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Bridge in Marseille, Provence region of France

Allende

September 11, 1973: U.S.-backed military coup in Chile overthrows the elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. 

1. Internet Archive. Has plenty of videos to watch, plenty of games you can play that are emulated right on the website. You can also find entire collections of roms. For emulators, check out Emulation General Wiki to find the best emulator for the system you want to emulate.

2. r/piracy has a wiki full of safe places to read comics and manga, to watch anime and cartoons, and to watch movies.

3. Virtualbox, you can set up a Windows XP virtual box and get old PC games from Internet Archive. You can also check out CD Game World if you need a no-cd patch.

4. Saltybet. A Livestream of MUGEN with thousands of characters fighting against each other, sometimes things get hilarious. Runs 24/7.

5. The Cutting Room Floor, spend hours reading up on cut content from your favorite games.

6. Lost Media Wiki, read up on lost movie, books, animation, video games, etc.

7. Neocities, learn coding and make your own website!

8. WebDSR, explore shortband radio

9. Radio Garden, listen to radio stations from around the world

10. Every Noise At Once, explore the widest archive of music genres, with samples and Spotify playlists

MAY YOU NEVER LOSE YOUR HYPERFIXATION

In my particular case i think they are equivalent. The only other conditions that affect my daily life are some sleep disorders and ADHD but even if I didn't have those I don't think my functioning and quality of life would improve considerably. After all my greatest difficulties are due to  inflexibility, difficulty with transitions, change,  that sort of things (I'm aware these can be difficulties for some people with ADHD as well, but the key difference here is severity).

My original diagnosis was autism level 1, then I had an adaptive behavior assessment and my diagnosis changed to autism level 2.

I found out I was autistic 10 years ago and assumed I was a Level 1. Since then the community has grown a lot and I don't want to question whether they're actually autistic or not but I've noticed that my level of support needs and theirs tend to be vastly different. Even back then, most Level 1 autistic people in the community were working at least part-time.

The reason I decided to go through an adaptive behavior assessment is because my original autism assessment didn't go into depth to identify my support needs. Years before my diagnosis a neuropsychologist said I was too intelligent to have the difficulties I claimed to have. Later I discovered that in many autistic people with high IQ the discrepancy between intelligence and adaptive behaviors is much wider than in other autistic people.