chat thread for autistics & neurodivergents ♡

2nd page already? awesome! glad to see people are feeling comfortable chatting and asking questions here c:

<Raintalon> oop, my bad! I totally read that wrong. I think there's somebody else on the forums who is majoring in anthro and I may have gotten you confused with them.

What's your animal-based career? Do you enjoy having work that's based around your special interest?

Bleak you are more than welcome to talk my ear off about PoTO o.o I've been in love with that musical ever since I got the chance to see it on Broadway many years ago. I even bought the book! Stiiiill haven't read it though. cx

It was incredible! I had seen the proshot on Disney+ several times but this past week was my first time seeing it in person. Only downside was the performance we were supposed to go to was cancelled due to positive Covid cases in the cast, 2 hours before showtime, after we had driven 3 hours to get there. That was a bummer/inconvenience, but fortunately we were able to reschedule our tickets for a few days later.

No worries, I’ve got rain gear ;D

I think I’ve heard of that book before! Or at least, the author’s name sounds familiar. Tell me about it o:

It's only the best book ever. It spans the Phantom's (Erik is his name) entire life. Actually, a couple of years before he was born with a prospective from his mother) and about a year after her death with Christine. It's a little bit graphic but not horrible. If you like anything Phantom, it's a must read.

But all of the major highlights are there. His childhood, time in Persia, the Opera House, tutoring Christine. All of it.

Hello, my name on this site is Dark Sun (formerly Violetsky), although I also go by an alternate alias known as "Sage". I was officially diagnosed with what was then called Aspergers/"high functioning" Autism (now just called Autism, as it should be) at the age of 5, but I didn't fully come to grips that I was processed and interacted with the world differently than most until a couple years later. Mostly I just have to deal with social anxiety (paired with Social Anxiety Disorder, it's not a fun trip to go down), but I also have trouble reading people's faces and expressions to a point. As for my habits, I won't go into too much detail since there's a lot of pointless filler, but most of it falls on habit. Listening to same songs, watching the same YouTube videos, and being incredibly "loyal" (hooked?) to only a few games. Warriors is literally the only book series I read and, as far as I can tell), ever will be interested in devouring. Most wouldn't be able to tell I'm on the spectrum since I can be a hoot in social situations a lot of the time, whenever I'm not sitting in the corner enjoying my own company that is. Well, at least until a few years ago that was the case, now I live as a hermit full-time, which is perfectly fine with me.

That's all I have so far!

Edit: My special interests are Warriors, WCRP, 7 Days To Die (video game; I have over 5,000 hours accumulated in only 3 years of playtime...), Terraria (video game), and plenty of story-based games. By far my favorite is Horizon Zero Dawn, to the point where my room is decorated in merch from head to toe! Various songs I suppose could fall under here, my collection is probably only 50-60 songs large. Writing also falls into here, again, mostly about Warriors.

Oh, and I ramble. A lot. Even to myself. I'm ashamed to admit that, but now you know.

When someone asks you a question about [interest] and you spend 30 minutes answering the question in excruciating detail and then later realize they probably just wanted a yes/no.

Bleak ahh that's right, Erik. What you described sounds similar to the original book. How is this one different? Is it easier to read? I hope it's easier to read

Dark Sun You said Horizon Zero Dawn and now I'm here. o.o I used to think that game was highly underrated, but it seems to be getting a lot more attention since it was ported to PC!

It's been confirmed that Forbidden West is releasing next month and I can't wait! I accidentally spoiled the ending of the first one. I've often wished I could play HZD for the first time again without knowing what happens, so I'm determined to go into the sequel with as little knowledge as possible cx

Tealraven It had a rocky start as a PC port, but it's since recovered and is doing remarkably well, much to me delight. I've been thinking about getting into it again before Forbidden West is released which, by the way, I've long since pre-ordered a copy for.

Oh I know the feeling. I'm sure it's going to be a phenomenal game much like the first.

I just did this about my ocs recently x'D Someone asked a simple yes or no question and I typed a full page worth of lore explaining OTL

Dark Sun YESSS omg x'D I have no limiter honestly-- I look back and I'm like hm... maybe I was a little overwhelming :')

Yeah.
I love it when others get just as excited as I am over it but most of the time I type paragraphs and then I get ignored and left on read for hours until they come back and pretend it didn't happen and realize I should have toned it down.

I just love information sharing. Accept infodump as a love language.

True, but I can go on and on, and I often come back to the same point, and I'm conscious of it. I'm trying to do better though; there's only so many times you can hammer in a nail before it's not going to make any further difference (as in people get it). :')

Same here! As Dark said, there's only so many times you can hammer in the nail before it's not going to make a difference, but still I repeat myself a lot to be absolutely positively certain the person I'm talking to got the point. It's also my way of testing whether or not they're actually paying attention; I'm used to people not listening, tuning me out halfway through my rambling, or not caring about the things I'm interested in.

I also end up repeating myself as I'm rambling because I'll suddenly think of a better way to phrase it or a more accurate explanation midstream. Or to remind myself of what I was talking about in the first place cx

Perhaps this is why I've always excelled at writing essays lmao.

I mean, technically I just did that to you yesterday about that German music. XD