I just really wish autism wasn’t five different disorders under a trenchcoat. I find this message a little syrupy (and, as the other commenter mentioned, bizarrely difficult to read), but not wholly inaccurate for my experience. It feels pretty thoughtless when applied to people who are significantly impaired by their autism, though.

But yeah, I have been called weird all my life, but never for what I expect (apparently doing things thoroughly is weirder than crippling social anxiety, because people always pick on the former and identify with the latter). I don’t dislike being weird, it’s just a surprise to me what strikes people as such.

I’m not a doctor, nor am I trying to dispute anything your doctors say, but cis women rarely take HRT before their mid 50s at the earliest. There could exist normal side effects for HRT that are still causes for concern when experienced by a 21 year old.

It’s also partially just the truth of supply chains. I’m from the US, but live in Germany and the peaches here are simply always going to be more expensive for a worse peach (I’m sure somewhere in Italy or Spain can produce good peaches, but I haven’t had them yet).

Slutty spaghetti

That’s a reasonable opinion, and I honestly don’t know how to determine why I like the songs I like, nor do I feel qualified to identify a good beat (I was in the percussion section of my middle school band class for three years, but I’m a special case of nonmusicality, and nothing sank in), but there are a couple of Beatles songs with strong beats that occur to me. Maybe Love to You or Eight Days a Week, though the former is a more driving beat, imo.

Definitely don’t feel obligated to listen to music you don’t like, though please. I’m not a huge fan of the Beatles, I just grew up on them and find many of their songs enjoyable (if you ask me, Octopus Garden should be erased from our collective memory, though).

Just keep it up with the aquarium care. You’ll be broke again soon.

The Beatles were any good

George Harrison was a Beatle, and he was objectively a great musician.

I’m also personally obligated (happily so) to like Paul McCartney, because he befriended my cousin while he stayed at Sloan Kettering and taught him to play the guitar (my cousin was already skilled with string instruments, so he picked it up pretty well) over a period of months before he died. I’m not aware of him publicizing that (and my cousin was a rando in his late twenties- definitely too young to die, but not young enough to make a great news story, given that he was unmarried and had no kids) or getting any personal benefit from it other than being able to increase joy in a horrible situation.

So at least 2/4 (or 2/5, if you’re a Pete Best fan, I guess) are/were good in some way.

Plus, at least Blackbird and Eleanor Rigby are great songs IMO, but that’s less objective.

I can’t tell if you’re joking, but the one in “believed” now seems off and the one in “life” definitely seems right. I can’t quite tell about the other two, especially with how weird the I in “if” is generally.

I actually realized this seconds before your notification came through- I was thinking mono factor authentication as another joke option for a second and then it clicked.

You could probably do a professional interviewer job for something like restaurant work in a major metropolitan area (but restaurants probably won’t do this and would just start hiring through referral or from resumes instead), but most industries are small enough that companies would talk. I haven’t worked in my previous field for five years, but checking now, I still know people at all of the major companies for it. If I were to apply at any of them, someone would see that I’d worked at companies X and Y, then they’d ask all of the people at their company who’d previously worked at company X or Y, to see if anyone knew me. If I were to try to be a vocational applicant like this, I’d develop a reputation pretty quickly.

Companies would just get even more suspicious about long resume gaps or people trying out a new field.

Yeah, Israelis are passionate about this genocide, which doesn’t really line up. The US has the faceless bureaucratic evil of 1930s Germany down.

45kg is 99lbs

you land on your front human legs shattering your ankles and breaking your feet and legs

I can’t imagine we’ve got more fragile legs than horses

oh you need me to have a phone for mfa?

For a master’s in fine art. Or for the metropolitan fransit authority.

what connection is there to that and the specific method of trying to defuse/reject an unwanted conversation?

Asserting that you don’t want to interact is provocative for some assholes. That was the context of each of the episodes I listed, all of which happened on buses, which I neglected to make clear.

But 99% of the time, where a similarly awkward conversation or non-conversation plays out… yeah its maybe uncomfortable or annoying, but I don’t end up harmed.

Absolutely, it just makes me wary of ending up in that type of interaction at all.

And, this very story does not end with the dude stalking her after bus disembarkation… so it shows that is a possible outcome as well, that it can just be a convo with a rando in a public space, and everything ends up fine.

To be clear, she chose option E, and the circumstances in my comment above relate to choosing option A, B, or C. I also choose option E and it tends to work, but a commenter above called it relentlessly petty, which is why I’m suggesting there isn’t an option that doesn’t either potentially endanger you or make people think negatively of you in some way.

Whenever you want? I do it when I get home from work or around lunchtime on my days off.

Yep, some people are extraverted assholes like that.

Yeah, I suspect there’s a selection bias with people who approach strangers and ask what they’re thinking.

But I’m fine with this, because they’re just making a fool of themselves.

I’m fine with it as long as they don’t follow me off the bus or train. That’s happened five or six times. My bff’s ponytail was cut off because someone much larger thought she should be paying more attention to them. And I’ve been told I deserve to be raped, but I don’t really care about that if there’s no additional physical intimidation, because some rando’s opinion on what I deserve is irrelevant unless they intend to mete it out.

Lmao, some bitter sadsack downvoted the fact that you like a made bed.

Only if you do it right after getting up