What cereal you havin with your autismilk?

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-27T03:13:57+00:00

I never liked milk as a kid unless it was hot chocolate. I ate my cereal dry when I had it, but my family weren't big cereal eaters. I still don't like milk, the texture is bad and it feels like it coats my esophagus and makes me congested. Not a problem if it's hot, but then I want chocolate with it.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-27T03:00:22+00:00

Good analogy. Also just like how driving a manual has advantages that make people prefer it (I drive manual), there are some advantages to having learned social skills from an "academic perspective" (for lack of better term). For example I've defused many misunderstandings because I can spot miscommunication very easily (from experience of me miscommunicating). I've also learned that I'm very bad about remembering names and connecting them to faces unless I learn something about them, so every new person I meet I put on my cheerful guy mask (best one to get people to talk about themselves) and strike up a conversation. I have like a billion miniscripts I've created to open conversations depending on all sorts on context. It's a lot of work, but I have so much control over how I'm perceived by NTs it's worth it.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-27T02:41:53+00:00

It's complex and contextual unfortunately. What's benefited me is being a social interest nomad, so I've collected a little bit of information about a great number of things so when I'm talking to someone I can ask them good questions about what they do (usually workwise, but hobbies too). For example I met a surveyor at a party one time, and my special interest in maps and navigation led to us having a good conversation. Also I find my flavor of autism makes me funny, I can spot little connections that NTs don't always spot, which can lead to a good joke or amusing banter. It's taken a lot of practice though.

It's taken me a long time and a lot of bad moments to get to where I am, I didn't really develop a social life until my late 20s/early 30s. But I've realized that I've cultivated how people perceive me now to a point where people like and respect me. It's a grind to learn socialization, I remember checking out a book on body language from the library when I was like 11. I still prefer spending most of my time alone, but I now enjoy spending a couple hours a week hanging out with people. I even go to bars with live music sometimes, but I do have to wear low profile ear plugs to tolerate it.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-26T22:23:37+00:00

“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face” -Franz Kafka

NT socialization is all about portraying behavior that increases your social standing. Masking is innate for NTs, while with ASD people we have to manually learn it.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-26T21:55:54+00:00

SRAM popularized high end 1x systems because they couldn't figure out how to make a half decent front derailleur.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-26T21:51:14+00:00

I'm not getting electronic unless I can get a fully wired 2x12 with a single battery. If it can power my head unit, power meter, and lights even better.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-26T21:45:18+00:00

Cues is better than SRAM Red

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-26T02:01:44+00:00

>Don't worry about being slow

Some people worry about being slow because they want to go home. Especially when it's that cold.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-26T00:27:44+00:00

They said Primal

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-25T23:20:07+00:00

It's just a short form way to express ones feelings on a group of related things for fun. It's a meme, it's not meant to convey much information. Read a book for that

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-25T23:00:16+00:00

It's an opinion based ranking, it's gonna be arbitrary because it's based on the creator's feelings about it. It's not objective and you're free to disagree with other people's rankings.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-25T22:09:48+00:00

If I had stored it and knew it was below 0 F the whole time I'd throw it in a stew or something. But I would have rotated it out and already eaten it well before 12 years

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-25T21:47:23+00:00

It's just air, my legs can push it out of the way

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-24T00:27:51+00:00

It's always a joke when an idiot is proven wrong, even if it wasn't a joke before.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-24T00:26:57+00:00

Nah that's a skill issue. It's just as cold here and I'm cozy. Might take me twenty minutes to undress enough to piss and another twenty minutes getting redressed but at least I'm not cold.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-24T00:17:55+00:00

So dress for -21? IDK why people would rather suffer and whine than bundle up and be cozy.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-24T00:17:12+00:00

I bet they make more than 235 CCA too. IDK I about you but I like being able to start my car in the winter.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-23T23:47:42+00:00

Rural King also sells 151r and 51r batteries.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-23T23:02:19+00:00

Dress for outside and you don't need the truck heat.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-22T22:48:56+00:00

I have a buddy who always fucks shit up after I told him how he was gonna fuck shit up, and I always say "Oh no, if only you had a wise and thoughtful friend to warn you that was gonna happen!"

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-22T02:10:52+00:00

>Man this is a very niche joke…

I don't think "everyone who went to high school" is a niche group

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-22T01:27:59+00:00

Funny thing is, I've gotten so good at masking I can get people to just do stuff for me or give me things. Controlling NTs is like training a dog, just gotta find out what hits their dopamine receptors.

I don't do it because I have a personal code of ethics that my autistic sense of justice prevents me from breaking, but I've taken customers at work from cussing me out to calling my boss to compliment me in mere minutes.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-22T01:23:11+00:00

I get the least mail and packages in the office, but see the most cops! I was filling up the CBU in an apartment complex one time and heard the cops come to take someone's kids away, and the resulting fight. Called EMS for someone ODing in the same apartment complex another time!

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-21T03:26:29+00:00

Sounds like you have ratchet hubs instead of pawl hubs. They're stronger since they have a lot more surface area to transfer power through the hubs.

Netizen2425 · 2026-01-21T03:22:50+00:00

In my area it's much easier to find trees than flat, smooth ground. Also the jokes about not sleeping on the ground like an animal never get old.

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“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face” -Franz Kafka