I didn’t want to cook for myself tonight, but I read somewhere that the place I started ordering from is a sponsor of Autism Speaks.
Before placing the order, I tried to go on the AS website to check it out but I kept getting distracted by the stream of donation alerts that popped up at the bottom of the page.
It took me an additional five or so minutes to review their partnerships because it was so overstimulating.
Sadly on brand.
As an example of the opposite, I recently got into a YouTube channel that does very involved videos about appliances (technology connections). It’s absolutely my bag, and I suspect that the audience is more neurodiverse than average.
I was super excited to see a video about fire alarms, but nearly didn’t watch it at all, because I did not want to hear one. I put it on mute with subtitles and the first thing the creator said was, “just so you know, I won’t be setting off any alarm sounds.” 🥰
At this point Technology Connections can be considered Lemmy’s patron youtuber.
I thought you were gonna say technology connections was advocating for autism speaks, and I was about to have my day ruined
Technology Connections is fantastic. I’m usually very possessive of my attention but I always end up listening to him infodump for a hour about something I couldn’t care less about.
How else will I learn about turn signals and dishwashing detergent
Or about how my house’s AC unit is way over built? And what the most efficient fridge/freezer design is?
Or how a pinball machine or jukebox work?
Okay, this is the silliest thing, and it’s very autistic of me. I used to watch him religiously but can’t anymore because of his opinion on power sockets. He believes that it’s superfluous having switches by every wall socket. I grew up in Australia, where we do have those switches unlike the US where he’s from, and I believe he is objectively incorrect. To be fair to me, this isn’t a onetime rant or opinion, it’s an ingoing series of videos, as well as many response videos by other creators. He does make good content though, and I don’t mean to spoil you on watching him at all, because this is the mildest of reasons to dislike someone 😅
Why do you want the switch??
Tell us why you want the switch please?
I’m from the UK where we also have switches, but I never toggle them; so they seem useless to me. We also have the safest plugs, so more don’t really need switches.
The only people I’ve seen use switches are the people that think saving 2p a year by turning them off is good, or my OCD (not shaming, I’m neurodiverse myself) brother would turn everything off at night and it was a pain in the morning having to remember to turn switches back on.