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Cake day: November 24th, 2024

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  • that sounds a little harder than what I’m trying to pull off. I heard there’s this super secret scumbag lifehack where if an autistic person picks a country different enough from their own, their social symptoms tend to just appear as average immigrant idiosyncrasies.

    I’m pretty repulsed by my own country’s culture so I’m hoping I’ll be spared that “grass is always greener” fallacy that tends to befall other expats.




  • personally? bad eye contact. accidentally using innuendos because there’s 80 million of them and I forgot to consider one of them when I was speaking. not catching somebody’s meaning when they hid it in an innocuous statement. severe irritability in the cold or around loud continuous noise. overstepping a social boundary and abruptly withdrawing half an hour late when it dawns on me what I did. having no boundaries to other people because I’m trying to be personable and blend in when I don’t.

    all together that sounds pretty obvious but it never happens all at once. if I’ve gotten enough sleep then I will mask most of it, whether I want to or not















  • my super-ignorant American take:

    Pakistan, really really hates India. I hope it can be healed but I don’t know enough to dare saying how. Poor but admirable aspirations at space exploration. Zealous about parenting and proud of their culture. Probably more similar to my own background than a lot of people would feel comfortable admitting.

    Qatar, rich from oil deals with America. Corrupt but it’s our fault for lavishing them while we raped the rest of the middle east for plunder. Intolerant but could probably be won over to be less outwardly hateful of new ideas since they’ve tasted wealth and desire to join the international community. The things that their religion makes them hate tend to be things that most other Abrahamic religions also hate, which could be grounds for friendship? I don’t think it works like that but it’s fun to joke.

    Americans are pretty racist but these two nationalities get less hate than others. Or would if American’s bothered to learn the difference. Most of us can’t point to Qatar on a map. I hope this was amusing to read.