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Recent content by Seladon

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    Have you ever not liked your special interest?

    During the pandemic I picked up a short-lived special interest in televised sport (football/soccer in particular). I spent entire days of each month 2020-22 consuming YouTube & podcast analysis, transfer news and critical journalism, essays, and fan forums, as well as watching then-current and...
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    Hyperlexia

    I too was a very precocious, autodidactic reader and speaker, at just 2-3 years old. An excellent mimic, too, which amused and delighted adults around. Interestingly, though, I’ve no ability with nor interest in numbers. And my mother is an accountant of all things💀
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    If you are on the autistic spectrum, are you or have you been in a romantic relationship?

    Perhaps I shall have to re-scan my Zarathustra, but: didn’t dear departed Friedrich decide that men were a greater monstrosity than Gods & women combined? And that no-one more than males suffered with ressentiment? As anyone knows he does express distinctly Neolithic chauvinism in Beyond Goods &...
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    If you are on the autistic spectrum, are you or have you been in a romantic relationship?

    More women & children have died in the most recent decades due to traff!cking and domestic abuse, than men on all sides did during the 2000s terr0r wars in !raq & Afghan!stan. And arguably, we wouldn’t have had those wars were it not for the m!l!tary-industrial machine fed and perpetuated by...
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    If you are on the autistic spectrum, are you or have you been in a romantic relationship?

    Incorrect. ‘Incel’ is not a term used to denigrate a man with few sexual partners or little EXP; that would be something like ‘virgin’ (which can and is used on either sex). By contrast, ‘incel’ used as a warning marker—often fair—of a man who has clockable hatred of women and entitlement to...
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    If you are on the autistic spectrum, are you or have you been in a romantic relationship?

    Not at all. This is a wilful bad faith misinterpretation. Have a lovely day.
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    If you are on the autistic spectrum, are you or have you been in a romantic relationship?

    The ‘evolutionary urge’ argument is very insidious, and usually a pipeline to the enculturation of forced marriage & breeding, government mandated wives, rap3 as legal practise, etc. The entitlement to female autonomy and literal bodies as a resource ‘for the greater good/to save the...
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    If you are on the autistic spectrum, are you or have you been in a romantic relationship?

    Sure, I will have compassion and sympathy for men, when: Women aren’t the group who take on almost 70% of the world’s labour while owning only -1% of the property; when corn traff!cking is globally abolished; when child brides are no more; when women & their children in warzones are not...
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    Things you learnt about autism since joining forums

    Very well said, no notes. There was a book or article I read once that pointed out how improved sanitation/hygiene and vaccination have far done more for human health & longevity than any p harmaceutical in history, even penicillin. Hard to refute! And I imagine psychedelics/psychotropics and...
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    Things you learnt about autism since joining forums

    I understand your worries about coming across as a nagging or controlling hypocrite, or of upsetting the balance in your marriage that seems to mean a lot to you. Most people don't like to feel as if they're rocking the boat, whether that's what they're actually doing or not. With that said...
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    You are actually nice!

    My most recent therapist expressed surprise when I told him I didn't think I had any resilience or persistence. He explained that by returning to therapy and giving it another shot, despite my several poor and damaging experiences with it, I was demonstrating just those qualities. Was a thinker!
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    ASD and ADHD couple, can it work

    Awww, I love this! One of the most romantic things I've ever heard said about love & relationships is the line, "I could watch tv with this kid for the rest of my life." That's my Casablanca, honestly.
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    ASD and ADHD couple, can it work

    First off OP, thanks for stopping by, we're happy to have you and hear from you! And your question is a valid strong one. My experience as an ASD person of a relationship with an ADHD/ADD person is only platonic--with my ADHD younger sister--and the good news is that it is certainly possible to...
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    Feeling depressed immediately after seeing my sister's Facebook post

    It's understandable to feel sidelined or left out in the cold about all this. I more than empathise with how autistic people who have lower support needs (and that's often us women, let's be real) often go unaided or undetected in daily life, and this can breed the resentment in us of always...
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    OSU study: After two hours, sunscreen that includes zinc oxide loses effectiveness, becomes toxic

    Oh. I use zinc oxide cream as a healing barrier for my skincare at night. Should I…not be doing that? Or is it ok because I’m indoors wearing it, and I wash it off in the morning?
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