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While I'm talking about social stuff I had to learn as an autistic person

There's a LOT of social interactions between human beings whose purpose really boils down to being like that thing dogs do where they go "omg YOU'RE a dog??? I'M a dog!!!!!" And that's not a bad thing. Highly ritualized "meaningless" displays of human connection like friendly greetings and talking about things like weather actually do serve a purpose which is like idk ritualized displays birds do. YOU'RE a human? Omg I'M a human!!!! Wow!!!

And they don't have to be your favorite flavor of interaction. You can even think they're silly. But they DO serve a purpose or else they wouldn't be a thing.

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Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested.

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Jaroslav Panuška (Czech, 1872–1958) - Meluzína

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She is the poem - June Bates

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The lost patrol, One letter words

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sketches where i could see the value but nothing else

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My sunshine sleeps in your darkness, Zhiyong Jing

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did i post this

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june 1st ( world milk day )

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The final stage of every OC's creation is having to go through websites like this to name it:

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Yellow Guy: Are you real?

Red Guy: Wish i wasn't.

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i think there kinda IS a major problem with ofmd not knowing what genre it is, and that problem is basically that the type of romance and drama it is and the themes in those contexts it brings up call for character development but the type of comedy it is relies on character flaws…

you’ve made these characters that are heartfelt and that the audience connects to and then you’re treating them like they’re just characters to laugh at, and you end up with this situation where these characters have communication and emotional regulation problems and a lot of personal issues to boot, and you’ve put a lot of emphasis on, assigned a lot of weight and intensity to the repercussions of those issues…

and then after that, after having set that tone that sets certain expectations, you proceed to treat those characters in the context of a comedy, in a way that befits a genre where the repercussions of the character flaws aren’t taken seriously.

you’ve shown us how deeply serious the repercussions of the character flaws can be, stede’s ed’s and izzy’s alike, and then you’ve randomly abandoned that tone to proceed to treat those problems as if they don’t need to be resolved, or even in some instances as if they have been resolved without showing a bit of it onscreen.

which is so disappointing in a show where there was focus on communication and resolving conflict, and those things were important… the conclusion of those narratives you began has been lain aside for much more superficial things.

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