#anonymous aves

[lesbirdan]

Budgie sounds reminds me of robots or water. They have a very bubbly or trickle-like quality, but they also sound vaguely technological like a beepboop robot.

yeah, they kinda do little r2d2 warbles, it’s really cute :D

[lesbirdan]

Was that cockatoo being aggressive or threatening?

I honestly can’t tell.

She isn’t angry -- only her crest is up, and that’s only up straight, not out. Plus, she’s not screaming or throwing her head.

That said ... that guy obviously believed that she’d bite him. So, my guess is one of two things: Either she’s a one-person bird trying to drive off an intruder from “her” person (most likely the ?mom?), or she learned somewhere along the line that he was scared of her and made hilarious noises when she bit him, and kept doing it for funsies.

Never let anyone tell you animals can’t be assholes.

[lesbirdan]

How old are you? 😁

ask me off anon & with some context and I might answer

[lesbirdan]

Hawfinch

I ... I’m sorry, I don’t know what this means?

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[lesbirdan]

Do you have a source for this horse/golf course thing? I wanted to read more about it, but almost nothing comes up on Google.

I do not have a source, sorry -- it’s something my instructor told me when I took riding lessons.

I can’t think of good search terms that wouldn’t just get you the addresses of golf courses, either. Sorry :(

[lesbirdan]

I don't really know if we (autistics) started the whole, calling-stuff-autistic-to-annotate-cringeworthiness-of-something deal, but I've got serious doubts. I mean, a lot of the behavour that is deemed 'autistic' due to cringe-worthiness stims (lol, pun) from the fact that we are very unable to analyze ourselves and thus act funny. Thus, it may be hard for us to call certain things 'autistic' in a jokingly/laughable way because we often can't pinpoint what NTs see as weird behavior.

er, I hope thats all worded good. Of course I'd like to add, some autistic people have reclaimed it and looOOove to call everything in their life autistic because its an experience! But I feel theres a long history of nts using 'autistic' to mean laughable/cringe-worthy that came BEFORE that. Note we would be quick to pick it up as well as we imitate what we see happening.

well, I mean, I don’t have experience with NTs doing the thing, so I’ll take your word on that.

I’m gonna disagree with you that autistic people are, as a blanket, unable to analyze ourselves, just based on ... me. Existing. Like, yes, the way I behave is normal and natural to me, so it’s often hard for me to tell exactly where my patterns differ from those of an allistic person. At the same time, though, I spend huge amounts of time self-reflecting, to the extent that it's borderline maladaptive because I second-guess everything I do.

I’ve never used ‘autistic’ to denote ‘cringeworthiness’. I wouldn’t be surprised if NTs did that, but I’m not ashamed of my neurodivergence. I’m not really sure what you’re getting at, there.

I’m ... sort of confused as to why you seem to be explaining my own neurotype to me. I’m sorry if I’ve misunderstood, but that’s really what it feels like, and it makes me rather uncomfortable.

I’m perfectly capable of self-analysis. My behavior is not inherently comical. I adapt phrases, language, and attitudes from my peers, yes, and maybe autistic people are known for doing that more so than neurotypical people, but it’s not just mindless “imitation”. Everyone mimics their peers.

[lesbirdan]

What do you mean when you say that horses dislike golf courses because golf courses violate natural water paradigms?

Golf courses tend to have water traps where water would not normally pool -- on top of hills, or on inclines, or otherwise places where pools wouldn’t normally form.

Plus, the terrain is just ... wrong. The way it rolls so dramatically, with no break in the green, or sign of erosion or disturbance -- land doesn’t go that way. Gghghghg.

I’m with the horses, golf courses are creepy.

[lesbirdan]

And that also means there are non-genders

TRUE