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Personal, waiting through your life, ASD, sad
I suppose many people in the spectrum didn't have an easy childhood, especially if they lived in rural areas. Having difficulties bonding with peers, problems, solitude, bullying. However, the worst that you could have is having your parents tell the child that you just need to survive and wait, because one day you'll go a different school, meet new people and things will miraculously "be better". Because the child will take that literally, and make a point of their childhood to wait for this better day. It will believe that the problem is just a matter time, and then it will be solved.
Then comes the time for a higher grade school. And perhaps it will be a little better. But it won't be as great as it was promised. Perhaps you will cope better, perhaps you will find a better company, but you will never be neurotypical. And you will hear, once again, that you need to wait, and at the university things will definitely be just great.
Then comes the time for university. And again, it will be a little better, but never as good as it was promised. On the other hand, you will start realizing even more that you can't fit — that you've missed an important part of your life, that you lack the experiences that other people have, that you're a child that's suddenly ended up an adult between adults. And what will you hear? Of course, when you finally go to work, things will be even better.
And what's the truth? The future never brings anything better of its own accord. What it brings instead, is the realization that you've wasted the best years of your life waiting to be an adult. And then you are old, unhealthy and surrounded by people who sorted out their lives a long time ago. And people expect from you that you will work hard 5 days a week, and somehow manage to find more energy to sort out your own life at that.
And yes, as the old maxim says, you should just cope all these years and wait for retirement. Presuming you'll actually qualify for pension, that you'll be reasonably healthy and that the world won't burn completely by the time.
#ActuallyAutistic

Peter Navarro seems to be handling the bad news fairly well - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/03/11/peter-navarro-seems-to-be-handling-it-well/

Looking at my ToDo/planned list I realized that many things on it will never happen the way I keep trying to do them: You can only ever take so many hours away from sleep to do something and it doesn't work well with long-term or more complex projects.
I had thought about applying to grants for small software projects/book writing projects (got both on my list ;)) but realized that the application process would again cut so deeply into my little time that the small chances of getti…

The eternal question: is this far-flung time zone early zoom meeting being attended by people who will, or won’t, have opinions on whether I have shaved yet?
Rule of thumb:
England- yes
Scotland- No
US- Depends
Continental Europe- 100% but will never show it
Australia- No
Malaysia- No

I bet CSB will say,
„Melania will be super pissed he didn’t do that to her“
BECAUSE IT NEVER HAPPENED?

Arizona will go hard blue in November https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243679136/arizona-abortion-court-decision-ban

The Arizona Supreme Court allows a near-total abortion ban to take effect soon
The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that an old law from the 1860s can stand in the state, outlawing nearly all abortions.

We should never take democracy for granted. Use your vote. Or others will decide for you: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/08/we-should-never.html

😜 From the guy with the 'never back down' PAC:
DeSantis guts "Don't Say Gay" law in deal with LGBTQ advocates - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/03/11/desantis-guts-dont-say-gay-law-in-deal-wit…

Arizona will go hard blue in November https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243679136/arizona-abortion-court-decision-ban

The Arizona Supreme Court allows a near-total abortion ban to take effect soon
The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that an old law from the 1860s can stand in the state, outlawing nearly all abortions.

Dating apps creators selling a "your AI assistant will talk to someone else('s AI assistant)" sounds like someone really not understanding what the app one builds is for. Especially given how crappy AI assistants are...
Like I never really dated but I don't think that getting a half-assed summary of a chat with a person really helps one to determine if someone's a match.