Hello, new instance! I am Fern (she/her) and I was recently diagnosed as autistic after suffering from a ~4 year burnout (and lots of 1-6 month burnouts before that 😮💨) and a bipolar misdiagnosis. Found a good therapist and am getting professional help finally!
I don’t know what else to say here tbh, so I’ll list some of my special interests:
- Justness/Fairness
- Information Accessibility
- Ontology
- Super Smash Bros Melee _
- Banjo
- Electrical engineering
- Video Game Controllers and their development
- Linux
- Not sure whst to call it, but Privacy? Internet/digital security?
- Fonts
Community Plug
I often have a topic I want to go off on, usually a special interest, but I have no one to talk to about it, so they stay as typed up notes until I could find a place. I also love learning about new topics from passionate individuals, so I decided to start a community for that! I’m the (currently sole) moderator for [email protected], which I created as a space to allow for autistic people to make posts about their special interests in a respectful and safe space, at least while Lemmy is small and niche communities are too sparse to really have any engagement.
Hi Fern! Did you know that comic sans has purpose? I learned that it’s good for dyslexia. I don’t have a source, but I thought that was interesting.
Just a side question, are you the fern I know from elsewhere online? If so “Hello again!”, if not “Hello for the first time.”
Hi Fern! I’m an autistic musician-turned-engineer(ing student). Here’s my special interests:
- Math, both pure and applied
- Electrical engineering, particularly control theory and digital signal processing
- Audio engineering, particularly metal production and plugin design
- Metal, particularly technical death metal
- Privacy
- FOSS, particularly Linux
- Solving problems
I’m going to sub to your community. Expect some mathposting soon 👍.
Howdy, Fern!
We share a few interests, specifically Information Accessibility and Digital Privacy/Security. I’d be interested in hearing more about your thoughts on justice/fairness/Ontology. What made you develop these special interests? What are your thoughts on existence and reality? How have your beliefs influenced your ethics?
Also props for playing what I consider one of the coolest instruments out there!
