Stuart Evans

biggest joke of my life… after years and years of trying so hard, i can just unclench the sense of doing anything and 1. my “willpower” increases dramatically 2. i get better at pretty much everything (this is not the same thing as non-coercion!)

are autists failed empaths whose natural sensory clarity was so high they had to turn off all the most salient channels (looking at eyes, empathy, love, etc) and invest all their processing into lower human-saliency things like math as a way to cope with constant overwhelm

my sense is that people who take a long time to respond to messages, or tend to go into shame spirals about them, often put a lot of pressure on themselves to respond in a specific way