AlolanYoda

joined 2 years ago
[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 14 points 1 day ago

I don't know you, but there's a chance that someone else had this exact realization after seeing you

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago

... Wait. I assumed it was my extension cord keeping me up at night. I just learned to use it as white noise.

I swear my therapist says she sees no reason for me to be diagnosed as autistic

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Out of all the ways I've ever been told I may have autism, this is certainly the most unexpected! At a certain point I should probably get a diagnosis.

In my family's defense, they did believe me as soon as they tested my hearing (after trying to trip me up several times, without success), so I never felt gaslit, I just felt proud of my hearing hahaha.

Yeah, I didn't mention this in my previous post but it was annoying, for sure. I would listen to this annoying noise, nobody would hear it, and I'd eventually discovered that somebody had left the TV on.

That phenomenon is also something I saw, but never really gave it much thought, I just assumed it was just something our eyes did

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 124 points 2 weeks ago (35 children)

I can hear CRT screens. They emit a high pitch noise that nobody else in my family can hear, I assume most people actually can hear it but never noticed it. My family used to think I was crazy or had tinnitus (jury's still out on both) until they tested me by making me close my eyes and tell them if the TV was on while turning it off and on at random, with sound off. It was a weird test from my perspective, since I could hear it fine anyway. So far I haven't noticed a decay due to age, but if it had little use when CRTs were widespread, it's now completely useless.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 0 points 4 weeks ago

Can you explain this a bit better?

I've seen many journals with this "open access" option (where the authors pay for open access, rather than the readers paying to read it). But the paid option never skipped the peer review process, as far as I can tell.

I just think the last author of this paper is a big deal in his field and can do whatever

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It did not. You never played Quake or Unreal Tournament and made your own skins. You never dabbled in map making for any of these games or games in the Doom engine. Nobody ever made skins for minecraft Java. Your life is a lie.

So is mine!

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

Similarly, it turns any random hike or walk into a pokemon collection session. I used to hate going on hikes but now I am always looking forward to the next opportunity to add to my ~~pokedex~~ life list

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

The cockatiel has been starting every day by singing loudly in his cage, especially when the dog enters the room. He's still madly in love with her. Unfortunately I don't know if the dog even acknowledges the cockatiel as a living being (we never let him out of the cage while the dog is around as she is quite destructive).

The dog is getting old last week she had a bad leg. The vet said it was probably because of her age, so he gave us medication to prevent arthritis. She's all good now. Yesterday she had a zoomies session like I've never seen before, she somehow managed to push my mattress almost entirely out of the bed frame in a single jump while me and my sister were laughing so hard we were crying.