Neutrally: Do you feel like your comment is a mature, adult response?
I'm a bit curious-- your hobby seems to be attempting to antagonize others on the internet. Do you have anyone in your life that feels like a support system? Are they someone that does not hurt you?
If your only support system consists of people who talk like you do, to you-- please try to get out of your current situation. It's a painful place to be. Life can be better.
Thank you for removing the ragebait post; it makes me optimistic this sub could remain an actually useful support space to people with autism.
There are physical pin buttons on Etsy (probably other places idk) that are disability words thingies (I plan to get some myself,, eventually, words dodgy)
"My ear guards are disability aids"
"Auditory processing issues"
"I am non verbal"
I was gonna say "didn't they create their own instance?"
But if you go there from the sidebar, that appears to be gone, soooo... :s
Freetube instead of youtube,
Thunderbird calendar instead of something like google calendar,
Signal instead of Discord or text,
Tellico for all media lists instead of something like goodreads or online movie or game lists,
Obsidian or Joplin for notes and organizing creative pursuits
You can sort of block publishers/devs, if they have their own "steam page." If you click on the publisher/dev in the listings underneath review scores, if it takes you to an actual dedicated page you can click the gear icon on the right and click "ignore this creator."
This does not completely block them but it has them show up in less places (or are greyed out in some places.) Basically they can pop kinda randomly up in sales when steam forgets to add that, or greyed out in the tabs section on the front page (new and trending, top sellers, popular upcoming tabs)
It's not the cure-all "erase EA" button I'm sure we'd all prefer, but it does help a little.
cryptid energy
People who do this professionally, or even as a volunteer, receive training for a reason. It is likely one could hurt more than help, despite the best intentions.
Maybe try signing up for a hotline? They'll give you the training required to at least give a solid attempt as well as more rationally limit the amount of people you feel obligated to handle.
The dog has swimmer's syndrome.
As far as anyone can tell, the original is from a tiktok animal "funny" explotation/abuse account.
They have several repeat videos of this dog doing the exact same behaviour, they seem to keep them in tiny enclosures, and keep feeding it milk. Milk is not good for dogs, especially not that much. There's no guarantee that they feed the dogs regularly or humanely.
It's difficult to actually tell context because of the nature of these types of channels. Labradors can have food aggression, especially pound dogs, that needs essentially "dog therapy" over time to abate. Considering animal abuse is rampant on the channel in general, I don't have high hopes here. The channel posting this specific dog over and over does not give context.
The last few videos with those two dogs does show some progress with the labrador starting to gain walking ability, so maybe they are trying to rehabilitate, but they're still giving them insane amounts of milk. They don't look bone thin, exactly. Again, hard to say with no context.
If there's an original source with more information, chances are it's on some website somewhere in chinese, which can be difficult to convince browsers in english to find :/ Language barrier. I've spent a few hours looking, including trying reverse image search. I've seen this a few times and memeified animal abuse bothers me, so wanted to know if it's... not. If someone knows actual context with source links, I'd like to know.
I literally just found out yesterday you can utilize a virtual second monitor with (some) split screen multiplayer games to stream the "second screen" to a friend, giving you a multiplayer experience that you could previously only have with online connections, having totally separate screens with streaming which blows my mind, and this comes out today rather than having to try to figure out how to set it all up myself. Sick.
I've found with my ADHD friends, as well as my (autistic, bipolar, ?maybe adhd?) self, that "doing something for others" is somehow easier than doing it just for myself. That might put into perspective why it felt easier to make meals before a divorce. Feel like there's a way to hack that quirk, solo, but haven't figured it out exactly yet.
Coming a bit from the opposite angle-- I haven't eaten well for my entire life, and I'm trying to learn how to create a diet on my own, from scratch.
I rely on a lot of soup. Just cut veggies, freeze them. Dump them all in broth when I have energy. Spices are "whatever feels right." Cutting and cooking does not need to be on the same day. Very simple, gets me veggies, reliable. It's something to build from. Does not require much planning.