draws with pens

forneverclever:

i really can’t stand the red hot chili peppers at all. i think all their songs sound the same.

It really depends which of their albums you’re listening to. I can see what you’re saying if you’re listening to any albums they put out after “Under the Bridge” hit big, because I think they were always trying to reproduce the sound of that song.

I do still like some of their songs though.

allies-person:

There are alotof books with the purpose of instructing you how to write a dissertation, get an academic job, etc.

Not too surprising when you consider that the sort of person to attempt to get a PhD is also likely the kind of person who looks to a book to explain everything.

I’m guilty as charged there.

Heh.

mybedshapedshadow:

(Not really but that’s the title of this story)

So part of my stimming is doing these weird hand movements when I listen to music sometimes (namely, dubstep).

Yesterday I was showing Dominique some of the ways I stim and she was saying how she would be able to handle living with someone who did those types of things (fyi we’re planning to live together once we both get out of college). And she also said my stims were cute which was nice of her. ^^

Then I explained about the hand movements I do when listening to dubstep and I was like, “so if you walk into my room and I’m just doing that don’t worry I’m just stimming; I’m not calling Satan or anything.” And we both burst out laughing.

And Dominique said it should be part of those fake “did you know?” tumblr things: All Autistics Are Satanists. And when we stim we are conversing with Satan. XD

It was just hilarious and I love me and Dominique so much. ^^

I do weird hand movements when I listen to music too! *bounces excitedly*

flapjackstate:

Me: what I find fascinating about going to far away countries is the pavements would be different.
Dad: … Yeah.
Me: because I’m used to the British pavements, with the white curbs. But actually it may be different in other places. Like signposts as well, I’m used to them.
Dad: there are a lot of differences.
Me: but like the pavements…

For me it wasn’t the pavements, it was the candy wrappers. I found it really interesting that the same candies we had in the US had different wrappers in the UK and Canada. And I thought it was interesting to see what kinds of different candies other countries had.

Took an interesting Aspie test.

Sorry. I just get into these spaces where I really get into taking these.

Anyway, this one was really interesting. First they had you listen to audio clips and then pick the emotion that went with them. Then the second test was looking at film clips of people acting out emotions, but with no sound, and picking the emotion that went with those.

I found the audio clips really easy and the videos really hard. Turns out I was right that picking up on vocal intonations was easier for me than reading faces, because here were my results for both:

You scored 86.0% in 8.1 seconds. Faces: 78.0% Voices: 94.0%

According to the site, the average neurotypical female, supposedly the gold standard of social skills and empathy, scored thusly:

The average score for female neurotypicals is 57.0% in 5.7 seconds. Faces: 78.5% Voices: 35.5%

Wow, so normal chicks can’t read voices very well at all, apparently. Oh and these were the average scores for people with ASD:

The average score for males with ASD is 58.6% in 6.9 seconds. Faces: 62.5% Voices: 54.8%
The average score for females with ASD is 66.0% in 9.0 seconds. Faces: 64.6% Voices: 67.5%

Now okay, I’m apparently best little empathy bot ever. But it’s interesting that people with ASD score better than neurotypical women, who I think as I said before, are fonts of empathy and social skills. At least if you believe pop psychology. I’m actually a little confused, because the paper that’s done by Simon Baron-Cohen said that people with ASD definitely did not perform as well on this test. My best guess is that the statistics quoted on the site are actually OF people on the site taking the tests, and should therefore be considered separately from the study they linked to.

The study included only about 25 people though, which strikes me as an absurdly tiny study. Like, that seems okay for a pilot, but nothing to go generalizing about large masses of people on the basis of.

Anyway, I guess I can’t go around thinking I’m bad at reading people anymore, since apparently my empathy bot skills are top-notch. But yet, I still have masses of trouble in my relationships, to the point where I’ve given up on having friends because I can’t even figure out what the main problem is, because it always seems like a different thing each time. So I’m pretty confused. Of course, figuring out what someone is feeling from an audio/video clip is still pretty different from socializing in real life. I could give those things my undivided attention and I wasn’t expected to interact in any way. So it could be that my raw skills are fine, but that I have some kind of processing disorder that makes it hard to use the massive amounts of empathy I apparently have.

Or I could just choose to believe every bad thing anyone’s ever said about me. But that seems rather pointless, and I think honestly unfair. I’m not deliberately difficult. I think I do have a social problem of some kind, but I’m not sure where my exact deficit lies.

This all does make me wonder though: could having too much empathy actually be a problem?

Oh and here’s a link to test itself: http://www.aspietests.org/facevoicefaces/questions.php?show=9ed4d008466&locale=en_GB

saltunderstars:

drawswithpens:

saltunderstars:

drawswithpens:

For me feminism is all fine and dandy provided that one doesn’t get upset when I hold doors and such.

