u/prosecutedbymycat — reddlx

I don't know if I have bad delivery on my jokes or if my humor is just bad

For context, my partner and I were visiting their parents, and their grandparents also came to eat dinner with us. Their granddad was cooking (boiling?) some asparagus me and my partner brought with us, and my MIL asked if he had a timer on them, because she thought they looked ready.

He explained to my MIL that asparagus need approximately 10-12 minutes for the best results. In my language asparagus is spelled "asparges" and can kind of sound like Aspergers depending on your pronunciation.

I thought I had a genius idea for a joke, so I said that I too had read somewhere "that boiling [persons with] Aspergers for 10-12 minutes should effectively cure autism".

Their granddad and grandma gave me two very nervous/mortified looks and I was so embarrassed I wanted to run away. My MIL didn't even hear the joke and the rest of the family was in a different room. I tried to lie and tell them that the pack of asparagus had a spelling mistake so it said Aspergers to do some damage control, and they seemed to relax a bit and went "ah". I ended up throwing the original pack out so they couldn't confirm the spelling.

I still cannot tell if I was genuinely just unfunny. My partner said it was a funny joke and didn't think their grandparents were offended, when I told them about it but they're also likely neurodivergent. I feel like stuff like this happens all the time to me

I also know Aspergers is an outdated diagnosis and autism can't be cured, but I thought it would add to the layers of the joke. My partner's family knows I have autism and their grandpa is a recently retired medical doctor too.

Is my sense of humor bad or was I being inappropriate?

(My partner uses they/them pronouns!)

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u/prosecutedbymycat — 20 hours ago

▲ 125 r/midcenturymodern

How do I make my dorm room look more MCM?

Edit: many have been asking where this is, it's in Denmark. I study biomedical sciences and iirc the dorm also received a big grant from a medical company when it was being built, which is why they made the rooms so big. I think 40% of the people that live here study some branch of medicine. So it's a bit unique, since dorm rooms usually aren't this spacious!

I just really like the general color palette of most MCM rooms and I am very fond of Danish design from 50-70s, even though i absolutely can't afford any design classics as a college student. How do I "fake" the MCM look without going bankrupt and without violating any rules (e.g. no painting your walls a different color, no drilling holes etc.)? Anything I should get rid of?

You might notice I move my plants around a lot lmao

I also put the gray boxes in the last pic in my wardrobe

u/prosecutedbymycat — 9 days ago

▲ 3 r/Anthurium

I spontaneously bought this anthurium at a grocery store because it was at a discounted price and I didn't think it would survive for very long, given the store was going to throw it out soon.

It's been well over three months since I bought it. I've been watering it regularly (haven't used fertilizer), but it keeps getting more flowers. I've never experienced this with any house plant before. I'm very inexperienced with anthuriums. When will it lose its flowers? And what should I do then?

I don't understand why it seems to be thriving when I'm borderline neglecting it. The third picture is from February, ignore my fat old cat.

u/prosecutedbymycat — 13 days ago

▲ 5 r/Agoraphobia

I wanna get better. I've been dealing with this for so many years now, I'm nearing a decade of dealing with panic attacks. I managed to get a lot better back in 2021-2023, I even managed to travel outside the country until I relapsed. I know it's hard work, especially when you're autistic, but I'm getting so impatient with my recovery. I would kill to be able to be alone at night in my apartment and be able to travel the country. I wanna visit the people I love. Right now, I'm basically confined to my university campus and my parents' hometown. Arrrghhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes I want to ask a friend or sibling to "kidnap" me and drive far away, so I have no way of backing out of exposure

Or maybe I just have to wait until my frustration eventually reaches its tipping point and I do the exposure out of pure rage

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u/prosecutedbymycat — 20 days ago