#460

my dad is also clearly undiagnosed autistic, but it expresses itself in different ways. loads of tics and has a ridiculously vibrant, accurate and detailed memory, despite struggling with loads of day to day things.

#463

Not yet but I’ll add it tomorrow

#466

Or on Thursday.

#467

Unusual, but sensible.

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#468

this pretty much describes me :confused:

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#469

me and my brother used to pretend our teddy bears were in a sitcom and would act it out. feel like there was a theme tune but can’t remember.

  • yeah that sounds pretty normal
  • back away slowly

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#470

Purrdcast.

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#471

When we were on holidays I’d enact elaborate shows with our various teddy’s and action figure for my little brother in the lower bunk up high from my senior bunk

#472

had a very long and personal (wr to me) response to this explaining how I don’t think you’re like this, but don’t want to share tbh.

#474

bananas cut in half long ways, so you have two thin curved strips with a sprinkle of brown sugar on. under the grill till they’re brown and crispy on top of rice with onions and peppers and whatever else is in. Spices etc.

  • Normal and delish.
  • Not normal. Not delish.

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#475

When I turned 18 everyone still had TVs that were like tanks and basically im(a)pervious to things like this. Now I feel old.

#476

ah no worries pal, to be fair what you’re describing sounds probably a bit more extreme/heightened than myself. i’ve often suspected i’m probably on the spectrum towards the more minor end but if so i don’t think it impacts on my day to day life too heavily

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#477

Do recall going to a friend’s house and having dinner there when I was about 8 and coming back and telling my mum they were really weird because her parents and her all sat down to dinner together and they all talked nicely and didn’t argue.

#478

(and FAO @froglet)

I was actually discussing with my wife recently how fine and normal all the dads seem to be at school and wondering if the era of ‘strange dads’ was at an end.

When I was at school it seemed like most people’s dads were just like this, talking your ear off about something incredibly dull at work, uncommunicative and/or just unlikable. I mean I often felt better about my parents being divorced because of this although my dad isn’t really strange like that, just difficult.

I’m not sure what the reasons were. All Killa No Filla podcast talked recently about how many kids would have been raised by PTSD-ravaged WW2 ex-soldiers or survivors and I guess the fact that boys were traditionally shown less love could lead to this sort of way of being.

And on top of that when you look back on the 50s, 60s and 70s in terms of relationships there always seems to be a strong sense of saying men and women are different and so you should just accept stuff that you don’t like because this is how a man or a woman is, if that makes sense? Maybe leading to relationships with less in common than in more recent times where people talk more and accept that they will need to change or show more understanding for their partner?

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#479

You are describing the “rijsttafel”, a Dutchified version of Indonesian food.

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#480

Related

Sliced banana with a sprinkle of sugar between two buttered pieces of bread

  • Get thee to my stomach
  • What is wrong with you

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#481

peak meowingtons dad. this is better than the time he chopped the end of his finger off

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#482

my cousins son does this, but hes got a lovely aberystwyth accent and its semi nonsense, so its all ~here comes evan with the long kick~ with emphasis in evan on the second syllable. its pretty great

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#483

My Mum would bribe us with a pack of crisps that we’d munch silently while we shopped. The empty crisp packet went through the checkout and was paid for.

#484

my mum used to buy us those (as we’d call them) “sweet cigarettes” and would actively encourage pretending to smoke

  • normal
  • it’s a wonder you’re not a smoker niki

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