- stndefYeah, I can confirm seeing that a fair bit specifically during non-verbal parts of videos when someone is using a tool.
- Yup! I have significant hearing loss to the point that I'm useless without hearing aids.
I'm going to take this idea for my partner to use to get my attention if needed. Having it tie into Home Assistant is a win for me as well.
- I can't help, but get generated vibes from the photos of the team. It just might be the focus of the camera, alongside my lack of trust for any images I see online these days!
- Acclimitisation can be hard. In some cases I can put things to the back of my mine, but often it's just hard or not possible.
Certainly in my experience and from talking to others who identify or have been diagnosed similarly, in the majority of cases you don't get used to certain things. You can't acclimitise and that's why a load of people who are autistic aren't employed.
I might seem okay in the office, but what isn't seen is my complete inability to function at home if there have been too many inputs and distractions. Lucky I can work from home a couple of times a week and my hours are flexible in that I can start earlier so not to travel into the city when it's busy -- busses are quiet at 05:00/06:00 thankfully!
Having a small office I share with a few people helps. My last place went all in on the open-planned office and it was hell. I can't see how anyone is getting much work done in environments like that, haha.
- I'm not a professional, and I'm not diagnosing, but I am diagnosed autistic and I share some of what you're talking about here.
I'm sensitive to noise, smells, lights and vibrations (living next to a very busy road, I can feel almost every large non-electric vehicle go by -- makes working from home hard at points).
Worth reading into if you have the energy. I do know folks who are diagnosed with schizophrenia and they seem to have an underlying component of some neurodivergence (arguably schizophrenia should also be considered neurodivergence) and went through an extreme burnout/traumatic event.
Hope you're able to get some peace!
- You're right -- I totally misread what you said. Sorry!
I think tattoo does imply more of a permanence and familiarity in regards to the relationship someone would have with a tattoo on a part of their body they're born with, but I do see your point as well.
- I see where you're coming from, but a prosthetic arm is someone's arm. Mentally it very quickly can become something you identify with, like a prosthetic arm basically being YOUR arm.
When you then have your prosthetic then being an advertisement, it can have an impact on your relationship with the device.
I don't want someone branding my arm and I can see why others would feel the same.
- I second this. It's great!
- I'm yet to look at your project, but I can't say Comtrya without thinking about Stargate, so I'm kinda sold already.
- Speaking as someone who is autistic and has significant hearing loss, open offices are a form of torture. It might sound like hyperbole, but I promise it's not!
I enjoy working in a team, but in more enclosed spaces. In my current job I share a room with two other people and it's just right (apart from when all of us are in remote meetings at the same time, but you win some and you lose some).
- Scott Hanselman released a video[1] not too long ago that covers reviving a Zune in 2023, if that's of any use!
- Very relatable. Have always been able to do this.
I have quite significant hearing loss these days, which has been tied back to having Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, relating to connective tissue development, which in part could impact areas that result in certain types of tinnitus developing.
Worse thing about tinnitus and hearing loss is that the more your hearing goes, the louder the tinnitus gets. Haven't heard proper silence in over a decade. Bit of a nightmare sometimes!
- Women tend to not be diagnosed as much as men either, mainly as they're forced to mask more throughout life -- I don't think we'll ever get an accurate representation there, unfortunately.
I feel like there are things not being said in the study that should have been. I could be wrong, but I don't see a mention of whether the parents of the autistic children were themselves autistic or not and feel that could be important criteria to have noted.
- Would painting black present potential heat absorption/dissipation issues?
- I discovered the same as well, highly recommend turning off the camera.
- Not working for me on my work's network, but over EE it's fine. Thoughts with the admins having to troubleshoot this.
- Red Hat, you made the internet's nicest man, Jeff Geerling, upset and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
- It's also tomorrow in some countries already!
- Hope it's of help! Had fun with it the other day, though was telt I was English for preferring salt and pepper over salt and sauce, haha!