@valoisa I think there's also some weird distortion off-shoot of it for me. Like, when you get into something, you'll start to see it everywhere, right? So when I start to acquire a new skill, I notice more people who are doing the same stuff, and then I go like "everybody's doing this, this sucks!" Can't win... Also, I'd settle for just being a cool shit, instead of doing it

@shinybat @minego @murdoc @autistics Interesting. Your comment kind of matches my recent post on the two layers of cognition (https://dev.to/raphink/neurodiversity-and-the-two-layers-of-cognition-42dp there's how you think of sports, and there's how society expects you to talk about it.

@pathfinder @filmfreak75 @autistics same for me. Like, I physically feel the emotional pain or the struggle, or fear, or joy, or irritation etc in the room, I don’t even need to look at person’s face, it just feels. I pretty often would not be able even to name the nuanced emotions around, but I can’t stop feeling them - up to the point that I can’t keep doing my thing around people in distress. Pretty often my acts of people-pleasing are actually a subconscious attempt to improve the emotional field in the room so it doesn’t pull me down that much

@jeffowski OMG he’s fun!

@Tim_McTuffty well can tell you to not expect vast improvements and check every 2 weeks to see results at the very minimum anything before that is a pipe dream sometimes its 6 months .. just keep being your own competition and fare well ...rest well