I don’t think that Reddit is so much better. The interface at the moment is full of ads that make i confusing. The only thing is the community search that is a bit cumbersome, but this is due to federation, and understood. On the other hand the federation with Mastodon/Friendica/whatever is super-powerful, hand honestly enjoyable

Thank you for all your work

How many cars, how much they are driven and how they are driven, depend on urban development.

Urban development -> cars -> pollution

If you want less cars going around, design your cities to allow and incentivize people not to use them. See recent developments in Paris as an example:

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/paris-olympics-city-reduce-air-pollution-rcna153470

I guess that the same number of cells also dies in the same period!

• not talking when I have nothing to say. Maybe not the best of the talents, but I appreciate it very much

• Lateral thinking for problem solving. Colleagues and friends usually are at first confused, and then surprised by the way I approach things

• Very good spatial and geographical orientatin. Maps are easy read, I don't get lost even in unknown place etc.

How to establish this boundary without pissing people off?

A pair of headsets will do. They could be fake, for that matter.

For some reason people will tend to disturb you more easily if you are working than if you are listening to music 🤷

if you need specific care, technique to manage your emotions or things like that, you are going to need to know what is your actual diagnosis and a doctor expertise to help you in finding the right strategies.

Agreed

I think this is what defines the validity and boundaries of self-diagnosis.

EDIT: one additional thing: availability of specific care and medical diagnosis force the boudaries a bit out.

I answer myself: I tested it successfully (thanks again) and it used my local ETC time

One question: is the scheduled time I tended as my local time zone, is it UTC or is it something else?

Thank for the great app BTW!

I think your argument is totally reasonable.

I think your comparison fits, too, but not all flues are the same: for the ones that are light you can handle them with self medication (paracetamol for the fever mainly), and/or you can wait to see if in a few days the symptoms get better or worse, and then you contact a doctor. Does it make sense?

Thank you for taking the time of explaining what you think, your point of view is very resonable:

I doesn’t matter how stupid I think it is, that seems to be the consensus

I don't think there is consensus. On the contrary, there is a lot of ongoing discussion. You can easily find papers that say different things. The second link I mentioned highlight how the usual tests can report autism when the diagnosed porblem is different, just as an example.

And I have to agree with you that there is a lot of people (maybe the majority? Probably the majoirity of vocal people on tiktok) that takes this thing in a way that looks not as serious as it should, but there is a lot of people that documents itself, maybe starting from the content creators, but then finding more reliable and serious resources. I myself read the famous book form Atwood (which is focused on children tho) and the one from Devon Price, and others, plus a ton of papers. There actually is a lot of confusion and new theories (serious ones) popping up at an impressive rate. Have you hears the one called monotropism?

But apparently my opinion doesn’t matter

Your opinion, explained like you just did, was exactly what I wanted to know. To me at least, it matters.

I read that book. Very inspiring!

You completely avoided my points. You don't like confrontation and discussion, you just want to be right. You clearly are this guy form XKCD comic

Regarding your question, can you use google?

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8415774/
  • this looks even too good to be true
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26088060/
  • this one is interesting because the sample is from people all diagnosed with some conditions and prove one clear risk about self-dianosis: mis-diagnosis
• https://depts.washington.edu/uwautism/resources/adult-resources/
  • this one can guide the process
• https://embrace-autism.com/autism-tests/
  • this one sums up a lot of things

You are very good at giving your behavior excuses.

Anyways, go on live your happy self-diagnosed life

That's not what I do ( see here ).

You know, it looks like you think everybody on the internet (and in life?) is saying things just to defend themselves, their own interests, (maybe because that's what you do?) but it's not always the case.

I wasn't against any of that. I support statements backed by research, and that's why I think that self-diagnosis can be valid, in a limited set of circumstances and if done seriously.

On the other hand you look like the kind of person who, when discussing, attacks the other participants personally, instead of attacking the core of the argument, thus you sound incapable of a civil discussion.

I suggest you leave any social media/forum/discussion group.

It seems that you cannot cope with opinions and points of view different from yours, and you will find plenty on these platforms, and this may hurt your feelings

I reported your comment.

For sure the video was not the most scientific founded or informative source that one can find, but I found it at least entertaining and with some good point.

BTW thank you for not giving up on the discussion. I know I may result unpleasant at times, I just like the debate and knowing different ideas behind people opinions 🙂

You clearly don’t know shit about autism and mental health

I hope you are a qualified doctor. For sure you write a lot about respect, but "you don't know a shit" about it.

This is a good point, and it may be what some people imply by being disrespectful.

I'm not on TikTok, but I understand that this may be what is being happening (or at least perceived) there

If I were you, I think I would describe myself as having similar personality traits as a person with autism. But not actually having autism.

I have to admit that in this particular thread I am exaggerating on purpose, to get to a point. I usually say (at least online… Offline it's still undisclosed) that I have strong indication that I may be autistic, and that I ran the tests, and found similarities etc (similar to what you suggested). And all this mainly because, even if I suffered a lot in some phases in my life (bullying, loneliness and isolation, failure in relationships anxiety, depending on the age mainly), in the end I didn't need assistance until now (this is debatable: maybe I need it? Sometimes it's really hard)

The thing is, even if I don't define myself as self-diagnosed autistic, I wouldn't mind if someone in a similar situation would do it, if he/she really thinks it fits, especially if he experienced a lot of suffering in life because of it, and that definition would help improving his/her life.