A colleague regularly goes “grrr” and for quite some time I didn’t know that had an origin other than comic books. He’s 34 and - yes - officially autistic.
I keep my GenZs collared and in a closet. They do grunt, but it seems normal adult reactions to what is being done to them. Are you specifically referring to non sexual noises in the GenZs that you own?
No he was strictly talking about the sexual noises.
I need to change industries
Karma police, arrest this man! He talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge, he’s like a detuned radio…
(Yes I’m aware the original is by Radiohead. I like his cover better.)
detuned radio
How do you get the horsepower back out of the radio?
Hoy do you get the horses to power your radio?
Now that’s classified. The cold war? It was crucial information in that conflict. Getting them in is relatively simple once you understand the dynamics of it. But we tried for a decade and never could successfully reverse the process. Some say they can still hear the neighs over the old AM frequencies.
Meow.
Also, shouldn’t there be one more year left before the oldest of Gen Z reach 30?
As a 29 yo gen z yes we got 1 more year 😭
ARF ARF ARF
I watch this daily for motivation.
I also make the same noises every morning.
That seal is a poet of all time.
As a 30 y/o Millennial, I can confirm this is the case.
As a 30 y/o Gen Z, nyaaa~
As a mid-30s millennial, ow my back
I am almost 70. I have meowed, mooed and other sounds all my life. Recently I have found out that I have ADHD and some Autism as well. I am getting assessed.
I had a bad habit of making “boredom noises” for years until someone pointed it out and I had to start working on it. Turns out the technical term is “verbal stimming” and it’s definitely tied to either of those.
It wasn’t a bad habit dude, it was just your natural way of regulating your nervous system
I hear that, but I deserve for my nervous system to be regulated, too. Just because clicking a pen calms someone down doesn’t mean they should do it at the expense of everyone else’s focus in an office setting, and the same goes for all stims. Situational awareness isn’t something to discourage
True, accomodations that fit everyone must be made, but they shouldn’t consider a natural reaction to being neurodivergent a “bad habit to quit”.
We all have to wear masks, my guy. It takes a lot of effort to not be “the weird guy” at work.
But does it, in the end, take less effort than constantly fighting yourself?
Life isn’t a choice between easy and hard, it’s mostly a choice between hard now or way harder later.
It becomes less problematic over time. Without learning how to mask or developing coping skills, life will just be harder in the long run. My career would certainly be less successful if I did not develop coping skills. Burnout can be avoided by finding healthy outlets and enforcing personal time to relax and recover.
For me it’s been the opposite, the less I mask the more I actually end up with people and in environments where I am accepted and cherished for the person I am, not who I force myself to be to fit in. Trying to do that nearly killed me.
Congrats on discovering your membership to the Cool Kids’ Club! :D We’re glad to have you.
Meow!
It’s kind of a running joke in my family that I’m on the spectrum.
I mentioned getting an assessment to my wife, and she made what I felt was a pretty strong argument against it. Essentially that at 56 years old it wouldn’t change anything, and it would be time, effort, and money spent with no gain.
I’m wondering what you are expecting to achieve with your assessment.
Also, meow.
I’ve been peer reviewed, but I’ve never bothered with a diagnosis
I just don’t see the point. I’m already officially neurodivergent, and there’s no treatment options that open to me with an autism diagnosis
If saw a reason, I’d get tested. But I don’t need a label for the sake of a label
Know thyself.
Getting an ADHD diagnosis opens you up for medical help. Getting an autism diagnosis can to in some places. In some states you’ll get state sponsored healthcare. Depending on your needs of course.
Gnothi seauton!
I learned who I was. And I would still have been a slob even if I hadn’t.
I agree with this, and by all means healthcare should be provided if that is what you need. However, there’s a bunch to be said that if you’ve developed a bunch of coping mechanisms that fix or address certain aspects, that getting medicated could completely fuck up your flow of what you used to do and now need to learn new ways to deal with things with medication. But knowledge is power, but I don’t always agree that if you’ve lived 50 years unmedicated, and then getting medicated is always the answer but it absolutely should be available.
