Is he eating salad in a cheap hotel room?

Right? Why should I pay full price for a game and it’s a buggy mess, sometimes even unplayable past a certain piont? All this has done has made me wait a year or two for games that I want, so I can get functional games, which is the opposite of how the studios want to make money.

I still have dvds and a dvd player like an old person for just this reason.

I did cry watching that. What the fuck man, how hard is it to make a litter box that doesn’t kill pets!?!! You had one job!

I think it was either frogger on the Commodore or a handful of early Atri games. (I am old and will die soon.)

I do not have a penis so I must ask…wouldn’t that hurt? Like a lot?

This is what I did, except I’m in the USA. I had to contact the FCC directly because my phone and internet provider just pretty much quit working. Turns out they were doing repairs in our area and just didn’t tell anyone to expect interruptions. If your ISP won’t take you seriously now, they will if you file an informal complaint with the FCC or other comparable agency.

This is the way. I just use my hiking stick.

Yes

I don’t have a lot of advice on how to identify triggers, it’s a crap shoot, but here is what I do about them when I feel overwhelm coming on.

One: Belly breathing. This is beyond a doubt the greatest skill I learned in therapy. Plenty of tutorials online for it and few different versions.

Two: Imagine a dial on your stomach with the numbers 1-10. 10 being meltdown and 1 being completely calm. Picture yourself slowly turning down the dial while taking deep breaths.

Three: I started carrying a small fidget toy in my pocket that I can play with when I feel like I want to rip off my skin and run screaming out of the biulding.

Hope this helps!

I think he pretty much nailed how it feels to be autistic, at least for me. Really great skills in some areas and then absolutely terrible skills in others. How exhausting masking is. I think I only ever unmask when I am alone. It scares me to ask where do I end and mask begins? I’m not sure I know anymore.

I’m not able to watch the video until I get home today, but I am a high functioning autistic women. I have been told SO MANY times I can’t be autistic. Not that I don’t act like I have autism, not that I don’t seem autistic, that I can’t be. It isn’t until poeple see what work and socializing takes out of me that they truly understand I am autistic and how much WORK goes into appearing to be normal so I can keep my job.

Not OP but I can visualize great, still have no sense of direction.

No. Not a tankie. It would be nice if autocorrect let me type tankie and not talkie. I had to cut and paste it I’m not proud.

This is not a healthy coping mechanism but I bribe myself with cookies like I’m a dog. If I get up and put the laundry in the dryer I get a cookie. If I send that email I get a cookie. It usually works. It won’t really make me enjoy life but it does get me through it, if you know what I mean.

I do enjoy! Keep up the good work.

Fellow artist here! I love the colors! I second brushing up on your anatomy, but I also wanted to recommend plastic artist models. Like gray scale action figures of poeple, but proportionly correct. I use them all the time. Get a stick for a prop sword and your good to go. Really helps me rough out a pose and make sure the prop/object is being handled naturally.

Which brings me to my next point, pose. Even standing still like this you can give your charters a sense of self and personality. Look for a dynamic action in the hands. Figure out which leg is taking weight and which isn’t.

Have you ever spotted one of your friends from some distance away? You couldn’t see their face but you knew it was them becuase of how they were standing, how they carried themselves. Same idea.

One of the things that helped me was gesture drawings, no details just motion. I would grab a sketch book and head to a park with lots of poeple and free sketch. Also get some books on animation! Sorry I have written a novel here but I LOVE art and have been painting my whole life! Keep going! I can see the skill in your work. Hell your probably better at clothing than I am! (I have to get mad reference for clothing, especially shoes.)

Yup. After my diagnosis there was a lot that suddenly made sense looking back on it.

I don’t think so. I think you’re supposed to look at both somehow. I haven’t got this completely figured out.

I have taught myself to do it relatively well, although it still feels like their is electricity in the back of my brain. I can think through it but it’s hard. I also do it intermittently, I don’t make myself hold it unless for very serious conversations. I also tend to look at one eye at a time, but no one has called me out on it yet.