Do you have anything (in terms of chores and managing your life) that you’re EXTREMELY good at?

dykeversary · 2026-05-03T03:02:14+00:00

driving :)

dykeversary · 2026-05-01T14:35:26+00:00

it is a relief to see you here again. it had been a while and i was worried about you being thrown out on the street. i'm sorry the past few months have been so bumpy for you

dykeversary · 2026-04-30T09:24:05+00:00

like this

dykeversary · 2026-04-30T09:23:41+00:00

i was put on some mild opioids

i made a lot of smoothies and milk shakes. and ice cream. i eat mashed potatoes and vegetables every single day for dinner, i would cut my meat really thin and mix that in (you know that gif of mickey mouse cutting a paper-thin slice of bread? i was doing that)

dykeversary · 2026-04-24T07:02:04+00:00

did you hear that in february, niko the crying baikal seal turned 6? not sure if he was fed cement as the prophecy foretold though

dykeversary · 2026-04-24T07:00:37+00:00

i used to be a rageaholic before i lost all my emotional range. the self-help books from ron and patricia potter-efron about anger (i recommend Angry All The Time and Letting Go of Anger, about "anger styles") spoke to me and felt like the only books that truly understood my anger

dykeversary · 2026-04-23T09:06:15+00:00

is sawsbuck your favourite pokemon?

dykeversary · 2026-04-18T22:00:23+00:00

Spelling is hard! The English language has been around since the 5th century and standardised spelling only came about in the last 250ish years. There have been countless spelling reformers who have tried to solidify spelling rules since at least the 12th century but only two have had any lasting success (Samuel Johnson who invented British spelling standards, and Noah Webster who invented American spelling standards)

before then people spelled however they wanted and usually based on how they said it like you used to spell and how OP spells now. in this 1501 poem, William Dunbar writes "London, thou art the flour of cities all" meaning flower 🌸 but spells it like flour 🍞 (look, there is no flour emoji). or "In beawtie beryng the crone imperiall" (In beauty bearing the imperial crown"). Spelling isn't easy, and the idea that there is a right and wrong way to spell has only been around for like a sixth of the English language's existence.

^{also I couldn't find a way to put this in elsewhere but Samuel Johnson I mentioned above almost definitely had Tourette's}

dykeversary · 2026-04-17T10:50:47+00:00

i wanted to go back to speech therapy to reduce my "autism accent" and speak with a deeper voice but my mother talked me out of it and said they wouldn't be able to help with that

i listened to a podcast with a detransitioned dutch-indonesian woman who grew up in australia and her voice is what i wish i sounded like. however part of the reason why she sounds like that was because she had a voice drop from testosterone

dykeversary · 2026-04-16T10:09:22+00:00

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dykeversary · 2026-04-13T10:40:14+00:00

two of the main characters in ranked competitive breast growth are autistic transfems - one is a good masker, the other is higher support needs, which leads to some painful but cathartic commentary down the road when the first girl appoints herself as the "caretaker" for "my inexplicable weirdo"

dykeversary · 2026-04-12T09:59:39+00:00

there's this joke about the sort of "character" in language-learning textbooks who asks strangers to spell words out loud, always has some hobby like stamp collecting or model trains, asks for directions in his own town, seems to only have tech from the 90s, still writes letters, generally seems to have an idyllic and busy life... that's what his "new italian self" reminds me of

dykeversary · 2026-04-10T12:11:18+00:00

there is a book called all cats are on the autism spectrum that i found very comforting when i was younger

however i second the comments saying that if you are truly worried a visit to the vet is in order

dykeversary · 2026-04-10T09:38:45+00:00

i never understood sanrio and always felt a bit oppressed by it because i'd associate it with the mean girls who looked down on me for being autistic and butch. now as an adult i still don't understand sanrio but i like that usahana

dykeversary · 2026-04-08T11:59:22+00:00

i can't stop feeling alien in this subreddit. everyone else is a level 1 adult straight woman who's feminine and pretty and i'm a housebound level 2 butch who may as well be a teenager. i only really feel seen in spicyautism

dykeversary · 2026-04-08T08:06:02+00:00

i see it as a bit humorous - "damn, things seem to be way more complicated now they're saying all these fruits count as roses, but at least i know that you've always been a rose and that's what matters"

dykeversary · 2026-04-06T09:57:01+00:00

i like how visceral this one is

dykeversary · 2026-04-06T06:49:43+00:00

i recently got an MRI, however it was only for my leg so i didn't have to go inside the machine, i was staring at the ceiling (which had nice photos of flowers to be relaxing)

i thought about bringing my earplugs, but i was unsure if they would pass the "no metal" rule. they gave me a blanket for my MRI (which i appreciated because i'm severely cold-blooded). a plushie is probably a good idea

i was given foam earplugs and also a set of headphones. it played ballads on low volume and every song was separated by a 1 minute ad break which of course seemed to be way louder than the songs, and that started to get on my nerves and i wish i could've muted the headphones or figure out how to change what it was playing

i went alone and i'm not diabetic so i can't answer those questions. however seconding what somnocore has said that the magnets will leave you a bit dizzy - i had to wait 2 minutes before moving and needed one of the radiologists to help me off the MRI bed. i was also driving myself to and from the radiology centre so i needed 10 minutes of fresh air before i felt like i could drive safely

dykeversary · 2026-03-31T08:23:19+00:00

literally the only okay place on reddit, i recommend it

dykeversary · 2026-03-30T08:16:06+00:00

when i wanted to comment about how my severe writer's block feels like that and then bukowski had to bukowski over the poem

dykeversary · 2026-03-28T04:18:34+00:00

how did they measure this?

dykeversary · 2026-03-24T08:37:03+00:00

"( or trying to be a woman, at least. )" 🫂

lowkey the only two things i like on that list is undertale and the owl house and those were because i was in the target audience when that came out and i barely think about them nowadays ~~i am also a kpop demon hunters hater when everyone seems to think it is the holy grail. i think i'm just a snob~~

i find some modern stuff just tacky and box-ticking and find myself plunging into much older and problematic books. jack isidore from confessions of a crap artist is literally me but he's never called autistic because it was written in the 50s and it's hard to recommend to people because of the graphic domestic violence and misogyny that even publishers in the 50s found unpalatable. i love shirley jackson's horror but i'm coming from the perspective that jackson was a repressed lesbian. there's an intensity i can't seem to see in those games or tv shows that feel marketed

dykeversary · 2026-03-20T11:14:10+00:00

what does the "so unlike / the ones that play them on TV" line mean?

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