this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2024
519 points (99.2% liked)

Autism

8279 readers
1271 users here now

A community for respectful discussion and memes related to autism acceptance. All neurotypes are welcome.

Community:

Values

  • Acceptance
  • Openness
  • Understanding
  • Equality
  • Reciprocity
  • Mutuality
  • Love

Rules

  1. No abusive, derogatory, or offensive post/comments e.g: racism, sexism, religious hatred, homophobia, gatekeeping, trolling.
  2. Posts must be related to autism, off-topic discussions happen in the "Hey What's Going On!" daily post.
  3. Your posts must include a text body. It doesn't have to be long, it just needs to be descriptive.
  4. Do not request donations.
  5. Be respectful in discussions.
  6. Do not post misinformation.
  7. Mark NSFW content accordingly.
  8. Do not promote Autism Speaks.
  9. General Lemmy World rules.
  10. No bots. Humans only.

Encouraged

  1. Open acceptance of all autism levels as a respectable neurotype.
  2. Funny memes.
  3. Respectful venting.
  4. Describe posts of pictures/memes using text in the body for our visually impaired users.
  5. Welcoming and accepting attitudes.
  6. Questions regarding autism.
  7. Questions on confusing situations.
  8. Seeking and sharing support.
  9. Engagement in our community's values.
  10. Expressing a difference of opinion without directly insulting another user.
  11. Please report questionable posts and let the mods deal with it.

.

Helpful Resources

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Lexam@lemmy.world
519
Let the man enjoy his boats (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee to c/autism@lemmy.world
36 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 69 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Imagine being the ruler of that city and letting him get "cured" instead of having him infodump / give daily reports about this.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lord Vetinari would have him on the city payroll.

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"You love the boats. I do not, but I love what they mean." sweeping gesture toward the window

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"Really Havelock, why do you suffer such a fool on the city payroll?"

"My dear Margolotta, for the pittance I pay the man, he does the work of 10 others. Fool he may be, but he is an accurate fool."

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Can you imagine a better person to appoint for your harbormaster? Or even a harbormaster assistant, this guy would do it for free and do it better than anyone.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

An underappreciated part of civilizational development is social technology, as opposed to material technology.

Sometimes people just don't think of seemingly obvious ways to do things for hundreds or thousands of fucking years. Human society is a funny thing.