How strange indeed that lefties who have been demonized and attacked by a group of people who demand loyalty without an ounce of reciprocation might want a space to vent about that bullying group.
Not really a need to denigrate the right here, we can and do that alongside centrists.
Because that’s a self-applied label of the group we’re talking about? What else would you prefer? I’ll call them whatever they want.
This nitpicking is just a hair away from saying “you’re not allowed to criticize liberals or else you get to be dismissed as Trump supporters.”
This is the most damning evidence of all! When you become more aware of how your autism affects your perception, it’s easier to spot in others.
I have really high justice sensitivity, and your description of your perception changing as injustices were borne out from their actions feels a lot like how I would react. I don’t think you’re wrong at all, but I don’t think your wife is either. It’s a very hard situation. I don’t regret cutting or limiting contact with my far right family, but I would have a hard time doing that with my wife’s family for the same reasons you’ve laid out.
I promise I’m not trying to be dismissive, but do you think you might be autistic? I ask because I am and I struggle with very rigid thinking on how I should react to the consequences of people’s actions that I believe were blatantly foreseeable.
I struggle with this very same issue in my own family. I’ve already gone no contact with my older sister who went full Qanon during COVID, and I barely have a relationship with my Trump-loving grandparents anymore. That relationship is a little laden with religious trauma too, so might not be totally comparable to your situation (I still have to vaguely pretend to be Christian around them even though I’ve been staunchly atheist for twenty years).
To add onto emeralddawn45’s response, studies have shown that communication within groups of all autistic people is just as effective as communication within groups of all allistic people. It’s mixed groups where communication becomes less effective. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320919286
In my experience, this extends beyond just communication. Every social aspect is easier with other autistic folks and more difficult with allistic folks. Yet we’re constantly told we have poor social skills by allistic people, who don’t recognize that they are equally part of the social difficulty equation.
Framing autism in general as a “price” that has to be paid is demeaning and IMO a bad take anyway. It’s par for the course with neurotypical folk only seeing autism as a net negative and not thinking about all the great human advancements that I would bet are the result of an autistic person’s hyperfixation. Particularly STEM advancements.
Severe cases are usually debilitating, yes. But ASD1 is a lot more common than people realize, it’s still very underdiagnosed. I firmly believe I’m better off with it.
Yeah, that post title is so fucking offensive.
The effort you put into this is so impressive! What a lovely post to read.
Neither “Playable” nor “Verified” status means no issues, unfortunately. It’s still good, but IMO the current rating system leaves a lot to be desired.
I think Jerboa was being pitched as the best RiF alternative super early on in the exodus. I also found myself on it but it never clicked for me.
I was on Connect for a while but there were some things that were a bit harder than they needed to be with different account/instance/filter management. Moved to Voyager and I’m quite happy with it, very smooth experience.
100%. Reading the Bible cover to cover + learning about the history of how Judaism was born out of the polytheistic Yahwism and the resulting merge between Yahweh and the chief Canaanite god El was the way I just kept pulling the thread until it all came apart. The inconsistencies between an omnibenevolent god (El) and violent massacring war god (Yahweh) make a lot more sense once you know they used to be two separate gods.
IMO this is splitting a hair that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. If you’re going to be going into that much detail over the exact wording used to refer to the Abrahamic god, you’re gonna have to go all the way back to Yahweh being a local warrior god for the Hebrews that imperfectly merged with the chief Canaanite god El (hence all the names that invoke El like Israel, Samuel, Daniel, Elijah, etc.).
This El is thought to be - by a majority, not definitively - an etymological root of Allah (al-ilah, “il” being the cognate of “El”).
If we’re going all the way to historical root words, they ultimately worship the same god again, and it’s the chief deity of a now-defunct polytheistic religion.
Agreed, I loved Below Zero. It was very much a small step forward from Subnautica, and I think people were expecting a bigger step forward. But it was always a glorified DLC for the original. Knowing that, it’s extremely enjoyable. I’ve played it through twice and I do love it in it’s own right.
This teaser has me hopefully that Subnautica 2 will be a true sequel. More polished, a bigger improvement on the original. Maybe I’m naive, but I’m gonna choose to be hopeful.
I agree. I’m just living what I’m preaching, they can call themselves the Enlightened for all I care, I’ll use their terms and lobby criticism at them regardless.