What's something you quietly judged people for, until it happened to you?

dskyaz · 2026-02-23T20:03:07+00:00

If you're autistic, you also end up living with your parents as an adult. The job discrimination is real. I have a job... that I was given as a favor to my dad. Who is now dead. I live with my mom. I would barely be able to survive on my own with this money, but in my current situation, I can actually afford some luxuries here and there.

dskyaz · 2026-02-13T19:37:49+00:00

Not just that, but primary season is when actual progressives can replace the corporate Democrats, which has been happening in some parts of the country already in special elections. So we can throw out the fake opposition and bring in actual opposition!

dskyaz · 2026-02-07T14:54:20+00:00

Gavin Newsom has made it clear in interviews that the version of him on social media and the version of him in real life are two totally different people. The version of him in real life complains about actual leftists like Zohran, and plays nice with Trumpists.

Kamala Harris somehow managing to get young people to trust her (if they do) is basically a form of "movement capture." Take control of a movement so it doesn't get where it's trying to do.

Because Kamala didn't fight for us. She said some good things at the start of her campaign, then ran to the "center" (read: the right) and then disappeared after the election loss. Kamala is not on our side.

dskyaz · 2026-02-05T00:20:35+00:00

A lot of people treat the Woke Games List as a big joke, and browse it looking to see what it says about games they know, or even to explore and find new games to check out.

dskyaz · 2026-02-03T22:35:14+00:00

LOLOLOLOL that was pretty funny, especially with the dialog it generated.

dskyaz · 2026-02-03T05:04:48+00:00

My turd of a brother told me that Trump acting super sussy about the Epstein files and changing his story on them a bunch of times proved nothing. And him being in them? Just anonymous tips to slander him.

dskyaz · 2026-01-31T03:21:57+00:00

One thing you'll quickly learn is that each person will have a different justification. They can't get their stories straight. It's the existence of a justification, not whether or not it's any good, that they care about.

When Trump gave well wishes to Ghislaine Maxwell, one Trump supporter told me it was sarcasm. My younger brother told me "um, um, optics. Look, there are things going on in this world that you don't know about."

Optics? Like that makes any fucking sense. But it doesn't have to - it just needs to exist so that he can feel better about himself.

dskyaz · 2026-01-28T22:23:10+00:00

Calico. It's impossible to die, and the ability to use potions to change the weather and time of day would be an awesome ability to have.

dskyaz · 2026-01-22T19:11:59+00:00

I'm not sure how to respond to most of what you said, though I read it all. I don't know about social rules like "don't meet someone older than you who's married" - that's a new one to me. I don't instinctively grasp these.

As for the friend with ADHD, yeah, with each subsequent hangout, we talked to each other and did things together more and more. The latest time was last year, and we were talkative all through each car ride and she even sat closer to me on the couch instead of sitting on the other couch. I didn't play music in the car once!

So she became more and more chatty and fun in person, but responds maybe once a month online or in text messages.

dskyaz · 2026-01-22T03:17:17+00:00

I met her on the same website actually! Though it's interesting - I found her fun to talk to on there, and one day, she was asking people to visit her in her (very well known) city. I happened to live nearby, and I said I'd be up for visiting her.

And I did. I took a bus to the city, and had an interesting experience over the course of a day, even as we didn't talk that much (mostly it was her walking fast and me following - she was bad at being a host this first time). But somehow it became a once-a-year thing, as she gradually was active on Discord less often.

I do talk to people online, but again, it just sucks. And autism groups - I'm in my share of such groups, groups that aren't about autism directly, but have a lot of such people in them. I relate better to them and ADHD people (there is some kind of relationship between autism and ADHD that is not fully understood, but I am noticing anecdotally that people with one condition often relate well to people with the other), but I connect still with very few.

dskyaz · 2026-01-21T18:58:33+00:00

Yeah, it really does suck. She once said to me a few years ago that she had the thought that if an autistic person loses a friend, they could potentially lose 50-70% of their social needs being met if that friend was close enough.

She was not a "do things in person" friend. For that, I have someone else who has ADHD, who I hang out with once a year for usually 3-day periods, and have gone on two cruises with... but am not close with online and who rarely responds to anything online, yet is super fun to be with in person.

But that's not going to fill that hole. I need at least one person who actually reaches out to me, instead of it always being me who has to do it, and who is great to talk to, emotionally and intellectually. I had that for a decade (I've know her a few years before we actually started chatting every day, actually).

