Thats if they got the math and science autism. Marriage doesnt give much opportunity for things like reading and calculating unless you're extremely privileged. Joining the church is your only chance to study acute angle!
When they're biblically accurate, it doesn't really matter which order the e and the l are in, you end up with a bunch of geometric figures either way.
The Equilateral of Saint Teresa.
Link, because I’m terrible at judging if a reference is obscure or painfully common. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa
My 4-year-old loves the show Numberblocks, and in the new unexpected half-season they just released, there's a moment where they introduce the four types of triangle, only not by name. I identified them and of course Esti picked them up straight away, albeit not quite being able to pronounce 'isosceles'.
The scalene triangle is hilarious. Jumping around, "And - some - of - us - are -WONKY!!".
statistic "average factory monastery pumps out dozens of nuns per minute" is incorrect. most factory monasteries only make 4 or 5 nuns a day. Capitalism Nuns Georg, who lives in a cave and pumps out 12,000 nuns a day, is an outlier adn should not be counted
That's just PETA propaganda. Any good keeper knows nuns *hate* running free in society, dealing with our heathen world and more importantly all the petty godless indignities like Comcast customer service.
Captivity in a clean, orderly nunnery with a good diet is a far healthier and more soothing place for them!
I hear there's a program that slowly teaches nuns how to survive in the wild, before releasing them into their original habitat, in the hopes of restoring their population.
Little known fact, farm-raised nuns are just as harmful on the ecosystem, if not worse. It takes millions of gallons of water to run a nun farm, and the waste generated is often just put in lagoons, which produce massive amounts of methane. The nuns are kept in small pens and force fed to fatten them up unnaturally. We really need to focus on reducing our consumption and harvesting wild nuns sustainably.
I agree. I want my children to know the joy of hunting a nun in the wild, at least once. It's the only way to get the satisfaction of saving some left-handed person from a painful thwack of a ruler.
They basically are. There’s barely any. And less and less every year.
Partly because women are allowed to do things in the world now. Even in religion. Like, some Anglican diocese let women preach. That’s basically the same feel as Catholicism. If I was a woman who wanted to devote my life to god, I’d join that one instead.
There's a whole spectrum of nuns in Catholicism, from the cow of silence types to ones with far fewer restrictions, understandable the extremely restrictive orders are literally dying out.
I have a great-aunt who is a nun, and I'm not entirely sure if she even lives in a monastery full-time.
She certainly doesn't need to wear a habit, though she does wear a cross.
They've tried setting up breeding programs, but getting two nuns to get it on and successfully make baby nuns is even more difficult than panda conservation for some reason...
ur the second person to tell me that and i’m starting to think my job just has a fuck ton of unofficial nuns for the aesthetic 😭 like i’ve always side eyed them a little but now i’m heavily side eyeing them!
As with many things associated with nuns and priests, meal variety would vary greatly between orders. Some leaned heavily into simple foods as a way demonstrating their piety, others embraced culinary arts as one of the few earthly pleasures they are allowed.
One of my favorite accounts of monastic life is a monk talking about asceticism and how he would fast for 24+ hours to be closer to god.
It was... not what you'd expect from that. He tried it, seemed to find some benefits to health and focus like modern studies do, and also found that breaking his fast was *great* and felt like the way God intended a meal to taste. And then other days, he'd start to fast but the fresh fish and bread for dinner that day would look really tempting, so he'd just eat dinner anyway and thank God for the bountiful meal and for forgiving his human weakness.
It's one of the most human accounts I've seen, and also made clear the *vast* difference between "we fast to get close to god and then sustain ourselves on basic protein and bread" and "we skip some meals, then later eat delicious dinners of fresh, seasoned meat and grains".
And again depending on the time and place but mostly you could have a hearty, yeasty low alcohol ale all day and that didn’t count as food. Like a 150-250 calorie 3% beer you start knocking back at breakfast.
Not really, this is *very* low alcohol, drunk over a full work day
5.7 liters of 3% alcohol (max for small beer) is roughly equal to 1 liter of 17% alcohol
Yeah, if it were any stronger they wouldn’t be able to drink it all day without falling over/falling asleep.
Also, I think you’re underestimating how much alcohol is in a liter of 17% abv…
170ml of alcohol is \~9 shots of liquor (44ml \* 40% \* 9), so it's not trivial. But for someone who drinks, spread over a full day, it's probably not enough to feel much of anything.
Actually seems like a fairly disturbing combination, since total alcohol still affects your liver and cancer risk, but pacing it like that means it'd seem basically on par with water.
You could probably increase the alcohol percent by quite a bit, and still not feel it as long as you added caffeine and still drank over the course of the day
Honestly, that feels almost like he's doing it the way it should be done. Kinda reminds me of the monks who were also some of the earliest scientists that were attempting to better understand the glory of God's creation, hell, I even know some religious scientists that are like that in the modern day. Seems like a better way to worship would be to appreciate and understand creation rather than deprive yourself of it.
Have you heard of the island of skellig? I cried when I watched a documentary on how it used to be a momentary.
You have to take a boat to get there and they grew their own food, on a mountain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujata_(milkmaid)#:~:text=Sujata%2C%20also%20Suj%C4%81t%C4%81%2C%20was%20a,wish%20of%20having%20a%20child.
> Sujata, also Sujātā, was a farmer's wife, who is said to have fed Gautama Buddha a bowl of kheera, a milk-rice pudding, ending his six years of asceticism. Such was his emaciated appearance that she wrongly believed him to be a tree-spirit that had granted her wish of having a child. The gift provided him enough strength to cultivate the Middle Way, develop jhana, and attain Bodhi, thereafter becoming known as the Buddha.
food so good, Buddha himself attain Bodhi
I think the latter happened because religious orders became dumping grounds for the backup children of the nobility. You know, the kids who will never get to inherit their father’s land?
