What?
Has anyone told FlyingSquid about the Greenland Appreciation Act 1997? It’s only a matter of time before he gets stopped and asked to produce his homemade mini Greenland flag. It’d be a shame if he had to leave because he didn’t know about the law.
That’s definitely me! I also went through the “oh no I just realised I never make eye contact” phase for a few years, and overcompensated by staring, which took so much energy that I couldn’t take in anything the other person said.
Oh it is.
I can’t tell if that’s meant to be a sincere tribute to xxxtentacion (sp?) or someone taking the mick. I’m not gonna ask about the winky underneath.
Right? Is it so hard to just ask “what are your relevant skills and what experience do you have”? Why be so general and vague? I don’t get all the fakeness, I really don’t, especially in jobs like retail. Why the need for long forms and multiple choice questions and all the other nonsense.
Interviews only test how good you are at interviews, not how good you are at the job.
Same with me, except every job I got was from employers who were desperate and would take anyone. The only exception is the job I have now, which ironically enough, I’m kinda crap at.
Traditional job interviews are very much geared against autistic people. I was absolutely awful at interviews, until the job centre actually sent me to a coaching service and I had it spelt out exactly what each interview question meant and what kind of answer I was expected to give.
Turns out “tell me about yourself” doesn’t mean tell them where you were born and what your hobbies are 😅
It’s the first of Twentember.
Your honour, I’m just really excited to be here!
For me it was the advert:
Ya will, ya will, ya will, ya will!
Gosh, yes, it’s annoying. I’d be constantly getting people telling me to cheer up. Once a lady on the bus to school gave me a looooong pep talk about how I’m so pretty and if anyone picks on me it’s because they’re jealous, and I was like, whaaa? I can only assume I looked really sad, but I was probably just thinking about a video game or Formula 1 😅
As I got older, my resting sad face turned to resting angry face. 🤷🏽♀️
Also I have to say, strangers telling you to cheer up can just eff right off, especially when they follow it up with “it’s not that bad”. They can naff right off with that, how presumptive to think they know what’s going on in my life.
After the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there was a minor trend to call them USers.
That doesn’t work for me. I had someone get offended because when she asked me if I took my pet to the vet, I replied with no. She said something like, What? That’s it?
I was like, well, yeah.
How can I tell her about something I didn’t do?
I used to work with her in the stockroom, and it was so much effort having to interact with her.
I’m autistic, I’ve never done this gesture. Everyone’s different, of course, but I’ve never seen anyone at all do this by accident. I’ve seen the defence that it’s a “from my heart to yours” gesture, but if that was true, it would be palm up. Palm up is the giving gesture. Palm down is a saluting gesture.
(┛`д´)┛彡┻━┻ ヾ(;ﾟДﾟ;)ｼ
The Breen is something you need the moral support of others to watch. I traumatised a colleague by making him and another friend watch Twisted Pair with me. I watched two Breens alone after that, since the other two refused to watch any more with me, and it was painful.
“I’m not seeing another psychiatrist. I’m not. I’m not seeing another psychiatrist. I’m not seeing another psychiatrist. I’m not.”
(Is that lines from a Breen film, or my reaction after watching a Breen film?)
They maintain the Breen is a troll, but I think he’s got delusions of grandeur and really thinks he’s making these deep masterpieces.
I don’t know, though. I’m someone who gave up on Linux Mint because I just couldn’t get it to work properly. I wouldn’t say I’m tech inclined. I used a button phone until 2022. I only got a smartphone because my sim stopped working with my Nokia. The only issue I had with Lemmy was the sign up (it was during the reddit exodus so the sign ups weren’t going through, but I’m glad cos I nearly joined ml).
Mastodon was easy as heck to join. I got a friend to sign up, no issues, and he has no idea what the fediverse even is.
I had the mastic ones once. It tasted like houseplant mixed with ointment. I just let the guys at work hate-eat it.
Other Turkish delight flavours are nice.
What you on about? Rats are known for their intelligence.
Edit: unless you mean the sort found in certain branches of McDonald’s.
She can go eff herself.