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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • When you grow up in a zero trust society people doing things out of kindness is suspect. During my childhood and early adulthood kindness was a cover for somebody lying to me or trying to scam me nearly 100% of the time, and that stuck with me. It still fucks me up to this day that people being kind to me makes me cagy and want to isolate myself



  • Identifying flirting when you’re autistic is hard. I did an extra-cirricular in highschool that involved regular travel for tournaments. One time while on one of those trips a girl on the team knocked on my hotel room door and asked if she could sleep in my room because her roommate was being loud, so I let her in and she slept with me in my bed. I mean slept in a very literal sense; I took her at face value and thought she was just trying to get better sleep for the tournament the next day. I did not understand that she was flirting with me until years later when the roommate who was “being loud” that night tore into me for rejecting her and destroying her self esteem. The kicker is that I was into her, I just had no idea she liked me. It seems very plausible to me that anon is/was that bad at identifying flirting









  • I used to live near a Sam’s club, and I now live near a costco. When I got here I avoided costco because I assumed it would be comparable to Sams (ie extremely low quality products). Last month my roommate bought a membership and now we’ve been three weekends in a row as well and I am seeing the error in my ways.