Active hearing protection is better for sudden noises and some of them have connections for aux cables but the speakers are low quality and they’re designed only to understand someone talking and that’s it.

My sister was diagnosed with autism before transitioning but she hasn’t “seemed autistic” since transitioning. I don’t know if it was a misdiagnosis of gender dysphoria or if it’s something that she really has. She is very fixated on trying to force other autistic people into passing so it makes sense that she would learn to hide it.

Can you explain this more?

He is not living a sustainable lifestyle and it’s going to catch up with him and he’s going to be miserable.

I see a lot of desire among people on the spectrum to do the easy thing and constant aversion to anything difficult. Living an easy life is going to bring nothing but misery. I have a friend with BPD who is miserable because he never leaves his comfort zone and leaves jobs as soon as they get remotely challenging. Grinding away the days by coming home and watching Netflix until you go to bed and work again is going to create misery.

If he’s so averse to dating that it causes him to pack up and leave, that’s better for me because then I don’t have to deal with the empathetic baggage of visualizing him growing into an 80 year old virgin and living alone with no friends and having never accomplished anything.

My sister was diagnosed with autism and she used to be a male incel.

This western philosophy of “just do whatever feels good” is satanic misguidance. It will lead to nothing but suffering and misery.

You’re setting yourself up for an extremely sad life if you are content with being isolated and “weird.” It might be fun right now for a few months where you take time for yourself and go home and take home fast food and watch Netflix, but that expires very fast. You don’t want to be a creepy, aloof 80 year old man who everyone assumes is a virgin. My sister was diagnosed with autism and used to be a creepy male virgin and she can’t stand people like that.

Not having any social interaction would be likely to make it a lot harder.

As much as I think automation is progress, a future where people can go get stuff with no human interaction at all will likely end badly for the people who are already on the edge.

WFH is good for a lot of people and has practical advantages, but it will likely be incredibly bad for people who are already struggling.

As a theoretical religious communist, I have a counterpoint. An independent livable wage would be too high for many jobs and would ultimately lead to the elimination of those jobs. While that might sound good, I’ve had autistic people tell me that retail is the only thing they can do.

I feel like a lot of people should be getting paid and treated better then they are, but then there are redditors who think that fast food employees should be getting paid $30 per hour.

Hypothetically, if fast food employees had to be paid $30 per hour, the first thing that would happen is prices would go up. Then large numbers of employees would be fired. The employees who remain would be the absolute minimum necessary to do the job and they would end up extremely overworked. They would also be expected to be on call to come in at any moment during their time off and they’d likely be on an extremely strict attendance policy since not showing up could mean the restaurant has to close down.

I support automation of the service industry, but I worry about the future of everyone when everyone is constantly going about their day with no real interaction.

The reason I support self checkout is because a small number of employees can oversee a large number of machines. It’s bad for people who are going to end up with extreme social anxiety because they were allowed to go for long periods of time without real interaction.

No one is specifically in charge of social rules. There are reasons why things are the way they are, and it seems common that geeks and people who have often operated outside of this system think that they can intentionally defy the social rules without consequence if they understand the reason for it and think they can compensate.

This sort of “social hacking” doesn’t work because geeks don’t fully comprehend all the reasons why things are the way they are and it ultimately blows up in their face.

As long as it doesn’t cause a problem for me, then it’s not a big deal. I suspect that if it happened though, I’d have to deal with him having explosive anger over it.

It’s a small moped with a step through frame.

I’m not sure exactly how he is with road rage, but he kept telling me about incidents that he had until I told him that he’s obviously the one instigating them because there’s no way that a reasonable person lets themselves get caught up in trouble like that.

I’ve told him the reason. I suspect that maybe he feels like it’s slightly more difficult to take the scooter back and it’s enough of a hump that he doesn’t do it.

I’ll try setting up a parking area in the back with a place for tools and related things and set it up so that everyone has their own space that they can use and lock up a bike if they have one. I think that giving him his own space like that would be good for encouragement.

I think that you’re right. I don’t want to stress him out but I see him do a lot of things without thinking that I’m sure aren’t good for him. He kind of just “exists” in that he just goes about his day and punches the clock and comes home.

I don’t want to deal with the fallout if his scooter were to get stolen because I don’t think he’d take it well.

What are you like?

Based on experience, it makes sense to me that some autistic people might be very upset by this because it seems like some of them have a very strong desire to maintain control.

My sister is trans and gay and this statistic makes me uncomfortable. It can easily be abused by religious people.

My sister is a trans lesbian and she has had gay liberals call for her to be hate crimed at Trump rallies.

Conservative Christians are more accepting of her then liberals.

My sister was diagnosed with autism and she became a trans lesbian Republican. A lot of progressives hate her and can’t understand why there are gay people who become Republicans.

It’s hard when you don’t have any IRL friends and don’t even fit in online. The truth is that trying to be social online can be even harder because it’s so shallow. When it comes to groups like that, they can be more exclusionary then having personal time with someone because the group is there for a purpose and anyone who brings down the mood gets shown the door.

This is one of the things that’s challenging to deal with. No one is owed an explanation of anything, under most circumstances.

I know that a lot of people are trying really hard to get along, but a lot of the “social hacks” they think they can do to simplify things end up making them incredibly challenging to get along with. That’s one of the things that I’ve tried to get across to roommates with ASD that I’ve had.

It’s great if you are able to find people who are like that, but no one is under any obligation to be beholden to you like that. It comes across as incredibly manipulative to try to insist on that.