tokin opposition posted:

You don't have to be autistic to post here

But you are

tokin opposition posted:

Yeah SA has gotten a lot nicer. I'm not sure if that's because all the assholes got banned, that they're posting in places I'm not in, or if old age has mellowed out the average goon.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I think lowtax was def jealous and bitter that moot stole his thunder

Charlatan Eschaton posted:

responding 4 days later

i think everybody wants to be funny/smart all the time but remember how easy it is to just scroll past stuff and if you make some not as good ones it doesn't really matter and nobody's gonna be mad at you. thankfully it seems much less likely that you're gonna get flamed or called out in a mean way now than in the past. one of the first posts i remember making was in a "post an offensive joke" thread in gbs and i repeated a dumb thing i had heard at school that wasn't that funny. some guy with a monty python avatar made a stern sounding reply about the where the joke was originally from and why the version i said was lame or something and it freaked me out for a long time. but! it did make me avoid making gross jokes in the future so even the crummy posts can be useful lol

repeating things a bunch to get it just right is annoying when you're in a hurry but it can be good for working on art stuff. aim to make stuff that makes you happy though and not work to the unreasonable standards of what the way too talented people show off on the internet or tv. all the competition tv shows for like baking or miniatures or whatever where you have to defeat your peers to be #1 the best and if you mess up one time you're out and everyone pretends to be sad are fuckin bullshit. like they're trying to make every fun hobby into a job that some goober gets to judge you on. getting results different than what you expect and adapting to problems when making stuff is the fun part, working with flawless precision is what happens when you've done something so many times that all the mystery is gone and it's boring.

i've been messing around with a laser cutter for a few years and there's so many little things you have to tweak (holding objects in same place every time, lens focus, beam intensity, directing the air right where the laser hits so the smoke gets blown away perfectly, etc.) that i often obsess over one and don't get anything done and end up quitting for a while. but breaks let you passively work poo poo out in the background of your brain which is cool. then once whatever part is fixed and going again it's really satisfying to let it run and make a little object in the shape you wanted. i mess up a lot but im only making tiny things so there's not much waste and i don't feel too bad about it. also the vaporizing wood smells really nice so that's a cool bonus. unlike with drawings where you're never quite sure when it's finished, having to press a final button to start the machine to make the thing is helpful because you know you're "done" with that design. then you get to look at it from a different perspective and can adjust whatever you feel could be better for the next one. sort of like posting i guess

RHase posted:

I had an intake with a new provider earlier in the month, and from the sounds of it I should (hopefully) be finally getting medicated as well next week.

FirstnameLastname posted:

he got mad at anyone that he had any opportunity to be mad at
i don't think he was ever a very happy guy and probably never addressed his poo poo & blamed everyone around him for his bad mood bc narcissist

tokin opposition posted:

You don't have to be autistic to post here

But you are

RHase posted:

With hobbies and art for me, the biggest issue has always been when I hit a plateau after starting to improve a good bit or when I feel like I'm not making any progress to begin with, which ends up getting to a point where I just get frustrated with what I'm doing and end up quitting for a while. I love repetition when it comes to things that I feel more confident with, like whenever I learn a new song on keyboard I can play that same song over and over for weeks on end and have a blast doing it each time (especially when it's something that I'm proud to be able to play), or when I was really into baking earlier in the year I loved to make bread in a routine, having a specific one to bake on certain days of the week and never really straying beyond the 3 or so recipes I really liked to do. Even outside creating stuff, I've always been the type of person who loves to listen to the same handful of bands, rewatch the same handful of movies, and replay the same handful of games over and over and over again. Sort of a comfort with familiarity thing, I guess.

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Nix Panicus posted:

I think every ADHD person has the remains of dozens of hobbies they got really into for a few weeks or months then hit a plateau and lost interest in

tokin opposition posted:

Dunno who this is and if you want me to interpret facial expressions you might want to remember I spent my childhood posting

Ohtori Akio posted:

hobby and interest spaces that you make a habit of are the move. 100 years ago everyone got married to someone they met at church. what could be the equivalent, for you

tokin opposition posted:

Dunno who this is and if you want me to interpret facial expressions you might want to remember I spent my childhood posting

FirstnameLastname posted:

lowtax was an rear end in a top hat from the start and created an abusive moderation structure and encouraged hostility all around, he didn't get out of control until the drug abuse/head injury got to him but he was always kind of a rear end in a top hat, just stil able to turn it off at the timr

but like, he thought helldump closing was a bad move, posted on kiwifarms and somethingsensitive and w/e

skooma512 posted:

I still can’t believe you can buy out other people’s avatar. This is pretty much only used to cyber bully

tokin opposition posted:

Either that or I've simply become universally loved and acclaimed

Ohtori Akio posted:

hobby and interest spaces that you make a habit of are the move.

tokin opposition posted:

Yeah SA has gotten a lot nicer. I'm not sure if that's because all the assholes got banned, that they're posting in places I'm not in, or if old age has mellowed out the average goon.

Either that or I've simply become universally loved and acclaimed






lol

FirstnameLastname posted:

i found an at home ketamine therapy woot

FirstnameLastname posted:

rly does work btw

normal feeling beyond measure

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

lol we see your posts you know

Nix Panicus posted:

Saying 'the drugs have made me incredibly normal' but Im so high it comes out in an unintelligible slurred mumble as I piss myself

Ol sakkman posted:

Forever having to convince people that no, I really am autistic, yes I know I don't "look" like it, yes it does make me very clever, no I do have feelings, blah blah blah

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

lol yeah I don't act autistic outwardly because that got me abused and rejected as a kid. so I'm pretty good at masking!!

Ol sakkman posted:

It's remarkable how one can look cool calm collected and be an absolute raging nuclear poo poo fire internally

mags posted:

autism rules