I can’t say I buy that this is an autism thing. I think it’s just something streaming services have done. I got into vinyl collection a few years ago and it really drove me to uncover the great albums, often by just buying ones where I knew they had one song I liked and listening to the rest.

oh no, is this an autism thing too?? guys, it’s hitting me how autistic my entire life is. there aren’t any areas that are NT at all. zero. everything is autistic, even how I eat, watch tv, and wear shirts. the last one is passive, yet I still do it autistically 😆

Funny story:

Before I found out, I had a friend that I would think was “a little autistic”. Remember, I didn’t really know much about what people said autism was. Anyway, once I found out about myself and told people, most of my long-term friends told me they were too. That means this guy I thought was a little autistic must be raging autistic to NTs 😆. So, I told him that he was def autistic, and he said that he wasn’t, then started talking about the material in the soles of his shoes (you can’t make this up!). I said, you’re literally a world-renown engineer (I swear he had over 40 patents), your mom is a social worker that works with autistic kids, your parents have like 20 pets including chickens in the middle of Miami, and your daughter is diagnosed as autistic! the dude ignored me.

Later on, he got into some problems at work where he was accused of some bs by a person that wanted his position, so he got a lawyer. The lawyer told him that there are some high achieving people with certain traits that often get attacked by lesser performers for their position. I told him something like, “Yes!! High-achieving autistic people because they piss everyone else on the team off! You’ve got over 40 patents halfway through your career and are showing up still drunk from your little BDSM party the previous night, while these people are busting their asses off to get maybe 3 patents their entire careers. Then, when they complain about how hard they are working on a problem for the past 2 semesters so they look smart and focused, you solve it for them on the spot, making them look stupid af. Meanwhile, you think you helped them out, so you act like you didn’t just punk them in front of everyone and invite them to lunch, ‘Dont worry. You don’t have to pay for me just because I helped you out.’ Think about it.” Last time I spoke with him, he was still “not autistic”.

I’ve been disappointed too many times. My rule of only looking more at an album/artist if I happen to like two of their songs (a “rule of two” if you will) has worked out pretty well for me.