arth 1y ago • 100%
I wouldn't even know where to get a diagnosis as an adult. All the resources in my area seem offer evaluations to children only.
arth 1y ago • 100%
Yeah this is good. I love this.
arth 1y ago • 100%
He is on Mastodon. I follow him there. Now I'm going to have to go see if his account is still active.
arth 1y ago • 100%
It's nothing but a popularity contest. We don't need that here.
arth 1y ago • 100%
Not that I know of. You may need to click the kbin logo on the upper left. I randomly need to do that sometimes to see just my subs even though I have subs set as my home page.
arth 1y ago • 100%
Click on your name in the upper right and choose settings. The very first thing in settings lets you set your homepage to your subscriptions.
A few months ago I was working on a project with someone. He had the habit of calling me all the time to talk about it, but I keep my phone permanently on DND and I would often miss his calls. It would take me a while, sometimes a couple of days, to get back to him. I preferred to deal with him through text or email, because I can answer in my own time, when I'm ready. Finally I sent him a lengthy email explaining the situation. I told him I am autistic, and that means phone calls are difficult for me, among other things. I need to be mentally and emotionally prepared to talk to someone on the phone, and that, along with the DND thing, is why I never answer his calls. He was also always pressuring me to come over to his place where we could use his lab for the project. No. Not a chance. I feel really uncomfortable in someone else's space, and when I'm in that situation, all I can think of is running out the door and going home, back to my own comfortable space. And that's why I never asked him to come over to my place to work, because I have a similarly equipped lab, but having other people in my home, in my space, my comfort zone, makes me equally uncomfortable. So no. You work in your space, I'll work in my space, and we'll collaborate online, thank you very much. That's what I told him. He replied saying that he understands my "social anxiety" and that he sometimes suffers from it himself, then offered up some tips to help me get over it. He completely ignored the autism. It was very frustrating. I started to slowly back away from the project we were working on because I just didn't want to deal with it any more. I still see him sometimes though because we have a mutual acquaintance, and it's always awkward. Have you been through something similar?
arth 1y ago • 100%
Jeezus, I've never had the experience of hearing someone screaming at me on the edge of sleep. That sounds horrifying! For me, it's always like she's calling to me from another room, like "Honey can you come here?"
arth 1y ago • 100%
This actually makes a lot of sense.
arth 1y ago • 100%
I often hear my wife's voice when I'm on the edge of sleep. Sometimes it's so clear I'll ask her what's up, and she'll look at me like I'm crazy.
arth 1y ago • 100%
That's weird. I've never heard of anything like that before.
arth 1y ago • 100%
I've actually heard of this before. Is it common? Do you know of other people like this?
arth 1y ago • 100%
Hey this happens to me! Something in my ear just twitches for only a second or two and I hear a vibrating sound. It happens randomly and doesn't seem to be triggered by anything. It's also pretty rare. Maybe a couple times a month. I never thought that it sounded like thunder though and so didn't make the connection. This sounds (Haha. See what I did there?) like the most plausible explanation yet.
A long while back I was hanging out with one of my sisters and she said that she hears thunder in her head when she gets startled. Me: "Scuse me. What?" Her: "You know. That thunder you hear when someone startles you." Me: "Again. What?" Her: "You don't hear thunder when someone startles you?" Me: "Uh, no." Her: "Oh. I thought that happened to everybody." Is this a thing? Does this happen to anybody else out there? She did struggle with depression for much of her life. Could that have had something to do with it?
arth 1y ago • 100%
Have a look at tilvids.com. I know of a couple of large YouTubers that crosspost their stuff there, and there are probably more that I don't know about.
arth 1y ago • 100%
It's my understanding that "reputation points" isn't fully implemented yet and means nothing right now. I can't point to a source for this. Something I read somewhere that I've forgotten.
arth 1y ago • 100%
Agreed. This place shouldn't be a popularity contest.
arth 1y ago • 100%
There are multiple secured doors at my workplace I have access to, and they all have a little sticker next to the keypad showing a telephone style keypad with the letters. Those are there to remind you of what numbers to press for the four letter word you chose to represent your PIN. When I'm in the security office and choosing a new PIN, because the keyboard numpad is different, I'll ask the person to turn their desk phone around so I can see the numbers to choose my PIN.
arth 1y ago • 100%
This actually happened to me a couple of years ago. This woman came into my office and after we were finished with business, she said something like "I have two tickets to the baseball game. Would you like to come with me?" And I was like "No thanks. I don't like baseball very much." then turned away and started working on something else.
After she left, everyone in my office said "OMG she just asked you out!" I didn't get that at all and totally missed it. Besides, I'm married.
arth 1y ago • 0%
Working IT: The entire family thinks I'll always be happy and eager to fix all of their computer problems for them.
Being an electrical engineer: People think I'm an electrician.