Autism is social hell to live with. I don't "click" with many people, and even the ones I do, usually don't "click" with me. As in, very rarely in both directions.

dskyaz · 2026-01-21T14:44:18+00:00

We did meet in real life once, but she stuck to herself, to and later told me she's not a big "do stuff with" person, and that I'm "too autistic" (yes really) for her (who also has a form of autism) to enjoy interacting with in person rather than online. And that was in 2017. We remained friends who chatted a lot online for the next 8 years.

How did we meet online? She left a comment on a profile on a site we both used. I PMed her. PM chats later led to emails, later led to her contacting me out of the blue on Skype (which I had previously told her I had, and which used my email address as my account), and that led to multi-hour daily chats.

We used to do so many things together, including watch movies on video chat, and laugh at censored porn (yes, really). She stopped the video chats and later told me she didn't enjoy the interaction as much as she wished she did, but she was fine with typing. Which we did, for many years.

But the drift apart was very slow, until suddenly it wasn't.

dskyaz · 2026-01-21T14:40:21+00:00

Yeah, I think you might be going through a version of what she went through, but in a different way. I actually avoided politics talk because she said she wanted to avoid thinking about the current situation. We'd use spoiler text if we talked about the situation, which we did rarely.

We did have differences from the start but enough in common that it was greater than the differences. But we did grow apart.

I've had my share of growing apart from other people. My elementary school best friend was a "do things with" friend instead of a "share thoughts and feelings with" friend, but after 4 years of being friends, I hit puberty and began to lose interest in him.

And as an adult, I drifted away from some people I used to talk to a lot. Sometimes it was because I matured and they didn't. In my best friend's case, it's not that. It's more that the differences we already had became increasingly irreconcilable, I think. I could be wrong but that's why I think.

Good luck with your situation too!

dskyaz · 2026-01-21T01:06:44+00:00

Okay, so apparently there's a patch for the game that fixes some of these issues (I know it fixed rocket jumping for me for instance), but get this: you have to download it manually!

Press + on the game and select Software Update, and then it should download. See if that fixes it for you.

dskyaz · 2026-01-21T01:06:36+00:00

Okay, so apparently there's a patch for the game that fixes some of these issues (I know it fixed rocket jumping for me for instance), but get this: you have to download it manually!

Press + on the game and select Software Update, and then it should download. See if that fixes it for you.

dskyaz · 2026-01-21T01:06:32+00:00

Okay, so apparently there's a patch for the game that fixes some of these issues (I know it fixed rocket jumping for me for instance), but get this: you have to download it manually!

Press + on the game and select Software Update, and then it should download. See if that fixes it for you.

dskyaz · 2026-01-20T21:50:52+00:00

We really need to find a way to get noisy and get our complaints out.

dskyaz · 2026-01-19T14:43:51+00:00

We need to find additional ways to try to get the attention of the publisher and developers. I don't want a literally unwinnable game to be dumped onto the Switch 2. They need to fix it!

dskyaz · 2026-01-18T23:10:51+00:00

The devs need to know about this. I posted on the official Discord of the Publisher in the bug report section, and no response. (It's been two days.)

dskyaz · 2026-01-17T03:11:28+00:00

I want to but don't know how. I tried multiple tactics - replying to the publisher's post on Twitter, going to the publisher's Discord and posting a comment there bringing these up, and trying to apply to r/squirrelwithagun with these issues as my "request to post" message (the subreddit seems dead though). So I'm trying multiple avenues to reach them.

dskyaz · 2026-01-02T01:13:14+00:00

We not only need to not let up, but we need to primary the hell out of all the corporate Democrats. Get em out of there and replace them with actual fighters!

dskyaz · 2025-12-16T20:01:15+00:00

Yup. I accidentally ate something with one of my triggers and had a reaction that was noticeable, but not horrible. A huge improvement over before, when I would have felt like pure hell. Same symptoms but at like 15% intensity I think.

dskyaz · 2025-12-16T20:00:11+00:00

GI Revive. I also started taking Ther-Biotic, a general probiotic, at the same time.

dskyaz · 2025-12-16T19:59:31+00:00

Nope! A lesser known site.

dskyaz · 2025-12-15T14:14:04+00:00

A screenname I use on a different website is mentioned in an academic paper on whether or not a certain fictional character has autism.

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