• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    Seems like they could have just gave him a job keeping track of all the boats and then everyone could be happy…

  • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    I bet the sailors were equally thrilled that this random guy was looking out for them. It’s nice to know someone’s waiting for you.

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    There’s still people into boats, but it’s not very popular compared to trains/planes/cars. Which is kinda strange, there has never been a time with more shipping traffic. Maybe because ports these days are fairly inaccessible to observers

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    5 months ago

    I’m not an expert in autism, but I’m not keen on what seems to be claiming every ‘nerdy’ hobby as an autistic trait ?

    Educate me

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      5 months ago

      It’s not so much the choice of hobby, but the degree of obsession, being so intense that even the participant admits that it’s illogical, yet partakes for the emotional fulfillment.

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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      5 months ago

      Potentially unpopular opinion - the term “autism” and “ASD” have expanded way beyond their original clinical meaning. It doesn’t help that even the official definition is so broad as to be useless. Add to that the cooption by the Tiktok culture to describe any “quirky” behavior, and you get the current situation where it’s hard to find a person that doesn’t exhibit at least some “autistic” traits

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        5 months ago

        People often accuse me of being Autistic and it infuriates me to no end. I don’t care if I am or not I don’t give a shit about knowing. I’m perfectly fine without the label and I’ll keep being fine.

        I hate that so often we are encouraged to label ourselves in society and that just as often people seek these labels to fit in, gain community or otherwise make themselves more interesting by incorporating some quirky or less than common fact about themselves as a whole personality trait.

        I am finding more and more that neruodivergent labels are becoming the new version of houses in basic bitch Astrology.

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      5 months ago

      The insinuation here is the obsessive behavior. The text calls it a madness so I’m guessing it was a sudden occurrence.

      I’m not an expert on Autism or other mental situations like ADHD mind you but it seems pretty likely Thrasyllus became hyper fixated on boats one day and he basically became a harbor manager for it much like you see other hobbyists become conductors or train line engineers for toy trains and that before the very modern diagnosis of Autism came about these people were considered strange until the behavior could in some part be explained by neurodivergent behaviors/tendencies.