the autism mood of never knowing when its “your turn” in a convo so you say the first word of your sentence about 5 times before you actually get to speak
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#one of the most relatable posts to ever be written #autism #that excuse for communication called speech #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Found another idiotic accounting mistake from my predecessor that I have to fix and I was like “WILL THE SPECTER OF THAT MAN’S INCOMPETENCE EVER CEASE TO HAUNT ME” and my coworker was like “Why do you talk like that”
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#””why do you talk like that”” #man I *wish* I could talk like that #that excuse for communication called speech #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Limited perfect recall: remember information pertaining to your special interests completely and permanently after one exposure
Flow state freeze: Time is paused for everyone else when you’re in a flow state or hyperfocus, and so are your physical needs (e.g. thirst)
Effortlessly graceful movement: Never trip or fumble, acquire physical skills easily
Same-language translator: people always understand what you meant and you understand what they meant, as long as you’re speaking a shared language
Ambient DJ: Replace background noise/music with silence or any sounds of your choosing, for yourself and anyone who opts in
Aura of normalcy: when active, nobody thinks your actions are strange or remarkable, regardless of what you’re doing
All good choices, but I’d go with 3 and 6.
I can pretty much do 1 already, because neurodivergence. 2 would be great, but I went with 3 over 2 because tripping and fucking up my ankles is the bane of my existence. 4 is great, but honestly I’d rather not have to talk with people. 5 is also great, but I have ANC headphones for that. 6, though? I don’t really give a damn if people think I’m weird as a concept, but people keep getting on my case about my weirdness, and I want to be left the fuck alone.
I already have 1 and 3, so I’d do 4 and 6 for sure. I don’t want to pause time for other people, and negotiating how they opt in to my ambient noise sounds hard.
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#definitely 5 #(there is way too much background noise and *way* too fucking much background music in this world) #torn between 1 and 3 #probably depends on how much I can cheese 1 #(and whether I can turn it off for infohazards) #…although 4 is kind of tempting now that I think about it #it feels weird to pass up a memory enhancement‚ but I think I might actually go with 4 on this one #2 seems not especially helpful for my neurotype #I think there is a reasonable level of unseriousness to take when playing this game #(or‚ conversely‚ perhaps a reasonable level of desperation) #at which it makes sense to pick 6 #but…like‚ it does suck how often people street-harass me about my assistive tech‚ but #I do not want to respond to this by mind-controlling them about it? #memes #that excuse for communication called speech
one thing you need to know about me is that i am constantly having insane galaxy genius ancient greek philosopher level thoughts about everything ever all the time but before leaving my mouth they get filtered through seven layers of autism and come out sounding like a youtube comment made by a nine year old
Is that what that is?!? Is that why i cant vocalize the hot thoughts?
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#god I fucking know right #fucking hate the autism filter #(the layer of having to verbalise your thoughts in the first place is one thing) #(but the layer where *even when you know exactly what words you intend to say‚ your mouth won’t repeat them verbatim*? uggghhhh) #that excuse for communication called speech #autism #relatable
if you liked @earlyandoftenpodcast (which is itself excellent as an amalgamation of a century of history, told with an imperceptible amount of fnords), I recommend Presidencies of the United States
it’s a bit slow (it’s taken him six years to cover twenty years of history) but i like it that way
Presidencies of the United States does have transcripts, if you’re so inclined. You can find them at the bottom of the page for each episode, such as the most recent one.
I hate the pivot to video I hate listening to some morons obnoxious voice and watching their stupid face to receive a message that could have been conveyed in 45s and 1kb in 3min and 150mb instead I hate being thrall to the tyranny of linear viewing rather than glancing around the file I hate not being able to copypaste and I hate ppl playing this withering vampiric drain on my finite quantities of attention and patience and capacity for analysis as some heroic blow for the rights of the disabled as though they are not equally being victimised by it
I hate the tacit assumption that I’m supposed to form some sort of parasocial relationship with a goddamned software troubleshooting guide because apparently that’s what conventional wisdom in marketing says brings in the dollars these days
#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #but also #yes this #that excuse for communication called speech #my past self has good taste
Genuinely can’t stand the new favouritism towards video format. You want me to spend a whole two minutes listening to someone say out loud a paragraph I could read in 20 seconds?
