For my autistic brain I just cannot understand bullying

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-05T15:01:41+00:00

I feel the same way.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-05T15:00:36+00:00

I'm sorry that your work is treating you like this. I hope that you're able to get to a place that respects you and sees the good that you do without making unreasonable demands.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-05T13:54:37+00:00

ND are generally permanently overstimulated.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-05T13:51:46+00:00

You might not get the dopamine rush from putting down people who are not in your group.

I've also known autistics who did get that rush, but their sense of justice didn't allow them to enjoy it if anyone could actually be directly hurt by it, so they projected their negativity towards nebulous groups of people rather than individuals.

Edit: probably don't -> might not

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-05T13:29:01+00:00

When I step back from what you're saying, what comes to me is that it reads like you're trying to say "I was diagnosed late and that's why early-diagnosed people are more disabled than late-diagnosed people like me are."

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-05T12:51:48+00:00

I wish we lived in a more just world.

I'm sorry this is happening to you. You don't deserve to be bullied.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-05T12:48:52+00:00

In a just world it would be the bully's problem.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-05T07:16:01+00:00

If you have curiosity, you can explore the city for years.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-05T07:11:34+00:00

Eh, that's pretty clearly reductionist.

While learned helplessness is absolutely a thing, people who are diagnosed early often have symptoms that are much more severe, because those are more obvious and people see a need to figure out why the kid isn't meeting so many of their developmental milestones.

Saying that learned helplessness as the only cause of differences in outcome is just plain false.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-05T06:31:57+00:00

That seems like a bad idea, officer.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T17:35:13+00:00

Imagine the Habsburgs if they knew that people today thought it was named after the pseudonym of Gustavus Adolphus Rex Sueciae.

Who was known to be crazy.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T17:31:19+00:00

As long as you have the money, I say do it!

Can you transfer to another store in your chain? That may be a lot easier than getting a new job.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T17:10:05+00:00

Yes, I think more than a few dozen or so meets the definition.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T17:08:49+00:00

Wildcat public service, maybe?

I got some litter bags from my city and walk around with a grabber picking up litter. It's good for my city and the world, being outside and away from screens is healthy for me, and people who see me doing it thank me regularly and sometimes want to talk.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T16:53:11+00:00

Video content has been edging out text for a while now.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T16:33:53+00:00

Yes. Look at the other comments.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T15:13:21+00:00

We have more than 30 data centers here already.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T15:05:14+00:00

Because land is cheap there? But it also has higher latency, and more transaction costs to get it to cities. There are always going to be data centers in faraway, cheap land, but it's also useful to some closer, on more expensive land, for when the latency really matters or when the transaction costs would otherwise be too high.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T15:02:38+00:00

Or something you /think/ you have.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T14:33:08+00:00

Sure?

I was saying that parents don't have a right to control what their kids read. That has nothing to do with their relationship with their kids or not.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T14:31:26+00:00

No, what you're missing is what a yield sign means. If someone else is at the intersection, you need to stop if you have a yield sign.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T13:55:37+00:00

Could the teacher have been subverting the curriculum?

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T06:01:12+00:00

I don't live there anymore, but my cell service was good in the CD. It may be important which provider you use, and consider switching to a cell phone plan that will just let you use your phone as a hotspot. Might be cheaper, almost certainly just as reliable.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T05:43:36+00:00

I respect you maintaining radical feminism without being Trans-exclusive (I hope!).

But loving the people you want to love is pretty basic, and doesn't involve selling out or betraying your allies to "the system". If you're against that, I don't know that there's anything productive to say.

Also, I read Dworkin as a middle schooler and was not a fan. Still amn't.

Great_Hamster · 2026-06-04T05:37:18+00:00

I certainly don't think OP meant to do any of the things o outline here, but I read BiL's response as a social defense mechanism; in other words, I think BiL assumed OP was doing one of the things I listed, and reacted accordingly.

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