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I don't believe this person was looking at a toddler when they painted it..

Johann Baptist Reiter

(Urfahr 1813 - 1890 Wien)

„Toddler lying in a basket“

oil on canvas; framed

55 x 47 cm

signed on the upper right: J B Reiter.

IM Kinsky

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That last part you said really clicked. I already agreed with the whole post. But this specifically helped in my understanding and acceptance. It's like meowing. I meow all the time! But you're right that most people expect words. My cat doesn't care what I'm saying as long as I acknowledge him. While I tend to be honest with someone when asked how I am, I can now consider the possibility of playing pretend words to appease someone I don't care about but want to remain polite with. Like at work. Thanks!

People's reactions to my small talk post have really made it clear to me how much people think they should be able to opt out of society whenever they find parts of it boring or inconvenient.

"If someone engaged me in small talk I would just ignore them because it's pointless." Cool okay that would get many people fired.

"If someone engaged me in small talk I would just tell them that it's none of their business so I'm left alone." Wow impressive you're really showing that random stranger who asked you if you think it'll snow tomorrow.

"Why don't we ban small talk at work and school to help with efficiency?" Because we're not automatons, life is not just about efficiency, and asking your coworker how their weekend went or your classmate if they got stuck in the subway delay this morning isn't harmful or bad.

I recognize that there are people who are not capable of doing small talk or engaging at all verbally with anyone in a casual way, but some of the ways that some people have reacted feel a lot more like the "we don't owe our friends a ride to the airport or help moving" type vibe.

Community and society are built not just around our small group of extremely close friends and family but also our casual acquantainces, our coworkers, our classmates, the people with engage with professionally, the people with see at clubs or group lessons or religious meetings, the people we stand next to at bus stops.

And being autistic or ADHD or depressed or anxious or anything else doesn't mean that you get to opt out of society without consequences.

If the person sitting next to you at your knitting club asks how your day is going and you tell them to fuck off because you don't believe in small talk, you have just made this space less welcoming and safe for them, and you have cut off an avenue for yourself to meet someone. I'm willing to bet that that person will never try to talk to you again, and they'll probably tell other people what you said, and the space will become less friendly to you, all because you were unwilling to say, it's going fine, and you? or not great. I'm not great at small talk, but I'd love to learn more about what you're knitting instead or even I'm sorry, I'm having a long week and just need a little quiet right now.

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No they should paint the items yellow only when the interaction is needed. Unlock interaction *new conditioner on shelf* by doing action *used last of current conditioner bottle*

ADHD is so embarrassing. I ran out of conditioner and I've been too busy to go buy more so I've been showering without for like 2 days. I just turned around and finally noticed four bottles of conditioner on my shelf. I stocked up. I always stock up. How did I even forget that I stocked up? The bottles just faded into the background. What's wrong with me

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Break the cycle. Be honest. If you're gonna ask how I am then I'm gonna tell you. I literally stop and think when someone "greets" me this way. I take it as a moment to check in with myself. How am I? Do I feel like maybe I am venting to strangers sometimes? Yeah. But I remind myself that they asked and maybe they should rethink the question if they don't mean it. Break the cycle.

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The is the calmest, most decent kitty ice ever seen. Cuteness overload!!

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I’m convinced if ppl on this site knew how crappy gifs look before you color them properly, they would appreciate editors more

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Physical therapy is wild because they're always like "hey do this weird little movement" and you're like "hmm my brain doesn't seem to know how to activate that movement" and then they'll like trick your brain into doing it by making you do other movements first or making you resist against them moving you or some shit and your brain is like oooooh ✅ new movement unlocked. And then they tell you to do that movement 20 times a day and you do and it makes some part of your body you didn't even know was related hurt less. What the fuck.

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Seeing this after Better Call Saul is the first time I noticed that the fancy alcohol bottle Gus gives the Don is the same brand of bottle that Jimmy and Kim scam that guy into ordering. What symbolism is there?

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We made it to 100k notes what were his options what did he pick?

I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

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I’m gonna do it! I’m gonna do the dishes!

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I can never tell if the "Mature Content" I am about to open in public is a partially rendered painting, fully clothed trans woman, picture of a couch, or an actually sexualized naked body. Which, in my opinion, makes the whole thing less effective since I don't wanna miss out on the art and trans people just because I'm on a bus.

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I love when there's peanuts in my food. Give me more PEA NUT

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I've found that "getting fat" is also just a thing that happens in puberty? And typically those effects aren't long lasting if it was something that might stop you from starting hrt. Like yeah it'll probably happen to you but so what? You're also hotter now

its been about 6 months

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Wow it's fish!

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

I can take them. Transform them. Suess them.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

whatever 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

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Holy shit yeah that's an amazing painting

pretty proud of this piece<3

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The texture on the goopy one is so incredibly captivating

some fresh doodle heads and a goopy ol chopped one!! thank you all, comms always open! 🫶