(This is about tiktok. I hate tiktok.)
It’s not just tiktok, it’s everything. I’m tired of clicking on news articles and instead finding it’s a video I have to watch. I’m tired of being sent to a video when I want to learn about a new thing instead of an article I can skim in less than a minute. You mean you want me to sit through an entire video, listening for the one kernel of information that’s buried in there that I’m interested in? Nah, man, life is too short to waste it like that. I don’t know why any of you like videos lmao.
Thank god someone said it holy fuck!!! I hate video formats!! Hate hate hate!
And it is legitimately impossible to find information on certain subjects in non-video format. “Internet lore” subjects are almost exclusively the domain of videos. Minecraft redstone tutorials? Fuck you, here’s a video.
Watching things is for some reason something I cannot get my brain to do. I don’t watch tv or movies because passively looking at a screen is not engaging enough and I get distracted, and I can’t just glance backward like you can with a book.
This is an accessibility issue. I’ve been required to watch films for classes before and had to break them up over multiple days, listen to their audio while playing minecraft or some other activity to occupy my hands, or just straight up bullshit using wikipedia summaries and stuff.
You know how when little kids try to explain something to you, they stop and start their sentences over and take forever to finish the explanation? That’s what video format is like for me. It’s just SO SLOW and takes FOREVER to get to the point compared to reading, and if I miss something or get distracted, I have to rewind the video and try to go back and catch it again.
And I can’t quickly, visually skim a video to see if it will have the information I need. If I hit skip, I might miss something important. I can’t go through the subheadings like I can in a written piece of text. There might BE an outline with subheadings for the video, but skipping forward might make me miss the handful of frames they’re displayed in. I can’t screenshot a sentence in a video so I can look at it later when I need it.
I also just process less when i’m watching a video. If I’m not doing something else while listening to the audio, I’ll miss a LOT. Information in video format just feels more ephemeral in my brain.
Someone sent me a video essay about the history of 2b2t (the minecraft server) but I haven’t watched it yet even though i’m really interested in it.
My heart breaks at the thought of all the information out there that I can’t crack my way into because the only way it’s preserved anywhere is in video format
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#yes this #that excuse for communication called speech #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #disappointed permanent resident of The Future
#occasionally but much less often than around friends #or maybe I swear more often in text? #or both #I don’t know I almost never communicate in voice with people whom it’s entirely and unambiguously okay to swear around #surveys #that excuse for communication called speech
Are you more of a “talk like a textbook and pronounce every single syllable” or a “chew my words until it’s coming out all garbled” autistic person ?
The former, but my metamour is 100% the latter, and I think it’s super cute how my partner is dating both ends of the spectrum.
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#garbled #I’d like to be an enunciator but it just doesn’t work #(although) #(I wonder how much of my garbling is *actually* some kind of natural baseline) #(and how much of it is an adaptation to being unable to receive *or send* conversational turn-taking signals) #(perhaps this is just the speaking style that results) #(when you take as a given that people *will* talk over you) #(and try to rush as many words out as possible before that happens) #(…maybe I *don’t* want to be an enunciator) #that excuse for communication called speech #autism
(I was going to submit this to @justice-turtle, but it looks like they don’t have a submit option? I’ll ping them instead.)
Happy birthday! Just because I’m not nearby doesn’t mean I can’t sing to you. I don’t think I could manage voice chat (tbh, I barely managed this), but I did some asynchronous singing for you.
(I’m so terrible at breaking silences that I recorded this in my shed, so that the complete isolation could take the edge off the stifling. But hey, I got there in the end!)
*birthday hugs*
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#and many moooore #justice turtle #oh look an original post #that excuse for communication called speech #birthday #(so I was looking at the public birthday tag to see if I should avoid being in it) #(and apparently it’s also Mickey Mouse’s birthday) #(it’s the anniversary of the premiere of Steamboat Willie)
Brinens and Things 