This happens with me and my on-the-autism-spectrum friend who also does it. We somehow managed to have a lot of the same traits while being entirelu differently neurodivergent.

Our conversations are very ehm… ‘dynamic’ as we have to constantly loop back to point B that got lost somewhere in the path to point E and also have you considered point M?

Nobody else can follow the train of thought.

First playthrough did a stealthy netrunner / silenced pistols Cool/Int/Tech Build which was good enough but didn’t hold my interest all the way to the end of the game as it was just a bit detached from the action.

Current new playthrough is basically just a Mass Effect Vanguard with super high mobility, mantis blades, shotguns and some hacking for crowd control. Reflex/Body/Int build and having WAY more fun because the mobility and damage potential is so ludicrous. Was tempted by the Sandevistan but wasn’t prepared to give up hacking completely.

Literally the main thing learned during Covid - I fucking love touching my face. It’s skin picking for me.

I heartily recommend an unreasonably large mug. Get one big enough and it takes ages to go cold.

This isn’t necessarily the case - they have a wild variety of coat colours and markings, ear floppiness is variable. They tend to have slightly longer and wider snoots than their wild cousins.

Source: lived with someone who kept them!

That sounds so frustrating! Lots of inconsiderate dog owners out there. I don’t know if this is a thing where you are, but we have a thing where a yellow collar or yellow ribbon indicates a dog who needs space. Now that may not actually be true for your dogs but it might encourage some more clued-up dog owners to give you a wider berth. Doesn’t solve the overall thing you were asking about but might help a bit with dog related issues.

To add to this, starting with ‘can you not’ is automatically framing it to people who are bothered by this as a negative interaction because the starting premise is negative (‘don’t do the thing’).

If you reframe it in the opposite way (‘do the thing’) with a ‘please’ to soften it a bit you’ll probably have more luck, eg:

‘Please can we keep the dogs untangled?’ (‘We’ also helps here because you’re assuming some of the responsibility for keeping the dogs untangled rather than it sounding like you’re pointing a finger of blame which will get people’s backs up pretty quickly)

Not autistic but worked in complaint management for a long time and learned how to more effectively get people o side. Also have ADHD and speak without thinking a lot and it helps to understand why whatever I just blurted out annoyed someone!

If you’re into gaming at all, the National Videogame Museum in Nottingham was worth the trip - we went when it was fairly new so I’d imagine it’s been expanded a bit since.

Cassiopeia - i read somewhere as a kid (no idea where) that from Proxima Centauri, the Sun would appear as an extra zig in the zigzag and was immediately obsessed. It’s also really easy to find as a big ‘W’ in the sky.

I’m using an S while my X is off for repair - it’s struggling with some things quite a bit (really doesn’t like Borderlands 3) but it’s been fine with older titles and things that have smart delivery like Sleeping Dogs remaster, Riders Republic, Battlefront 2.

Titles such as Overwatch and Sea of Thieves run fine but look appreciably worse than they did on the X.

It’s also working perfectly fine as a media machine.

It’s doing enough to keep me entertained but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss the X.

Hope that helps!