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[...] "Revolutions do not allow anyone to play the schoolmaster with them." -- Rosa Luxemburg, The Mass Strike, Chapter 4.

I'm a libertarian socialist, a social ecologist, and a humanist, I know my way around Linux, and I'm partial to speculative fiction and TTRPGs.

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chevalier26 , to ActuallyAutistic group
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@actuallyautistic Maybe y’all can help me with this question:

Over the past few months I have really been ruminating on what “masculinity” and “femininity” even are, and those terms are mostly defined by stereotypes. Like, I know I’m a woman but I’ve always felt like “just some guy.” I’ve never had dysphoria or anything, and I have a biblical understanding of sexuality, but cultural ideas about gender make no sense to me. All of this is so confusing. Any ideas?

foolishowl ,
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@chevalier26 @actuallyautistic I think nearly everyone with some introspection finds the received models of gender uncomfortable. We can look at how other people are exploring it and often challenging those models, but ultimately it's for each of us to determine what gender means to them personally, or if it means anything at all.

catswhocode , to ActuallyAutistic group
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@actuallyautistic I'm curious, has anyone ever interpreted your infodumping as bragging? That happened to me on here a while ago - I was just talking about some trips I had taken or something, and the other person thought I was showing off 🙄 I think they were neurotypical.

foolishowl ,
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@catswhocode @actuallyautistic I'm so used to it that I've trained myself to stop talking about a subject and apologize if I start feeling excited.

foolishowl ,
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@catswhocode @actuallyautistic Also, the complaints aren't usually that I'm boasting, but that I'm being aggressive and domineering, which I very much do not want to be.

Gender roles come into it; it's certainly a valid complaint that men frequently talk over women.

lifewithtrees , to ActuallyAutistic group
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A job post that explicitly requires someone with "high executive functioning"

Is this ?

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foolishowl ,
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@lifewithtrees @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd That is absolutely ableism.

foolishowl ,
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@lifewithtrees @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd To expand a bit, it's making a statement about what sort of person should apply for the job, and using pseudo-medical language to do it, instead of clearly describing the job and leaving it to us to decide whether we are willing to do it.

On top of that, it sounds like a way to describe bad working conditions as if it's the responsibility of workers to cope rather than of management to improve working conditions.

LehtoriTuomo , to ActuallyAutistic group
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Someone asked whether I ever played Doom. No, not really. I told that I've never liked first person shooters and then it hit me. I never liked them as there's too much going on. In fact, I've never been a big fan of any types of shooters, the only exception being Cannon Fodder. Now, with the new-found autistic perspective, it makes perfect sense. Sensory overdrive all the time equals no fun. How about my fellow autistics, any fans of shooters?

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foolishowl ,
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@LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic I used to like them when I was younger. It depended which ones you were talking about though. I was a big fan of the original Unreal.

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