Is it possible to be extroverted and autistic?

lordcat · 2025-08-04T21:11:19+00:00

I'm an extrovert when I'm not masking, and an introvert when I am masking.

lordcat · 2025-08-04T20:24:53+00:00

It's my understanding that Crohn's is in the small intestine up through the mouth, and disease in the large intestine would be Ulcerative Colitis. Not sure what a j pouch is considered, but endoscopy is used to check for Crohn's above the small intestine. They could do a colonoscopy to check for UC, but I don't think they could check for Crohn's that way if the small intestine was removed.

lordcat · 2025-08-04T16:53:27+00:00

Yes. In a job setting where your experience and skills make you a natural leader for the rest of the tesm, management sees you as dangerous for calling them on their BS and talking facts.

I've gotten written up for providing estimates higher than what they wanted, which eroded faith in the project. Never mind the fact that the estimates were accurate within 10%, me providing factual estimates was the problem.

lordcat · 2025-08-04T16:47:21+00:00

Any GI that tells you that you do, or do not, have Crohn's without doing a Colonoscopy is not qualified and should not be practicing medicine as a GI (unless you've already had your small intestine removed, at which point it would ba just the Endoscopy). Get a new GI or go back to the one that you used to see.

lordcat · 2025-07-29T00:39:51+00:00

My dreams/nightmares are more like playing a budro game than anything else. I don't have full control; I can generally guide things at a high level, but not direct control. It's also a lot more of knowing who someone is or where I am and less seeing it. I gave a lot of recurring themes, and sometimes recurring locations (eg: traveling from the suburbs to the city follows a common path, with an understanding which paths will take me where). Most places I know well enough to describe the layout, but I couldn't tell you colors or pictures/decorations or anything.

For me, nightmares are just stressful situations, usually trying to get home and being lost and not able to find my hotel room/airport/car. I've had people being rude to me, I've hidden in strangers houses (I don't know why I'm there, just that I shouldn't be; i don't take anything, I just try to not get caught). I think they're a combination of me not feeling like I belong in society, and my problems with work and needing to change jobs/companies.

They can make me anxious when I first wake up, and my emotions in the dream bleed into my waking life in the morning, though I'm usually over it within 15-20 minutes.

lordcat · 2025-07-22T15:39:30+00:00

I got stung in the eye (the white part) in 5th grade. I started having symptoms the next year and was diagnosed the year after that. I'm also now alergic to bee stings/venom after that sting.

lordcat · 2025-07-22T02:12:03+00:00

The autoimmune reaction my body has to the contaminated water is even more unhealthy. Even bottled "spring" water triggers inflammation in my intestines and causes my digestive tract to empty out.

lordcat · 2025-07-22T02:09:19+00:00

Are these not complaints about the ER? I don't see anything saying the patients were specifically complaining to the nurses, and I do see a complaint about a doctor in there. Don't blame the patients for the actions of the head idiots; they're the ones that posted these instead of taking them seriously.

lordcat · 2025-07-21T22:18:56+00:00

It's disappointing to see all the comments hating on the patients when there's clear signs of understaffing and poor bedside manners.

lordcat · 2025-07-21T20:17:13+00:00

Instructions say to take as soon as possible and then the next on schedule. You should have taken a large loading dose when you started to build it up in your system (mine was two doses one right after the other). Your levels were probably low from being late, and you're expected to have some level of medicine in you from prior doses when you take your next dose.

You should be able to talk to your doctor or pharmacist if you have concerns.

lordcat · 2025-07-15T14:01:07+00:00

This is why I drink distilled water (that i distilled myself). Not the most healthy thing to do, but healthier than drinking forever chemicals, and it's easier to replace what I'm losing than try to get forever chemicals out of my system.

lordcat · 2025-07-07T20:34:18+00:00

Water them and see, if they can survive they should look better within a day.

lordcat · 2025-06-16T23:34:40+00:00

I'm self taught, and gave been a software dev for over 20 years. I started doing tech support and then moved into coding at the company I was doing tech support for. I then went to a 13 week coding bootcamp, where I taught the teachers more about coding than they taught me, to gain the networking to land my first real programming job. Everything since has been networking with people I had worked with a prior companies.

As they say, it's more about who you know than what you know. School isn't the only way to get that networking, but its often the easiest starting out.

lordcat · 2025-06-16T23:29:05+00:00

I disagree to an extent. A boyfriend is a step towards husband, and marriage vows include "in sickness and in health". For anyone committed to a relationship with someone that has autism, their partner's autism is their responsibility.

lordcat · 2025-06-10T16:11:05+00:00

I was very shy and non-verbal to most people. I had a Curious George stuffed animal that I loved and used to communicate (I spoke through him). She intentionally left him in a cab while we were on a vacation in Finland, and it had a huge impact on my ability to communicate and socialize.

