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Like it's a serious problem that once you've been labeled mentally ill aka irrational and an unreliable narrator, you can't tell anyone about any mistreatment, abuse or danger you're facing without people's first reaction being condescendingly going "well how can you be SURE that this is what ACTUALLY happened, don't you think you might just have misunderstood the situation?" without any good faith attempt to interrogate what did or didn't happen. And unfortunately abusers know very well that this leaves a lot of mentally ill people very vulnerable to abuse of all kinds which they take full advantage of.
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I think a lot of autistic taking-things-literally goes under the radar because what the diagnostic tests and shit ask about is not what that generally looks like in an adult and often not in kids either and much more importantly itâs not what generally actually causes problems in real life instead of being irritating for caretakers or funny to bullies or easy to diagnose
I have absolutely no issues understanding metaphors or idioms. When someone says their heart is on their sleeve they mean theyâre emotionally expressive and openly display their feelings, not that they have a chunk of cardiac tissue on their shirt. I very rarely have issues with sarcasm. I sometimes have issues telling when someone whoâs said something mean is about to say âjust kiddingâ, but tbh I think thatâs more on them than me.
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My grandmother asked me âDo you know when the trash was taken out last?â and I said âI think Eliot took it out yesterdayâ and a few hours later she yelled at me for ânot taking out the trash when I asked you toâ and I was like???? You didnât ask me????
I dread filling out forms and am crap at filling out diagnostic tests or personality quizzes because there are always questions I donât know the exact answers to (how am I supposed to know what day I got dental surgery seven years ago?) or donât understand exactly what theyâre asking or the wordingâs unclear and they could mean this or the wording says this but Iâm pretty sure what they actually meant was this and should I answer what they said or what they meant, and how does everyone else just whip through the form when surely they canât know all the answers either? Does everyone else remember the day they got dental surgery seven years ago?
I get tangled up by bureaucracy because the rules on the website say that for this you need that and for that you need the other and for the other you need something else for which you need the first thing, and I go in circles for hours or days or weeks or months or years because their stated rules say there is no way to get what I need, and when I talk to somebody else theyâre like âjust call them?â and Iâm like âhow could that help? the rules say that what Iâm trying to do is impossibleâ
And all of that? Thatâs how âtaking things literallyâ ACTUALLY affects your life as an adult. Itâs not âhaha you think âgetting under your skinâ means parasitesâ. Itâs âyou have real difficulty functioning in the world because everyone else is conveying things through implication and assuming that you know that rules are flexible and questions are approximate and youâre supposed to lie on job applications, and you donâtâ.
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does anyone have that quote that goes something like 'white germans under the nazis lived just fine as long as they were loyal to the state, gave their children to the army, and paid their taxes, and in this sense many americans would be comfortable living under fascism' trying to find who said it but google is giving me jack shit
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it will never stop being funny to me that one of my (former) coworkers constantly talked about how the problem with the democratic party is that it holds its politicians to a higher standard. meanwhile noted sex pest andrew cuomo has a very good chance of becoming nyc mayor.
#uspol#i know i was late to the party but ive hated this man ever since he leveraged family connections to get a daily segment on cnn#about how shitty his response was to covid
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fwiw i do think the narrative surrounding trans women in sports needs to drift away from "she didn't even win so it's okay" and towards "there is absolutely nothing unfair about a trans woman beating a cis woman in a sporting event"
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By request, another compilation of Mikuru falling and making a bizarre noise in every language I could find.
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Anyone else play with those paper doll fashion activity books? I used to love making my own clothes : )
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Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.
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I'm keeping an eye out for heat stroke in my area and I can't figure out what a full body flush would look like on dark skin since all the pictures are just fake training pictures. Anyone have video/pics of a heat stroke flush on black skin?
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illegal immigration is swag and epic and i salute everyone who does it. personally i think if you can afford to move somewhere you should be allowed to live there no questions asked. actually even if you cant afford it, it's not like i can afford to live here either. who give a shit.
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