This, honestly, is a pretty accurate representation of what an overload feels like for an autistic person!
And what’s better is that the group that uploaded this video, the National Autistic Society, never talk about curing autism. They actually care for autistic people and are aiming for it to be more widely understood (unlike Autism Speaks)
I love this one, it is SO RIGHT ON!!! WARNING though I found it to be triggering for me.
If any of my allistic followers want to know what it is like and why I wear noise canceling ear buds, this is why.
The thing is, it is so much worse than this. Because like, take for example – ever squeek of a shoe on the floor, every creak of a seat, every beeping watch, rustling paper, cough, sneeze, and air conditioner, EVERYTHING is like this, all the time.
My dad once blanked on the word for deer and excitedly said, “Hey, look! In the yard! One of those… What do you call them? One of those lanky cows from the woods? Like on Christmas?”
So, I think “WEIRD DOG” is a more than acceptable placeholder deer name.
Samefoods or samefooding is a community word to describe the autistic trait of eating the same food over, and over and over.
Sometimes this can last a life time, sometimes it can last a few weeks or months before changing to a different food or group of foods.
A lot of times it is not just a preference, it is need. But not like a craving. It is part sensory, part routine driven in most cases. A lot of times we samefood because we need that particular mouthfeel / texture / taste, and a lot of times even after that need passes, it turns into a need for routine until you actively dislike that food again.
My biggest same foods are are fruit and orange juice, lemonaid, and limeaid, which swap out with Coke and Orange Fanta. I samefood both coffee and tea, and that one usually lasts several months before I switch. I samefood a strawberry banana orange smoothie almost every morning.
When I’m not eating fruit and veggies, I sometimes cycle to eggs, or to pizza, or to frozen chicken of some kind, or to boxed pasta salads. But like, the thing is it has to be the right brand and it has to be cooked the right way and if it is not, I will just not eat.
And that is the basics of samefooding!
Yeah, I’ve noticed the rotation a lot with myself. Last year I couldn’t get enough of chili… and now I just gravitate to chicken nuggets all the time. I know energy level and ability to actually will myself to use spoons to cook plays a huge role in this too, but yeah. I will eat the same food over and over without really thinking about it other than, yes this is what I need to eat and anything else is just ugh.
Meet CryptoLocker. It’s your worst nightmare. A lot of antivirus software, including the big names, cannot yet detect or stop it. If your computer gets it, CryptoLocker takes all your files hostage by encrypting them and giving you a certain amount of time to send a certain amount of money to the man behind the virus.
The encryption is very tidy, and so far seems uncrackable (well, crackable, but it might take a couple centuries). If you tamper with the virus itself, it will pretty much self-destruct and take everything with it. And the way the money is transferred, the dick programmer behind it all for the moment is pretty much uncatchable.
YOU CANNOT GET RID OF THIS VIRUS WITHOUT COMPLETELY WIPING YOUR COMPUTER. YOUR ONLY CHANCE IS PREVENTION AND PREPARATION.
Back up your computer to something like an external hard-drive, or even an internal hard-drive that you just take out and stuff away somewhere for safe keeping. Make sure your antivirus is up to date, avoid skeevy sites, and don’t open random emails. DO NOT download email attachments unless you know exactly what it is, because that seems to be how this is primarily being transmitted.
We’ve actually run into this at work. It’s extremely aggressive and a major fucking pain to get rid of. One of our guys got infected with it and even paid the company whatever fee they charge to decrypt the files, and due to “an error processing the first payment”, ended up double-charging him (no refunds, of course) and is virtually untrackable.
Literally fuck this guy with a cactus. Like, if you see him, offer to introduce him to your little cactus friend in a quite personal and intimate manner. This shit is FUCKING INEXCUSABLE.
Also, bulk up on your virus protection, limit your porn and illegal cartoon-watching and torrents to safe sites, DO NOT OPEN EMAIL ATTACHMENTS UNLESS YOU’RE EXPECTING THEM, and just be careful in general, cause this one is one of the nastiest viruses around.
