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  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    6 months ago
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    denji-just-like-me ZE JUST LIKE ME FR FR

    I feel kinda good reading this actually. I'm pretty much considered a weird, lucky special case wherever I go, so it's really cool to hear from someone similar to me. Fuckin rad =) Glad to hear being trans is going at least okay for you so far.

    Yeah I can relate, I respond okay online but in person or realtime chat I will drop spaghetti and run away. I do okay not offending people at least... I found masking to be exhausting and goofy, so I try not to as much as possible. In some social situations it's necessary, and I still have to talk to like service workers or cab drivers, but generally I try to live without the 'tism mask, and mainly that means fuckin infodumps and essays. I want to talk BIG about my goofy interests. And so...

    I've always really admired people who openly gush about their interests because it's something I want to be able to do.

    meow-shining THIS IS THE BEST POSSIBLE THING I COULD HEAR, I'm always trying to make giant infodumps and whatever else about weird niche interests more normalised, which tbf bear website is pretty good about, but gushing about your interests is RAD everyone should do it!!! Lets fucking gooooooooo!!!!!

    Okay awesome, thank you kel-bliss I guess people have different perceptions, I haven't heard anything super negative though so that's good. I do in fact luv me queer liberation and want to be empathetic!!! I can see myself in our beloved dorky eggs in so many ways. The mega is splendid and I wanna give back to it any way I can. Contrasting and comparing different experiences of being NB is great, I love that.

    I wish people would stop saying they enjoy my book posting though badeline-anxious I have an audience and they actually like that shit... wtf scary........ (translated: I am shocked and flattered and pleased, I fucking love bookposting)

    Waow kel-bliss I have loved watching this place blow up and grow, 912 comments the last week of pride was super cool. I guess I will Never Stop Posting rosa-salute

    • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]
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      6 months ago

      NB stuff is epic. I too, do not mask irl. I don’t think I have much of an autistic social deficit, but I do got the ADHD surplus. I’m either “fuck you for trying to speak to me,” or cannot stop talking, esp about special interests. Online I love special interest posting if I have the same interest but scroll past if not, but irl I just love hearing people talk about fixations.

    • khizuo [ze/zir]
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      6 months ago
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      Yeah I get that, I think I'm probably younger than most people in the mega yet I've been out as trans for just as long or longer. I think of it as a testament to the fact that being trans is a much more understood thing now than it was even just ten or fifteen years ago meow-tankie I was one of the first people in my high school cohort to come out, but since then I've met quite a few trans people who came out in middle/high school. Some of them have accepting parents, even!

      Haha I find responding online to be really difficult. I'm also autistic but I mask a lot and I honestly aspire to mask less? But also I've had very little in-person social interaction for over a year outside of my family so honestly idek how I come across now.

      ... maybe I will try to do some more infodumps about my silly little hobbies blob-no-thoughts

      I love this mega. May the Posting continue trans-ferret

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        6 months ago
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        I think of it as a testament to the fact that being trans is a much more understood thing now than it was even just ten or fifteen years ago

        lets-fucking-go I VIEW IT THIS WAY TOO AND IT FUCKS, makes me really happy every time some trans dork is like 15 or something. New generations benefitting from the tireless activism of our forebears!!!!! Coincidentally I caused a bunch of people to come out at my highschool but lost contact with all of em, lol

        I think it kinda helps not going outside, I'm allergic to grass anyway tbh. touch-grass Tearing off the mask is hard work, it can get ingrained as a defense mechanism or survival tool, but it's worth it to tear off imo. I like being autistic.

        If you do infodumps I will upbear them, lfg 07