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Also, am I the only autistic here who hates watching movies and television?

They always abuse my senses, yet everyone loves them and doesn’t care how I feel about it and they seem not to care about my autism either because they play painful movies all the time and without acknowledging my needs.

I suspect they think watching movies all day every day is supposed to be therapy for me but I try to watch movies on my own and they all abuse my senses and then they play those exact same movies I watch because therapy.

Rarely do I watch movies anymore because of my senses being assaulted and my needs as an autistic person are constantly neglected by either people who like entertainment or people who think entertainment is also therapy.

At the very least, my dad is a moviegoer and he understands better than any human authority figure I know that I cannot handle movies no matter what I or someone put on.

And then people attack my autism as well.

Or they coax me into recognizing my actions against my will when my autism makes me different than anyone anywhere in the world.

Because it’s not about living with a neurological difference, it’s about being forced to behave normally when there’s no such thing as normal for people everywhere I go.

Sorry, I went on a tangent, but you understand.

My current browser is DuckDuckGo because I like to use it to protect my privacy on the Web.

I heard word about Vivaldi being a popular browser for Fediverse users but I never tried it.

I’m not sure which one is necessarily better.

I’ve been stigmatized by many people throughout my life because I involuntarily do things they often criticize me for because they think I’m doing it all on purpose but I’m not.

People stigmatize me because they aren’t very accepting of me or they blame me for my actions claiming I should be responsible for them or they treat me like a regular person who they think tolerates what they call discipline even though they don’t understand.

What do I think? At the end of the day, it’s all about what you believe in: nobody’s wrong about anything, everyone could’ve handled it better even if they’re doing the best they can, and personally I think other people don’t define who you are whether they know you or not because it’s hard to tell anymore what is right or wrong…at least that’s what I’m told.

Even arguing with my parents produces stigmatic responses because I did something unusual in front of them: everyone I run into does that, and I didn’t even do it on purpose.

But they do tell me some good advice though, and while they’re not perfect they’re not bad.

I bring this up because I argued with my father at home before we calmed down and apologized to each other and made up for it.

No other person has that deep a relationship besides some friends and families I know from another place, and while religion is unpopular on Lemmy I follow Christianity which gives my life a purpose and a better meaning than just personal success like everyone else.

No one’s perfect, but everyone’s fine that way.

Who else faces autism stigma daily like me?

As a moderator, I contributed to this instance and tried to discuss languages (Languages on Autism Place) or playing Minecraft (Minecraft on Autism Place) but sometimes I get torn between pursuing languages (and their corresponding cultures, countries, and being able to talk to them) or focusing on my regular daily life speaking English and practicing foreign languages as a second pastime.

I know some speak foreign languages here, but does anyone else practice foreign languages besides who I know?

I'll go first...

My favorite Fediverse platforms as of 2024

1. Mastodon - my main social feed platform that first introduced me to the Fediverse in general.

2. Lemmy - my second main social feed platform that originally substituted Reddit from years ago.

3. Matrix protocol - communication platform I use to connect with users on the Lemmy instance I'm on

4. Peertube - would love to get an account going and use it more often but still don't know how but there's FediVideo.

5. Bookwyrm - Goodreads alternative that I signed up for that could use more work for a genuine reading tracker.

BONUS: my least favorite Fediverse platform lately

WordPress - because I used to run art blogs on there before I heard word about drama about the CEO of the corporation so I basically had to put out my last existing art blog...RIP.

For those who don’t know, click here: https://dreamcastlive.net/dreampi-tutorial/

This is how I connected for PSO.

I’ve mostly hunted on Ragol years ago when lately I decided to start over to avoid playing the Ultimate difficulty at level 74 to 75.

Click here to see any games online now: https://dreamcastlive.net/games/

I also appeared on the DreamcasticChannel a couple of times myself years ago on YouTube:

This was an online cartoon I grew up on when I was a kid from the UK. Edd Gould was my biggest inspiration in making art at the time.

Favorite episodes are the Zombeh Attack trilogy, Hammer and Fail, WTFuture, Fun Dead, and recently Surf and Turf in the Matt era.