Is this an established fact? If so, that's quite interesting.

I'm German myself but since I am a programmer I like the US-Keyboard more than the German one. The easy fix for me was using US-intl-nodeadkeys so I can use the right alt key to type those stupid German umlauts. This should work at least for most (Western-)European languages.

This is definitely true for me. That's one of the reasons I love anime and manga because in most of those the innermost thoughts of the characters are shown to the audience.

The best solution to this problem is not to buy one in the first place.

I think anyone with even rudimentary knowledge about computers would agree.

Is there anyone who likes landlords? Why would they?

It's not really a single tool but using Arch Linux helps me greatly since it gives me full control over my computing environment and it's look and feel.

Oh no, you fell into your own trap!

Nope, the burden of evidence is on the one claiming something contradicting current scientific understanding.

In this post I have been using that term “non-speaking episodes” because it factually describes what is happening. Some people suggest “autistic shutdown” which is common in the community.

I am not arguing we should use non verbal but autistic shutdown is way to general because for me being (temporarily) unable to speak is only one of the first syptoms. It feels like a litteral "loss of words" since in those situations I'm unable to translate my thoughts into words.

Don't worry, I'm sure you won't have to translate any overly long sentences in the first semester.

Funny how culture shapes perception. As a German that sentence didn't even strike me as overly long.

When I have a mild headache, usually from a stiff neck, it impacts me like any other mild pain. It is just a source of stress, like children screaming near by or a Light flickering. It lowers my concentration and my mental capacity but unless there are other factors I can still somewhat function at least for a time.

Migraine is something different all together for me typically it starts with flickering in the center of my vision. Usually I recognize it because it gets hard to read text. The flickering then spreads out and slowly moves to my peripheral vision over about 10 to 30 minutes. When it moves out of my field of vision it takes another 10 to 30 minutes until my brain feels like a bucket of snails. I can't concentrate even on interesting things and even simple thoughts take effort. About a third of the time a really bad headache starts at the same time. The headache usually lasts about 1 to 3 hours but feels like 10. The sluggishness and fuzziness of my brain will slowly fade over the next one to three days.

This seems to be called migraine with aura. Luckily it hits me only about 3-5 times a year.

I'm quite useless for at least the first one and a half hours after waking up. My strategy is ritualization. In this time I do the same things in the same order every working day: I get up, make breakfast for our cat, take my meds, switch on the coffee machine so it can heat up, shower, shave, brush my teeth, dress, emty the dish washer, make coffee for my self and (if she is already awake) one for my wife. Then pack my lunch, grab my headphones and go to the bus stop. All those things I can do with minimal brain capacity since I have done them the same way thousands of times. And when I arrive at work I'm at least 80% awake.

I have this "waiting mode" too but it's only for things happening on the same day. The more important the appointment the more hours before it starts. In this time it's close to impossible to concentrate on anything not related to preparation of the event (even if it requires none) and absolutely impossible to get real rest.

edit: The best strategy I have found so far is scheduling important appointments as early in the day as possible.

No, you kill thousands of innocent people and say they were terrorists or helping terrorists.

I did the switch twenty years ago, starting with dual-boot and Wine. Nowadays dual-boot is gone and I never use Wine outside of gaming.

I don't consider ADHD a superpower and I struggle with executive dysfunction every single day. I would love to be able to understand other people and their non verbal or indirect communication better. On the other hand I love the fact that my personal combination of disabilities has allowed me to learn to extremely quickly research enough of any given topic to have relevant discussions with experts. My widespread intereste allowed me to learn a huge variety of facts most of which are useless most of the time but many of which were surprisingly useful at least one time in my life. My bad working memory forced me to learn to use general principles to get useful results based on very little information and to quickly distill the most relevant information out of heaps of text. Nearly every single strenght I have is literally the flip-side of one of my weaknesses. On the whole I would say that while my ADHD and ASD have clearly made my life more challenging on the whole those challenges helped me become the person I am. I recognize that not everyone is as lucky as I am in that regard but i"m quite sure there are others who are even more lucky than me many of which won't even suspect they are neurodivergent, just as I didn't a few years ago. So I think your perception of the "objective" ammount of neurodivergent suffering may be squewed because only people who suffer at least a bit have reason to get a diagnosis.