ROFL. Spoken like someone who has no idea whatsoever of even the basics of what feminism is about.

The sad thing is that there were some things about his profile that indicated that he was interesting and quirky, but I simply can’t get past this. I mean, feminism has about as much to do with getting mad at people for opening doors for you as it does with cabbage.

I don’t want to have to explain feminism to a guy. How tiresome.

I always thought the Rule Of Opening Doors was that if you get to the door right before another person, you should hold it open for them regardless. And that you should hold doors for people who look as though they are going to have trouble opening the door themselves, like people carrying lots of parcels, people who are using crutches, and extremely small children.

That’s the rule I go by as well. But there’s guys out there that are convinced that feminism is all about women getting mad at men for opening doors for them. Which is…ridiculous to say the least.

I imagine this is the same contingent that thinks feminists are mostly women who just don’t like men for some mysterious reason.  : /

Oh yes, I think it’s either the same one, or one that’s closely related and hangs out with that contingent to watch the ball game on Sundays.

saltunderstars:

drawswithpens:

For me feminism is all fine and dandy provided that one doesn’t get upset when I hold doors and such.

ROFL. Spoken like someone who has no idea whatsoever of even the basics of what feminism is about.

The sad thing is that there were some things about his profile that indicated that he was interesting and quirky, but I simply can’t get past this. I mean, feminism has about as much to do with getting mad at people for opening doors for you as it does with cabbage.

I don’t want to have to explain feminism to a guy. How tiresome.

I always thought the Rule Of Opening Doors was that if you get to the door right before another person, you should hold it open for them regardless. And that you should hold doors for people who look as though they are going to have trouble opening the door themselves, like people carrying lots of parcels, people who are using crutches, and extremely small children.

That’s the rule I go by as well. But there’s guys out there that are convinced that feminism is all about women getting mad at men for opening doors for them. Which is…ridiculous to say the least.

For me feminism is all fine and dandy provided that one doesn’t get upset when I hold doors and such.

ROFL. Spoken like someone who has no idea whatsoever of even the basics of what feminism is about.

The sad thing is that there were some things about his profile that indicated that he was interesting and quirky, but I simply can’t get past this. I mean, feminism has about as much to do with getting mad at people for opening doors for you as it does with cabbage.

I don’t want to have to explain feminism to a guy. How tiresome.

Is it me, or she much more of a bitch in the tv show than the books? I love her in the books, and I loved her in season 1, but this season she seems like she’s become much more of an asshole.

fourloves:

also, I miss the hall I was on before I changed schedules (north), because it took me half the time to do everything and also because so many amazing people like athena live there, and I also REALLY miss my nurse.

I don’t feel at all worried about criticizing my job on here because I have never received an email from my job and I have no idea how to contact anyone at my job by email, we seem stuck in the stone age so I am not afraid of getting googled. I mean if anyone I worked with found my tumblr I’d be embarrassed anyway so nevermind.

anyway I really miss my nurse because the other day he was on a hall with me because he was working a shift for his friend and we were talking about how when he was an aide he was on my current hall (east). we talked about all the residents and stuff and he talked about how all his old residents “talk his ear off” when he occasionally passes meds on east. he’s just so cool because he likes everyone instead of whining about them or acting like this is just a crappy place he hates being. talking to him actually made me feel bad about ever complaining about my job. he was like “working in a nursing home doesn’t sound like it would be fun, but I never wake up and don’t want to go to work.” so nice. on north, even residents I was scared of he would get along with and joke around with until I rethought being scared of them.

sorry for all these boring posts, I feel like the disorganized non-archival nature of tumblr means that you never have to feel self conscious though because in a month no one will even be able to find this post. is that a flaw in tumblr or an intentional thing?

anyway, the nurse I work with every other week is the dumbest person I have ever met. this is the one who constantly gives me unsolicited advice about how I should eat and what medicine I should take and constantly makes weird fake-out jokes about me being signed up to work an extra shift. maybe she likes me, maybe she hates me, maybe she is like that to everyone. she works 6 16-hour shifts a month and her stated reason is, “it’s better than being here 5 days a week.”

anyway this I can see potentially being upsetting because it’s about this nurse acting in a way toward residents that I feel is abusive and at the very least power-tripping, so here goes

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Wow. That whole thing reminds me of Stanley Milgram’s Stanford Prison Experiment, how people get stuck into playing these roles and taking them seriously as if they’re something real and not something totally made up.

But yeah, it sounds like that nurse definitely has weird issues she’s projecting.