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My First Comic, which probably needs a better title (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by QueenOfSquiggles@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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A comic titled, "Weird Little Situations In My Life Which Are Most Likely Due To My Autism But Are Probably Still Relatable" abbreviated to the unholy acronym "WLSIMLWAMLDTMABAPSR"

By Queen Of Squiggles (oh hey that's me!)

First Panel - A cute character wearing a wizard hat gets a message on their laptop that says, "Hey this work is urgent, can you get it done fast?"

Second Panel - The character's eyes are shown with fire in them and the text below reading, "Hyperfocus Activated" and the associated stats of "plus 500% efficiency" and "minus 90% max HP"

Third Panel - The character is shown exhausted and sweating with a small pile of packages behind them.

Fourth Panel - the laptop reads the message, "Hey, great job. But I wasn't asking you to hurt yourself doing it?" The character is seen collpased on the floor sobbing

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[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Become an engineer so you can optimize the hell out of your hyperfocus - fellow fixation autism-haver

[-] Aneb@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Or don't. I stopped talking to friends and strangers after learning abt time complexity and binary search. My tism really went for brevity over long conversations, if I didn't have anything nuanced to say about a topic I would shut up and listen to other people talk (which is boring and uninteresting after a while). I really thought if my life wasn't perfectly sorted that I was committing a crime against my friends and myself. Turns out people want to hear what I thought about and I shouldn't be aloof.

TLDR: Keep being yourself even after learning about optimization

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 7 months ago

I learned about binary search through space partitioning algorithms (KD trees, BVH trees), these strategies can benefit other aspects of life

[-] maxmalrichtig@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

I feel you. This can be so me. πŸ˜…

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 7 months ago

I can't activate my hyperfocus on command, sadly. It sometimes happens around trains but that's not what the work is about.

this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2025
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