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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   1534 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for May 22, 2026

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I personally dislike closets (which, being immovable, needlessly constrain the rearrangement of furniture) and much prefer shelving units and wardrobes.

There’s got to be a clinical term to describe this. Lol. I don’t have a great relationship with them either. Closets always dredge up the memories of where all my mother stored my toys when I was grounded and not allowed to play. On one occasion I went and grabbed my father’s toolbox and step ladder and removed the hinges off the closet door and my mother found me inside, playing with my toys. Yeah, I was whooped pretty hard, and I was a very young child.

There’s got to be a clinical term to describe this.

Autism. I have a case study:

https://www.themotte.org/post/3755/friday-fun-thread-for-may-15/443629?context=8#context

<- You’re talking to a case study right here, :/.

Yeah buddy, I know. The diagnosis was never in dispute. Luckily (?) you aren't as autistic as TK. He's hella autistic. He needs his own entry in the DSM-6.

Not that it takes a particularly good psychiatrist to figure that out. If I wanted to reliably find autistic nerds on the internet, I'd start here (or on LessWrong). I'm a nerd with ADHD instead, so I suppose I can pass/mask, or at least meet you guys half way.

He's hella autistic. He needs his own entry in the DSM-6.

Level 6, huh? Damn. He’s way more advanced than me then. But I highly doubt LW was ever more autistic than StarCraft Battle.net channels back in the day.

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