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

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      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.

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        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.

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        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

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            … A prominent cultural meme that is widely adopted… literally is a natural evolution of language.

            This is the extremely common and normal method by which languages change over time, which, with the exception of conlangs, they all do.

            Go back to 1950 and tell an American English speaker that a song ‘is fire’. Tell them that Elvis is just aura farming. Tell them that their fit is lacking.

            They will be confused.

            Take an American English speaker from 1950 to the present, and they tell you somebody made a boner at the lollapalooza they were last at.

            You probably will not understand that to mean that somebody made a moderately significant mistake at a raccous party, like spilling their drink on the host, or bringing the wrong side dish.

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            so much as it is a cultural meme that people just thoughtlessly parrot.

            Honestly, I think that’s a big part of how language naturally evolves

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              agreed, but individual terms trending or not, dont equate a “change of the language” so much as a change of whats trending in said language. a semantic nitpick, to be sure. :)

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    It is funny how much cats enjoy different surfaces, leave out a notebook? Come out and a cat is sitting/laying on it, box left out? There’s a cat in there now.

    Piece of paper? You guessed it, cat butt plopped right down.

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      My cat builds himself entire nests out of loose paper he finds laying around. We’ve come home to find him nestled on the middle of the couch on top of sheets of paper, looking very proud of himself.

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        Haha, semi-similar there was wrapping paper on the floor, he had clearly chewed it up/ripped it up and similarly made a nest of sorts on the pile. Cats are silly.

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        Same with mine. I started tossing that thin brown packing paper from deliveries into a corner behind an armchair. It’s like his own little paper jungle and he loves it. Just have to remember to fluff it occasionally and pull out the old stuff.

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    “Why you ask ? Do you not realize how dirty this chair is ? I rub my butthole all over it all the time !” -cat

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    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.