[Autistic Axolotl: an image of an axolotl with the caption: ‘Absolutely hates wearing suits, blazers and ties. The texture of dressy clothes sucks.’]
Yet another random twenty-something autistic computer geek somewhere in the Boston area. (Like that narrows anything down...)
Gaahh, how did I miss this one the first time through?!
I have ranted about this SO MANY TIMES. Dress shirts are so…stiff. And wearing a tie feels like, as Mitch Hedberg said about turtlenecks, being strangled by a really weak person.
[Autistic Axolotl: an image of an axolotl with the caption ‘Ridiculously accurate long-term memory. What did you say again?’]
BWAHAHAHA. This is totally me.
This just made me realize something else that I’d sort of been pondering… now that I think about it, it’s like even my long-term memory just doesn’t do spoken language.
I can remember what old toys looked like, I can remember cheat codes from video games that are two decades old, I can remember exactly where on a page I saw a quotation in writing… but when I try to remember spoken quotes, it’s like I can remember the tone of voice but have trouble recalling the actual words.
[Autistic Axolotl: an image of an axolotl with the caption ‘Reads style manuals and grammar books for pleasure reading.’]
…and now I realise that this one sounds a bit like Redundancy Department of Redundancy, but whatever.
Dictionaries.
Just… dictionaries.
Candice3-09reonuib2331etc., I don’t like you.
And I will NOT webcam with you.
Thanks to these spammers, I have pretty much had it confirmed within the past few days that I’m not only asexual, but one of the extremely repulsed types. “#omgMYEYES” indeed…
Seriously, Tumblr, just put a block on all new usernames fitting the regular expression “candice[0-9]{6,}”. At least it’d put a temporary stop to the pr0n spam.
Edited to add: Just for everyone’s edification (and random amusement), a list of usernames spamming the autism tag that I’ve blocked so far:
Dear Nickelodeon,
Please put subtitles for Legend of Korra online.
Thanks,
I forgot what his name was….Oops
I’ve been ripping the captions from the TV airings so far, since Nick can’t be bothered to do it:
https://www.box.com/s/007df032b911234aec1c
Note that these are straight off the cable box, so the timings still include the commercials and everything. But it’s the only rip of the official CC that I’ve seen out there.
Oh, god- what is this? Horrific Autism Speaks "I am autism" transcript.
It manages to be ableist and racist.
Oh, God! Autistic people, say something!!
That is from 2009, y’all. (Look at the URL.) Since then, though there’s never been any sort of official apology, AutSpe have silently withdrawn it entirely from their YouTube channel and their web site.
So yeah, we autistic people were already very much on it back then. Heck, I blogged about it before I was even on Tumblr.
Something slightly amusing that I realized, continuing on that prior post…
The closed captioning kept glitching out during Hatfields & McCoys, to the point where every third line of dialogue wasn’t getting subtitled at some points. (This wasn’t just an issue with my cable box; a couple other people on Twitter also reported experiencing it.)
But curiously— especially given the issues that I’ve had with understanding mumbly dialogue in a number of other shows recently— I understood the missing lines much more easily than I expected to be able to.
I have a distinct feeling that this, and the fact that one side of my family is from West Virginia, may be related to one another.
In which case, this means I can understand Appalachian-accented mumbling far better than I can understand Californian-accented mumbling. *laughs* (And yeah, don’t even get me started on New England accents…it’s funny, the area itself feels so much more like home to me, but I have to ask people to repeat themselves far too often!)
Edited to add: Oh, yeah, almost forgot! The one character who I had the hardest time understanding? The actor’s accent kept doing this sort of uncanny-valley thing and slipping into and out of his natural English accent.
I’m once again realizing, as I attempt to watch this Hatfields and McCoys miniseries on the History Channel, just how faceblind I am.
Not being able to tell Major Hatfield Family Member from Major McCoy Family Member without really staring intently… yeah, this is just a bit of a problem.
This isn’t the first time I’ve managed to mistake mortal enemies for one another in a TV show or movie, either. Happened to me with one of the recent James Bond movies, too, which is…just a bit embarrassing.
…Seriously, why are pr0n spammers invading the ‘autism’ tag now? Is it because of a certain Playmate? Because that’s the only thing that would even remotely make sense…
