My new college hire is full of energy and makes quirky sounds and I think it’s great. I miss having that.
She also is really good about leaving at 5, which is something the rest of us need to be better about. We had someone in another department point out to me and my boss that she always leaves before we do, and we explained that she’s the one doing things right and not us.
my manager constantly hummed when talking to people, I have no idea how she never ran out of breath. it was kinda impressive
she got a promotion and moved to a different location recently :(
I like to stim by rolling my rs and changing the pitch when im working outside by myself. it’s fun 😙
If I asked someone a direct question and they buzzed at me I would do one of three things:
- punch them to startle the demon trapped within
- directly ask “What the fuck is wrong with you?” because there is visible mental illness I should be aware of
- fire them if I had the ability.
Seriously people act like a fucking adult and not a feral inbred monkey with Tourette’s. Quirkiness is one thing but that’s just fucking rude.
Wow you sound like someone whose never punched anyone or had employees.
You’d be surprised.
bruh that is not the flex you think it is.
If you punch someone because you don’t like a completely innocuous noise they made you are an asshole
It was a joke for fucks sake. But answering a question with a fucking game show noise is rude and immature. Quit giving Gen Z a pass for acting like assholes.
Sorry which one of these was supposed to be funny?
punch them to startle the demon trapped within
directly ask “What the fuck is wrong with you?” because there is visible mental illness I should be aware of
fire them if I had the ability.
Quit giving Gen Z a pass for acting like assholes.
Maybe you should also stop acting like an asshole.
Like for real, if you’re trying to be funny than by your logic I am entitled to assume you are mentally ill you do realize?
Quit giving Gen Z a pass for acting like assholes.
So it was not a joke.
lmao ya but when they retaliate it’s gonna be hilarious hearing someone get their ass beat to the sound of scooby doo barks and buzzing
The only vocalizations that can be heard from my desk; “Are you fucking kidding me?”
I keep my GenZs collared and in a closet. They do grunt, but it seems normal adult reactions to what is being done to them. Are you specifically referring to non sexual noises in the GenZs that you own?
No he was strictly talking about the sexual noises.
I need to change industries
A colleague regularly goes “grrr” and for quite some time I didn’t know that had an origin other than comic books. He’s 34 and - yes - officially autistic.
Meow.
Also, shouldn’t there be one more year left before the oldest of Gen Z reach 30?
As a 29 yo gen z yes we got 1 more year 😭
ARF ARF ARF
I watch this daily for motivation.
I also make the same noises every morning.
That seal is a poet of all time.
As a 30 y/o Millennial, I can confirm this is the case.
As a 30 y/o Gen Z, nyaaa~
UwU sussy baka
As a mid-30s millennial, ow my back
Karma police, arrest this man! He talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge, he’s like a detuned radio…
detuned radio
How do you get the horsepower back out of the radio?
Hoy do you get the horses to power your radio?
Now that’s classified. The cold war? It was crucial information in that conflict. Getting them in is relatively simple once you understand the dynamics of it. But we tried for a decade and never could successfully reverse the process. Some say they can still hear the neighs over the old AM frequencies.
(Yes I’m aware the original is by Radiohead. I like his cover better.)
Generation rhetoric is so stupid when it’s not about the boomers /s
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Ahh… Words that warm my heart, fuck them indeed.
Spez the pedophile that moderated the jailbait subreddit?
That Spez?
That’s it.
I am almost 70. I have meowed, mooed and other sounds all my life. Recently I have found out that I have ADHD and some Autism as well. I am getting assessed.
It’s kind of a running joke in my family that I’m on the spectrum.
I mentioned getting an assessment to my wife, and she made what I felt was a pretty strong argument against it. Essentially that at 56 years old it wouldn’t change anything, and it would be time, effort, and money spent with no gain.
I’m wondering what you are expecting to achieve with your assessment.
Also, meow.
I’ve been peer reviewed, but I’ve never bothered with a diagnosis
I just don’t see the point. I’m already officially neurodivergent, and there’s no treatment options that open to me with an autism diagnosis
If saw a reason, I’d get tested. But I don’t need a label for the sake of a label
Know thyself.
Getting an ADHD diagnosis opens you up for medical help. Getting an autism diagnosis can to in some places. In some states you’ll get state sponsored healthcare. Depending on your needs of course.
Gnothi seauton!
I learned who I was. And I would have been a slob even if I hadn’t.
I agree with this, and by all means healthcare should be provided if that is what you need. However, there’s a bunch to be said that if you’ve developed a bunch of coping mechanisms that fix or address certain aspects, that getting medicated could completely fuck up your flow of what you used to do and now need to learn new ways to deal with things with medication. But knowledge is power, but I don’t always agree that if you’ve lived 50 years unmedicated, and then getting medicated is always the answer but it absolutely should be available.
Yeah, it’s never a “have to”, or even a should. What I found is I’ve gotten older, is that my coping mechanisms didn’t hold up over time. Medication was right for me. That’s not going to be everyone though.
Being the child of silent generation parents and way older siblings I was just the weird kid. Always being told there was something wrong with me but never did anything about it. Once I got older I was just called quirky and uncle nutsy by my nieces and nephews. I first found out I have aphantasia and anendophasia only 3-4 years ago and reading all the younger folks stuff on reddit and here I figured maybe that is why I was the way I was. Asked my wife and doctor and they said well yes of course you are on the spectrum.
I first found out I have aphantasia and anendophasia
So if you don’t think in words and also not in images… How do you think? I’m curious because I can’t imagine thinking without either of those.
The hell if I know. Not a clue. It is my biggest question about them. I do think as I am typing and responding to you and all the other stuff I do but it is just there. I kind of equate it to having a filing cabinet. And in that filing cabinet are tons of folders and I just refer to each one of them even though I don’t see them or know what’s in them. Both aphantasia and anendophasia are relatively new in their research. Some of it I read makes sense a lot does not.
I had a bad habit of making “boredom noises” for years until someone pointed it out and I had to start working on it. Turns out the technical term is “verbal stimming” and it’s definitely tied to either of those.
It wasn’t a bad habit dude, it was just your natural way of regulating your nervous system
I hear that, but I deserve for my nervous system to be regulated, too. Just because clicking a pen calms someone down doesn’t mean they should do it at the expense of everyone else’s focus in an office setting, and the same goes for all stims. Situational awareness isn’t something to discourage
True, accomodations that fit everyone must be made, but they shouldn’t consider a natural reaction to being neurodivergent a “bad habit to quit”.
We all have to wear masks, my guy. It takes a lot of effort to not be “the weird guy” at work.
But does it, in the end, take less effort than constantly fighting yourself?
Life isn’t a choice between easy and hard, it’s mostly a choice between hard now or way harder later.
It becomes less problematic over time. Without learning how to mask or developing coping skills, life will just be harder in the long run. My career would certainly be less successful if I did not develop coping skills. Burnout can be avoided by finding healthy outlets and enforcing personal time to relax and recover.
Congrats on discovering your membership to the Cool Kids’ Club! :D We’re glad to have you.
Meow!
Replace “Gen Z” with “parrot” and this still works.
My Xennial boss is by far the biggest vocal stimmer in our office.
I do the occasional “ruh roh”
It still gets me that one of the last transmissions of the SS El Faro (ship) before it sank, was “ruh roh” Scooby do impression
We allow ourselves the occasional Scooby snack…as a treat.