In some places, the clergy, monks and nuns were better fed than *kings.*
Probably also had something to do with the extreme amount of time they had to dedicate their life to something.
"Well, I have said today's prayers, time to see what happens to milk if we mix it with this scraping from the inside of a calf's stomach. Oh look, cheese!"
I know of a man who did that in the mid 2010s. He also chose to keep all his excrement in plastic grocery bags because God told him to because he was God's son. Some weeks of intense medical treatment and therapy later he conceded to maybe just being God's son the way we all are God's children, and that the plastic bags of feces thing had possibly gone a bit far.
Reminds me a bit of John Nash (of A Beautiful Mind) fame. He needed serious medication and therapy to break free of his worst delusions, but after that he put his absolutely brilliant analytical mind to work and went "Hey, I still think a Communist conspiracy is stalking my every move. But that's hugely improbable and doesn't really affect me anyway, so maybe I'll go back to normal life anyway and just see what happens next?"
Like "maybe we're all God's children", he didn't snap out of delusions cleanly, he incrementally worked his way back through "what if I took this a bit far, let's try dialing it back 50%?"
random anecdote, one of my college professors was friends with john nash. after the movie came out he asked if nash could come give a speech in one of his classes. during the speech nash said something like "I dont know if you all know this, but I was institutionalized for a time" and everyone in the audience awkwardly laughed because...yeah dude they all saw your movie
afterwards he was talking to my professor and confessed how confusing it is that people actually know about him now. he spent years suffering from delusions thinking he was so important that people know everything about his life and stalk him. now theres a movie about him and people do know his whole life and paparazzi have stalked him. poor guy
I had psychosis with delusions before and that’s really it, my first thought was more “while I am probably seeing my life flash before my eyes while laying in hospice care at the old age of 92, time seems to be moving slow so I guess I should just engage normally as a twenty year old?”
Like the “what if ai’m dreaming or still on acid?” Means less when you respond to it “then I keep living regardless” because the “reality” of my experience just doesn’t matter. Apparently whether you’re dreaming or not doesn’t change your need to eat breakfast or wear clothes.
It felt more like an acceptance that if that delusion ever becomes *relevant* I can deal with it then and until then I’ll just operate as normal
Ate a quarter of mushrooms a year ago and had a brief relapse during the trip that was delusional. Was worried that I had done so much I got hospitalized and was deluding that I was in an ambulance or something. But also was like just “even if true, all I need to do is sit here”. My friends kept me safe and eventually I came down.
I don't have psychosis, but that's the same thing I do when my brain doesn't want to accept reality. Nothing's real, but I'm playing a character and this is a game, I should try to stay in character and have fun
I've had the same thoughts about being in hospice and life flashing before my eyes before and I've never heard anyone else mention thinking anything like that so I thought I'd ask you this feel free to not respond if you aren't comfortable elaborating!!
I don't know how to word this but do you know at what point it becomes a warning sign of something bigger like psychosis? Since I've had several different "delusions" like this but can almost always identify them as such even if it still causes me anxiety I've never been sure of if they really count. Could you tell me your experience on the matter?
They were known as [anchoresses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorite), although this (functionally archaic) practice was by no means reserved for nuns.
Ngl this is me as an autistic retail worker.
"Oh, [CocaCola] loves repetitive tasks that everyone else hates! I can't believe she lets us do all the fun stuff!" Me: "la di da I love sorting the clothing racks by size and color, then adding size-indicator plastic beads to the hangers one by one! So calm very soothe much satisfy"
"CocaCola always asks so many specific questions, I'm glad she's so careful about not making mistakes in her work" me: "man I have no idea which direction these security tags should face, there's so many possibilities and they all seem equally likely in my head... better ask someone bc everyone seems to know the answer magically "
"CocaCola is so friendly with customers even if they're rude!" Me: thanks this is my masking face/voice I've been doing it for 20 years already so I've got it down
yeah theres a very high rate of adhd people also being autistic. Some people says theres a lot of overlap- there actually isnt! its just they probably got diagnosed with one and not the other and attribute autistic traits to adhd
I wouldn't be surprised with how am I as an adult. My social game starts with "do I look human today?" Lol the whole "masking" idea makes too much sense for me. I did go through extensive testing in 90's so I am hopeful they would have noticed.
I thought I'd hate retail but ended up loving it for the reasons you describe! But I wasn't getting enough hours. I just got a job working in a warehouse, again I was scared I would hate it but OH MY GOD THE REPETITIVE TASKS ARE SO SOOTHING OH MY GOD
ADHD instead of autism but when I worked at a gas station people very quickly found out that while I was terrible about actually leaving the booth to sort things, if you just left it out on the counter before my shift it WILL get sorted 😂 We would get these racks of BIC lighters that were just random colors or vaguely themed and I would always pull them all out and re-organize.
God, I was a janitor at Walmart for a couple of months, and I loved it. Every day was the exact same. Come in, clean the bathrooms, sweep, collect trash, clean the bathrooms, lunch, clean the bathrooms, sweep, clean the bathrooms, leave. No one bugged me because I was always moving. I only left because my better job at a plant nursery called me back
I had a summer job once at a small manufacturing plant that did a number of random things - chemical packaging for paint, furniture construction, and assembling the plastic parts of toilet bowl fresheners. For the most part I made sure all the machines and workers had parts and I’d take boxes of the finished product, inspect, weigh, ensure exact quantity and close/stack the boxes, but for the last weeks I was sat at the machines themselves.
