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learning a lot about frustration tolerance from watching the baby she has a cycle when she's trying something hard:Excitement/engagement/curiosity -> exploratory actions -> specific goal formation (I think; she can't

advice request if you were a 15-year-old boy who was on the spectrum, caught feelings for one of his only female friends, got led on because she kept dropping "I

adding this to my list of directly psychedelic bookswhere the act of consuming the book resembles the act of consuming a drug what are your favorite psychedelic books? legit did

it's been a while since I've been this angry about the State of Things unsure if accustomed or numb things do feel slightly more normal now, ppl learning to live

interesting when authors' lifelong fixations and neuroses and pain come through their writing reading a book by Octavia Butler I hadn't read before note: she was known to be a

ok I'm going to have some emotions about "circling" but I am not going to explain what it is in advance one, because I don't fully understand itand two, because

seeking: resources, people willing to talk to me, books, documentaries, etc about *failed* intentional communities cults, communes, compounds, multiple families buying an apartment complex together -- basically any case of

on the one hand, there are so many things that can go wrong during pregnancy that it's frankly incredible humans survived once their heads got sufficiently Large on the other

I think the biggest piece of evidence that I'm not autistic is that I hate memorizing long lists of things and whenever my nerdy friends get together and start reciting

watching Conan w/@eigenrobot (@TRULY_DOZING) men with bangs are just really funny to me bitch why didn't you RUN WHILE THE DUDES WERE DISTRACTED eigen and I are negotiating our various

I found SlateStarCodex in 2015. immediately afterwards, I got involved in some of the little splinter communities online, that had developed after LessWrong started to disperse. I don't think it's

first: really appreciate feedback on something that is somewhat hard for me to talk about ^^ (thread)https://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1267287093304193025 this is somewhat surprising (the "fight or be upset" bit) because I