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I should probably make a tag for neurodiversity stuff but ugh I'd have to go back. Maybe I hvae and I've just forgotten it.

Masking tutorial - autistic social management played as a makeup tutorial video.

Short twitter thread on autistic conversational difficulties.

I'm pretty sure I had a third non-autistic link to share as a palate cleanser but I've gone and lost it and I have adulting to do in two minutes so I can't come through my hundred tabs trying to find it.

(... I wrote that title and then I stared at that title and then I laughed because...)

Anyway. Twitter thread.

Every so often Medium's "here's a bunch of random articles we think you like" does this. This one will use a free read unless you copy the link and go on private with it, but. Autism and "issues with tone".

https://medium.com/the-unexpected-autistic-life/autism-hypervigilance-trauma-and-watering-yourself-down-6f031b0a7ba6

Meanwhile day 3 of this headache but I'm packaging up a novella to send to a novella call so life carries on. They say the pollen levels are "low-medium" but since it's the rage weed that's not great. Also I need to call the pharmacy and figure out if the med refill they texted me about is my actual meds or the substitute that's terrible...

I have some exhausted, discouraged, depressive brooding to do but I'm too exhausted/discouraged/depressive to formulate writing that right now (if I had time before a Thing, even) so I am not doing it yet.

This is an interesting/worthwhile article about slack and "efficiency", meanwhile. From this twitter thread.

My pile of reference links for things I'm not actually currently working on is a giant memory-devouring hash, so pulling them off again:

Almost Idle's incremental game tutorial

Reddit recs for incremental game source code trawls

Particle clicker source code


How to implement main character selection in RPGMaker


Tales and legends tag off lamus-dworski

Bread and Harvest rituals in Poland

Various paper flower crown links:
http://thehousethatlarsbuilt.com/2016/04/diy-paper-spring-floral-crown.html/
http://honestlywtf.com/diy/diy-paper-flower-crown/

Was it at your place, thewronghands?

Anyway. Interesting review of Zero Dark Thirty.

For meranthi and frozencapybara:

Ana Mardoll's blog

The deconstruction links are in the sidebar.

From sciosa:

If Star Wars were an Icelandic Saga....

I was reading the posts sparked off by the Elizabeth Moon thing, or at least the ones that deepad collected here, and had this thought while reading this one.

From the post:

Whether a group changes its core behaviors and values after immigration or not, it must--to be assimilated later--come to understand the culture into which it has moved. To get along, it must try not to do those things which will, sure as eggs is eggs, create friction, distrust, and dislike. (Emphasis mine)



Hear that? If you're different, stop it. Do your level best to be the same as everybody else.

So we have a science fiction writer, active enough in the community thereof to get a GOH invitation to a major con, extolling the virtues of conformity.

Gee, I hope she has never been treated poorly for reading that sci-fi stuff. Because, you know, in some times and places, that kind of behaviour creates friction, distrust, and dislike.

But I can hear it now: oh, that's different! Those are just things bullies did!

Yes. Those are the things bullies do.

But it's not so different, really.

The inability of people to extrapolate both amazes and depresses me.


(Posted here because honestly it would be a derail from any of the excellent posts about actual experience with immigration, assimilation, racism, living as a Muslim, and other actually relevant comments on the whole thing. Those are better reading than a brief moment of mocking the hypocrite.)