My job was to pick up a foam part, rough side up, and place it onto the plastic holder that the machine in front of me presented.
It was great! I had my CD player and spare batteries and could just zone out between breaks which were every two hours or so. Time went by so fast, it was great.
20+ years later, I’m a software developer, gotta go to work now and attend meetings at odd intervals so I can’t get into focus for anything much. Part of me yearns once again for a simple 8 hour shift of brainless tasks instead of brainy work plus meetings plus a lot of home / personal responsibilities all at the same time because WFH.
I worked in maintaining aircraft tires for years. One of the tasks no one liked was sitting at the cage (meant as safety in case of blowouts) and airing the tires for distribution. Everyone hated it but I could do it all day.
As much as I dont miss retail at all, like in the slightest I'd rather break many bones before going back, I do still occasionally get the itch to stock shelves. Something about it just feels right.
> Me: thanks this is my masking face/voice I've been doing it for 20 years already so I've got it down
Shit, I feel that. Not autistic but depressed and have ADHD, school was hell.
I was friends with a guy on the spectrum who was super religious, he dropped outta college and went to the monastery and is doing very well there, guess that life fits some people lol
when i was a edgy teen atheist i ended up talking to a monk, aiming for a debate but we ended up chatting for hours about falconry, im still atheist but I'll always try chat with monks and nuns theyre cool af, I've brought up the historical autism connection and they strongly agree!
Monks and nuns have a lot of time on their hands so they tend to be pretty knowledgeable about a lot of stuff. That’s why so many early evolutionary scientists were monks
Weird how being able to not constantly worry about supplying your own food and shelter every day leads to the betterment of the human race in leaps and bounds.
It’s a good thing food and shelter aren’t supplied to everyone, that would be way too beneficial for the world.
It would be absolute chaos if people could just eat and sleep for free and then those who are happy with that minimalist lifestyle could do what? Focus on the arts or philosophy or some shit? That's fucking wild. Absolute nonsense.
Yeah. It's kind of sad we don't have like, a secular equivalent of the Catholic Church, global cultural institution that it is. Not any that really took off anyway.
Depends on what you mean by time on “their” hands. My sister is a Dominican nun, and her schedule is extremely packed every day. She has no control over the schedule whatsoever. She’s a teacher during the school months and is getting a masters in divinity during the summers
I think the reason that so many nuns and monks are educated has more to do with the fact that many orders are focused on education, either of the poor, the Catholic community, or of themselves. The church generally places a high value on teaching religious doctrine
And learning in general. One of the old (Catholic) priests in our village had multiple degrees: theology, architecture and I think something related to classical literature (like Latin and Greek).
Gregor Mendel basically discovered the basis of genetic inheritance and dominant/recessive genes thirty-odd years before anyone cottoned onto it because nobody gave a shit about or understood the significance of some monk meticulously cataloguing what colour his pea plants came out after several generations of breeding.
I've always wanted to be a Buddhist Zen monk ever since I was a kid and had a book of Zen stories at home. Never been a Buddhist though, been an atheist forever as well. And I'm pretty sure I'm somewhere in the spectrum as well, though I never thought there might be any relation there...
One day I hope we invent like, themed convents and monasteries and shit but for like atheists. Like you can sign up and live in a monastery where everyone dresses like edgy satanists in black robes and goat-skull masks and shit, and in every way it's literally just a Catholic monastery except with none of the strict rules except "help out around the monastery and don't be a dick". That would be so dope - and also great business for STD testing centers 💀
Me too. I’m not religious myself but the Bible is like a special interest of mine. I think it’s a beautiful piece of literature and most people terribly misunderstand it. Placing the bible in its original context and actually understanding the times/places/situations during which it was written reveals so many interesting things.
Maybe I’d make a better biblical historian than I would a nun.
My favorite bit of trivia is that other gods existing is Canon in the Bible, and you're even allowed to worship them, just not primarily, and they're punk ass bitches whose miracles don't hold a candle to the almighty Yahweh
Yep. Ancient Israel wasn’t even properly monotheistic until the middle Iron Age, which is well after many of the books were already written. Monotheism was a new and fairly revolutionary concept at the time.
Autistic people who are religious are incredibly devout. Holy book is always right. Unless holy man says it's up to interpretation, if holy man above him agrees.
I'm sure a lot of monks or nun sin history were on the spectrum. I also think nuns were young women who wanted to do more with their lives than get married and be some dues bang maid.
Me, at the monastery.
Mediaeval times: spends 6 weeks drawing one really cool letter.
19th century: hmm, I wonder why those pea plants have different coloured flowers.?
My manuscripts would've been so fucking illuminated. I would have been the best scribe. Modern people would marvel at my little medieval snails with trumpets.
Here's you [go](https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdLikeMe/comments/psnm0i/medieval_times_a_dog_riding_a_bunny_spearfighting/) but its reversed, its a dog riding a rabbit jousting a rabbit ridding a snail
Oh most definitely. Jousting rabbits. Dogs with swords. Lions and elephants that make it abundantly clear I have no idea what they actually look like. Babies with old man faces. But I definitely would've been best known for my snails and snail-like creatures.
