I absolutely loooooove that. I have worked with a fair few autistic people over the years, and am probably undiagnosed myself.
I always love hearing about someone’s niche interest, whether it’s trains, games, weird music taste or whatever. One guy was into Roman Legion reenactment. He and his girlfriend would spend two weeks every year at a fully immersed reenactment campsite. He’d be a solder, she’d play a slave girl (yes, really).
It’s always a treat to find someone who doesn’t mind endless followup questions and they in turn love being talk in depth about it.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei rely on your ability to share knowledge.
Last night, I was oversharing about some of my plans to make our game room work better as a temporary media room with the Chinese Android projector (not on the internet except for 15 minutes to update its firmware… at least Roku and FAANG don’t run actual botnets, best I can tell).
My AuDHD daughter, who is currently obsessed with Youtube “Object Shows,” though with a lingering long tail of Vocaloid J-Pop, told me, “I don’t know how you ended up talking about this, but it’s probably the same reason I talk about my things.”
Love that kid.
I learned last week that in Ocarina of time, you can use the fishing rod to remove that fishing hole -keeper’s hat
That’s a nice vase you got there. It would be a shame if someone would throw it down.
This is one of the reasons I perfected the art of just walking away
I just kind of zone out when folks do this to me. Mentally walking away.
I feel like it’s too rude to do it physically.
but usually in my case it’s not nerd stuff, it’s them complaining about their body falling apart or their lack of money.
zelda is the pile of bones you beat up in the third game, right?
Illuminati confirmed. /s
