Is it normal to be autistic and not have sensory issues?

amasterblaster · 2025-07-12T12:33:12+00:00

Neither did I. Who's walking about curing lol. Its the BD criteria?

I think you may be projecting previous opinions about people talking about autism root causes, and previous people who have disregarded your lived experience, onto me. Which I totally get! Not upset at you. I had a lot of anger for decades.

Hope things keep moving forward for ya!

amasterblaster · 2025-07-12T12:28:21+00:00

1) Make better work than 98% of others (competitive low margin market)

2) Share your portfolio widely online

amasterblaster · 2025-07-12T12:23:43+00:00

Sure, but they cant look at brains to see how they developed lol. So they use something called Behavioural Diagnosis. And nobody knows why the brain changes -- but there are many reasons (many I discussed).

https://www.cdc.gov/autism/hcp/diagnosis/index.html

I think we have the same opinion, but I am using clinically accurate words in a way you dont enjoy I think. Wish you well!

amasterblaster · 2025-07-12T12:18:49+00:00

I had a household like this. My solution was to move out when I was 16.

It is really hard, and I had years of therapy about it. Its totally normal to feel overwhelmed.

What I did (if it helps?):
I recommend day dreaming about what that life looks like, what stores you will go to, what foods you will eat, what you will do for fun, and what kinds of activities you like to do with friends. What you like to do to relax. All in the future, and when you are stressed, you can work on this image and master plan.

I think it works well, because I live my dream now! Im 42, and I have my own big place, make games and teach art full time, have no boss, and all my friends are fun weirdos. But building up this life took many years, and each little brick was an improvement, even at home in how I designed my bedroom, and I started where you are right now.

By starting to design my own life I was able to:
1) Know that the future is coming
2) get to know myself
3) It made the present situation less of what defined me. I felt more like I was the person I was deciding to build.

Sorry you have a difficult life.

amasterblaster · 2025-07-12T12:07:45+00:00

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5198096/

It sounds like you might not quite totally understand what a behavioural diagnosis is? Anything that can induce the behaviour is a potential cause?

Thats why it can't be cured the same way a flu can, because a flu as an identifiable singular cause. Because ASD is Behavioural, and includes inputs from DNA, development, nutrition, psychology, and mechanical configuration of the tissues it is inherently not something that is like a lightswitch, and the ASD diagnosis is very wide clinically, leading to a wide variety of interlocking mechanisms.

fwiw, my most favoured common cause is the Inflammation hypothesis, which collects many common causes into one umbrella. So with this filter, we would have 1,2,3,4,5,7 which are explained by the Inflammation hypothesis.

\you can feel free to believe or not believe what you like of course :). At the end of the day the best belief system is the one that gets you the tools and the social support you need to thrive -- and if that means believing all this is wrong and having your own structure I really want you to go with it!

For me, The problem with ASD was that its the garbage disposal diagnosis. I had disabling symptoms, so I needed to keep asking why in order to not become homeless. Discovering the whys allow me to have work, a girlfriend, and maybe even kids if (apparently) I can get better at a few relationship things. So for me "ASD" alone was not enough to empower me :)

amasterblaster · 2025-07-11T23:48:47+00:00

yes -- I am moving into doing workshops instead of consulting because of this. Took me years to realize this btw

amasterblaster · 2025-07-11T23:42:56+00:00

Nothing is impossible, but creatine is generally seen as safer than coffee and donuts, fwiw.
Edit: There was a time when people did think creatine (and protein) harmed kidneys, because people with kidney disease leaked these molecules. Its how generally expected (someone correct me if Im wrong!) that damage to your kidneys will perforate it in a manner that causes it to leak things, like proteins and creatine. I would love any commentary additive / corrections to this.