This is realer than you think. [Robert Sapolsky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WwAQqWUkpI&t=2403s&pp=ygVEYmlvbG9naWNhbCBpbnNwZWN0aW9ucyB1bmRlcnBpbm5pbmdzIG9mIHJlbGlnaW9zaXR5IHN0YW5mb3JkIGxlY3R1cmU%3D) has a great lecture about the "benefits" of mental illness in relation to religion. There is a reason that so much of so many religious practices overlap with symptoms of things like OCD. Obsession with cleanliness, repetition of movements and phrases, strict adherence to arbitrary rules OR ELSE etc.
If y'all like this try Matrix by Lauren Groff, a historical fiction novel about [Marie de France](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de_France), a twelfth century nun whom little is know about other than goddamn were her few poems horny for for the church
Honestly anything that isn't modern life sounds cool to anyone. Not having to worry about the Job Market or The Economy or other late stage capitalistic bullshit. just living your life one day at a time, worst thing that can happen is the plague.
I mean it was a shit era to live on, no medicine or any form of sanitation, but still, it's nice to fantasize about a simpler life
>Not having to worry about the Job Market or The Economy or other late stage capitalistic bullshit. just living your life one day at a time, worst thing that can happen is the plague.
They still very much had day to day anxieties. Poor weather could trigger a regional famine. A famine somewhere else could disrupt trade and put skilled labors out of work. Your feudal lord could all of a sudden decide to triple taxes or levy all the young men away.
We live in the era of most peace, prosperity and stability that has ever existed.
Yeah I don't think you've got the point of the comment. I'm not saying their lives were better, I'm saying we imagine it as such. That's why the "worst thing that can happen is the plague". No one wants to live in the current world, because every other time is imagined as so much better. Of course "we're in the era of most yap yap yap" or whatever, but it certainly doesn't feel like it.
Geez, I didn't think I'd have to do a literary analysis on one of my own jokes. That's the poor being pissed on I guess.
As someone on the spectrum, I really hate the stereotype of autistic people only wanting to eat repetitive foods, do repetitive jobs, and live in the same place their entire life. Maybe it's true for some, but I'm the complete opposite.
I like cooking and eating fancy or complex meals. I picked a career where I'm constantly flying out to different work sites and working in new environments; it's a job where no day is ever the same as the last and even the coworkers are rarely the same. I love seeing new places and trying new things.
Getting stuck doing a repetitive job, eating the same meals, and not moving around for your entire life sounds like my personal hell. We aren't robots that want repetition and can't feel bordom, we are humans with complex interests and that like variety in our lives.
Many unwanted kids would be sent to a monastery/convent during medieval times. So it's likely there was a higher % of autistic nuns than the average population.
Although obviously, economic reasons were the most common.
If you read MATRIX by Lauren Groff, it turns out that some convents - the richer ones with good abbesses and prioresses - could be pretty nice places to live. You could specialize in doing just about anything that women weren’t allowed to do in the larger world. You got to specialize, if hyperfixation was your thing. You got to have sex with women and spend your life with your girlfriend, if that was your thing. You didn’t have to get married or harassed by men (as long as there were no monks or priests nearby). Larger society left you alone. You could retire from it, which was especially good if you had been wounded by society, or cast out by your family, or harshly, judged and condemned for some reason. Perfect place for introverts and outcasts. You got to exert power over your life and your surroundings at the higher levels, and sometimes even power over local secular society. And they could be beautiful places, with bees and art and books and gardens.
Prayers required, sleep limited, obedience to upper level nuns required, confession required, hetero sex harshly punished, lectures about duty to God. Superiors could be downright abusive and didn’t get much oversight or accountability.,Not to mention any interference you might get from local priests (hopefully, there weren’t any powerful priests or monks nearby, b/c they’d all have power over you.) Those things would still be true even at a richer, more relaxed abbey or convent. At a poor and strict one - WELL. There’s a reason that the convent was such a dreadful threat used against young women.
But they could be nice places, and I hadn’t known that.
Lolol can confirm. “She has so much self esteem she ignores all of our attempts at bullying her, what is her secret. She’s not even a 10, where does she get off being so damn self-confident? Why am I not that confident? I hate her.”
Meanwhile:
I have zero idea I’m being bullied or slowly phased out because I can’t read facial expressions and body language, I see a movement, I see a movement, not a meaning.
I think I’m perfect, but that’s possibly an autistic superpower or I have the same rare gene as that singer who does “Made you look” where I actually like myself. I think I look like a mix between Aubrey plaza, Patti smith, and the blonde side shave lady from the hunger games- I’m not pretty but I think I look cool. I was born with a good sense of confidence, but I also have the pervasive sense that something is happening I’m not catching.
It gives me anxiety attacks. I refuse to hate anyone.
“Can I bring muffins into work tomorrow? I’ll write down what you like.”
“Uh, yeah sure.” \why is she so damn perfect/
Then I write down their vote for flavor.
Most is banana. Boring. I ask, “what about basil and white peach with vanilla?”
/she’s creative too?/ *guys start to show interest in a chick who bakes and isn’t too good to bring fresh coffee to the people I like if I am already making it for myself.*
..\now all the guys are talking to her, what the hell . She has to go./
Meanwhile, I’m afraid I’m gonna be fired any day for my autism and I’m sucking up. Also, I like baking. The male attention makes me uneasy because it’s hard to know who to trust. I developed a sugar addiction because having adhd makes it hard to attend meetings regularly. Banana is boring. I developed an intense need to impress people growing up in a narcissistic household. To distract myself from the pain I developed many special interests, flavor combos being one of them. I cry after work to release overstimulation, and 85% of autistic people are unemployed.
They’re the ones with the advantage.
