Have any of my fellow #autistic folks played this game yet?

I am apparently scary good at it, and I am #aphantasic 🤷

https://dialed.gg

Some changes in my live, so new #introduction

He/him #nonbinary #demiboy

Profile icon is a painting I made. It is based (traced) on the character Ace from #20xx but recolor to fit the #asexual flag.

I'm a aggregation of "A" :

• #queer
  • #asexual
  • #aromantic
  • #aplatonic
• brain stuff
  • #ADHD
  • #aphantasic

I also come from a privilege background: bilingual French-English catholic‽ white non-native (so in the privileged culture of my region) endosex cishet‽ allosexual‽ (alloromantic‽) body-abled man‽, with financially comfortable loving parents.

‽ = I thought I was

I'm a father of two teenagers. They are an important part of my life, but I don't intend to post much about them here.

I also cohabit with a cat. I'll share some photos at some point.

I used to work as a python programmer, but with the emergence of AI (LLM) everywhere, I just can't even anymore...

I⭐favorite posts for many reasons without restraint.

I was never into #fantasy, but certain avenues from strange and oblique angles brought me to it and I started with #UrsulaKLeGuin and #AWizardOfEarthSea and 2 things after just 5 chapters:

A. It could easily be a 2020s text
B. The dragon scene is better than anything I’ve seen in #GoT and I am profoundly #aphantasic

LeGuin is glorious, irrespective of genre.

Okay, so I'm absolutely not dunking on this art, or the Toot, but it's finally dawned on me why this common theme of social comment is so niggly to me.

I think it's because I'm #aphantasic - I can't comjure images in my head. Ask me to imagine an apple, all I "see" is blackness.

I enjoy reading. I enjoy watching TV. I don't get more from books tho. I definitely get more immersive worlds on screen. But I get more value & depth from novels. They're just different things.

https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/113081073082317259

What #senses are you aware of when dreaming?

Sorry, I only had options for four choices, so you can elaborate in a comment if you wish.

I am #aphantasic, so sight doesn’t seem to be strong for me, though I *feel* like I am seeing things, which probably means I am using the same compensation methods I do IRL to remember what my experience of something was like.

I am not 100% sure of that, even though I can sometimes #lucid #dream and repeat dreams. That’s for another survey.

Curious about asexuality? 🤔

I’m currently watching a crash course in psychology on Curiosity Stream

(It’s good, though it has a very fast-paced, even frenetic, delivery – and having seen at least two factual errors so far, I’m not sure I’d want to trust the bits I don’t know so much about)

Anyway, in episode 27, on sex, the presenter says:

> ‘But our sexual desire is also fuelled by internal stimuli. Our imaginations and memories and fantasies. According to plenty of studies, at least 95% of people fantasise about sex at some point’

I am fairly certain I have never fantasised about sex

And I think of myself as asexual (though that’s complicated by my current lack of libido)

Is there a connection between fantasising about sex and being sexually attracted to people, I wonder

Or is it just that I’m aphantasic and therefore perhaps unable to fantasise appropriately?

#asexuality #asexual #ace #aphantasia #aphantasic #libido #sex #SexualFantasy

#Introduction

This is one of my various personas and is probably the main one right now. I am an artist (with multiple creative outlets), data scientist, python dev, #FOSS advocate, #Neurodiversity championm and general gobshite.

I am #autistic, #ADHD (#AuDHD) #aphantasic, #hyperempathic #ProbablyABunchOfOtherStuffic

I live in central #Scotland. I'm the father of teens. I'm not nearly odd enough for my liking.

Expect inane rambling, politcal opinion, bad puns, the odd artwork, general nonsense, and frequent expositions relating to my mental health (or lack thereof).

Other inarnations of me: @AlexTheAutisticArtist
@autumn (my digital/(re)generative art alter-ego. She's hotter, smarter and funnier than me)
@august (the 50's pulp sci-fi author I wish I was. Kilgore Trout wannabe)
@AlexLovelessArtist (dedicated artist profile that I've yet to do anything with)

Expect other personas to appear at random.

By way of #introduction

Besides posting meds reminders 😉 I am interested in connecting with the #ActuallyAutistic and wider #neurodivergent community (I’m also #ActuallyADHD and #aphantasic)

I like to engage in Autistic advocacy, and #DisabledRights advocacy more broadly, when I have the spoons

Special interests currently include #music, #Lego and #RailwaySignalling

I’ll probably revisit this intro later if I decide to make a permanent home here in this corner of the fediverse 😊