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Recent content by Angular Chap

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    Audio compression software

    I use Audacity audio software or ffmpeg from the Linux terminal. Audacity is free, runs on everything and has plenty of options. You might need to experiment a bit to find the balance of file size vs quality to suit your own personal taste, using presets or going deeper into all the options...
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    Hi, Hello

    Hello and welcome, @SharksRCool Yes, that’s fine and completely valid. Self-diagnosis is part of the autism journey for a lot of people. When I first joined here, I was self-diagnosed and people on here were just as accepting and validating as they are now that I have a diagnosis, so no worries...
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    Linux Distro-Hopping Adventures!

    Here’s a recommendation that might be useful and fun to try and experiment with: AntiX The reason I recommend this distro is because of how easy it is to create a highly customised bootable live USB, or just a highly customised system in general. Of course every distro can do this, but I keep...
  4. Angular Chap

    Windows

    Ahh, this is a fun nostalgia trip! Over the years I’ve used every Windows version from 3.1 to 10, excluding the server versions, in some capacity. I used 95, 98 and 2000 through school. When I started working in IT as tech support, most people used 7, a few 8. When I moved away from tech...
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    Schadenfreude

    The sovereign citizens, they call themselves “Freemen on the land” in the UK but I think the whole idea seems to have died out, I’ve not heard the term here in years.
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    Sound Sensitivities

    I get pretty bad misophonia and I’m hypersensitive to eating and mouth noises. Those are some of the worst sounds I can hear and they stick around inside my head for hours on a bad day.
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    Getting Tested

    I’m late diagnosed (36) and there are 2 things I wish I had known when I went through my diagnosis: 1. How hard it is to just stop masking on a whim. If you are high masking and have been for decades, you can’t just stop instantly when asked. But it wasn’t a huge issue. I instinctively masked...
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    Realizing you're autistic, how'd you react?

    My first reaction was “Ah-ha, so that explains everything.” and then instant acceptance. But I then had a tiny amount of imposter syndrome, I thought to myself many people really struggle with autism and I was doing just fine at the time. Getting over a burnout (before I understood what that...
  9. Angular Chap

    Happy Burns Night fellow Scots. May the haggis be with you! [IMG]

    Happy Burns Night fellow Scots. May the haggis be with you!
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    Which The A-Team Character ?

    John “Hannibal” Smith. The sense of humour matched my own and I always loved the outlandish plans he would come up with. I come up with so many wild and wonderful escape plans myself to get out of situations. And who doesn’t love it when a plan comes together?
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    Autistic Burnout--what was it like?

    My first long term burnout was caused by forcing myself through a job in retail for 5 years. It approached slowly and gradually, until one night I deflated like a balloon over the course of a shift. I left early and handed in my resignation the day after. Now that I didn’t have to work, I...
  12. Angular Chap

    Looks like I’ve been on here for 3 years now. Thanks friends, always a pleasure. :)

    Looks like I’ve been on here for 3 years now. Thanks friends, always a pleasure. :)
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    Parrots

    My friend had a parrot many years ago, an African grey I think. He was a real clever lad, figured out how to use the phone! He liked to mimic the ringing and knew how to answer it and say “Hello, how are you?” He could also make aircraft noises and say “jetplane!” and liked to play with a piano...
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    Advent calendars

    When I was a wee lad, my parents got me an amazing advent calendar that was a cardboard chimney with little boxes that slotted in like bricks. The whole idea was to put your own small gifts in each box. They alternated between chocolate one day and a small gift the next, it was the greatest...
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    Do you like being autistic?

    I’m neutral. I am what I am and it is what it is.
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