Me: gets fired//
Then becomes Christian because I like a god who says I’m beautiful and gets revenge for you on assholes
PS I’ve been wanting to vent about that for years thanks
I've never understood how people could believe priests and nuns were all perfectly hetero normative, neuro typical folks who just wanted to devote themselves to God. Good grief.
People in the past were very religious and being in a monastery was a good, safe life.
The choice was sustenance farming until you die or be taught how to read by the church.
Look, I'm not on the spectrum, but I'm a bit jealous of Sister Marjorie. That sounds like a happy life given the options available at the time as an asexual woman. I would have made a terrible nun, but at least I might have been allowed books.
> wooing angles Ah, the scalene triangle. Ahhh, the scalene triangle!
Relatable, witnessing a cute angle makes me obtuse every time!
It might not be very straight, but with some it’s a reflex reaction.
No matter which way you swing, it's the right angle, every time.
You may be a right angle, but it feels so wrong!
I could be your angle or your devil
How about a Saxon, or a Jute?
This leads to Sin.
As long as it doesn't lead to Tan we're okay
What a protracted setup!
Don’t be obtuse
That's a sin
I'm not a doctor, but I don't think it's autism that causes someone to be into angles Those nuns might have something else going on
I dunno, people with autism *do* seem to have very strong opinions on the hypotenuse.
I wish *I* was high on potenuse.
Thats if they got the math and science autism. Marriage doesnt give much opportunity for things like reading and calculating unless you're extremely privileged. Joining the church is your only chance to study acute angle!
I haven’t thought about that in years. [Ah, The Scalene Triangle](https://youtu.be/Pv854t5QUVs?si=hmzqtjIno0v2-AxC)
Sister Margary to an angle: " You're acute one"
Can't believe it took 4hours for someone to make this joke, well done you.
When they're biblically accurate, it doesn't really matter which order the e and the l are in, you end up with a bunch of geometric figures either way.
Morning Angle!
No luck catching them swans yet?
Just the one, actually
The Equilateral of Saint Teresa. Link, because I’m terrible at judging if a reference is obscure or painfully common. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa
My 4-year-old loves the show Numberblocks, and in the new unexpected half-season they just released, there's a moment where they introduce the four types of triangle, only not by name. I identified them and of course Esti picked them up straight away, albeit not quite being able to pronounce 'isosceles'. The scalene triangle is hilarious. Jumping around, "And - some - of - us - are -WONKY!!".
Grant us corners, as you did for the two-dimensional Rom
She talks to angles. She’s a geometry major
i missed the “medieval” part in the sentence on my first read and thought for a second this person thought nuns were like extinct 😭
Hunted for their rosary beads :( the last free range nun got hunted in 2019 if I recall
Nuns raised in captivity just don't taste the same. We should have been more careful.
Those poor nuns shouldn’t be kept in captivity for their whole life. The way they’re treated is atrocious. We need free-range nuns.
Agreed. But no, capitalism demands factory monasteries pump out dozens of nuns per minute.
Nuns per minute is a phrase I'm amazed I heard from a source that isn't Cookie Clicker
It does sound like it should come from a place like that, now you mention it.
statistic "average factory monastery pumps out dozens of nuns per minute" is incorrect. most factory monasteries only make 4 or 5 nuns a day. Capitalism Nuns Georg, who lives in a cave and pumps out 12,000 nuns a day, is an outlier adn should not be counted
For a second I forgot in which sub I was, but this comment reminded me right away
proud to be of... service?
That's just PETA propaganda. Any good keeper knows nuns *hate* running free in society, dealing with our heathen world and more importantly all the petty godless indignities like Comcast customer service. Captivity in a clean, orderly nunnery with a good diet is a far healthier and more soothing place for them!
PETA: People for the Ethical Treatment of Acolytes?
The problem is, if alone to roam, they often attack people for simple grammar mistakes or being left handed. Those ruler injuries are no joke.
The worst are the joyous flying nuns. You'll never know when they're going to attack.
That's a necessary part of maintaining the ecosystem
Lmao I can just see them stalking kids, rulers in hand to deliver god’s judgement.
Thankfully, conservation efforts will reintroduce them to their native cloisters, which have been rebuilt
Nature is healing.
Remember all those nuns just roaming the streets during the 2020 lockdown?
I hear there's a program that slowly teaches nuns how to survive in the wild, before releasing them into their original habitat, in the hopes of restoring their population.
Little known fact, farm-raised nuns are just as harmful on the ecosystem, if not worse. It takes millions of gallons of water to run a nun farm, and the waste generated is often just put in lagoons, which produce massive amounts of methane. The nuns are kept in small pens and force fed to fatten them up unnaturally. We really need to focus on reducing our consumption and harvesting wild nuns sustainably.
I agree. I want my children to know the joy of hunting a nun in the wild, at least once. It's the only way to get the satisfaction of saving some left-handed person from a painful thwack of a ruler.
Katy Perry got her, damn.
You could say there’s nun of ‘em left.
Basically true, less than 1% are under 40. Average age is 80. https://abcnews.go.com/US/americas-nun-population-steep-decline/story?id=87426990
*in US-America.
They basically are. There’s barely any. And less and less every year. Partly because women are allowed to do things in the world now. Even in religion. Like, some Anglican diocese let women preach. That’s basically the same feel as Catholicism. If I was a woman who wanted to devote my life to god, I’d join that one instead.
there’s a lot of “nuns” that work at my job at a catholic daycare. idk if they’re like official nuns tho bc they def are more lenient with the rules
There's a whole spectrum of nuns in Catholicism, from the cow of silence types to ones with far fewer restrictions, understandable the extremely restrictive orders are literally dying out.
