When I had kids, autism was still for boys. I think I'm in a minority though because I wanted kids a lot. So I see them as independent extensions of myself. I didn't get the socialization issues with them, and would make a point to bring at least one kid when they got older as my support person. They didn't know this though.

It was actually easier for me to be around other people when they were young because they gave me something to talk about.

I rarely think about the fact it might look like I'm making the convo about ne but this is definitely true for me.

Back when I had this issue, it was because I had a stressful job, and all I want to do is go home but you get people on these winding ass country roads who don't know them so they go 20 under!!

Now I just get mad if someone is stupid and almost hits me.

This makes me sad. I was excited to find a decent browser too.

My biggest one is $30 total. That's also my only patreon currently. I will do more of those soon. I have a list. The youtube memberships probably add up to somewhere around that amount in total. Yes it's probably way more than premium. I really loved the pay what you want phase of music, but at that time I was broke.

I am a big believer of supporting talent whenever I can. I am grateful that I have the chance to do so now. My current budget for that stuff is low right now because we are working on moving.

Thanks to the state of the US, we would have been considered middle class before, but now it's back to lower. Your dollars don't stretch very far. I'm lucky to have a husband who feels the same way I do. We will never be rich in money, but we help as much as we can wherever we go. We also make donations to non-profit organizations we know don't use that money to line their own pockets. So those are the smaller places that always get overlooked. I foster kittens, and we sponsor each one. That means we pay the fees associated with adopting said kitten.

Apologies for the info dump, but it's a subject I love. I've been dreaming of the day I could do these things since I was in single digits.

Brave did?

They know me so well! 😭

My husband wakes up 5 minutes before he has to leave, and if he's going 15 minutes away, that means he GETS UP 20 minutes before he has to be somewhere.

The only exception to that rule is when I need to be somewhere, because he will ask me what time I need to leave, and he will actually get up 30 minutes before that time. Essentially, he only makes sure he's awake enough to drive when I'm in the car. I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about that because I'm happy he's accommodating my needs, but that also means he values my life more than his, whereas I worry about his safety.

The whole reason I'm subscribed here is because so many of my ASD things are also ADHD related even though I don't have that particular disorder. I would never get a diagnosis of ADHD because I don't have enough of the required symptoms. There are only 2 criteria I don't meet out of the ASD list.

I used it at reddit and is the main reason I left. I was unimaginably happy when it popped up for lemmy!

Or you could just become a member of their channel. I look at it this way though. If a youtuber I'm watching has lots of subscribers, one more member in that community probably isn't going to make a difference. If a youtuber I'm watching doesn't have the subscriber numbers they deserve, I will become a member. I always choose the highest tiers for them too. And join their patreon and do the same there. If I do that, I will actually listen/watch on patreon then put both YouTube versions in my watch list for when I need background noise and just upvote both videos.

That way they get all the things I can possibly do for them without giving youtube as much as I give the creators. This is my understanding of how that works though. With premium, if they actually give any of that money to the creators (my heart says no, corporations suck), it would be way less than the channel membership would give them. I don't actually know how much premium costs though.

Please do correct me if I'm wrong. At the moment I don't have very many people on my memberships. And I know most people these days probably can't afford to do that, but even a $1 or $2 membership to one or a couple of them can make a difference to the ones you really support and who probably need it more than they'd get from premium.

This may sound stupid, but The Last Unicorn soundtrack. It makes me cry. Also the Red Bull scared me so much as a kid. It's of course one of my favorite movies, and the songs kick but all it takes is the scene of him pushing them into the sea, which I think about every time I listen.