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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Honestly, I find it amusing. They take weird as an insult because they’d use it as one meanwhile there’s a notable number of people who self-identify as weird.

    I suppose logically I would though I don’t usually use the exact term. More often I’ll state ‘Normalcy is overrated.’ Whomever I’m talking to can think whichever term about me. If they vocalize it and it’s distasteful to me I might redirect to ‘weird’ but I generally don’t feel the need to give them a term… which I guess is weird in it’s own right considering most people would give their preferred term xD



  • I was diagnosed originally at 3yo with Asperger’s. As mentioned by folkrav this diagnosis is outdated, ‘Asperger’s Syndrome’ isn’t a thing anymore. To the best of my knowledge it’s currently all Autism Spectrum Disorder with numbered levels associated with each diagnosis ranging from 1 to 3.

    The old Asperger’s diagnosis is, AFAIK, translatable to Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1.



  • The actual experience of them? About the same. How much that impacts my life? Less than before.

    Because I have greater vocabulary for describing what’s wrong and have greater agency in my life to decide not to experience it I can avoid it better. I’ve also found that drowning some textures with others works;

    Ex: melted cheese outside of the context of pizza or as a sauce is not good to me. However adding several other textures helps a lot. So getting a cheese burger when I ordered hambuger is only really a dealbreaker if it was meant to be bun, catchup, & burger. But if I get other ingredients light cheese isn’t unacceptable.









  • In case you ever have to go back to Autism Speaks’ website, or a similar one;

    Try running NoScript browser plugin, or something similar. It shut down the distracting notifications for me.

    Don’t know which browser you use but I’ve found that if you put a little effort into it and use one that supports some good plugins you can cut out a lot of the most annoying things on the internet.




  • Mostly just mitigate bad-texture and try to work around it. I try to try new things… actually had a problem with not eating for most of my life so now if I don’t know what something’s like I’ll probably try it if it doesn’t have some clear indicator of bad texture.

    I also limit caffeine intake as per doctor’s recommendation, replacing it with water for most of the day. Don’t like water but it’s supposed to be healthy.