@packbat i played myst, riven, and exile with my dad as a kid. it’s one of the only video games i ever remember him playing- i really don’t know why he even decided to play them. i loved them and i think it had a huge impact on my imagination at that age

also i remember him always looking at some geocities-ass website with solutions to all the puzzles, so we didn’t actually do those, lmao

@tully i feel like at my job it just popped up out of nowhere and now everyone is acting like it is the best most inclusive term

while i’m over here like “wh… who told you to say this??”

@cakefordogs this is all so so relatable to me

i’ve been often called too clingy as a friend or told i’m coming on too strong to new acquaintances

and i think a lot of it is i just don’t know how to tell the strength of a friendship/what “friend level” the other person is comfortable with. so i misjudge, constantly.

@oddity aaa it's so cute!

@packbat unfortunately my default second person plural is "you guys"

@twistylittlepassages ah wow cool! i'm glad it was relatable.

i'm not saying every hyperlexic person is autistic, but i think it is underdiagnosed. like, there's a whole hyperlexia "type" which is "kids who display autistic-like symptoms but then grow out of them." i feel like it's highly likely that those are just autistic kids who learned to mask symptoms and thus went undiagnosed.

@packbat “talking shit about ableism instead of yourself” sounds like an excellent idea, friends!

@mykola i didn’t boost immediately but i looked around the website a lot after you posted this. you have lots of really awesome stuff on there! :blobcatthumbsup:

@not_on_pizza i don't know, this may just be too galaxy brain.

the idea of a card that just says "uh oh..." on the front is sending me into hysterics though

@mykola omg! you're back! hello!

@packbat i’m so sorry friends :blobcatheart: having something so shitty that happened to you ignored is such bullshit.

@samuteki i can think of two:
1. applied to another job at the place i work for kind of a lateral promotion and got it!
2. finished a nanowrimo for the first time in almost 10 years

@raye thanks for the response! i want to try this now :blobcatpeek:

@raye omg, drawing on masks is such a fun idea! it doesn’t smell like markers when you’re wearing it or anything?