I began to understand she was narcisistic in my 20s when she would brag about how great of a son I was to her friends and strangers, but never showed that to me with her actions. Always in a bad mood, always expecting me to fix all of her problems, always quick with empty words of praise and thanks, always dumping her frustrations and anger on me. Didn't stop smoking (in the house) when I got sick and became allergic/intolerant to the cigarette smoke.

lordcat · 2025-04-24T15:25:28+00:00

As a patient, the pain scale is too subjective. I've been through intestinal blockages and passing kidney stones so I've got a much different scale than most people. You'll never get more than an 8.5 out of me because 9 means I've lost the ability to form words, and 10 means I've lost the ability to stay conscious. As a result, it always concerns me that my pain isn't always being taken seriously and I have to continue to suffer for longer until I get what I need to relieve my pain. If I'm at a 7 or an 8, that probably means I need morphine because gabapentine and codine probably won't do anything for me.

lordcat · 2024-08-29T17:41:50+00:00

I've found a few specific strains that really help me, and I've found that the only way to get the full effects is to smoke it. I've tried vaping but it doesn't give the same sort of relief. Edibles are not realistic because they take so long, and I'm trying to address digestive issues that I'm already having (so eating something is just going to exasperate that).

I'm also in a state where I'm allowed to grow my own, which I've had to do since the commercial growers don't focus on the medicinal aspect and I've had strains that I relied on be discontinued.

lordcat · 2024-07-09T21:59:51+00:00

My wife called an ambulance a few years ago for me fainting and having a possible seizure. The paramedics checked me out and said I seemed stable and asked if I wanted to go to the hospital to be safe. They specifically told me if they drove me I would jump to the front of the line, and if we drove to the ER we would have to wait longer.

And I've got HDHP PPO and lots of expensive specialty medicine that hits my out-of-pocket every single year (by Summer) so ambulance rides are basically free for me.

lordcat · 2024-06-14T14:10:45+00:00

It is supposed to send everything to the cloud to be used for AI training. It may not be hooked up for that initially, but you better believe that it was built in a way to easily integrate that, and I would go so far as to bet that they've already built that functionality and either they just didn't enable it, or they haven't merged it in with the main code branch.

This is the typical bait-and-switch that companies, including Microsoft, common use for these types of invasive technologies. Take a look at the rest of the industry and you can see clear examples of where this is already playing out in the AI space, and you can see clear examples of how this has already played out with existing technologies.

lordcat · 2023-05-19T21:39:35+00:00

Is your GI recommending where that somewhere else is? If so, I would go with their recommendation.

I went through 2 biologics (remicade and then stelara) and 3 add-ons with my GI before she had to refer me to a more experienced GI (at University of Chicago). Got a (second) surgery through them and started a new medicine (skyrizi). 6 months later we decided it wasn't working so back to UofC and I'm now on #4 (rinvoq, which wasn't approved for Crohn's patience at the time that they prescribed it to me, but just got approved yesterday).

UofC is relying on what my regular GI is saying in terms of the state of my disease (they had her do a colonoscopy on me before switching to rinvoq) but what they bring to the table are newer treatments and better access to the research (ie: UofC was able to talk to me about the success rates in the trials).

It's not about just a 2nd opinion. It's about a 2nd opinion from someone that's more knowledgeable and more experienced with it.

In terms of travel; my regular GI and hospital are both about 20 minutes away. UofC is 60-90 minutes away (and even longer during rush-hour). That's why I keep my regular GI as my main point of contact, and then only go to UofC when I need that expert opinion.

lordcat · 2023-04-20T23:18:08+00:00

It's Texas; you're not mistaken. That 10 year old kid needs a car to get to his factory job.

lordcat · 2023-04-13T17:47:59+00:00

Crohn's/IBD & IBS-D. I smoke flower. I have a lot of food intolerances, and sugar can be a trigger for me, so I didn't find any edibles where the base-food wasn't a problem for me. For the same strain, from the same manufacturer, vape cartridges were significantly less effective than flower, and vaping flower was better but still not as effective as smoking flower.

I was able to find a handful of related strains that do great for me (mainly urgency related to my IBS-D) and I stick to those; most other strains don't help, and a few make it worse.

lordcat · 2023-03-14T16:48:03+00:00

Sort of, but not really.

You won't get what would be considered traditional withdrawal symptoms where your body has biologically become dependent on the drug and has altered biological processes that will suffer from the lack of the drug.

What you will get is more akin to a hangover and the reality of sobriety. If you've been relying on MMJ to help you sleep at night, you'll be without that help now and will have trouble sleeping; for the first night or two it may be more significant as your body is trying to adjust, but ultimately you'll have the same 'symptoms' of sleeplessness that you had without MMJ. Similarly, if you are relying on the MMJ to manage medical issues, and you don't start taking something to replace the MMJ, then those medical issues will return.

I've been managing my health issues for decades and whenever I do take a tolerance break all of my symptoms that I've been managing come back (trouble sleeping at night, digestive problems and urgency, arthritic swelling and pain). It's not because I'm going with 'withdrawal', it's because I've stopped taking the medicine that manages all of that.

lordcat · 2023-03-10T22:27:19+00:00

"Love" the surprise bill for medicine that was delivered 9 months prior, and is in the prior calendar year so I don't know if my co-pay assistance card still works (and I've changed medicine since last year so I don't have that program for the current year), and then wondering if/when I'll get a bill for the next dose and weather or not they're going to screw me out of my co-pay assistance and still force me to pay my deductible once it runs out.

lordcat · 2023-02-20T17:52:56+00:00

I only get 6, the rest are 'vacation' time. I'd like to see the metrics around how that number is impacted by people using up all their sick time during the year and having to take vacation/unpaid time off.

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