For better or worse, if you weren’t fat they wouldn’t diagnose you properly either. I’ve been diagnosed with:

•Too skinny (this is particularly funny bc the complaint was fainting and both the low weight and fainting are from hyperthyroidism as I now know)

•Too tall

•‘this is normal for young women’ (if it were they’d all be unable to work traditional job)

•Psychosomatic ailment (depression on my medical record is the bane ofy existence)

•Just unlucky

•‘this must be an unknown symptom of your existing illness’

•Lacking exercise (I do 2 hour long swims a week and walk 3-5k every weekday)

•Probably lying about the amount I drink (both water and alcohol)

I’ve often been told I’m too nOrMaL to be autistic but never that I don’t look autistic. Have you all been told the latter? I see so many memes about that.

Tangential, but I’m working with some code that started out in the punch card era (I’m doing particle physics, it’s in fortran)

To be fair, even before LLMs tech knowledge among the young was on the decline. You don’t have to know tech anymore yo use it. Everything is super easy to use with an intuitive GUI and zero need to look behind it.

I use snuff personally. I’ve never felt the nicotine from a cigarette and always hated how they make your mouth taste, so I’ve never been tempted, even when I kept tobacco, papers and filters on hand. When I run out I often can’t be arsed to get a new can for a few days or weeks.

I’m on proper ADHD meds these days, which beats any self medication. Still nice to have a lil extra.

All of this makes it more confusing, not less

You ever get the jitters and nail biting but at the same time the caffeine has made you suuuper sleepy so you go take a nap?

This is not medical advice, but smokeless nicotine has worked far better for me.

I kind of am judging. Misrepresenting how science works and what it can and can’t do ia a dangerous game on the age of intentional misinformation. Even if you’re just trying to be cute and fun.

You did get a much more sensible result at least

If you’re at home, it’s pretty easy to hang your butt into the shower and point the stream of the shower head at your anus. Don’t even have to undress, just turn the water up low enough to not splash everywhere.

Isn’t mensa sort of a con itself?

Binding your chest with tape is an established thing that can be safe. Safer than a wearable binder even, since it doesn’t compress your entire rib cage. It can also be left on for a few days at a time. But duct tape is just about the least skin safe tape you could use for that.

If this is of interest to anyone, there’s purpose made binding tape. If you find that too expensive, get some of that breathable fabric medical tape from the pharmacy/drugstore.

I don’t even have a large chest and even medial tape is suuuuuper uncomfortable to me. Couldn’t imagine the sensory horror of duct tape. But for those who don’t have this sensory issue, this fabricy medical tape stuff from the pharmacy/drugstore costs about the same as duct tape, which is much less than actual binding or breast tape*, and it’s skin safe.

*I’m assuming binding tape and breast tape are more or less the same, except the former is advertised to AFAB trans people and the latter to cis women. Both are pretty expensive.

Some of the comments are describing scenarios where every day is pretty much the exact same, with a tiny little bit of choice in how to create variation, and you’re in physical discomfort and pain. That’s just real life for some chronically ill/disabled people.

My partners barber always asks if he should do the eyebrows too

Side point, but there’s male three colour cats. Cats can be chromosomally intersex, just like humans. My family used to have a male calico. They usually have XXY chromosomes.

Even in the first one, ‘boys will be boys’ is often used to explain why you react differently to the same scenario depending on whether it’s a boy or girl. I remember being scolded for this stuff as an AFAB, while boys got away with it. Same story with getting into little physical fights, being rowdy, aggressive, destroying stuff. I guess that can be a slippery slope into the latter one, if you keep it up long enough. Just my attempt at an explanation.

I really hope that’s how most people read it, even though it doesn’t read like that to me at all. If the way it comes off to me is a common way to read it, that’d be pretty harmful. So I really hope your reading is the more common one.

Not to be a buzzkill but this makes autism sound like some singular random quirky trait rather than a complex and profound difference in how you process the world around you as well as your own thoughts. Really rubs me the wrong way as an autist.

Usually when an unpleasant, inconvenient, non-optional ‘feature’ like this comes out, it’s at least obvious how that’d generate the culprit company more profits. But with this one, Im genuinely befuddled as to how it benefits YouTube shareholders. Anyone have a guess?