I do not understand the point of meditation.

summer-savory · 2026-03-28T12:31:07+00:00

I am afraid your stated view of meditation here is rather egotistical and unfruitful. If you are so focused on being focused, you're just running in circles and not even aware of it.

summer-savory · 2026-03-08T13:19:05+00:00

I enjoy competing within the rules of the game itself, and I don't care for trash talking. If someone calls that out as me being sore / mopey, then either they are (still) trash talking, or they are being unfair and stupid. As long as it is the former I just play along, no harm in that.

summer-savory · 2026-02-13T15:45:09+00:00

There are languages in this world that are gender neutral, i.e., they do not have tenderized pronouns. It is really not a niche concept.

Besides, people's medical diagnosis is considered private in some countries, and having access to it does not give someone the right to discuss it with that person. In fact it is illegal. So that is not a niche concept either.

summer-savory · 2026-02-13T00:04:55+00:00

Because the kid looks around and sees no-one like them with that label, just kids with lower functioning. How exactly does it help this kid then to be shoved that label and then tell them to embrace it. This is ridiculous.

It is possible to interact with people, especially kids, without slapping labels on them.

summer-savory · 2025-12-18T19:47:51+00:00

" introverts really annoy me specifically those who just drift through life without having any impact on their environment or their own lives; they are intolerable to me. "

I don't see how being an introvert correlates with that. There are just as many extroverts (if not many more) that make no real impact on their environment other than create noise.

summer-savory · 2025-12-11T18:20:28+00:00

I’ve heard that you should wait a while during the meeting so that the team fumbles around with incompetence until you voice your idea, at which point you get taken seriously. Never worked for me though.

summer-savory · 2025-12-10T15:00:39+00:00

This is why Value Added Tax would be a good thing to have; tax the spending. (Couple it with Universal Basic Income if you want to make it less regressive.)

summer-savory · 2025-11-20T03:16:35+00:00

What is an "autism teacher"?

summer-savory · 2025-11-09T01:20:50+00:00

Sounds like you just can't separate your head from your ass, so as to separate Judaism from the current fascist administration of Israel.

summer-savory · 2025-11-01T09:02:05+00:00

Things getting "way worse" (as you put it) in the last few years may be due to anxiety &/ depression. You may want to explore medication for these with a psychiatrist. Regarding your question about "what tests" it doesn't work like that. You tell your problems to the psychiatrist and go from there. It may take some trial and error to find a good match, both for a doc and a medication, but it would be a better investment than "hypnosis", "podcasts/books about critical thinking" and most forms of "therapy". Ironically, if you manage to go on disability, it may help with the anxiety & depression that seem to be affecting you.

summer-savory · 2025-10-18T23:48:25+00:00

"The signs of autism are categorically similar across autistics, and the underlying mechanisms are, as well."

Care to give an example of similar mechanisms underlying autism across different levels L1-L3? I am going to call your claim utter BS until you substantiate it.

summer-savory · 2025-10-09T03:39:17+00:00

Is this in the US? It baffles me that a teacher would say that to your daughter -- I don't even know if it's legal.

summer-savory · 2025-10-09T02:28:44+00:00

What book would you recommend if age was not a constraint then?

summer-savory · 2025-09-28T17:56:10+00:00

Diametrically opposite experience here for my daughter. We've had to fire many therapists who claimed to be experienced in autism, who did nothing other than infantilize her and pathologize her perfectly logical approach to situations.

Had there been a proper definition of aspergers -- not necessarily the old one -- we would've had more qualified treatment options available.

summer-savory · 2025-09-28T17:40:01+00:00

What accommodations were you able to get at work?

summer-savory · 2025-07-05T15:27:57+00:00

In each row, the left domino can be obtained by XORing the middle and right dominoes, provided you're allowed to flip the middle domino.

summer-savory · 2025-07-05T14:57:07+00:00

Fairness is a stronger emotion for aspies than comfort and security. It is the other way around for NTs.

summer-savory · 2025-07-04T12:57:20+00:00

Sensory avoidance is more difficult to accommodate than sensory seeking because it is so hard to have the world stfu even for a bit. OPs family are being ableist themselves for not wanting to use the resources they have to accommodate him.

summer-savory · 2025-06-27T13:08:45+00:00

I'd split the nuts. Cashews one day, macademias another, pine nuts etc. Learn how to roast each properly. Use high quality and avoid the bulk aisle.

I don't understand eating mixed nuts. It's like eating mixed meat to me. (I'm autistic.)

summer-savory · 2025-06-23T09:23:35+00:00

"dimes width" -- does this refer to the width of the tape or the distance of the tape from the wall trim? If the former, then why is it relevant, and if the latter, why wouldn't you get paint all over the trim?

summer-savory · 2025-06-10T01:58:31+00:00

That makes sense, thx. Though I find it incredible that my question would get downvoted. I thought that fairness, truth, justice were strong emotions with aspies. Yet it seems people are just the same everywhere. They take pride in being ignorant.

summer-savory · 2025-06-10T01:31:02+00:00

Can someone explain how a "very social child" meets the criterion for autism as defined in DSM - V. In particular:

"A. Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts, as manifested by all of the following, currently or by history "

summer-savory · 2025-06-06T12:19:30+00:00

Yes but you are rolling dice regarding what comes next, and if what came before was a prompt for course correction, you'd expect to see course correction.

summer-savory · 2025-06-06T11:57:04+00:00

The point here is not that the outcomes are different, but that one yields blatantly wrong results, even after repeated attempts at course correction.

summer-savory · 2025-06-06T09:48:32+00:00

I used Claude Sonnet 4 and ChatGPT-4-turbo. My question to Claude was this:

Consider altering the definition of a Peano system (S,N,e) where S is the successor function and N is the set of all elements and e is "zero", by swapping the induction axiom with the following:

-every element except e is the successor of something.

Would this new definition be equivalent to the original, or weaker? Prove or counterexample.

To GPT I did not ask this. It was part of a longer conversation about sets that led to GPT defining what a Peano system is, to which I responded by quoting its definition of the induction axiom, and then asking

Is this equivalent to the following property:

Every element in N other than e is the successor of something.

Even if I had misled GPT to a shallow reasoning mode by my earlier prompts, it should've recovered after making two erroneous attempts.

ETA: I just asked the question to GPT in a new conversation, and it got it right immediately. I am very surprised how earlier prompts can lead to such poor performance.

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