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Siding with Ash and Magi here, I don’t think I’ve ever paid that much attention to a haircut. Also my current haircut could probably be deemed “unflattering” (it’s an extremely messy self-made mullet-ish thing with weird uneven short bangs) and tbh if someone is offput by my haircut I see that as a win.

AuDHD here, I don't resonate with all autistic experiences but autism is a pretty broad spectrum and can encompass wildly different experiences, including contradictory ones. For example I don't get a lot of sensory overload from loud or busy environments, in fact I actually kind of enjoy them and I think that might be some of the ADHD. However I do get social overload very easily and find myself constantly needing to spend hours alone on personal projects in order to recharge. This is just one example, there's a lot more out there. Hoping for the best for your self-discovery journey.

I think this is my current plan for once I finish college — get a teaching license and go in that direction. Art teachers are always in demand too from what I've seen on jobhunting sites.

In a communist world I would like to be a full-time artist (please let communism come so I can make propaganda posters for a living... ) but since we live in hell I think my most realistic career option is to become the cool art teacher. I have experience teaching art, I'm fairly good at it and I don't mind it. Also I dress weird and I'm trans and a communist and I think being a teacher is hopefully one of the professions that won't make me tone down these things too much (depending on the school.)

i'm realizing more and more that things that autistic experiences that i thought didn't quite apply to me actually do. i'm like kind of on the verge of a meltdown over this and it's taking all my strength to keep it inside.

the world does not want me to do diys i guess (my parents' printer ran out of ink, i use it to print out stuff for stenciling patches)

i mean not really but urghjsdlkfjslkdfjslk my autism hates running across random roadblocks to my plans it's the woooooorst

bump amber whataboutism

I'm getting back into punk music after a long stint of listening to mostly goth/post-punk (in my alt/subculture side of listening, when I'm not repetitively listening to the music I liked as a teenager). Discovered some great tracks and remembered that I actually like this shit.

Putonghua yes, Cantonese no (I can't understand a word of it.) My parents are from Hubei/Henan respectively. They didn't speak their respective Mandarin dialects at home with me though, so I only speak Putonghua.

Parents are from there, used to visit often as a kid and also lived in Shenzhen for a year or so. It was fantastic but I haven’t been back since 2018 so I imagine some things are different now. But yeah it’s great, I love the atmosphere of the city streets, even watching videos of cities I’ve never been to gives me a cozy and familiar feeling. There’s nothing quite like it in the great satan.

Watching travel videos about China, again. The yearning within me physically hurts.

This new batch of patches is probably my best yet, the least amount of bleeding on stencils that I've ever had (outside a 45 Grave patch whose stencil I probably should just remake at this point.) I wish I could show them off here but alas... anyways I'm super happy about them and excited to put them on my clothes. Also I probably need to buy more white ink soon.