Yeah this. There’s a reason why recording studios are so expensive, treating a room basically requires very specific construction

Yeah noise cancelling headphones are your best bet, it’s been a life changer for me

Noise cancelling headphones, especially airpods pro. I wear them basically when I go out anywhere there are a lot of people

A lot of them are small things that stand out in the background, like coil whine as somebody else mentioned

Very much this. Something I’ve learnt over the years being a middle aged autistic person is that when someone has made a decision, respect it and move on, irrespective of whether you think it is based on incorrect information. I learnt this by doing the opposite as a kid.

Look for books by Devon Price and Megan Anna Neff. Neff also has a YouTube channel, I think it’s called neurodivergent insights or something similar. They are both academic psychologists and Autistic / ADHD themselves I believe.

Yeah I used to say stuff like that too when I was young and didn’t know any better but I avoid jokes that refer to conditions in that sort of way now

Nope, literally the opposite. Need to deal with things right away or they make me anxious

It varies

Yeah this is similar to how I tend to feel to be honest too

I feel like the older I’ve got the more asexual I feel and also the more I’ve realised that immersing myself in my interests is the thing that makes me happy. So I see other people as a bonus but don’t actively seek them out. This reduces a lot of stress for me, and it means when people do want to hang out they must really want to. Also I don’t think I have more than 1 friend irl any more. Online is a better space for me to find people with matching interests.

Because Proton doesn’t support it. MacOS doesn’t support vulkan or even opengl any more. I am not well versed in these things so I don’t understand the technicalities but I believe Apple did release tools for developers to port their games via a Metal compatibility layer, but I assume it requires effort that developers don’t want to use.

I mean for me nihilism is a perspective that I have in general, i.e. there is no purpose to anything really in the grand scheme of things. But when that also means that you can’t find personal joy in anything, I think that becomes a depression thing. I have also been in that position and after a lot of therapy I realised it was because I was so burnt out on doing what people wanted me to because I was ‘supposed’ to rather than actually asking myself what gave me enjoyment if you took everything else out of the equation. It took me a while to realise what I actually personally cared about because I’ve spent so much of my life masking basically.

Not sure if common but yeah I’ve been that way too since I was young. The only purpose is if you have an intrinsic goal that makes you happy to pursue and that’s about it. I think this could be where the special interest thing comes from.

I’m sorry, I will tell the university I work for to stop employing me as a research scientist.

I kind of enjoy parts of it but I fully agree with your point about having a little bit of a description or labelling rather than images that you have to stare at for ages to make sure you are putting the right thing in the right place. I’ve complained about this exact same thing to others.

Personally I’ve found that the metal stuff works a lot better than the wooden stuff from IKEA. The holes and screws are all machined and precise so there is less room for error. The wooden stuff sometimes doesn’t line up or you split the wood or something else goes wrong a lot of the time.

No, no it won’t. More likely SOCs will as they become more and more capable for gaming.

My experience was the opposite of this unfortunately. Everyone hated me and even the people who didn’t avoided me because I imagine being associated with me devalued their social standing.