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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Whaaaat are you serious? :O

The only things the image is wrong about is being a railway buff and operating a radio station, although I've been looking into setting up a meshtastic network for my group of friends.

So maybe I'm not autistic as I do not fit the exact description? I do collect loads of stuff I don't use, can't get rid of anything, go crazy on perfect cable management, am more interested in collecting tools and make a perfect work station than actually use it, failed school even though I'm not lacking intelligence, I got diagnosed 10 years ago, I struggle with social situations, I don't get people their sarcasm and people don't get mine, I'm a perfectionist, I remember useless facts about everything but I forget anything useful, I dislike the taste of mushrooms because of it's structure, I edited this text ~~4~~ 6 times already because I came up with more stuff after I was finished and can't stand it being incomplete, I'm going to think about what else I missed for the rest of the day so I can't do anything else anymore but I will be too tired to come back and change the text even more, ....

So I don't know. Can't say for certain.