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the thing about f1nn5ter for me is like, it really highlights how much "clocking" someone is complete bullshit, because here's a cis dude who 100% can "pass" as a cis woman just with some makeup and padding. which makes me seethe with rage every time i think about depictions of trans people as someone wearing an ill-fitting costume, because here's someone who actually IS wearing a costume and he's frequently confused for a girl. like i know trans people have been saying for ages that these bullshit ways of "proving" someone is one or the other are in fact nonsense, but its nice to see someone else joyfully engaging with gender like its just a big stupid game. girl month. who cares.

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"I have to keep buying and doing Harry Potter stuff because it was such a big part of my childhood!!!" people baffle me. I'm sorry that 12 year old you couldn't find any actually good urban fantasy at your local library but you're an adult now, you have more options. You can read better fantasy that wasn't written by transphobes any time you want. Why does naming your stuffed owl Hedwig when you were a kid make you horny for the very badly made blood libel videogame. You can get new interests. Maybe play one of the other ten billion badly made games on Steam, most of which do not cost sixty dollars and many of which also feature wizards.

of course you have blood all over you. and pronouns

A lot of us with ADHD are familiar with the concept of time blindness, but for anyone who isn't: it's a neurological inability to have a consistent sense of the passage of time. If you put me in an empty room, gave me a button and told me to press it when I think it's been 15 minutes, I might press it after..... idk, anywhere between 3 minutes and 2 hours? And if we repeated it the next day the result would probably be wildly different!

But something I've only seen mentioned in one (1) Reddit post, which took some extensive digging to find, is the same effect extending to ALL things measured in numbers. Distance, weight, length, height, amount, space, volume, percentage... For me, small numbers are a bit easier, I could approximate a centimetre probably, but a metre would be much harder and 10 or 100 would likely miss the mark by a lot. Also, anything that can't be easily measured with a ruler or a measuring tape (like weight or volume) is even harder since I don't encounter reference points (like a 1kg hand weight) for those as frequently as I see visual representations of specific lengths.

It's not dyscalculia or anything like that, I'm decent at math (and the OP of the Reddit post was a math major) and I have no other difficulties with numbers, it's just a disconnect in translating real life experiences like sensory input into numbers (and possibly also inconsistent processing of sensory input? Like how the same sound volume is okay one day but hurts my ears the next?), which I think is basically the same thing as what happens with time blindness. For now I've been calling it "measurement blindness" since I've never seen a name for it anywhere, but maybe "quantity blindness" could also work?

I've talked to other people with time blindness to see if they experience this too, but so far none of them have known what I'm talking about. I'd really like to know how many of us are out there and if anyone knows literally anything actually scientific about this very inconvenient phenomenon!

Tl;dr: bc I am wordy:

It's like time blindness but for all things measured in numbers

Not dyscalculia or caused by it

Pretty much never seen it talked about anywhere

Please tell me if it sounds familiar and/or you know something about it, thank