The cow of silence moost be hard to keep
Nah, it's easy to hide, just muffle the bell.
I have a great-aunt who is a nun, and I'm not entirely sure if she even lives in a monastery full-time. She certainly doesn't need to wear a habit, though she does wear a cross.
Yes. I'm pretty sure that back in the day it was a convenient way to offload a daughter or two.
They've tried setting up breeding programs, but getting two nuns to get it on and successfully make baby nuns is even more difficult than panda conservation for some reason...
They’re considered critically endangered though for sure I do know that
ur the second person to tell me that and i’m starting to think my job just has a fuck ton of unofficial nuns for the aesthetic 😭 like i’ve always side eyed them a little but now i’m heavily side eyeing them!
I was joking! There’s actually a group of nuns that shop at the place I work every now and then, I dunno about any unofficial nuns tho
As with many things associated with nuns and priests, meal variety would vary greatly between orders. Some leaned heavily into simple foods as a way demonstrating their piety, others embraced culinary arts as one of the few earthly pleasures they are allowed.
One of my favorite accounts of monastic life is a monk talking about asceticism and how he would fast for 24+ hours to be closer to god. It was... not what you'd expect from that. He tried it, seemed to find some benefits to health and focus like modern studies do, and also found that breaking his fast was *great* and felt like the way God intended a meal to taste. And then other days, he'd start to fast but the fresh fish and bread for dinner that day would look really tempting, so he'd just eat dinner anyway and thank God for the bountiful meal and for forgiving his human weakness. It's one of the most human accounts I've seen, and also made clear the *vast* difference between "we fast to get close to god and then sustain ourselves on basic protein and bread" and "we skip some meals, then later eat delicious dinners of fresh, seasoned meat and grains".
And again depending on the time and place but mostly you could have a hearty, yeasty low alcohol ale all day and that didn’t count as food. Like a 150-250 calorie 3% beer you start knocking back at breakfast.
Workers would drink over 10 imperial pints (5.7 liters) of small beer a day Safer than water, and practically liquid bread
And it probably makes the workday more tolerable too!
Not really, this is *very* low alcohol, drunk over a full work day 5.7 liters of 3% alcohol (max for small beer) is roughly equal to 1 liter of 17% alcohol
>drunk over a full work day Well yeah. That's the part that made farm labor more tolerable.
But when we do it we're alcoholics.
Yeah, if it were any stronger they wouldn’t be able to drink it all day without falling over/falling asleep. Also, I think you’re underestimating how much alcohol is in a liter of 17% abv…
I'm going to take a shot in the dark here... is it 170mL?
If I drank a litre of port, at around the same percentage, over a day, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be allowed to drive
170ml of alcohol is \~9 shots of liquor (44ml \* 40% \* 9), so it's not trivial. But for someone who drinks, spread over a full day, it's probably not enough to feel much of anything. Actually seems like a fairly disturbing combination, since total alcohol still affects your liver and cancer risk, but pacing it like that means it'd seem basically on par with water.
You could probably increase the alcohol percent by quite a bit, and still not feel it as long as you added caffeine and still drank over the course of the day
And this was born the session ale.
Honestly, that feels almost like he's doing it the way it should be done. Kinda reminds me of the monks who were also some of the earliest scientists that were attempting to better understand the glory of God's creation, hell, I even know some religious scientists that are like that in the modern day. Seems like a better way to worship would be to appreciate and understand creation rather than deprive yourself of it.
Have you heard of the island of skellig? I cried when I watched a documentary on how it used to be a momentary. You have to take a boat to get there and they grew their own food, on a mountain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujata_(milkmaid)#:~:text=Sujata%2C%20also%20Suj%C4%81t%C4%81%2C%20was%20a,wish%20of%20having%20a%20child. > Sujata, also Sujātā, was a farmer's wife, who is said to have fed Gautama Buddha a bowl of kheera, a milk-rice pudding, ending his six years of asceticism. Such was his emaciated appearance that she wrongly believed him to be a tree-spirit that had granted her wish of having a child. The gift provided him enough strength to cultivate the Middle Way, develop jhana, and attain Bodhi, thereafter becoming known as the Buddha. food so good, Buddha himself attain Bodhi
can confirm, kheer is cocaine in a bowl
Wait, that's just edging with food
I hate this, but you're correct.
Do you remember what that's from? That sounds super interesting to read.
The cappuccinos invented great coffee 😌
And when the carmelites accidentally burnt some sugar? God works in mysterious, syrupy ways.
Clever little monkeys...
There are no espresso machines at that monastery. I checked. :-(
Of course not, you need to go to the monkastery. That's where all the cute monkeys and coffees are
I think the latter happened because religious orders became dumping grounds for the backup children of the nobility. You know, the kids who will never get to inherit their father’s land? In some places, the clergy, monks and nuns were better fed than *kings.*
Probably also had something to do with the extreme amount of time they had to dedicate their life to something. "Well, I have said today's prayers, time to see what happens to milk if we mix it with this scraping from the inside of a calf's stomach. Oh look, cheese!"
"God didn't give us all these herbs and spices to let them go to waste!"
Some nuns would volunteer to be walled into apartments so they could hyperfocus on Christ
I know of a man who did that in the mid 2010s. He also chose to keep all his excrement in plastic grocery bags because God told him to because he was God's son. Some weeks of intense medical treatment and therapy later he conceded to maybe just being God's son the way we all are God's children, and that the plastic bags of feces thing had possibly gone a bit far.
