• GarboDog@lemmy.world
    2·
    16 minutes ago

    “Didn’t get second breakfast OR second dinner in AGES!! Mailing myself away”

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    11 minutes ago

    Why, says the human.

    … who was playing Twister, the other day.

  • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
    70·
    6 hours ago

    Becca also watched this cat arrange their paws for five minutes. Who actually wasted their time? No one, that’s who.

    • texture@lemmy.world
      133·
      4 hours ago

      when did it become acceptable to just call everything autism? i can tell you im pretty damn sick of it and it hasnt even been that long.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        13 minutes ago

        I mean, I am autistic, and I think this is funny and generally accurate enough to not be offensive.

        Autists are very often all about creating and enforcing consistent, specific patterns.

        A stance is a pattern.

        I myself have been bored, and tried to do things like this, invent pose rules for myself, see the extent that I can succrssfully apply them.

        Also, there are a lot more things cats will do, or traits they have, that are also broadly accurately common amongst autists.

        Such as being very sensitive to light level changes.

        They can literally see into the UV spectrum, so that kind of mirrors how autists often notice visual patterns that others don’t.

        They also tend to be hyperaware of even the most minute changes to their ‘home’ environments… autists tend to be that way too.

        lol cats are also… rather comparitively bad at socializing, unless its with someone they know and trust quite well, or have been very well raised around well-behaved people and/or other animals.

      • AnAverageSnoot@lemmy.caEnglish
        121·
        4 hours ago

        Same thing happened with OCD as well. It’s just natural changes in language. This one will pass as well and there will be a new word in a few years

        • texture@lemmy.world
          6·
          4 hours ago

          true all around

          edit … on second thought, im not sure i agree its a “natural change in language” so much as it is a cultural meme that people just thoughtlessly parrot. so, i feel language hasnt changed so much as a term of the moment has. but anyway, im rambling. cheers.

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
    51·
    4 hours ago

    I’m glad nobody is watching me all the time and making fun of the things I do and posting it to the internet. I don’t know how many countless times I’ve done something even more worthless than trying to put my feet on a piece of paper.

  • Deacon@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 hours ago

    It is not your place to ask. It is your place to admire.

  • JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 hours ago

    Is it the sound? My cat’s absolute favorite toy was a felt ball with crinkly, noisy plastic in it. But she also loved sitting on card stock laid on soft surfaces.

  • adeoxymus@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 hours ago

    For some reason our cat absolutely loves dragging/pulling a piece of paper on the floor. Leaves a tiny piece out and he’s moonwalking around the room with it.