Sas [she/her]

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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Sometimes dangerous. I once moved when someone at the station smoked close to me, and he took it as offense and on the train he sat across the aisle from me and stared at me the whole ride until he luckily got off 2 or 3 stations earlier than me. I just kept pretending to read in my ebook reader while watching out of the corner of my eye and plotting my escape should he get off at the same station as me.




  • So i can only tell my experience. I didn’t know i was autistic for the longest time. I’ve always been odd but i was masking most of the time and could suppress my sensory issues and had a lot of coping mechanisms to deal with them. Then my cat died and my world got destroyed. My mask was shattered and i can no longer keep it up for long whereas i had it up like 50% of the time before that. I stopped trying to mask at work. Noise has gotten real bad for me where before i was kinda dissociated enough to not have it that present.

    Considering the world is getting more and more stressful in general, i imagine a lot of people that masked before are cracking. Also the obvious point of more information being available so a lot more people seek out a diagnosis. I’m also like 70 percent sure my mom is neuro spicy in some way and she developed OCD to keep order in her life out of necessity. Everything that gets untidy has to be cleaned asap, the latest at the end of the day. Her work desk however is chaos. She gets really anxious when i for example leave the living room blanket on the couch she immediately goes and folds it up.


  • It gets even more interesting: to interfere in the double slit experiment, the light has to take a longer path for some points and light is really good at finding the shortest path. And, since you can extend the double slit experiment to infinite slits with infinitely thin blockers between the slits, you can leave away the slits entirely and still have a valid version of that experiment and get interference. It’s just, that most interference is destructive.

    Veritasium had a very interesting video about that recently and my extrapolation of this is that there is neither a collapse of wave functions nor multiple parallel universes.

    My intuition says that the wave function is there after being “observed”. There is no multiple possible outcomes, just very visible ones and a lot of destructive interfered ones.

    However what i just wrote is not science but me extrapolating from science so don’t take it for anything more than that. It somehow causes quantum physics to make intuitive sense for me so i like it. Nothing more than that.






  • Especially then. What souls gets realistic is the sizing up the enemy before clashing. Our flights usually were: pace back and forth together waiting for an opportunity/bait with an opportunity. Then execution of each person’s plan was over in a flash and either one landed a hit or you separated again, going back to pacing. But a plan of a person usually was not a single hit unless you were just probing for their reaction.

    For example my favourite thing to do, was lowering the point of my sword (you usually start with tips touching uwu), baiting the opponent to attack the opposite side of were my tip was moving, the snapping the tip back up to hit the opponents incoming sword close to the handle, transferring a lot of kinetic energy into a fairly static part of their blade, thus moving their hands and influencing their whole arc such that their blade passes over me. Now i have to be very quick to attack them while repositioning into a new defensible line towards them to not get hit by their hit after recovery. This whole interaction would take about a second or less maybe.

    Then there’s also the thing not really represented in souls at all which is driving your opponent through the hall. So if you attack and your opponent does only manage to block, you sometimes keep going to not give them the time to counter attack, and each swing carries you quite far which causes them to have to walk backwards very fast, to keep in blocking distance and not get into grapple range. This phrase usually has 3-4 hits a second and is quite tiring but being the one attacking usually is the winning move while the defending person has to get creative to get back into the attacking position.

    I now realize that talking about sword fighting in English is quite tiring as i don’t know the terminology outside of German