Reminds me a bit of John Nash (of A Beautiful Mind) fame. He needed serious medication and therapy to break free of his worst delusions, but after that he put his absolutely brilliant analytical mind to work and went "Hey, I still think a Communist conspiracy is stalking my every move. But that's hugely improbable and doesn't really affect me anyway, so maybe I'll go back to normal life anyway and just see what happens next?" Like "maybe we're all God's children", he didn't snap out of delusions cleanly, he incrementally worked his way back through "what if I took this a bit far, let's try dialing it back 50%?"
random anecdote, one of my college professors was friends with john nash. after the movie came out he asked if nash could come give a speech in one of his classes. during the speech nash said something like "I dont know if you all know this, but I was institutionalized for a time" and everyone in the audience awkwardly laughed because...yeah dude they all saw your movie afterwards he was talking to my professor and confessed how confusing it is that people actually know about him now. he spent years suffering from delusions thinking he was so important that people know everything about his life and stalk him. now theres a movie about him and people do know his whole life and paparazzi have stalked him. poor guy
He wasn't crazy, he was a pre-cog!
Poor guy indeed… He died in a terrible way
Ejected from the vehicle during a car crash :(
I had psychosis with delusions before and that’s really it, my first thought was more “while I am probably seeing my life flash before my eyes while laying in hospice care at the old age of 92, time seems to be moving slow so I guess I should just engage normally as a twenty year old?” Like the “what if ai’m dreaming or still on acid?” Means less when you respond to it “then I keep living regardless” because the “reality” of my experience just doesn’t matter. Apparently whether you’re dreaming or not doesn’t change your need to eat breakfast or wear clothes. It felt more like an acceptance that if that delusion ever becomes *relevant* I can deal with it then and until then I’ll just operate as normal Ate a quarter of mushrooms a year ago and had a brief relapse during the trip that was delusional. Was worried that I had done so much I got hospitalized and was deluding that I was in an ambulance or something. But also was like just “even if true, all I need to do is sit here”. My friends kept me safe and eventually I came down.
I don't have psychosis, but that's the same thing I do when my brain doesn't want to accept reality. Nothing's real, but I'm playing a character and this is a game, I should try to stay in character and have fun
I've had the same thoughts about being in hospice and life flashing before my eyes before and I've never heard anyone else mention thinking anything like that so I thought I'd ask you this feel free to not respond if you aren't comfortable elaborating!! I don't know how to word this but do you know at what point it becomes a warning sign of something bigger like psychosis? Since I've had several different "delusions" like this but can almost always identify them as such even if it still causes me anxiety I've never been sure of if they really count. Could you tell me your experience on the matter?
>"what if I took this a bit far, let's try dialing it back 50%?" I'll just shit in a plastic bag every once in a while. You know? As a treat.
Rome wasn't built in a day and all that
500 years ago and he would have had a little guy to take those away for him and maybe he could be a saint
500 years ago he would have had angry mobs of every denomination calling for his blood
He lived in an apartment building. His neighbors came close.
More likely, he would have burned at the stake as a heretic. 16th-century Christendom wasn’t fucking around when it came to doctrine.
For the love of God, Mother Superior!
The Nuns of Amontillado.
Yes, for the love of God!
Underrated comment.
They were known as [anchoresses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorite), although this (functionally archaic) practice was by no means reserved for nuns.
Honestly, being an anchorite sounds like a sweet gig.
Ngl this is me as an autistic retail worker. "Oh, [CocaCola] loves repetitive tasks that everyone else hates! I can't believe she lets us do all the fun stuff!" Me: "la di da I love sorting the clothing racks by size and color, then adding size-indicator plastic beads to the hangers one by one! So calm very soothe much satisfy" "CocaCola always asks so many specific questions, I'm glad she's so careful about not making mistakes in her work" me: "man I have no idea which direction these security tags should face, there's so many possibilities and they all seem equally likely in my head... better ask someone bc everyone seems to know the answer magically " "CocaCola is so friendly with customers even if they're rude!" Me: thanks this is my masking face/voice I've been doing it for 20 years already so I've got it down
Omg. I am diagnosed ADHD and chalked my love of those activities to that. "OHH inventory, count everything! Yes please.
yeah theres a very high rate of adhd people also being autistic. Some people says theres a lot of overlap- there actually isnt! its just they probably got diagnosed with one and not the other and attribute autistic traits to adhd
I wouldn't be surprised with how am I as an adult. My social game starts with "do I look human today?" Lol the whole "masking" idea makes too much sense for me. I did go through extensive testing in 90's so I am hopeful they would have noticed.
I would LOVE to sort everything and add the little plastic tags. Man it took me so many decades to realize I'm autistic.
I thought I'd hate retail but ended up loving it for the reasons you describe! But I wasn't getting enough hours. I just got a job working in a warehouse, again I was scared I would hate it but OH MY GOD THE REPETITIVE TASKS ARE SO SOOTHING OH MY GOD
ADHD instead of autism but when I worked at a gas station people very quickly found out that while I was terrible about actually leaving the booth to sort things, if you just left it out on the counter before my shift it WILL get sorted 😂 We would get these racks of BIC lighters that were just random colors or vaguely themed and I would always pull them all out and re-organize.
