• MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Doesn’t help much the fact I am extremely frail of health and I used to go to hospitals way more often as a kid so my social circle was mostly of my relatives.

  • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    I get ignored as an adult too.

    I’ve just stopped talking when I realize nobody is listening, and it’s really disappointing how little anyone around me even notices the noise stopped.

    At least the people I hang out with nowadays mostly have adhd in varying degrees, so it’s more understandable than when it was my family.

    • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      Yeah, I’ve started noticing that happening to me too… people will just interrupt and the conversation goes on without me, even if I’m still talking. It hurts my feelings and makes me wonder why I bothered sharing in the first place

      • Jimbo@pawb.socialEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        When these things happen I wonder if the person butting in has any idea how rude their being. I can only conclude that they’re clueless

        • aliceitc@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          9 hours ago

          As far as I know, the ace community plans to invade Denmark (≈6 million population), not the Netherlands (≈18 million population, three times as big).

          According to a very shallow search online, about 1% of the population is autistic, with a similar percentage being proposed for asexual people.

          Now using that 1% figure, both groups should have about 83 million people in the world, enough to invade both Denmark and the Netherlands.

          Restricting to only people who already live in Europe (total population 601 millions), 1% would be ≈6 millions, which is comparable to the size of Denmark.

          So I suppose the original plan to invade Denmark was made by European asexuals, and European autistics could do similarly.

          Anyways, I think the autistics have a lower chance of success, because of the ADHD (a good percentage of the autistics is also adhd), and the executive dysfunction.

          Please notice that I just woke up, I spent literally 5 minutes doing this research, so my numbers could be very wrong. Please don’t bully me in the replies if the numbers are wrong.

          Edit: I know remember that I was originally talking about uniting autistic trans girls… I think it’s much more difficult to find that percentage… But I feel like if you consider the whole world we should be enough, if you restrict to only Europe, we are not. But maybe US + Canada + Europe…

    • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      I found a group of autistic trans people with ahdh and oh my god is it bad.

      Sometimes we will be mid conversation and someone who was hyperfocusing on something on their phone will completely halt the conversation to interject without even realizing other people were talking.

      I do it too, so it’s not like I’m complaining about it lol. It’s also great when you realize that in a conversation with 6 people, any single thing any of us says could send any one of us off on 3 tangents. Rabbit trails on rabbit trails.