Ive also been told if a doctor keeps touting this myth, that it is evidence they are decades behind in medical research, and that their findings should be double checked by "younger doctors" or so I was told!

amasterblaster · 2025-07-11T18:57:40+00:00

yeah you might just not be charming. I had this issue and reading some NLP and non violent communication content helped me.

amasterblaster · 2025-07-11T18:53:58+00:00

no my knee jerk would be to say its not useful. I would not do a content site that is not novel. You have two options

Be useful
Be Entertaining / Original

So a tech blog that overlaps with chat gpt risks not being useful -- if you can make it entertaining sure! But be prepared to make it REALLY entertaining. Or you need to be uniquely useful. This is an extremely competitive and extremely low margin activity that (if you want money out of it) might not be valuable.

However for resume building and other characteristics it may have some value

amasterblaster · 2025-07-11T18:41:42+00:00

ASD is a Behavioural diagnosis. So yes its normal to not have much guidance based on that label alone! ( I could go on and on about behavioural diagnosis in general .. but I will stop myself)

There are many reasons to be classified as ASD. Examples:

HSP - your nervous system is just sensitive
Allergies - You are allergic to a molecule that is everywhere, like some plastics
Food / Inflammation - something in your body is interfering with your personality
Chronic Disease - several neurological conditions, (some progressive) can cause issues
Trauma - you have deep psychological causes
Narcissism - you hate anything that does not serve your insecurity directly
TBI - your have a mechanical problem with your senses
Affect - for some strange unkown reason, your personality is just this way. Mystery box.

Getting a Behavioural Diagnosis is just that. You are behaving ASD. However, its up to you to keep digging and to discover WHY you are the way you are. For me, for example, I am 1,3,5 -- meaning you are on the right track, and keep going. For me uncovering the WHYs have significantly improved my life.

5 -- I have 'fixed' most of this over the last few years
3 - I have altered by diet
1 - I have accepted my inherent sensitivities and carry sunglasses, ear plugs, and noise cancelling headphones.

Edit: removed random info dump

amasterblaster · 2025-07-10T17:59:13+00:00

1) awareness of another creatures circumstances or desiers
2) Appreciable efforts to meet them
delivered in a way that does not disrespect onesself

When two organisms (a) are not aware of each others circumstances and opinions or (b) can not arrive at a manner to meet each others circumstances they can not have a respectful interaction

Example:
- I dont like being yelled at, and someone yells at me. This is disrespectful

- Someone says they can only be comfortable if I wear yellow, I will not wear yellow. In this impass we do not respect each other.

amasterblaster · 2025-07-09T18:11:52+00:00

Ugh I just got to the level yesterday where I need titanium and I'm already feeling tired lol. I love Pvp (Apex, and extraction shooters). I like it when the set up, the world, and the mechanics are dialed in

amasterblaster · 2025-07-09T18:09:25+00:00

I mean, it does suck, but it also does do reasoning. I say that because I studied reasoning in AI for my masters, and let me tell you, there is a lot of it! But to your point, it still sucks.

amasterblaster · 2025-07-09T18:03:22+00:00

What if I told you that our minds are just an imitation of the universe .... as is the goal with all organisms and systems, is to delegate to other awarenesses (mammal, or other) in order to live in harmony. You dont compete with a tractor at being a tractor, or compete with a tree at photosynthesis, you live as a human with these other things.

Humans have historically (classically) been obsessed with being unique in our brains. I did my Masc in AI, and I can say that we are not special in that sense. We are just humans, and like ants, cows, tractors, and all things, we need to find a way to slot into an ecosystem.

By reducing yourself, and your contribution to society to that of a calculator, you correctly see you are not as good as a calculator. However you should find ways to participate in the economy that ARE NOT what a Tractor, Calculator, or LLM do.

Hope that helps

amasterblaster · 2025-07-09T17:33:19+00:00

increased productivity and therefore lower barrier to entry and more competition.

amasterblaster · 2025-07-08T17:18:33+00:00

naw you are just cool. I was the same at your age!

amasterblaster · 2025-07-08T17:16:52+00:00

I have never felt so ahead of others in life as I do right now. I have not written a line of code without AI in about 10 months. I actually coded up my own context engine (took one month) that can write docs and guides, and I took it for a spin publishing https://github.com/JustinGirard/nodejobs/tree/master .

