Sleep. Pretty much the only time for me.

I lay down, put on a narration, and at some point my memory cuts out and it’s the next day. Nothing happens so far as I recall between losing consciousness and waking up.

Yeah… I can barely smell at all. Even normally strong smells like that of the urine of an unfixed male cat aren’t particularly impactful to me. I wouldn’t have even considered the potentiality that ants have a distinctive smell in spite of being aware that they use pheromone trails for navigation.

Seeing posts like this is always a bit frustrating. Autism wasn’t discovered in the 80s or later, descriptions of it predate WWII. Just a matter of people not caring and some governments being actively hostile… both to the research itself and the people.

And something to hold the TV at a reasonable viewing angle from a comfy seated position.

I’ll go a step further, I’m convinced that our current society is exceptionally sick and going along with the current trend is currently causing great harm.

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I’m opposed to fitting in. Not disinterested, not unable, I don’t want to “fit in”.

People who want that from their associates should probably just not count me among them.

Felt this one yesterday. Just finished a semester with a great and charismatic professor.

He got us all together for a class photo and I felt I should express my emotions so put on a big smile. Could feel how the muscles weren’t used to doing that.

Moderate Symptoms according to test

What do you mean ‘real beauty’? I don’t see any means to consider ‘beauty’ as anything but subjective, existing only in the eyes of the beholder.

Not really. I feel a drive to live in a city in spite of not liking crowds. Really what I want is good public transport and internet connection… unfortunately my options for that appear to be live in a city or leave the continent.

Hate Lives in a Small Town, by Voltaire

Dreams are a normal process of sleep. What they are, to the best of my understanding, is your brain doing one of it’s sleep-tasks: memory transfer from short to long term storage. Normally, recording new memories is suppose to be “off” during the process. It’s most common to remember them when your sleep isn’t very restful or is disturbed during the part of sleep where that process takes place, REM sleep.

That being said I’m with ThrowawayPermanente, it’s extremely rare that I ‘dream’.

“We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own… Resistance is Futile.” - The Borg Collective (Star Trek)

“If they won’t act, I will. At dawn’s first light - the sources of Gotham’s ruin WILL. BE. DESTROYED.” - Anarky (DC comics, Arkham video games)

Min/Maxing? In any sufficiently complex game I can determine something that would be an efficient path to victory and pursue it harder than anyone else. I seem to really have a knack for making something work precisely to what I want even if it struggles in other respects.

It’s most apparent when I play Stellaris with friends. I self-impose a penalty not to play particular builds that are the best at my min/maxing preference but my not-tryharding play-style will still put me at twice the research output of the next player extremely quickly. Granted my empire has extreme and exploitable weaknesses that theirs doesn’t but my gamble frequently pays off.

I have a harder time making it work in Civ6 but that’s likely because I play it really infrequently. I believe I’ve figured out what needs to be done to make it happen though.

I think I’d show up to work in something that could be taken for Bill Cypher cosplay just to drive home the point.

The easiest test I’ve ever received was the written portion of a US driving test. I’m sure the average American would need no more than ten minutes of study to pass it. I regularly observe US drivers either willfully ignoring what they know from the test or having forgotten it entirely. Everything is bad here but for transportation I wouldn’t be surprised if it were the worst in the developed world.

I suffer under the American dystopia. I’m familiar with how bad it is here. I like to burn incense on occasion for no other reason than enjoyment of the scent created. I’m fine with doing things for the sake of ‘feels good’. What I’m opposed to is the prevalence of falsehoods or indeterminable notions held to be true and from them actively harmful decisions being made. I don’t see a mechanism to effectively prevent that category of poor decisions from being made without addressing the root cause.

Edit for Clarity: Was just thinking about my comment and felt I should add to clarify that I in no way mean to say taking the nonscientific services away from anyone. I mean to say shut down the advocacy for unsupported, and occasionally quite dangerous, assertions that these can do anything more than what they demonstrably do. My ire is directed entirely at advocates and practitioners who act on or spread misinformation.

IMO psuedoscience needs to be shut down HARD. If there’s legitimate use of something and the pseudoscience mythologizes it to do more than that even more so as people who get it for one of the things it’s legit for could more easily be duped into believing the bullsh*t and expose themselves to potential harm or just degrade the common understanding of reality.

If being on Lemmy isn’t doing it then make a random selection system of some kind. Draw activities from a hat, use a digital wheel, roll a die and assign activities to each number etc. Or just commit to doing the next enjoyable activity that crosses your mind.