jaywalker

joined 2 years ago
[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Right down to calling themselves libertarians, a historically leftist ideology that now apparently means you're just too embarrassed to call yourself a republican

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I try to notice before my frustration escalates beyond the point of no return. If I do catch it early, I stop whatever I'm doing and go through a mental checklist of things I forget to do like pee, drink water, eat, etc. If I've done all that, I go outside or at least stare out of a window. If I still feel frustrated, I go for a walk and look for some newts in the creek by my house.

I started making videos of the newts and other stuff around as a hobby and that has helped a lot. So when I get frustrated at work, I can just stop for a while and do some newt stuff and I guess because I get likes and followers and shit, the dopamine is there and I feel "accomplished" so it's not like I wasted my time by not doing my actual job.

When I get frustrated unpredictably, like I can't possibly see it coming, I still try to follow the same technique, but it's wayyy more difficult to think clearly once I'm frazzled or whatever. Like I get in a loop of angrily repeating some phrase and I'll end up hitting myself, screaming, etc.

I'm almost 40 and only found out about the autism+ a few years ago. I sometimes wonder how much easier life would be if I learned some of this as a kid and my parents weren't fucking psychopaths who hid my diagnosis from me. I also work from home and don't have to keep exact hours, so it's a lot easier for me to mold my life around meltdowns

Edit: I'm also married to a fellow autistic person and we lean on each other a lot. Codependent af

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure I paid $70 for the Power Rangers game in like 1994

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Fox News about to run a story on this

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe they are on a low gravity planet

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How long has it been since you've played? They did an update to the inventory that improved it a good bit. Plus if you're on PC, you can always just edit your save file to make the inventory bigger

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Literally the first sentence too lol

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

All the non-denominational churches are just a denominational church in denial. Pentecostals use it a lot too, but it's pretty obvious once you know

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, really? People pay that much for a phone to watch ads on a calculator app?

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's hilarious, can you point me at an article about it? I'm being genuine, I can't find one and I really want to read more about it.

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Unciv is open source Civ with mod support. Rogue Adventure is a really good card game that I think has a free version, but they've been adding features for years now. It's kinda like Slay the Spire with simpler graphics

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

idk if this is a clever joke about cutting kids in half, but it should be

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