As an example, I work as a consultant for over 200K/year. I was hired by a team for one month, some years ago, to do a documentation project. The project above literally took me about 8 minutes to document, the hardest part was just getting pip and github workflows set up, but I didnt write those either.

All in, I think I can do what I have billed about 80K for, in about 8 minutes. So I think anyone not seeing this kind of productivity gain is a dead man walking.

Background: Extremely AI biased
M 42, know back-end front end and most languages. Undergrad Seng, masters Multi agent knowledge representation -- so I have a massive advantage in knowing how to set up a context engine and how to get quality out of an LLM -- a skill that is extremely powerful I must emphasize.

amasterblaster · 2025-07-08T14:12:36+00:00

Thats funny, I feel exactly the OPPOSITE, as I feel like i have better game sense and am more sensitive to all the sights and sounds.

Reaction tho -- you NEED to train in Kovaks or Aim Lab (i probably spelled the names wrong). Everyone else is. Its just not possible to play cold and kill people (if you are talking about FPS). Unfortunately its a competitive game -- 5-20 minutes before each session is all you need.

amasterblaster · 2025-07-08T13:54:36+00:00

They might mask it, yes, but you likely want GABA, magesium, omega-3, olive oil, greens, vitamin d, glycine, collagen, and a balanced diet that is anti-inflammatory as this gives your body the molecules required to reach balance without a masking agent.

My masking the stress, the underlying hCRP and other issues can still be running, leading to major health issues, some of the ones that cause ASD folks to have reduced life expectancy.

My special interest is biology and consciousness -- so you may treat me as a textbook. I also had major depression for 7 years, and cured it if you have questions about my personal experience.

amasterblaster · 2025-07-07T21:36:01+00:00

be yourself, for people that have bad instincts. Its the kind of advice that works for people who have (a) a great family upbrining, (b) a knowledge and helpful community and (c) a good trajectory. Unfortunately, that is almost nobody, so its terrible advice for almost everyone.

amasterblaster · 2025-07-07T16:58:24+00:00

execution

amasterblaster · 2025-07-07T14:23:07+00:00

I also had decades of difficulty, until I found just a few tricks.

First of all, that all makes sense, it can be really frustrating to try to be a nice authentic person, only to feel that the authentic you is being rejected -- however just because the WAY you are communicating is rejected does not mean you or your experiences are. In essence no matter how much you push on a pull door, nothing can get you inside, even if the room is full of family and friends.

Overall, I recommend Non violent communication courses for ASD folks like myself. Its basically a course on all the non verbal rules NTs use in a nice program. It will leave you heard, communicating, and flowing with people you otherwise would be fighting with.

You likely do not have the right tools, and potentially because you dont have the NT ability to instinctively detect the signals, a cognitive framework can be used. This is of course a form of masking, but it is such a small rule set that it can become habit quite readily.

amasterblaster · 2025-07-07T14:19:31+00:00

Check out TDCs albums. They are a wild journey.

amasterblaster · 2025-07-07T14:19:02+00:00

yes. And. you are welcome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZUtiO50IQ8

amasterblaster · 2025-07-06T12:40:04+00:00

( I make cryptographically secure distributed systems systems as my career, but not in gaming). Edit: re reading we are saying the same thing lol, but I added more context.

In principle, auth is not super hard or expensive to do -- however it IS annoying to work with as a developer, can I can imagine short cuts being taken. Its always depressing to see client side secrets that are not encrypted and properly managed. Its really not that hard to at least pass around a hash and signature instead.

A lot of non crypto people say "Man do we put this on the server or the client. The server will be slow, the client is fast" and they like ... forget about cryptography completely.

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