The uncanny valley exists to enforce social norms at a glance. I’ve tipped people off about me being autistic faster than most chatbots can coherently remain convincing nowadays.
I’m feeling some kinda way tonight. @BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net‘s post on food insecurity included 8 questions used by the UN to assess food insecurity and I answered yes to all of them. So did my partner. It doesn’t feel like we’re lacking food very often. We always make sure our kids are fed even when we’re struggling. But like… is this not normal? Having an empty fridge and cupboards sometimes? Or more often, not literally empty, but it’s all condiments and random stuff you can’t really throw together into a meal? Rationing food, skipping meals, eating nothing but pasta for like a week straight because that’s what we’ve got?
Even just saying it all like I feel like I’m exaggerating or playing up something to be worse than it is. But I just thought stuff like this was normal every now and then.
During the last 12 months, was there a time when, because of lack of money or other resources:
1. You were worried you would not have enough food to eat?
2. You were unable to eat healthy and nutritious food?
3. You ate only a few kinds of foods?
4. You had to skip a meal?
5. You ate less than you thought you should?
6. Your household ran out of food?
7. You were hungry but did not eat?
8. You went without eating for a whole day?
So if someone answers yes to all of these, is that considered severe food insecurity? Like, I get if it was in the last month, but I just kinda figure everyone experiences at least a couple of these throughout the course of an entire year.
I started viewing playing guitar as a form of meditation. I will never write a song again. I will never release an album again. Playing guitar is for me. No, I don’t know any songs. No, I will not take requests. No, you may not pay me to entertain your drunken asshole customers. No, I will not play at your wedding. If I never hear Uptown Funk again, I will die happy. These riffs are for achieving enlightenment ONLY
I mean, it’s an intentionally cringe take. What it’s really in reference to is him declaring via executive order that gender and sex are distinct when Trump made his order that they weren’t. He’s a sex pest and a neoliberal ghoul and New York is just a bunch of real estate developers in a trench coat, but this one little thing was done within hours of the original order, done without hesitation, and likely saved the lives of thousands of trans people. He just did so while being a freak and while upholding several social orders that oppress trans people in the first place
I actually ended up being fine. I do have an eating disorder that revolves around this pattern of not eat and then binging, so the question is a little facetious. Ironically, the best way to deal with my overeating is to force myself to eat. I got off my routine of drinking protein shakes throughout the day when we were low on groceries, so this is kinda the fallout from that.
People explaining how me deciding to ignore what other people think and feeling comfortable with myself for the first time in my life is somehow the result of social pressure.
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The uncanny valley exists to enforce social norms at a glance. I’ve tipped people off about me being autistic faster than most chatbots can coherently remain convincing nowadays.