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@chu Your point is fair, as although plastics pollution heavily relies on fossil fuels, it has relatively little direct impact on climate change. However, it poses a different and quite serious problem in itself, with microplastics being a particularly concerning aspect.

@Xavier Being autistic—and this doesn't necessarily apply to your son—I've always found that friendship has never been about quantity for me. I don’t know if this is the case for him, but pushing for more attendees might be more of a neurotypical convention than something to worry about, or even a real preference of his.

@JoBlakely @artemis @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence I apologize for not having replied to this properly sooner. Some of the things you tell deeply resonate with me, though I assume we both know they are actually far more complex. I would just like to point out that it's not good to assume bad intentions or extreme selfishness in others. Where you have self-consistency or a logical imperative, they face an incomprehensible world with fear and a myopic vision.

@JoBlakely @artemis @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence To tell the truth, I had the privilege of working with very nice and empathetic people in the past. In environments, sadly, where corporative and administrative issues were far more important than bare competency and honesty. It's more an emergent property than an individual issue. Nevertheless, I understand what you mean better than I'd wish.

@hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence Similar story here, slightly different cultural background.

@hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence Neurotypicals struggle with ambiguity. "Comfortable with ambiguity" actually means "dealing with your absence of self-consistency by means of cognitive dissonance". Neither they excel at multitasking... unless that means to address multiple things poorly and at a very shallow level.