I don’t even get the sense of relief. I could stop 1 second short of finishing and feel no difference.

Explaining why was really important to me. I struggled to follow rules I didn’t understand, but had no issues if I knew why the rule existed.

Everyone with Autism is different. What works for one person doesn’t necessarily work for another.

Don’t focus too much on eye contact. It’s possible he listens to you better when he’s not looking directly at you.

Routine can help a lot, and unexpected changes can cause a lot of stress. Advanced warning of changes can help, but doesn’t always.

Not every day will be the same. He might be high functioning and extremely capable one day, and low functioning needing a lot of help with basic tasks on another.

Exhaustion (physical or mental) and lack of sleep can exacerbate symptoms.

Many people with Autism also have ADHD. There is also a lot of overlap in symptoms. Some ADHD strategies could also help.

As with everything, communication is key. If he tells you he doesn’t like something, he’s right. He may not be able to tell you why he doesn’t like it, and you still need to decide whether to push him through it or protect him from it, but communication is a good start.

You will make mistakes and get things wrong, and that’s ok. No-one can get everything right on the first try.

Just wash your dishes in a landfill.

I love non-standard computer rendering methods.

Most games use rasterisation which takes a number of triangles (polygons) and calculates where on the screen it should be.

An alternative that’s becoming more common is ray tracing which starts with the screen coordinates and and calculates what’s in that direction.

Rasterisation is a really clever trick to do more with less powerful computers, and was the only way to do any kind of realtime graphics in the early days of computers.

Ray Tracing takes much more computing power, but allows for interesting things like non-euclidian geometry, 360 degree field of view, and picture-in-picture with no loss of performance (compared to ray tracing without these additions).

https://xkcd.com/936/

I’m finally getting my psychiatrist appointment today. Unfortunately the appointment is in the afternoon, so my entire day is ruined.

If you’re told you’re worthless every day, you’ll start to believe it even though you know it isn’t true.

Hopefully you’ll find people to be around who know your true worth.

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High functioning and low functioning doesn’t describe a person, it describes how much help you need. You can be high functioning on one day and low functioning on another.

I got diagnosed with laziness in school.

Many years later, another doctor looked at the diagnosis and said that the first doctor had written down textbook symptoms then missed the diagnosis.

The word lazy still hurts today.

I have taken your samples. You will never see them again.

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I second the Framework laptops. I’ve bought 4 Framework 13s so far, and no issues with any of them.

I recommend dual booting Windows and Linux until you’re comfortable switching entirely. Sometimes you need to go back for just one task.

Always back up your files before installing a new OS. Data loss is always possible during installation, and more likely if you don’t know what you’re doing.

The Grub boot manager (included and installed by default with Linux Mint and some other distros) makes it easy to pick which OS to boot each time when turning the computer on.

Check out Lutris for non-Steam Windows games. It uses Wine, but is a lot more user friendly to set up and use.

You can always try the live USB without/before installing. It’s a great way to start getting comfortable or try out several different distros with minimal effort and risk.

Admittedly, there isn’t much overlap between the people genuinely asking and the people actively advancing climate change.

I think I have graphics driver issues, but it could just as easily be a failing graphics card without testing. Mint has a great driver manager from Ubuntu, but LMDE didn’t seem to have any driver GUI.
The main symptom is about 30 minutes into almost any game the fps drops from 60+ to ~10. Only restarting the game seems to fix it.

I don’t remember the other minor issues, so they’ve either been fixed, or so minor I stopped noticing them.

I think LMDE is good enough to use as a daily driver. The installer is quite nice too.

Installing Plasma should be as simple as “apt install kde-plasma-desktop”, then log out and select plasma from the login screen. I’ve tried other DEs but not Plasma, so I can’t say for certain it will work.

You can always try distros in a VM almost completely risk free. It won’t tell you everything, but it’s an easy way to get first impressions without losing your main OS.

Edit: This forum thread says you can install and use Plasma, but it’s not a great experience. Mint will probably not be the right option for you then.

I’ve been distro hopping for years. After each time trying a few distros, I always find myself coming back to Linux Mint (cinnamon desktop environment). It has everything I need, and just works beautifully out of the box. It might not be flashy or have the latest cutting edge features, but it’s stable.

I’m currently running the Debian edition of Mint (LMDE), and wishing I was back on standard Mint. Nothing major, but a few minor persistent issues that never happened on Mint.

I did try NixOS (immutable OS), but it didn’t seem to have support for all the apps I wanted. I gave up fairly quickly, so you’ll probably have more success.