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Ceci n'est pas un ours.

Jusqu'ici tout va bien.

Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

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nddev , to actuallyautistic
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We had dinner with some friends this evening -- five of us in total. After discussing it with Helen earlier in the week, I came out to them as autistic.

I got an interesting set of reactions. Angela (a former headteacher, who I thought knew more about autism) said: "but you're so social." So I said a few words about masking and learning to spend time in company. Lesley replied: "you should have known him when he was young. He was really quite odd." (No, it's fine, we have that kind of relationship.)

I told Angela I thought she'd known for years, and she said she'd suspected it, but only because of my unusual walk. So, if you really want to pass as NT, you need not only to avoid ticcing and stimming, and make eye contact, and say the right things at the right speed, and pull the right faces, but also to get your walk right. Who knew teachers specialised in gait analysis?

So that's it. I'm committed. I'm now. 🙂

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What does the autistic walk look like? I'm curious now because this is the second time I've seen it mentioned. I have a particular walk, a springy, balls of the feet sort of thing, rather than just putting one foot in front of the other. But I thought everyone did that and I haven't paid much attention before.

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Well that's 2 data points anyway. And I've since heard of the bouncy walk idea from other sources, as well as another thing I do, which is a sharp 90 degree turn rather than ambling round a corner.

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Absolutely.

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@Vincarsi @nddev @actuallyautistic

I'm not sure I buy this, but I'll think about it again tomorrow. It doesn't seem like an unnatural or stressful gait to me, and I've actually seen it recommended as good way of walking. I'll dig out the article.

gutenberg_org , to random
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English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and short story writer E. F. Benson died in 1940. Benson was a precocious and prolific writer. His first book was Sketches from Marlborough, published while he was a student. He started his novel-writing career with the fashionably controversial Dodo. The Mapp and Lucia series, written relatively late in his career, consists of six novels and two short stories. via @wikipedia

E. F. Benson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/812

Title page of Miss Mapp, 1922.

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Huge fan of the Mapp & Lucia series. I even made the pilgrimage to Rye, an almost perfect match for Tilling in the novels, where Benson lived while writing them. Specific places were repurposed for the narrative, so you can read the books and accurately follow in the footsteps of the characters.

I think of Mapp & Lucia as two dinosaurs locked in an epic struggle for dominance, while constrained by the social rules of the 1930s.
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ChrisMayLA6 , to bookstodon
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Good morning booklovers,

if you, like me, have bookshelves stuffed with around your house, then Eva Wiseman has got news for you... they signify more about your life & the society we live in than you thought.

'bookshelf wealth' (a new design trend), is not the innocent amassing of things to read, we may have thought...

@bookstodon

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/25/using-books-as-interior-design

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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

Books undeniably furnish a room (and make great insulation), but I can't imagine keeping any I didn't want to read. I go for eclectic charity shop chic simply because I can't afford new books and prefer to find hidden treasures rather than follow literary trends.

That said, I read fewer and fewer books as I get older, though the growing TBR pile consists entirely of books I bought with the intention of reading.

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@TerryBTwo @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

A house or a flat with no books has no soul. If it also has 'Eat Laugh Love' on the wall then it's positively satanic.

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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@bookstodon Do you own any autographed books? If so, did you personally meet the author at a signing?

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@tekiegirl @kimlockhartga @bookstodon

I discovered both seasons on the Internet Archive, which is good because I never saw season 2. I refuse to pay for a streaming service. Working through season 1 again at the moment. Even better than I remembered.

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I watched the first season on the BBC iPlayer, but as far as I know, the second season was only on Amazon. Which I wouldn't touch with a barge pole.

I did read the book, though it's been lost in the visual impression of the TV series. That's one of the problems of adaptations. They might do a brilliant job, but the image is seared on your retina, wiping out your impressions of the book.

desafinado , to random
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Your attention, please.

Today’s Word of the Day is “spork.”

This has been The Word of the Day.

That is all.

UPDATE: Ceci n’est pas une spork.

riggbeck ,
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Titus Alone was an accurate take on the 20th century. Once the story moved on from the Gormeghast setting, it had to do something different, and I think it did it well. I found it more disturbing than the first two novels, perhaps because of Peake's fraying mind in its collision with that century.

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It certainly wasn't a well-made novel, too much bleeding from the wounds, but none the worse for that. It has an intensity and sharpness, and sometimes it's better not to blunt the edges of a story with artifice.

joshsusser , to actuallyautistic
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Random Public Service Announcement: The hashtag means the author of the post containing that hashtag is an actually autistic person, as opposed to a relative, caregiver, or practitioner who is not autistic. It came about because autism-adjacent folks kept speaking over us, and we needed a way to identify when an autistic person was speaking for themself. The hashtag says nothing about whether someone has an official diagnosis, only about whether they identify as autistic. It is not correct for an allistic (non-autistic) person to use the hashtag to describe an autistic person - is a perfectly cromulent hashtag for that.
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Thank you for embiggening the use of the word 'cromulent'.

bibliolater , to bookstodon
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What is the most difficult or you have ever ? What made the so difficult for you? Would you others that ?

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A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. It was a surprising bestseller for the time (1988) but I doubt many people finished it. I fell off the horse at about page 30, and at the same point over a decade later. There will be no third attempt.

beexcessivelydiverting , to bookstodon
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‘' is a Subversive Tribute to 'Pride & Prejudice'

https://tellyvisions.org/article/lost-austen-review-subversive-tribute-pride-prejudice

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Don't miss this hugely enjoyable, wonderfully skewed version of the classic. You can also find the episodes on youtube if you can't wait for the PBS programme.

GinaRCollia , to bookstodon
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Nezu Press is bringing out a new edition of 'The Other End' by R. Ellis Roberts. In addition to the contents of the 1st edition, it includes 4 reviews that the author wrote about the work of Arthur Machen. It also includes a biographical essay by me.

https://hauntedlibraryblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-other-end-r-ellis-roberts.html

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Thanks for this. I'm always on the look-out for forgotten horror writers, and this one is good. Definitely a touch of the Machen about him. I read The Hill. He does the atmosphere and tone really well, though I can't help deploring the protagonist's effortless smug entitlement, earning by his self-proclaimed virtue the adoring services of a servant and a dog. An unreliable narrator, assigning good and evil where they benefit his class position.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89003790151&seq=1

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