• I am autistic and have ADHD and I still prefer having been born to the alternative thank you very much!
• Comparing the intentional breeding of universaly harmful traits in dogs to taking a slightly higher risk of ASD which is rarely harmful is quite a stretch.
• Without autistic people many great things wouldn't exist today. I would argue that without the special interests and hyperfocus of neurodiverse people a lot of scientce and engineering wouldn't have happened or at least a lot later.
• While ASD and ADHD are often percieved as harmful, they are rarely only harmful and often bring special talent or at least a unique perspective.

Autistic people aren’t suffering unless you’re putting them in a system that treats them as subhuman.

While that is true for many of us, it's not true for all of us. But I'm still sure most of us still like being alive, so i'm not disagreeing with the sentiment behind your argument.

Well, as I see it, it's only organized religion that is harmful.

You only get to become CEO when you have friends in high places. Why would anyone risk the backlash for hurting you when silently letting you go with a golden handshake doesn't cost their own money or at least a neglegible part of it.

Would you be ok with surveilling everyone to make sure they are not Nazis? While I am uncomfortable with the knowledge that there are some people out there who are Nazis in secret, that is still much better than them feeling comfortable enough to be Nazis in the open.

Also I would prefer even Nazis marauding in the streets to universal surveillance, which for me at least is hardly imaginable without at least a little Nazi ideology at government level.

Also I was talking about religion which in contrast to Nazi-ideology can be benign, when practiced in private.

Problem with bulshit is, once the pile is high enough it's very hard to convince people that there is no pony underneath.

And this particular pile has been heaped on for centuries...

Like, do it in private, but don't bother other people with it. Seems fair.

I remember the 1984 incident. At the time I thought this is so ironic, it has to be satire. Now, just a few years later it doesn't even register as odd anymore.

If I recall correctly there was a time, where they did a deal with Disney a few years back. Disney wanted to bring one or more of their classic animations back to the cinema and Amazon disabled playback of those movie(s) for that time even for people who had "bought" them.

When it comes to corporations, the problem is there are no good actors. They are required by law to do what ever maximizes shareholder value.

I wouldn't do that if I hadn't warned everyone who would and wouldn't listen about this since the start of the business model. I'm just frustrated, that nobody listens until it's to late.

Do you know what type of community this is? While I don't suffer to the same degree as OP I need some time to wind down every day. Being interrupted in that time is a stressful experience for me and negates the benefits of at least half an hour of relaxation. I am married and I do have friends and they respect my clearly communicated boundaries just as I respect theirs.

I would try that, but I can't sleep in the shower. 😜

Ad targeting should just be banned outright. It serves noone and creates huge pools of easy to abuse data.

The funny part is that contextual ads are at least as effective as targeted ads. So not only is facebook violating your privacy. They are ripping of their customers at the same time.

So you give them $14 and hope, they don't sell your data? I never had a facebook/whatsapp account and never will and I know why.

The only thing that surprises me is that anyone is surprised by this. If you buy a physical book from anywhere, you own it. If you "buy" the rigth to play a movie (or read a book) from amazon, you own nothing. Usually they don't show that so clearly but that's the reality.

Bullying is a tactic to raise your own perceived worth by stepping on others. I think most people who have any real talent or education don't need that. Also, it is not universal, but intelligence makes introspection more likely.

When you are able to think for your self, school is always going to suck. Best you can do is encourage them to find a friend or two on the fringes.

My safe food is mostly junk food because of its reliable taste and consistency. I can eat most food that doesn't contain banana (extreme aversion) or lactose (lactose intolerance) but I don't enjoy most vegetables or meat which is not homogenous.

So the answer is no.

If you don't know what this is about, don't google the Name of the vehicle at work.