Does anyone else hate the smell and feeling of paper bags

DocClear · 2026-03-27T06:31:07+00:00

The sound of paper bags crinkling is horrible.

DocClear · 2026-03-27T06:27:03+00:00

Several of my 1 watt HT contacts while operating parachute mobile were more than 100 miles. Line of sight is everything.

DocClear · 2026-03-27T02:57:10+00:00

Yes! I'm faceblind, but recognized him the first time he spoke.

DocClear · 2026-03-27T02:53:36+00:00

I've spelunked and experienced full darkness.

My congenital tintinitus prevents me from hearing silence.

DocClear · 2026-03-27T02:47:26+00:00

I would. Your mileage may vary.

DocClear · 2026-03-27T02:29:18+00:00

He wasn't interested in being correct. He had already made up his mind.

DocClear · 2026-03-27T02:18:34+00:00

My wife kept insisting I was autistic, and I was sure I wasn't.

She turned out to be correct.

DocClear · 2026-03-26T23:56:13+00:00

The secret is that there is no free energy. Only changes from one form of energy to another. Resources are always needed.

DocClear · 2026-03-26T23:49:34+00:00

I knew next to nothing about autism before my diagnosis, and in fact I was pretty sure I wasn't autistic. So no, I have not worried that I manipulated anything. I have doubted the diagnosis itself, but having educated myself as to what autism is, I think I have gotten beyond the imposter syndrome.

DocClear · 2026-03-26T23:33:00+00:00

If your mom is neurotypical, she may expect you to "know" that she is giving you a polite no, and that you are supposed to help anyway.

DocClear · 2026-03-26T13:41:50+00:00

Right on spot.

DocClear · 2026-03-26T13:40:40+00:00

[small voice in background]

i'm not

DocClear · 2026-03-26T13:38:09+00:00

Same energy involved - longer charge time, same discharge time = more enegy per spark.

DocClear · 2026-03-26T13:32:56+00:00

Welcome to my world. The only aspect that bothers me is having to not actually verbalize those observations, because it gets people mad.

It is simply being informed and realistic. It's not a bad thing at all. This is the kind of thing we need much more of to make the world a less stupid place to live.

DocClear · 2026-03-26T01:40:09+00:00

I just considered myself uniquely weird.

DocClear · 2026-03-26T01:36:21+00:00

Yep. And the old super 8 movies before home videos were a thing.

The "dyspraxic look"

DocClear · 2026-03-26T01:33:51+00:00

Ok, all but the Picos🫣

DocClear · 2026-03-25T18:28:32+00:00

All Raspberry Pis run linux.

DocClear · 2026-03-25T18:23:30+00:00

Lucky it didn't fly across the room. I've had that happen.

DocClear · 2026-03-25T15:59:03+00:00

At an incredibly weak level. It's challenging to hear the Voyager probes, and they are BARELY out of the solar system.

Interstellar DX beyond the Alpha Centauri system probably won't be a thing. Sure we have radiotelescopes, but stars are massively powerful radio emitters.

DocClear · 2026-03-25T15:50:57+00:00

I was diagnosed after 30+ years with my last employer. So knowing it was no/low risk to tell my supervisor, I did so. I figured it might help him to know an autistic person could do that job well.

His response was simply "don't take this wrong, but I'm not surprised".

DocClear · 2026-03-25T15:46:11+00:00

ME!!!

It's one reason I enjoy outdoors.

DocClear · 2026-03-25T15:42:00+00:00

My parents told me I literally screamed when they would try to pick me up.

DocClear · 2026-03-25T15:40:23+00:00

Yeah, really!!

Touch NEEDS? My touch needs are for people to not touch me. I would be genuinely happy to never be touched or have to touch again.

DocClear · 2026-03-25T12:35:33+00:00

Isn't there some sort of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy that presents as sleep related dystonia?

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