nice obelisk idiot posted:

Early life stress can cause developmental changes related to ADHD and autism. I definitely don't have anything like a typical presentation of either, but I think that I share a few things in common with both categories in a significant way, even though the health professionals that I've seen don't think that I have autism.

Before I started to work on things, my masking was pretty extreme largely due to LGBTQI stuff, and it feels like I had a presentation of stress that was similar to someone with autistic burnout. I've improved a lot. I feel like a lot of people with autism or disorders of stress/dissociation can benefit from taking certain sensory or integrative therapies seriously, and not just as things for children with autism. I think that there's a relatively non-plastic developmental difference in autism, but also a co-occuring disorder of chronic stress due to sensory issues, masking, emotional regulation, etc. that needs to be managed.

Al! posted:

well when he's spin dashing it's more of a forward slanting oval shape, which creates a pleasing tension that is released as he goes fast as the blue sphere. ok i guess i also check the sonic box

Whirling posted:

he is spherical and that is pleasing.

Sushi X posted:

To all the Sonic lovers in this thread, I'm sorry the games and shows are horrible. I'm glad the movie turned out okay at least. I experience genuine pain whenever I touch a Sonic game especially the 3d ones.

LuxuryLarva posted:

Why do autistic people love sonic so much

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

displaced horniness

FirstnameLastname posted:

2 pic d mede it weirdol

Halser posted:

is ULTRAKILL in the list of suspicious games to get overly attached to?

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

displaced horniness

tokin opposition posted:

so is it that being trans makes you autistic or does being autistic being trans because there's way too much overlap for me to think it's coincidence

for evidence see everyone ITT

Xaris posted:

what if I was a knuckles guy

tokin opposition posted:

Hell yeah my brain is thicc

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

Whirling posted:

i got strung along by a real rear end in a top hat for a long time (she was trying to cheat on her girlfriend with me, awful) because she figured (correctly) that the easiest way into my autist heart was to listen to my long-winded rambling about the worldbuilding of video games i like and then occasionally say something approving, and that is incredibly hosed up. lore should never be weaponized in such a manner, it should be used honorably in duels between internet pedants on forums.

FirstnameLastname posted:

chunk in the thunk

nice obelisk idiot posted:

Saw this and I think there's overlap in the fact that both can involve differences in neural connectivity. The right prefrontal cortex specifically seems to be related to identity and gender identity, behavior that may manifest in a gendered way, etc. Autism impacts connectivity there, and some of the genetic or otherwise developmental differences driving gender variance have an impact there as well.

In one study people categorized as MtF transexuals showed increased cortical thickness in several brain areas, and increased cortical thickness is also seen in autism. In autism's case this seems to be left lateralized, which I suspect may be related to some autistic traits sometimes being considered to be 'masculine'- it's stereotypically more common for men to rely on verbal reasoning over integrated emotional comprehension when navigating a situation, and that is also lateralized left and right respectively.

tokin opposition posted:

I don't really want to get too much into this, but the framing of left brain manliness at logic and right brain feminine feelingz is going to need a lot of proof and variations within the population for me to take it as anything more than a bioessentialist man-the-hunter style pseudoscientific self reinforcing reiteration of conventional societal standards smuggled into a scientific community no freer than the average idiot of stinking ideas well past their time.

nice obelisk idiot posted:

I mistakenly added emotional to right PFC type processing, when it isn't necessarily emotionally driven any more than verbal reasoning is. It's just more integrated with our emotions per my understanding.

I don't disagree and believe that's what I said should be deconstructed around those lines, and believe that it has been many times. My personal understanding about it are that there's some correlation of usage demographically along gendered lines. Anecdotally, I saw a trans man report that he felt like everything shifted to the left after getting on HRT. I've personally felt a shift to the right.

I feel strongly though that value-laden views of conscious stepwise verbal reasoning or a more integrated direct understanding are inherently stained in various ways, especially sexist ways, and that the latter is not inherently emotional and inherently irrational and vice versa. People are capable of developing both faculties deeply in an integrated way, and there is nothing essential about that and any relation or correlation to gender. And that's not even getting into boots-on-the-ground Gender.

I personally feel that many men are mired in deep idiocy by overly exclusive reliance on verbal reasoning under the guide of it being rational and uninfluenced by emotion. See: all of human history.

Al! posted:

my wife and i are at a lore truce

Whirling posted:

(in Autistic Columbo voice) well, I gotta get going sir, my wife will give me hell if I don't get home for supper... but there's just one thing that isn't sitting right with me: in the Song of Pelinal, Pelinal Whitestrake mentions the Emperor Reman. Doesn't that strike you as peculiar, that a First Era man is talking about a Second Era emperor that has yet to be born?

tokin opposition posted:

I know everything there is about a small GBA port of the Sims series by a defunct shovelware games studio (and for some reason the n-gage had a port)

Eyyyyyyyy

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i must defeat dr robotnik

Ohtori Akio posted:

im a developer with a cs degree

Halser posted:

I got a computer touching job that relies on me dealing with dozens of things at the same time, so it works perfectly with my inability to focus on one thing

people think I'm a genius because of how I deal with multiple issues at once, but they're unaware that if I had to focus I'd just melt down and not get anything done