She's so beautiful! What a great photo.

Rabbits. Rabbits are fuckin' awesome. Did you know they don't have paw pads like cats and dogs? There's just fur there, which means they have less traction on slick surfaces. They can be taught to use a litterbox, too !

They also have such different personalities from cats and dogs. Netherland dwarf bunnies are twenty pounds of bunny in a 2 pound body. They're crazy energetic and need plenty of space even though they're tiny. The bigger a bunny gets the more chill they generally are, but the bigger the bun the more likely there will be issues with their back or other joints as they get older.

Oh, bless. Chase is one of the companies that will happily let this person have enough rope and then pull the trap door lever.

Akira. My father rented it for my brother and me because "animated movie is for kids". I was 4, and my brother was 3.

I've mentioned it elsewhere, but I saw Akira when I was four and my brother was three. Our dad picked it out because "animation is for children".

I can't remember much of it but it left me with a deep distate for body horror and nightmares for literal weeks.

They treat autism as a disease to be cured, which is a disgusting way to think about it. Their founder also claimed that it's "possible" that autism is caused by vaccines, which is scientifically disproven. There are also no autistic members of their board, which means no actual representation for the people they claim to want to help.

That's me. I will get "stuck" on something for hours and hours and suddenly it's 12 midnight and I should have been in bed 2 hours ago. I just... Can't pull myself away from it.

Without a driver's license no reputable dealer will sell to you. If you don't intend to register, forget getting any kind of financing. Financial institutions require you to title the vehicle and (in most states) they keep that title until you pay it off. If you don't register the vehicle chance is you didn't title it either. I work with the finance institutions that partner with my dealership daily on stuff like that.

God, these people make me laugh as much as they make me depressed.

Looking at it, it's so close that I would have believed it, and I see these all the time. I've never seen one saying they were sending the title to have the lien removed, but in the state I live in they send it to you and you have to take it in to have the lien removed. If this is a fake it's actually decent.

The feeling of extreme frustration about people breaking rules. I didn't realize that an overly powerful sense of justice was a trait of autism until it was pointed out to me. It's given me a nose for fraudulent action at my job though.

One of my nicknames growing up was Lil Miss Potatoes. But now I'm a grown up, so I'm Lady Taters.

My vacuum sealer, for sure. It's not only great for prepping to sous vide, it gives me extra room in my tiny freezer if I seal stuff instead of putting it in a container or even a plastic bag. And bonus, I haven't had a single case of freezer burned meat since I started using it.

Yup. My parents weren't willing to even think about testing me, so it was "stop that, just be normal".

Motor oil is a smell that I really like. It's from growing up around mechanic shops, I think.

I hate the smell of sandalwood. It's just overwhelming and I can't get past the heaviness of it. My coworkers use a tobacco and sandalwood scented room spray and I want to gag every time.

I was one of the people who did my homework exercises, and still do (mostly). It's worked well enough.

The interesting part to me is that (afaik) you're allowed to go to the auction and bid on your own car.

This is, in my experience as a dealership repossession titles clerk, extremely rare to the point of being non-existent. Might be because my corporation doesn't allow non-auto dealers to attend the auctions in which repos get sold.

And technically, if your car sold for more than you owe + repo fees, they have to give that money back to you (incredibly rare).

It is also highly unlikely that a car sells for more than is owed + the fees. More often than not you're going to have a hefty chunk left to pay after the auction is done. I had a person surrender their vehicle voluntarily (which counts as a repossession type) and it was valued at $6000. She owed $14k on it. My guess is it's going to sell for 8k-ish, leaving her on the hook for the rest.

Disclaimer: I work for a large corporate dealership, this is solely my experience in my day to day job, YMMV.

I'm 37, and just got diagnosed at the beginning of this month, actually. I've never been quite "right" in social situations, and had "odd" interests and sensitivities. My dad is probably autistic but no one's ever officially diagnosed him and he'd call it bullshit even if a professional said it.

My mother was a special education teacher, and she saw my stimming and sensory issues and decreed them to be a problem because I'd never be "normal" (and I use the term loosely). "You're so smart! You can't have any issue with anxiety! Lights are that bright for everyone, and no one else complains! Figure it out!"

Almost exactly a year ago I came across a TikTok channel talking about masking and how it can be stressful. The points she made about how autism presents differently in women struck a chord with me so I started doing research. So many issues and experiences I'd had just matched everything I was finding about very high functioning autism, and I asked about it. My therapist had said I have "autistic traits", but trauma can also present in some of the same ways (and hoo boy is there trauma in my background). She suggested I meet with a neuropsych specialist in her office and get tested.

When I met with the doctor post-testing, she said that the tests confirmed my suspicions, but also that some of my mannerisms were textbook autism. Apparently looking away from someone while putting together a sentence isn't me being rude, after all!

I still don't know how I feel about the diagnosis. I'm working through a lot with my therapist under a different lens now seeing that a lot of things could have been explained if I had gotten diagnosed earlier. The big plus is that I am able to get accommodations at my job for things like light sensitivity and overstimulation now that I have an official diagnosis and letter.

It's been about 8 years since I spoke to my parents, and about 12 since I spoke to my younger brother. They were all different forms of abusive, addicted, and mentally ill, and life without their bullshit is so much nicer. I don't have to listen to tirades about how my interests are wrong, or how I didn't turn out to be the perfect daughter. I don't have to pretend to accept apologies that are only to make someone else feel better. And I don't feel pressured to make sure that my mother isn't feeling hurt or put out by something I do that literally has nothing to do with her.

It was rough for the first few months, but I'd already grieved for the relationships that I wished I'd had and never got. I'm a lot happier without them, and much more able to care for my mental health now.

The neuropsych doctor I was tested by told me that she had been a special education teacher herself, and that during the 70s-90s (and probably even now tbh) there was a heavy emphasis on making students act "acceptably" by stopping them from making larger stim motions and that now they realize it's a bad idea. It sucks.

Cx - customer is one I run into daily.