Yeah, it’s never a “have to”, or even a should. What I found is I’ve gotten older, is that my coping mechanisms didn’t hold up over time. Medication was right for me. That’s not going to be everyone though.
Being the child of silent generation parents and way older siblings I was just the weird kid. Always being told there was something wrong with me but never did anything about it. Once I got older I was just called quirky and uncle nutsy by my nieces and nephews. I first found out I have aphantasia and anendophasia only 3-4 years ago and reading all the younger folks stuff on reddit and here I figured maybe that is why I was the way I was. Asked my wife and doctor and they said well yes of course you are on the spectrum.
I first found out I have aphantasia and anendophasia
So if you don’t think in words and also not in images… How do you think? I’m curious because I can’t imagine thinking without either of those.
The hell if I know. Not a clue. It is my biggest question about them. I do think as I am typing and responding to you and all the other stuff I do but it is just there. I kind of equate it to having a filing cabinet. And in that filing cabinet are tons of folders and I just refer to each one of them even though I don’t see them or know what’s in them. Both aphantasia and anendophasia are relatively new in their research. Some of it I read makes sense a lot does not.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Ahh… Words that warm my heart, fuck them indeed.
Spez the pedophile that moderated the jailbait subreddit?
That Spez?
That’s it.
Oh well yes then I agree, fuck that pedophile corporate - lapdog piece of shit
It’s the sound of their dreams being crushed in the dream crushing machine. Millenials and Gen Xers used to make similar noises back when they still had dreams.
Life means experiencing the crushing of your dreams and the death of all hope. I get by on just so many antidepressants.
I do the occasional “ruh roh”
We allow ourselves the occasional Scooby snack…as a treat.
It still gets me that one of the last transmissions of the SS El Faro (ship) before it sank, was “ruh roh” Scooby do impression
Some of that isn’t limited to gen Z. I’ve had older coworkers make buzzer noises for correct/wrong (like those on a gameshow)
Assuming the Scooby doo one is stuff like “ruh roh”, that specific trend might be recent, but people have been doing silly voices for a while
Although a lot of it could be tiktok trends (or vines for the millenials)
FRE
SHAVOCA
DOI think “ruh roh” is far older than gen Z. I think the first time I ever heard it was a gen X’er. Maybe it just got more popular?
Yeah i’m an early millenial and i got in trouble as a kid at a trading card game convention because i was playing the x files card game, which involved asking the other player yes/no questions and the guy demoing the game mistook my no buzzer noise for a yes buzzer noise and lost because of it.
Wtf is a yes buzzer sound?
“Ding ding”? Still not acceptable lol
That’s not a buzzer though
I’d use it instead of duh
That’s definitely a skill issue on their part
About 6 years ago we were sitting on the beach and a larger wave came in out of nowhere that went say 20-25 feet further up the beach to where we were sitting, I grabbed her and my phone and said ruh-roh as she realized and stood up, didn’t have time to grab the small Bluetooth speaker we had and it got soaked and I grabbed it a few seconds after as the wave retreated. It isn’t a term I say often, but I think it was something I did back in my early twenties when there was the possibility of kids being around. Instead of yelling “oh shit” my 37 year old brain decides to sound like a cartoon dog.
Her: *high chuckle* “Like! Let’s get outta here!”
You: *ihihihihihihi*Zoiks!
My Xennial boss is by far the biggest vocal stimmer in our office.
Recently I’ve picked up some 25-30 year olds.
OOP makes employment sound really weird. Like picking mushrooms. Or contracting a disease.
It’s entirely accurate. From both perspectives.
I got “picking up abandoned cats at the shelter” vibes.
Like he’s rescueing young people.
Zoinks!
Jinkies, even.
Generation rhetoric is so stupid when it’s not about the boomers /s
Gen Z:
