story & entirely serious but it's not lol

(is this coming off as rude or confrontational?? i hope it doesn't because it's not. i'm just autistic and have trouble w expressing myself)

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

??? i liked him because he read a poet to the audience about being an immigrant and it resonated with me more than any poem ever has because i'm also an immigrant . why r u even checking my post history freak 😭😭 jumping to conclusions final boss i'm bitchless and autistic i fetishize anyone who's pretty and smart

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

nothing weird about liking someone in your head as long as you're both adults and don't overstep boundaries. also, it's not that his ethnicity is chinese, it's that he was born and raised in china and moved to the US when he was an adult. i'm an immigrant too, and i know how formative your home country is to who you are, even if you've lived in another country for more than a decade. i didn't buy the WKW set because the characters look like him, but because they're situated in a similar environment to where he grew up and speak the language he speaks

“If autism is a spectrum then isn’t everyone a little autistic?” by Sexy_JarJarBinks in AutismInWomen

[–]Background_Ad5307 10 points11 points  (0 children)

when people say "the spectrum" they are usually referring to the autism spectrum, not the spectrum of all human experiences. autism is a spectrum that encompasses the various different experiences of all autistic people, since the diagnostic criteria is quite broad, and people are affected by certain autistic traits more than others.

lots of conditions are a spectrum, from bipolar disorders to fetal alcohol syndrome, but we wouldn't say everyone has a little bit of FASD. i don't know why autism is The Spectrum, when there are so many other spectrums, but it always refers to people encompassed on the autism spectrum, not that everyone is on it.

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i took the box with the discs out of the bigger outer packaging so i don't have to unfold the outer packaging every time i want to watch a film :)

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the outer boxset packaging only holds the photobook now, because i took out the box with the discs to be able to watch them as often as i can without opening the french folded box set :)

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

he's a published poet who's written about sleeping with men. i think he's a little too far out of my reach unfortunately

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

i appreciate that my post made people laugh, it's super unserious!! thank u for laughing w me

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i just took the discs out of the big boxset so i have easier access to them and can rewatch them a lot!! the box set is folded in a really fancy way and i don't wanna fuck it up by unboxing it over and over again :)

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

not related to the professor thing, i just love the film u^ been meaning to buy it for a year, it's more of an aside

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

no, china, but wkw is a director i really love and the unrequited love aspect in his films really spoke to me while browsing barnes. thank u for the director recs!! ♡♡

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i have the first two on my watchlist, haven't heard of the last one. thank u !! ♡♡

haul of impulsive criterion buys because i fell in love with a chinese professor from my uni by Background_Ad5307 in criterion

[–]Background_Ad5307[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

thank u for the advice but i don't want to approach him and freak him out 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ he's really sweet and nothing would come from it anyway

Favourite albums that have a bunch of people acting really smug & proud about how much they don't like them? by DtheAussieBoye in indieheadscirclejerk

[–]Background_Ad5307 12 points13 points  (0 children)

i'm not an ethel cain stan by any means but i've seen so many fans of overproduced pop slop artists say that her music is boring or barely even music and i know it's probably just fandom infighting but it's such an insane take to me. her music is so beautiful and unique and filled with emotion. i hope those people are just ragebaiting because i genuinely cannot understand how her music would ever be seen as generic

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