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[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I enjoyed this immensely.

[-] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago

"autism didn't exist back in my day"
autism back in the day:

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I'd wager that some examples of autism back in the day resulted in things like obsessing over the math about change resulting in calculus, or about what happens to things moving at close to the speed of light, resulting in special relativity (and that obsession continued until it was generalized). Or a guy that loved to paint but also invent things that couldn't be made with the tech at the time. Or realize that everything in the solar system is moving the same way and there is no special retrograde movement, it just looks like that because we're moving at a different rate.

I'd wager there's at least a bit of autism involved in most cases where someone realized that conventional wisdom was wrong, with possible exceptions for times when something new gave access to new obvious evidence, like the microscope letting microbes be seen directly.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Autistic people can be intelligent, but all intelligence isn't down to autism.

It's more accurate to say people with Asperges can display characteristics like Einstein than claim he had Aspergers.

Leonardo da Vinci seems to have been quiet sociable. No particular spectrum behavior.

Newton. Well...

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Same shit why ADHD wasn't as prevalent back then because everyone smokes and nicotine is a good stimulant for ADHD.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

that makes me wanna try it but I CANNOT be trusted with addictive chemicals at this point in my life 😭

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I'd say it's about 10% as effective as a cup of coffee for my ADHD symptoms, and coffee is about 25% as the low dose concerta I take...if I drink one coffee per hour for the entire work day.

Math says: don't do it.

I quit smoking cigs a decade ago and would never consider using them for ADHD over coffee...and I only use coffee if I'm out of concerta

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

This is a wise choice and I respect that you know yourself well enough to know this.

If it helps, I've heard many ADHD people report that nicotine is minimally helpful compared to actual ADHD medication. All medications come with harms and risks, but self-medicating with nicotine is a pretty poor return on the harms "investment".

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

As someone with ADHD who quit nicotine a few years ago, don't do it. The stimulant effect is milder than a cup of coffee but it doesn't last as long and is incredibly addictive. If your brain needs stimulants, just get a prescription for Adderall, all other legal stimulants will pale in comparison

[-] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago

Was not aware we were supposed to compare shoe size to age.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

Just make sure you use metric units or the whole system falls apart

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The whole system is, in fact, falling apart

edit: this is about the US, right?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I don't really follow the US news that much, but I have been watching some legal eagle videos from time to time. It's been pretty wild. Seems to me that laws don't really matter any more.

Well, recently I also saw a news headlines about federal courts ruling that certain executive orders were illegal etc. I guess you may still have some hope.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

“System” makes me assume it’s the simulation in which you and I reside

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Maybe that’s the root cause of our current situation: we are all 11 years old

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

I think he's playing on the saying "act your age, not your shoe size," hinting that he knows it's a silly/childish thing to do, but excusing it because his feet are enormous.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

For a better ageing experience, you should start to regularly work out before you get older than your shoe size.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

VERY dull and slightly autistic. Well done.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Funny, I was thinking this person is actually slightly too interesting for this community. I may need to see a doctor.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

This guy does berry good work.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Blueberries used to be called torx fruits in the olden days

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

And secure torx fruit was reserved for the most elite in society.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

TIL those are called "torx" - I'll be darned. Although I still prefer my term "stardrive".

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I’m going with “blueberry head screwdriver” from now on

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Stardrive sounds like some sort of FTL drive

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I know, that's why I like to think I have some in one of my little plastic drawers!

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I always felt like Hank Hill was autistic-coded in some way, even if Mike Judge did not think of him that way.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

EU 47 would be around US 12

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Haha, I just thought the ridiculously oversized shoe was a clever way to say he was a clown for trying this. Looks like I am the actual clown lol.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

And 47 years old

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

And you know what else matches shoe size? 😏

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Orthopedic inserts?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Driving safety

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

My toolkit only has a T25. Fortunately, from experience you can turn a T30 with a T25, if you're careful.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It will blue itself AND Barry.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I suspect not American unless mutant.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I thought the star part was the bottom of the fruit.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It is time for you to pick some blueberries.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

It’s where the petals fall off from

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

This dating app profile is making my pee pee skin tight and veiny.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Damn, I have a whole bush of variously sized ripe blueberries and no Torx T30.

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