I wouldn’t reblog a virus alert unless I was dead serious about how bad it is.
So the information in this is a little outdated. CryptoLocker CAN BE DEFEATED without just erasing everything on your hard drives or paying the ransom. CryptoLocker encrypts your files with a encryption that is unique to your computer, which sucks cause it made it hard to break. But long story short: A Dutch security firm now has a data base of keys and offers a free service HERE. You send them a encrypted file and your email and they’ll will then email you a decryption key along with a download link to our recovery program that can be used together with the decryption key to repair all encrypted files on your computer.
My ireland native father once told me that the first time he ever saw people use water for hot chocolate was when he came to america, and said that it was then that he “knew this country was doomed”
ive made a lot of posts that i honestly hate once they started making notes but this one has absolutely taken the cake of “man i really wish i didn’t make this post” because you dont realize how dumb people get when you start food discourse.
however it was definitely a learning experience. for example here’s some things I learned:
-many people who make hot chocolate with water saw this post and somehow thought that my dad literally thinks they’re the doom of modern america and that this out of text quote from a man they never met was personally directed at them.
-Some people literally had never even had the thought of using milk for hot chocolate. literally flabbergasted. ive had people reply, send asks and even DM in multiple variations of “if it not water than what the else?”. Had one dude actually thank me for introducing the concept of milk for hot chocolate. wild.
-There are just some fucking geniuses on this site. So many inanely smart people hitting me up with things like “ummm OP have you ever heard of… lactose intolerance????” and “maybe some people… can’t afford milk?” I never possibly thought of any of that. man i hope yall felt super smart after that. shame yall couldn’t spend some of that riveting world knowledge on googling “lactose intolerant milk alternatives.” the world will never discover what almond milk is.
-some shit about the difference between hot chocolate and hot cocoa holy god i cannot care
-fungi fucker is something you can call people.
-apparently i should just do whatever the fuck the aztecs/mayans did. obviously the optimal thing to do in the year 2017 is to emulate empires that fell in the 16-17th century. as you can guess the aztecs/mayans used water for their chocolate beverages. some people also liked to remind me cows and therefore milk were basically unavailable in their part of the world during these time peroids, thus forcing them to use water for their chocolate beverages and despite them knowing this they still use water for their hot chocolate. These people are very smart.
-it is acceptable human behavior to send anonymous messages to people telling their dad to “simmer down” over chocolate based beverages.
OMG this is the best summary of the Tumblr Discourse I’ve ever seen.
@thebibliosphere I feel like this applies oddly well to you as well.
I feel OPs pain because it is also my pain on a near daily basis whenever I post some helpful, basic advice like say, salting cooking water before making pasta, and people lose their absolute god damn minds and tell me to love myself and use herbs and spices instead like I’m the one failing basic culinary skills 101.
Salt ya damn water, then add the spices. Christ almighty.
“Saying minors can identify as ace means you think there are allo minors”
If a 10 year old identifies as trans does that make every 10-year-old who doesn’t cis?
No it doesn’t
If a 12-year-old identifies as gay don’t that make all 12-year-olds who don’t straight?
Nope
Letting kids identify how they want doesn’t force identities on other kids and you know this
this is disgustingly transphobic and homophobic. this is once again implying that gay people (Now With Trans!) are only sexual identities, and is also sexualizing children which is fucking gross. a child shouldn’t identify as asexual because that implies that all other children are allosexual (gross term btw), meaning that children have sexual desires and think about sex. they fucking don’t. they’re little children. trans kids are kids who realize that they aren’t aligned with the gender they were assigned, and gay kids are kids who realize their sexuality doesn’t fit in with the norm. this is in no way sexual and shouldn’t be put under that category, whereas if a child identifies as asexual this implies other kids think about sex. nice fucking transphobia and homophobia there. in that case, all children should be asexual, because no young child thinks about sex (and if they do, this probably is a sign of sexual abuse)
A. I’m trans and queer so shut up B. Ace kids aren’t sexualizing other kids by calling themselves ace C. It costs 0 dollars to respect how kids want to identify themselves
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