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Hopefully, one with quiet relief.

Mom wouldn't want you miserable every year because of her.

I'm the wrong person to answer this. I react badly to eggs (just know it's gastrointestinal and unpleasant) and I have oral allergy syndrome (specifically bananas).

Love hot sauce though!

Here's hoping we see a response.

I had a hard time arguing against Sam's Club muffins for breakfast.

For less than $6, I can have nine 710 calorie muffins. But the cost to my health to eat that much pure sugar with extremely little nutrition and like zero protein?

But that'd breakfast for 9 days for less than $7 (including tax.)

People who say eating healthy is cheaper if you're willing to spend the time have never been to Sam's Club.

There was this mean thing people would say back in like the 90s, that the people complaining online win every argument because everyone who had success was busy being in a relationship.

Didn't you hear? Massive shortage on. Most of us can't get our medicine. (And it's not "medicine" jackass. It's the difference between me being "employable, constructive member of society" and a "disaster in human form.")

This is absolutely hilarious and I can see it being a case of "well, we lost Joseph, so just put an extra Mary in there."

Autism can present in many ways and many "levels." Are you talking about making all of your gnomes a specific, similar presentstion (ASD 1?) Or are you talking about specific stereotypes of autism? Are you talking about giving them all your very specific brand of behaviors associated with an autism diagnosis?

Because this is all important. If you're making them all have racial traits that are like you, then I say, have at, but maybe don't call it autism specifically, because you're representing a specific type and others might feel unrepresented. Or if you're making them all have behaviors we associate with a specific type of ASD, then make sure there's room in there for them to present in their unique ways.

Example: All gnomes have ASD traits. Make a roll on a chart for all known associated behaviors, randomly assigning those traits. Maybe this gnome is bad at eye contact, but maybe that one is bad at eye contact and also hypersensitive to sound. Maybe this one is extremely interested in obscure music, or that one is really great at drawing.

There's a lot to figure out but I think you can do it! If you want to. It's cool to write things we're familiar with but also to be true to our own experience. I have ADHD but my behaviors are very different from my ADHD boyfriend, and both our types are valid.

Loved me some Chip's Challenge.

I assume since this refers to changes in hearing, that if you've had this problem since birth, you're probably not accounted for.

Shoutout to my fellow ADHD folks. God knows you can't hear me over that song playing in your head.

Gotta get through the Bell Riots before we get our Star Trek future.

You just told them a "better example" than the one they made, because the example you told them was "better" was one you could disagree with, and that shit was transparent as hell.

You talk about wanting free debate but you used an actual strawman.