I loved that show, and this was probably the best bit from it.

Unicron. Not to be confused with Unicorn.

Yes! Things are looking up!

I use “colorful metaphors” and “double dumbass on you” far too often.

I quote Darmok quite a bit, usually Picard’s “Gilgamesh, a King. At Uruk” line.

Highly illogical.

I’m a doctor, not an [insert appropriate role].

Referring to something as "banjaxed ".

I have been told I do a head cocking gesture exactly the way Data does it.

Gilgamesh, a king. At Uruk.

Wow. It can’t have been good at all for it to have flown completely under my radar. I just remember a lot of disappointment when it released in Japan that it was a gacha game that had next to nothing to do with the original gameplay-wise.

I know the feeling. At some point, you just have to decide what to prioritize in the backlog, and what to let go.

Are you planning on buying the sequel? And if so, are you planning on playing through the first game before you play the sequel?

Absolutely! I’m looking forward to it, and also hoping a port of the original. I’d love a port and or/sequel of the spiritual sister game, Ever Oasis, too.

I wouldn’t expect parity in performance between those platforms anyhow. As long as it’s not running like a slideshow like early reviews suggested, I’ll have to get it. Several people said it was awful in docked mode, which is really odd, but then the game was pulled from the store and replaced, so I suspect that was an erroneous version.

Yeah, I never played it. As far as I know, it was only officially released in Japan, and AFAIK the hacked versions you could play outside of Japan were pretty broken by the lack of proper online functionality. I sit in this weird grey area of being disappointed that we didn’t get it released in the US, but also being aware that we probably dodged a bullet with that, and we might not be getting Fantasy Life i at all if the mobile game damaged the franchise here.

I have been incredibly fortunate that I have been able to mask much less the past couple years. It’s exhausting. Discovering what exactly that meant, what I was doing, and why I was doing it gave me the freedom to make more informed choices about when and where to make those sacrifices, and I chose only to do it where it was absolutely necessary.

The “imposter syndrome” phase is completely expected. Experience tells me that most people that would take the time to make such an assessment of their self and come away with the assumption that they are autistic, and also follow that up with questioning whether or not they’re faking it, most likely are autistic. The imposter syndrome is a byproduct of masking. We’re so used to having to present an image for others that we still assume we’re doing it when we discover our authentic selves because we’re so discouraged from just being ourselves that we have difficulty recognizing the authenticity of who we are when we aren’t masking.

Welcome to the community, by the way. This is always a safe place to take the mask off, and nobody here will judge you for your questions or your experiences.

At the time I took this, 40% voted self-diagnosed, 22% adult-diagnosed, 18% child-diagnosed, 18% undiagnosed.

I voted self.

Same. My GP concurs with my assessment, but is also very clear that they aren’t qualified to make such a diagnosis in any official capacity.