quick question! in which part of your life do you stop feeling like a scolded child? quick question! am i in trouble? quick question! you would tell me if im in trouble right? quick question! please don’t send me to my room quick question! please don’t be mad
i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on “outward” signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don’t know how to explain it but “do you make eye contact with other people” feels like a much less relevant question than “how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?”
while i’m here, the other one that always pisses me off is “do you interpret idioms literally, for example ‘bull in a china shop’?”
well, no, obviously. i know what “bull in a china shop” means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn’t heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question
third and final complaint: “are you good at noticing subtext?”
i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, “i feel very safe with you because you don’t do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling.”
and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i’m gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3
@luckyybones hope you don’t mind me screenshotting but you are actually so correct
while the spineless democrat jokes are funny, it’s worth acknowledging these people don’t actually have some sort of personality flaw preventing them from taking action but rather that they see themselves benefiting more when not taking action. as long as they’re still holding office, they can afford to ignore concerns of their voter base (especially with the whole “vote blue no matter who” attitude persisting).
on the surface the trump administration may seem detrimental to “world order”, but in reality it’s more of a gloves-off look at long existing problems with US hegemony, and the fact that many respected leaders are using a cost-benefit analysis when it comes to giving a fuck about anyone
OP: Look at the ‘fire-butterfly’ we managed to film. The picture really doesn’t do its beauty justice. (cr 鸟王艾雅康，观鸟景jhin，生态摄影阿博特，毕强，Sjxxphotograph，Fische，鱼摆摆，Shanalotte，冰鹡鸰）
I love this Chinese guy who is so excited to show everyone this really cool bird. This is why the internet was created, so we could show strangers on the other side of the world cool things we know about. Xie xie <3333333
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