• Shou@lemmy.world
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      Maybe we should pathologize neurotypicals’ tendencies to pathologize anything they can’t relate to.

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    Fortunately he was cured of the crazy obsession of being happy and giving a fuck about things.

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    Imagine being the ruler of that city and letting him get “cured” instead of having him infodump / give daily reports about this.

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        “You love the boats. I do not, but I love what they mean.” sweeping gesture toward the window

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          “Really Havelock, why do you suffer such a fool on the city payroll?”

          “My dear Margolotta, for the pittance I pay the man, he does the work of 10 others. Fool he may be, but he is an accurate fool.”

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      Small procedure involving a ball peen hammer and metal spike applied to the back of the eye socket we would recognize today as a lobotomy.

      Maybe. I don’t know shit about it.

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    One wonders how it manifested itself before ships were invented, or in the ancestral hunter-gatherer environment. Surely there must have been autistic nomads.

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      Shamans.

      “Look, he said he knows where all the fruit bearing trees in this forest are. Not a lot of them, all of them. He pointed out a squirrel the other day and told it he was glad to see that it made it through the winter. I don’t know how he does it, but if he says we have to move because the squirrels are starting to move to new trees, who am I to argue? We move.”

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        This feels spot on.

        Add star constellations and telling immersive stories while guarding the fire at night to the list.

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          Don’t forget putting entirely too much effort into building contraptions with sticks, clay, wood, rope, etc. Somebody had to invent the forge bellows.