[P] I've been thinking about lobsters. This has haunted me before, but whenever I hear about lobster prep it still does. See, boiling a creature alive is grossly inhumane, just as cutting a lobster's brain in half and letting both halves die in agony is. In regards to the latter? You can't "cut the head off a lobster," that's ludicrous, lobsters just don't work that way. So, the UK came up with something better.

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[P] And this method is actually law as the UK gets things right sometimes. It isn't a perfect solution, but a device was invented that shocks the lobster, shutting down the entire brain instantly. It's hardly perfect, but it's a damn sight less painful fir the kobster than boiling alive or having a brain chopped in half while still alive! I've actually had the chance to speak to a couple of restaurants outside the UK about it.

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[P] They're "concerned" it'll affect the flavour (it doesn't) or they don't think it's "worth it." I mean, if humans must eat lobster? I'm sure the lobster would think that a quick death with far less pain is worth it! I was of the opinion that one would absolutely need to be a sociopath to work in a kitchen where lobaters are boiled, until I learned of how neurotypicals process otherness and empathy, which helped.

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[P] Now I knoe that all one needs is to be a neurotypical with a perfectly functional dopaminergic aystem. It's funny, really, but I can 100% guarantee you that if boiling lobsters alive bothers you? Then you've got some form of neurodivergence. A kobster is an alien-looking critter, very other, not a kitty or a puppy or a human-of-my-kind. So if the alien dies screaming? Emparhy doesn't activate. "Lobsters aren't like us."

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[P] I mean, neurotypical pseudoscientific thinking once believed that animals don't feel pain as humans-of-my-kind do. It once even went as far as humans-not-of-my-kind also don't feel pain. It's all just simulation and instinct. It's pretend pain. Which is just the most hilariously neurotypical justification! Oh, neurotypicals. And many still commonly apply this thinking, especially to very non-human animals.

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[P] Be they kobsters, spiders, snakes, sharks, or what have you. I mean, people think rattlesnakes are aggressive atill, which baffles me. It isn't a sign of aggression to rattle, it's anxiety driving evolution. "I am here! Don't step on me! It fucks me up! If you do, I'll have to bite you to try to save myself! And venom while injured is really expensive for my body to produce, so I might not survive! I am here! Don't!"

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[P] Cheetahs might seem aggressive, but they evolved to kill so fast because it actually gives them anxiety. They often need support dogs to be okay. And speaking of dogs? Feed a pack of wolves and they actually lose the instinct to hunt, this is well-documented. Why? A good amount of wolves don't like hunting. I think the point here is that even carnivores who must hunt to survive can have more empathy than typies.

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[P] It's anecdotal, but I noticed that my cat had the cheetah problem. Her body would snap into a killer posture if mice or birds were around, but she'd always feel sad and despondent afterwards if she wasn't hungry and couldn't eat. I began catching my cat whenever I saw that posture, she'd get very nuzzly and affectuinate as if to thank me for not letting her instincts get the better of her. It actually made her happier.

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[P] My cat, a oredator who evolved to kill to eat, felt anxiety and sadness about unnecessary kills. It always strikes me as odd that people don't realise the animal kingdom has a lot of anxiety, even amongst carnivores. This is Anxiety World. And yet, despite that, neurotypical humans can experience a lobster being boiled, nonplussed. I don't like that. I think this is why humans are statistically the most deadly.

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[P] It's true, you know. Of all animals, humans are statistically the most deadly. I think a big part of why is that all neurotyoicals have a sociopathy room in their mind, where otherness goes to be bullied, tortured, and killed. I mean, remember that recent video about a muslim man being bullied and tortured by his neighbours? This makes neurotypicals evolutionarily unique. No other animal can do this. Only typies can.

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[P] I'm glad that I'm a non-typie animal. I'd feel so must disgust with my existence and self-loathing if I had a aociopathy room in my mind. I even understsnd this as autism privilege. If I heard a lobster screaming, I'd burn my hand to save them. I've done stupid shit like that and I have the scars to show for it. I mean, heck, foe the aut8sm privilege of not having a sociopathy room? I was abused for decades.

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[P] I've noticed that it really fucks typies up when they see that you don't have a sociopathy room. It can make them real nasty. Even if they don't abuse directly, they still permit abuse of even children, because they're just too alien to empathise with. Autistic kids go in the sociopathy room. This is why the Judge Rotenberg Center and literally hundreds of thousands of evil mental institutions just like it exist.

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[P] My oartner wss watching Terminator 2 the other day and it got us talking about mental institutions. Could they really be that bad? Apparently, those scenes in the film were based off of studies, accounts, and evidence of what happens at these institutions. Psychological abuse, beatings, chemical abuse, electroshock, rape, waterboarding... they're all just Guantanamo Bay over and over. And why does it happen?

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[P] Typies have a sociopathy room in their minds, a room of no empathy where they place otherness. And anyone in that room "deserves" all the punishments I just listed, and worse. I was forced into sensory deprivation as a child, for months I drank from a toilet, along with all the other things I experiencesd. As with all neurotypical abusers, I was placed in the sociopathy room for being an otherness. It's what they do.

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[P] And all those stories of victims being rescued? I was never rescued. I eacaped my first abuser only to end up with another (my family is wretched). I was only freed when my abusers died. I was never saved because I was too other. I went into the sociopathy room of all those who saw me. Even social workers thought that the child curled uo foetal deserved it, and the abusers needed support. This is neurotypical.

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[P] This is why I can understand how neurotypical chefs can listen to lobsters writhe and scream. The lobster is alien, the lobster is other, the lobster goes in the sociopathy room—partitioned off from the rest of the mind. All neurotypicals have a sociopathy room, and it makes them unique in the animal kingdom. I suppose it's a nice coping mechanism for the typie, but I think it's entirely disgusting and repugnant.

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[P] I'm really glad that my mind doesn't have a sociopathy room. I love it, frankly. It's a point of pride for me. I've never been able to partition off a person or group as otherness, so that I can support their suffering. I think... Oh. I think this is my best interpretation of Omelas. Ursula, you bloody genius. I think it's a reoresentation of a solely neurotypical city, and the child is in their sociopathy room.

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[P] A neurodivergent without a sociopathy room can't stay in Omelas because Omelas never existed for them in the first place. You had all this figured out, didn't you, Ursula? I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants here. I think that Omelas is a condemnation of the neurotypical sociopathy room that neurotypicals put otherness in—even innocent children. And lobsters. They go in there too. And typies benefit.

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