[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I agree, the poor phrasing of many questions is annoying.

But as best I can tell, that test is the most widely recognized as valid initially screening test, in that it essentially never produces false positives (neurotypicals do not score 65 or over).

It is also supposed to be properly administered by a professional who is sufficiently trained to address questions you may have about how to answer the questions.

On one hand, if it isn't a big deal to you, than I absolutely do not want to pressure you into pursuing it just for my sake.

On the other hand, I am reasonably confident that taking issue with the poor phrasing of many of the questions... is itself an indicator, to some extent, that you are more likely to be higher up in the score, on the spectrum... because constantly asking to further specify things that are poorly or ambiguously worded... is a common trait of Autists.

Neurotypicals tend to barrel ahead with the first possibly ambiguous meaning or question answer without reflection or reconsideration.

Autists tend to do the exact opposite.

... This is part of the reason you're supposed to do this test with a trained professional observing/proctoring, when you go for a formal diagnosis.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago

I am not saying that homes shouldn't have good construction and maintenance standards.

I am saying that in general, an occasional spider in your room is very likely there because it is hunting other pests that would pose far more risk to your home and yourself than the actual spider.

Please actually read the link I provided and educate yourself.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Without getting into a massive discussion about self-diagnosis and validity of various tests in which demographics and what not...

https://embrace-autism.com/raads-r/

If your total score is 65 or over on this, you may wanna look into a formal diagnosis.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

... No.

The answer to your question is 'no', lol.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago

Mr Vance, have you said 'Thank You?' even once, for the personal spiritual guidance afforded to you by the Holy Pontiff?

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I fell in, to a burnin' ring of fire...

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

... I want to hear this story of 'that one time I got chased by a massive iguana.'

But I don't get or really understand the squeamish reaction to... any of those things you just mentioned.

Like, I know they are common in other people, but none of that ever made any sense to me, seems like irrational phobias.

I grew up in the WA PNW with a lot of outdoor and wild life activities... basically in an exurb bordering the boonies on one side , farmland north and south, fucking swamp/estuary on the other with a highway bridge going over it into a bigger town.

Any time I went anywhere new, some new biome... I would just learn about the local wildlife first, learn what is harmless, mostly harmless, and the few things that are actually dangerous.

Far more often it was the case that various damned plants with either barbs or some kind of skin irritant would be the main concern... or just mosquitoes, or sand fleas and mites... don't try to pick up a dead, decaying jellyish...

I used to just play with newts and garter snakes, caught and released different bugs for fun.

Only snake I've ever been 'squeamish' around was a goddamned actual Northwestern Rattler, which I happened to get tooooo close to by accident once, out on the eastern side of the Cascades.

By too close, I mean, I am trudging through shrubland on a hike on a friend's property, and suddenly, from somewhere, yep, can't see it, but I can definitelt hear a persistent rattle, time to freeze, figure out where it is by ear, and back away very, very slowly, hike is done for the day lol.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

On a similar wavelength:

This is why you generally don't just stomp the shit out of any indoor spider you see ... unless you very specifically live in an area where there are actually human-dangerous spiders.

https://www.thespruce.com/why-spiders-are-good-8690795

Unless you live way out in the boonies, or you really have not been in your basement or attic in a while...

(and lets be real, we're almost all urban renters now, nobody has a basement or attic rofl)

... chances are, any spider you see indoors is actually only really capable of living in or very near a warm building, and when/if you do see them, it is hunting actual pest insects, and is just shy of totally harmless to you as a human.

Just learn what black widows and brown recluses look like, and if it isn't one o' those, you're fine.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It doesn't matter beyond the FOMO.

Chances are, no one will remember or care in a decade.

Assuming you are USAmerican?

Unfortunately, chances are also just a bit better than a coin flip you'll be able to find a decent job anyway, so, it also doesn't matter in that sense.

41% of recent grads are underemployed, 6% are unemployed, you thus have a 53% chance of finding a job that utilizes your degree.

... Assuming the economy does not get worse.

... Which it will.

Sorry man, happened to me as well. I graduated right out into the Great Recession... and now we're looking at a 2nd Great Depression.

Good luck.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

I feel this is one of the few instances where I can say 'takes one to know one' and not mean that in some kind of rude or bellittling way.

Also: Etiquette!

Thats the word I couldn't think of, thats used in ShadowRun to describe the ... set of vocabulary and base cultural knowledge that functionally constitutes a social class, within those games.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 2 days ago

Unless you're an Autist who has heavily specced into the Corpo dialect/persona/mask.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

On a barely related note:

It would be funny to watch Markiplier try to take out a Tesla Bot, and then Asimo, and then a humanoid Boston Dynamics robot, in hand to hand combat.

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Y2K, as in it came out in the year 2000.

Link to the song again:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xqvYBB6-yOg

Here are the lyrics, but as it is a song, I highly suggest you just listen to it!

If you receive an e-mail with a subject of "Badtimes", delete it immediately without reading it.

This is the most dangerous e-mail virus yet

...

It will re-write your hard drive.

Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer.

It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts.

It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to render any CDs you try to play unreadable.

It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number.

It will mix antifreeze into your fishtank.

It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over.

It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit and hide your car keys when you are late for work

...

Badtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin.

It will give you nightmares about circus midgets.

It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Visa card.

It will seduce your grandmother.

It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of Badtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.

...

It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it.

It will kick your dog.

It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your voice.

It is insidious and subtle.

It is dangerous and terrifying to behold.

It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.

...

Badtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease.

It will leave the toilet seat up.

It will make a batch of methamphetamine in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase high school kids with your new snowblower.

These are just a few of the signs.

Be very, very careful.

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Zillow projects that U.S. home prices will fall 1.7% between March 2025 and March 2026. Last month, Zillow economists still thought prices would rise this year.

Thats the aggregate for the whole US, -1.7%.

The US Housing bubble has popped.

Please be wary of particularly emotional and or delusional landlords as they go through the 5 stages of grief while processing this information.

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Zillow projects that U.S. home prices will fall 1.7% between March 2025 and March 2026. Last month, Zillow economists still thought prices would rise this year.

Thats -1.7% across the whole country.

The US housing bubble has popped.

Fs in chat for your local obscenely overleveraged corporate landlord or serial home flipper or AirBnB leaser, though be warned, they may be extremely emotional and/or delusional at the moment.

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Zillow projects that U.S. home prices will fall 1.7% between March 2025 and March 2026. Last month, Zillow economists still thought prices would rise this year.

The US Housing bubble has popped.

Everyone remembers how well that went last time, right?

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