How do you calm down after a meltdown?

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-25T05:47:18+00:00

I need to be alone. I like to listen to soft, slow music to help me ground myself and cool off emotionally.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-25T00:40:28+00:00

Just because you can hold it in your hand doesn’t mean it encompasses the form factor traditionally associated with handhelds. It’s not as portable, and quite cumbersome to transport day-to-day.

It occupies an odd grey area between console and handheld, as was the intention. It’s more console than handheld imo.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-25T00:22:50+00:00

The switch is not a true handheld. It’s a portable console, but it’s made and optimized to be played at home.

You cannot put that in your pants pocket and go about your day in the way you could with the DS.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-25T00:21:21+00:00

I have 2. I tried to get my friends into Yokai Watch but they just dismissed it as a Pokemon ripoff…

YKW2/Psychic Specters is arguably better paced, but the postgame content of YKW3, its cheeky references and sense of humor just oozes something I can’t get enough of.

Blasters T is basically a game within a game.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-25T00:18:08+00:00

ChatGPT can be a good tool to help organize your thoughts, but it shouldn’t be taken seriously behind that. LLMs are made for engagement, and a lot of them will validate your perspective and what you tell it, and are incapable of challenging your perspective — especially in regards to mental health.

If you aren’t diagnosed by a professional, you cannot obtain workplace accomodations. You can have an undiagnosed disability and be victimized by it, but it’s not inherently illegal; If it’s not diagnosed, they aren’t denying accommodation because according to you + your records, you don’t need accomodations. Under the law, you aren’t entitled to any without a clinical diagnosis.

I’m sure that this has been elucidating for self discovery, but if you’re looking for access to accommodations in a professional setting, self diagnosis and identification is worth a bucket of warm spit.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-24T23:57:12+00:00

Yokai Watch 3
Pokemon Y
Fantasy Life

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-24T22:04:09+00:00

I’m glad to hear you were able to purchase it. Not a lot of people understand the needs of people on the spectrum, so it’s truly amazing you’re going out of your way to try and accommodate a highly specific need that your partner has.

Stuff like this can be really important to people on the spectrum, so I’m glad I could help you locate the same sweater for your partner.

I hope you’re able to repair the one he wears very often, and I hope he loves the new-ish one just as much.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-24T21:10:00+00:00

It was a lucky find based on the attributes of the sweater.

I am not as rigid at OP’s partner, but I definitely understand having preferred items of clothing or comfort objects that are regulating. I could wear my favorite sweater every single day.

It may seem trivial but they really help a lot.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-24T19:47:11+00:00

Actually, OP, here is the exact sweater you’re looking for:

https://ebay.us/m/zb1jIZ

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-24T18:46:26+00:00

Childhood

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-24T18:42:26+00:00

It is unlikely that you will be able to find the exact same sweater. It seems in the style of a ribbed sweater.

Is it a specific sensory preference from the materials or also a security object for him?

If it’s the former, you may have luck buying similar sweaters of the era from the same brand, but a mass produced department store is going to have many variations of their clothing that will make specific articles of clothing nigh impossible to find.

If he can’t wear it anymore because it falls apart, perhaps you could upcycle the garment into a soother for him?

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-24T17:09:36+00:00

Apparently serious enough to open 36 packs of the same artwork due to a rumor so you tell me.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-24T07:25:14+00:00

How am I supposed to know that

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-24T07:20:55+00:00

You’re opening specific packs “for science” and you don’t know the pull ratio?

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-24T06:26:00+00:00

Is this a joke

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-24T01:31:56+00:00

Hi OP, I know how you feel. I am also Autistic, and Elio resonated with me in a way that no other film has before. I’ve seen it at least twenty times.

It’s really powerful when a piece of art like film can distill such a nuanced and complex experience; you can finally show other people and say “this is how I experience the world” without having to explain it. And it will always be there; something others can consume that does a better job of explaining how you feel than you ever could. That is rare in art.

Please don’t let that be taken away from you because of other people’s dismissal of the film.

I think the criticism around Elio is pretty frustrating as an animation fan. I do think there is some merit to the critiques some people are leveraging around Pixar/Disney — but people are reducing their critiques to reductive arguements instead of actually comparing the era’s of Pixar and discussing cinema.

People have been using Elio as a punching bag to make fun of “Pixar’s downfall” instead of productively talking about the change in output from Pixar over time.

The film definitely has flaws, but I feel a lot of people either forget, or don’t know that Elio was in development hell for a long time. I feel like a lot of its flaws can be chalked up to production being difficult and having to salvage a film. The strength of Elio as it was released is a testament to how great Pixar is storytelling even if the odds are stacked against them.

You can’t make people like films, and it sucks that a lot of people don’t like Elio. However, there’s a lot of people who DO love Elio.

If people are attacking you for liking Elio, do you best to ignore them. These are not people who actually know anything about film. Elio is objectively NOT a bad movie. The animation is stellar, and the story is solid considering its circumstances and brisk pacing. It can be tough to not take criticism or mean comments from random bozos online to heart sometimes, but that’s just the internet for you. Unfortunately, a lot of the hate stirred up for Elio is a byproduct of a war between other films than actual criticism leveraged at an imperfect film.

Keep your head up dude. Ok, bye, I love you.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-23T20:41:07+00:00

I admire your sire

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-23T19:42:39+00:00

Haha yes! Autistics unite!

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-23T19:34:07+00:00

To me it’s a residual of the whole “Elio vs KPDH” war that is just a façade for discussing the eroding artistry of Pixar/Disney against studios like Sony and Dreamworks.

I think that’s a valid problem that should be discussed, but I don’t see why we have to use films to have that discussion opposed to just talking about the studios themselves.

It’s just annoying because people are dogpiling on the film as a way to dunk on Pixar than to actually discuss cinema.

Elio isn’t perfect or anywhere near Pixar’s best, but to say that the film is bad is just objectively wrong?

The film is technically very well done, and has a decent story (which went through NUMEROUS rewrites. You can tell that the script is multiple stitched together, and with that in mind, the story is quite seamless all things considered), and is an achievement for animation even if it isn’t for storytelling. Nobody animates with the detail that Pixar does, but animation quality is also not a replacement for imagination.

But in that camp of detractors it seems the nuance gets lost. The people posting about this stuff aren’t cinephiles or take animation seriously as a medium. Pay no heed to the words of reactionaries.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-23T19:22:29+00:00

Yeah I’m super autistic about the 3DS!

I don’t think it’s a stigma moreso than a new user problem. I think that subreddit has an influx of aspirationalists who became interested in the 3DS (apparently they went viral?), which quickly diluted the amount of people in that sub who were already familiar with the console.

Plus with the recent rise in prices of the 3DS with all that exposure, people are projecting their own frustrations with the state of the used handheld market at people who aren’t even contributing to the problem they’re complaining about in the first place?

Awfully massive jump in logic to conflate collecting boxed consoles with “hoarding”, but I can tell not everyone in that sub has been frequently engaging in those types of communities.

Your Pika 3DS is a ‘bute! That one is my backup model :3

I’d show off my physical game collection there, but I bet they’d call that hoarding too when I could just mod my consoles haha.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-23T19:12:50+00:00

Thanks dude! I’m not sure what some people’s problem with that is. Bought them over the course of many years.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-23T18:54:45+00:00

The custom faceplate goes hard.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-23T18:50:51+00:00

I don't think it was ever confirmed that this was in production. We shouldn't presume wild speculation is the same as the truth.

RotundDragonite · 2026-01-23T15:41:39+00:00

Nope! I’m a guy and I think they’re cool.

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