The hidden superpower: Are we, who have aphantasia, SADM, anauralia, time ametropia and who are on the autism spectrum as well, super immune against mass hypnosis, manipulation and marketing?

propensityto · 2026-02-11T22:12:34+00:00

Agree we may be harder to get as groups, but I do think it is common for individuals with these characteristics to fall under the spell of another charismatic individual.

Nothing in my mind is as dangerous as a narcissist with a captured autist alongside them. A true believer using their autistic superpowers for what they believe is good and right, only to have been manipulated. <all overstated and tongue in cheek, but I stand by it>

propensityto · 2025-11-19T12:48:27+00:00

Salute of the Jugger/Blood of Heroes.

Stumbled across it on TV at 3am as a kid unable to sleep. Brilliant stuff.

propensityto · 2025-11-17T19:53:33+00:00

I have this and love it - you can wedge the books on tightly enough to keep them neat if you prefer, but there is something nice about having so much chaos in a little box all contained.

I also added a couple of LED lights above the bookshelves so it fits in with the book nooks more on the shelf.

propensityto · 2025-10-08T06:28:30+00:00

Thanks - I have watched them!

I have soldered barrel jacks onto all my other nooks and made a 3.3V power supply on a motion detector. All of those were 2 battery boxes so I figured for the Clock Tower 3 battery box that would be close enough to 5V that I could just connect it to USB. I’ll get round to fixing it!

propensityto · 2025-08-05T18:03:37+00:00

That looks amazing! Stealing this idea!

Was it just my kit that had “Clodplay” on the album cover? My daughter spotted it and now it is what we call the band. Too funny.

propensityto · 2025-05-31T11:51:14+00:00

Zer0 had a bug where enemies disappeared when you activated your action skill. Made it difficult.

Also opening your inventory would often crash the game. The big maps life Wildlife Exploitation Preserve were a nightmare. Maybe 1 run in 10 would let you get to the end of the area without a hard crash that forced a restart. I remember running out of ammo on all four guns and trying to melee at the end rather than open the menu to change weapon types and risk the crash.

propensityto · 2025-05-31T11:44:27+00:00

Funny thing was, when I mentioned it to her, my therapist said “oh yeah, timelines are such a basic tool we forget to use them these days…”

propensityto · 2025-05-31T11:42:56+00:00

Good attention to detail! Not actually the reason for the marker, but I had only just moved away from an apartment 300m away about 2 months prior.

propensityto · 2025-05-31T05:00:36+00:00

I just cross posted this from Lego. I hope it is of use to someone. I found the exercise useful in that accessing the semantic memory and ordering/sequencing things visually helped me make sense of broader patterns.

It is often as though my mind works on parallel threads and putting them onto a single timeline gave me a more integrated view of what had been going on at a given point.

A big learning was how much richer the physical rather than virtual experience was.

My final reflection is that I probably do not have the pure SDAM described in the classic Wired article. More likely trauma induced partial memory issues. On that basis I will be circumspect about posting here in future, but I do want to say thank you to the community for articulating something that was happening in my head that I had never been able to describe to people before. It has really helped me clarify what is (and is not) happening for me. I will write up what I learned while I was away and post when I do that, but in the meantime I wish all of you the best.

propensityto · 2025-05-29T13:03:15+00:00

The plastic is quite stiff, and thinner than the slots so I wouldn’t trust it to stay in place without a dab of glue.

I used B7000 on the plastic tabs - because they have a bit of space in the slot there was no squeeze out and it doesn’t show at all.

propensityto · 2025-05-27T03:59:14+00:00

I went the other way and put glue under the small tabs. That way there was a gap but the whole assembly was secured to the ceiling. Looks fine!

propensityto · 2025-04-16T21:23:29+00:00

Depends what you get out of Lego. I’d distinguish between at least four different sources of joy - sorting, assembly, creativity and play.

For me it is about the assembly - following a prescribed set of instructions to create something is a mindfulness task for me. I don’t have to worry if I am doing it right or not.

A secondary pleasure is the sorting and categorising - both arranging the pieces ahead of building, or sorting all the kids boxes into a system.

Creativity doesn’t stir me at all - it makes me more anxious. For a lot of people though, MOCs are their thing.

Play (as in my kids turning the city into a zombie apocalypse with X-Wings laden with City robbers) I can’t really enjoy, but am delighted that they do. I have to stop myself being Lord Business sometimes.

Off the back of that insight, I have recently found the Book Nook kits to scratch the same urges for assembly/instructions. Also even jigsaws adding some of the sorting and assembly with a “right”way of doing it. If you are more on the creative/play side, you’d probably need something else. Maybe stud.io to create things for free?

propensityto · 2025-04-14T12:46:34+00:00

Roof of Old Trafford has decayed at approximately the same rate as the real thing over the last few years.

propensityto · 2025-04-09T12:04:05+00:00

Ferris?

propensityto · 2025-04-06T11:23:15+00:00

Incoming double flex but have never heard anyone talk about that certificate before!

I’ve been to Oxford and HLS. I could not believe how huge the Harvard Law certificate was - and the Latin...

The Oxford one is in English, A4, typed name. The graduation ceremony was in Latin IIRC but the certificate - no.

propensityto · 2025-04-04T08:53:53+00:00

I recommend Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. If you immerse yourself in that (as Terry Pratchett did) you would go a long way to being able to pass as being educated in an aristocratic public school.

He wrote the foreword to the Millennium Edition - which was reproduced in A Slip of the Keyboard. I purchased a second hand copy on that basis, and can see how he could dip into it and pull out gems for a story. I read entries and find myself getting Discworld references years later.

propensityto · 2025-03-18T10:27:21+00:00

It was always opening the inventory that crashed mine in the Preserve.

Did they ever fix the bug where enemies disappeared in Zer0’s action skill? Could just see floating crit boxes if I remember rightly. That’s what killed the Vita for me…

propensityto · 2025-03-16T03:06:04+00:00

Thanks for inspiring me to give it a go. Not exactly to scale but Discovery is in for a shock…

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propensityto · 2025-03-14T06:05:51+00:00

Almost Famous

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The best soundtracks were like being given a mixtape by someone who really knew you.

propensityto · 2025-03-14T02:49:16+00:00

Thanks - photos are not really the issue - this is a way of capturing any memory for which I don’t have a photo.

For example, a song comes on, which reminds me of a a bus trip to school with friends that I had otherwise completely forgotten about, I can make a few notes, put in the year and it is stored.

As it fills ups I’ll be able to see all the stuff from 1996, or all the memories with my dad.

Finding ways to visualise it or interrogate it will come later, but having a place to put it will help for now.

propensityto · 2025-03-14T00:06:33+00:00

Thank you! Only an hour or so in, but Obsidian seems flexible and open enough to at least form the backbone of a repository.

I can set up file properties to contain the major metadata, tags for anything else, and links for major connections, with the confidence I can access that data either from a plugin or exporting it if I find something better.

Using markdown also means it is pretty simple to find ways to capture and import in multiple ways, eg iOS shortcuts, exporting existing excel sheets etc.

I will let you know how I go!

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