Food texture, temperature, taste, and presentation sensitivities are often symptoms of autism, yes. But any of those things, whether alone or in any combination, are not enough to diagnose yourself. I diagnosed myself after looking up the symptoms of ASD Level 1 on a reputable website (don’t remember which atm) and seeing that a greatamy of them fit me to a tee: food sensitivities, walking on my tiptoes, echolalia (TV and Movie Talk big time), difficulty understanding nuance, difficulty reading sarcasm in people, and a lot of other. Then I took the RAADS-R test on AspieTests.org and found that I had very high numbers, well into the range of scores of people who had been diagnosed.

I got diagnosed last summer with ASD Level 1. I asked, “Are you sure?” and the diagnostician giggled a tiny bit and went “Uh…yah.” 😂

Fun side note: I took the WAIS (Wexler Adult Intleligence Test) as part of the seven and a half hour testing. One of the parts of that test checked my Speeded Processing, which is essentially how fast a person thinks and processes information. My score was a 148 which is well into the 99.9th percentile.

This was incredibly validating and eye-opening for me; as long as I’ve been alive, I’ve been a ball of frustration with regards to how I interact with the rest of the world. And now I understand that I am just an incredibly fast thinker, and that knowledge was the impetus for me forcing myself to slow down and not expect more of people than they are able to give. My dad always told me that “everyone is doing the best they know how to do in this world”, I understand now what he meant.

Another reason for me needing to slow myself down is that I have queered more than one relationship in my life due to thinking, speaking, and acting too fast. My relationships are immensely important to me, and I need to address my shortcomings if I wish to maintain them in the future.

Less cops --> Fewer racism

Power laces, alright!

…wait a minute…? 😕

It’s the Highwind.

Mmmmyeah it essentially is, except for the first line.

Not to be confused with Pat Smear, guitarist for Foo Fighters and The Germs.

Also, not to be confused with a pap schmear which goes great on a bagel and was introduced to the world by Avi Applebaum in 1926.

essentially a limerick

The first line of a limerick has a flexible number of syllables. Sometimes eight, sometimes nine (“There once was a man from Nantucket…”). It still remains that any limerick can be put the to tune of that song because there is enough space for each syllable.

Lol, I figured it was something like that. 😂 But romantic relationship style link was good stuff, too!

Enough. At first I was like, “Yeah, I love Alphaville!” However, upon further reflection, it occurred to me that I had confused Alphaville with two separate Austin-based bands, Alpha Rev and Storyville.

I’d did check out that album and sure…

Odd link to post, but okay.

“Is the woke in the room with us right now?”

“Point on this dolly where the woke hurt you.”

If you are paying for a subscription and get full access to the progression system, then stuff starts becoming available reasonably quickly. Within a year or so, I was a capable ABC miner as part of a crew in a wormhole system, making enough ISK each month to pay for my monthly subscription through PLEX and have half of it left over.

Eve Online is the finest, most intricate MMO ever created, and I absolutely hate it.

Beverly Hill Cop: Axel F is a brand new movie and is a sequel to previous BHC movies.

That being said, I agree with you. Nothing about this article indicates that he was being humorous. If this were a video interview, there would be context. So if he was being a goof with a print interviewer, then that interviewer should have described him as such:

“He wasn’t a fan of ordinary life. ‘No one told me they loved me and I had to wait in line for coffee…it sucked!’, he quipped tongue-in-cheek about the experience.”

Something like that. Not indicating the attempt at humor just makes him sound like an asshole.

Plus, articles like this get run by a star’s publicist before they are printed. I am surprised Kevin Bacon’s PR person didn’t pick up on this.

Just put milksteak, she’ll know what it is.

I was gonna ask what know and of question

I think you may have had a stroke, mate.

Plush - Stone Temple Pilots. I kill with that one.

Lol I didn’t last time and had to hire a second set of movers. And those second motherfuckers stole my cell phone.

You mean like having movers coming in a few weeks but not getting off my ass for the past five days to start putting my life into boxes to move halfway across the country? Cuz it feels like you might be referring to my having movers coming in a few weeks but me not getting off my ass for the past five days to start putting my life into boxes to move halfway across the country.

This is the only reason I still teach teenagers after 17 years, and I will not expound further.