Q: how many autistic people does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: that depends entirely on the size and location of the lightbulb. A single autistic person can change most normal bulbs, but changing a bulb in a traffic light requires special tools and collaboration.
A lightbulb on a submarine, for instance, is more complicated. Is the submarine currently submerged? Can the bulb be changed while submerged, or does the ship need to surface first? If the latter, do we say that any autistic people on the crew are participating in the process?
Or what about a lightbulb on a satellite in orbit? Sure it may technically only require a little work to change, but getting the autistic person and the new bulb in a position where they can change it, why, you need a whole space program.
(lots of autistic people there)
And this is without even getting into how much time is spent while each autistic person makes a different variation of the "What are we changing the light bulb into?" pun. That really can add up.
This is why sometimes it's better for NTs to change lightbulbs. Fewer puns.
What's funny, though, is that more than one autistic may participate in the changing of a normal bulb even if the additional help isn't strictly required.
This is because many autistic people like to help support each other in their various endeavors, light-bulb related or not.
This is a really good point and I can't believe I missed it!
If the autistic people involved are babies or toddlers then there's probably no amount of them that can safely change the bulb and at some point you should stop adding more to the process.
I posted a tiktok video talking about alexithymia. I’m going to try to do a whole series using the #ndconcepts hashtag and then reshare here as I go.
And here’s one talking about a key insight in my own life that I learned from the always incredible @ahandvanish — it turns out that emotions make way more sense when you realize they’re senses.
On CPTSD — this cuts off the last bit, which explains my theory as to why so many ND people have cPTSD. Go watch it on tiktok, I’m mykola_b there
Can we talk about the word “psychosomatic” for a minute?
Like most people, I used to understand this word to mean “the cause of your symptoms has been discovered to be psychological, and must be treated as such.”
But that’s not quite how it’s used in practice.
In practice, diabetes was considered to be psychosomatic until we discovered insulin.
In practice, Lyme disease and the horrific symptoms that can follow it have historically been written off as psychosomatic.
I've got a public/assets folder which is populated by webpack running on my local file system. I have volume mounted it into my container.
When I ssh into my container I can cd into `public/assets` but then I get this.
What is happening? Webpack isn't even running when I built my container, so in theory this stuff should all just be static files on the file system.
This seems like some sort of really bizarre bug. I do include some stuff from `public/` in my `.dockerignore` but then I link the `public/` volume into my container so all of that stuff should just get transferred.
Unless... does webpack do weird stuff with symlinks?
Allistic students will project all of their insecurities on you if you use words they don't know or if you speak in a weird way or if you move funny or are in any way different.
"In the real world you have to learn to get along with people."
"Well of course people beat you up you're really obnoxious"
My PTSD remembers you assholes.
I've read that today's kids are much better than this.
Certainly anecdotally the kids I know go to a Montessori school where they say there's no bullying, and mean behavior is met with compassion and care from everyone.
Proposing “We Didn’t Start the Fire” as the official anthem of process metaphysics.
(Process metaphysics says, “there are no things, only one long ongoing verb that we create things out of as suits us but which we mistake for real when really they’re just models. So any thing is composed of past process output. There’s no vacuum.)
Drat missed the closing quotation mark but not the closing paren, now I can’t fix it!