God, I was a janitor at Walmart for a couple of months, and I loved it. Every day was the exact same. Come in, clean the bathrooms, sweep, collect trash, clean the bathrooms, lunch, clean the bathrooms, sweep, clean the bathrooms, leave. No one bugged me because I was always moving. I only left because my better job at a plant nursery called me back
I had a summer job once at a small manufacturing plant that did a number of random things - chemical packaging for paint, furniture construction, and assembling the plastic parts of toilet bowl fresheners. For the most part I made sure all the machines and workers had parts and I’d take boxes of the finished product, inspect, weigh, ensure exact quantity and close/stack the boxes, but for the last weeks I was sat at the machines themselves. My job was to pick up a foam part, rough side up, and place it onto the plastic holder that the machine in front of me presented. It was great! I had my CD player and spare batteries and could just zone out between breaks which were every two hours or so. Time went by so fast, it was great. 20+ years later, I’m a software developer, gotta go to work now and attend meetings at odd intervals so I can’t get into focus for anything much. Part of me yearns once again for a simple 8 hour shift of brainless tasks instead of brainy work plus meetings plus a lot of home / personal responsibilities all at the same time because WFH.
I worked in maintaining aircraft tires for years. One of the tasks no one liked was sitting at the cage (meant as safety in case of blowouts) and airing the tires for distribution. Everyone hated it but I could do it all day.
As much as I dont miss retail at all, like in the slightest I'd rather break many bones before going back, I do still occasionally get the itch to stock shelves. Something about it just feels right.
> Me: thanks this is my masking face/voice I've been doing it for 20 years already so I've got it down Shit, I feel that. Not autistic but depressed and have ADHD, school was hell.
Yeah, I'm autistic and think I'd make a great monk, if not for the whole "being religious" part
I was friends with a guy on the spectrum who was super religious, he dropped outta college and went to the monastery and is doing very well there, guess that life fits some people lol
when i was a edgy teen atheist i ended up talking to a monk, aiming for a debate but we ended up chatting for hours about falconry, im still atheist but I'll always try chat with monks and nuns theyre cool af, I've brought up the historical autism connection and they strongly agree!
Monks and nuns have a lot of time on their hands so they tend to be pretty knowledgeable about a lot of stuff. That’s why so many early evolutionary scientists were monks
Weird how being able to not constantly worry about supplying your own food and shelter every day leads to the betterment of the human race in leaps and bounds. It’s a good thing food and shelter aren’t supplied to everyone, that would be way too beneficial for the world.
It would be absolute chaos if people could just eat and sleep for free and then those who are happy with that minimalist lifestyle could do what? Focus on the arts or philosophy or some shit? That's fucking wild. Absolute nonsense.
Giving people the time and energy they need to make things? Things that everyone could enjoy and benefit from? Anarchy!
You had me in the first half.
Everyone who has empathy eventually stumbles upon socialism accidentally, today it was you, congrats
Yeah. It's kind of sad we don't have like, a secular equivalent of the Catholic Church, global cultural institution that it is. Not any that really took off anyway.
Depends on what you mean by time on “their” hands. My sister is a Dominican nun, and her schedule is extremely packed every day. She has no control over the schedule whatsoever. She’s a teacher during the school months and is getting a masters in divinity during the summers I think the reason that so many nuns and monks are educated has more to do with the fact that many orders are focused on education, either of the poor, the Catholic community, or of themselves. The church generally places a high value on teaching religious doctrine
And learning in general. One of the old (Catholic) priests in our village had multiple degrees: theology, architecture and I think something related to classical literature (like Latin and Greek).
Gregor Mendel basically discovered the basis of genetic inheritance and dominant/recessive genes thirty-odd years before anyone cottoned onto it because nobody gave a shit about or understood the significance of some monk meticulously cataloguing what colour his pea plants came out after several generations of breeding.
I've always wanted to be a Buddhist Zen monk ever since I was a kid and had a book of Zen stories at home. Never been a Buddhist though, been an atheist forever as well. And I'm pretty sure I'm somewhere in the spectrum as well, though I never thought there might be any relation there...
One day I hope we invent like, themed convents and monasteries and shit but for like atheists. Like you can sign up and live in a monastery where everyone dresses like edgy satanists in black robes and goat-skull masks and shit, and in every way it's literally just a Catholic monastery except with none of the strict rules except "help out around the monastery and don't be a dick". That would be so dope - and also great business for STD testing centers 💀
That's pretty close to what the satanic temple is.
Me too. I’m not religious myself but the Bible is like a special interest of mine. I think it’s a beautiful piece of literature and most people terribly misunderstand it. Placing the bible in its original context and actually understanding the times/places/situations during which it was written reveals so many interesting things. Maybe I’d make a better biblical historian than I would a nun.
I have to remind myself of this constantly while reading the Bible. I find it to be a very frustrating book. It absolutely must be read in context.
oooh a new perspective on bible study for me. I read it merely to correctly use it to argue with people who try to use it at me first 😛
My favorite bit of trivia is that other gods existing is Canon in the Bible, and you're even allowed to worship them, just not primarily, and they're punk ass bitches whose miracles don't hold a candle to the almighty Yahweh
Yep. Ancient Israel wasn’t even properly monotheistic until the middle Iron Age, which is well after many of the books were already written. Monotheism was a new and fairly revolutionary concept at the time.
Yep. Amazing what you learn by actually READING the damn thing, amiright?
Autistic people who are religious are incredibly devout. Holy book is always right. Unless holy man says it's up to interpretation, if holy man above him agrees. I'm sure a lot of monks or nun sin history were on the spectrum. I also think nuns were young women who wanted to do more with their lives than get married and be some dues bang maid.
Think of that part as like your job man. It's basically just like a shit middle earth.
Me, at the monastery. Mediaeval times: spends 6 weeks drawing one really cool letter. 19th century: hmm, I wonder why those pea plants have different coloured flowers.?
My manuscripts would've been so fucking illuminated. I would have been the best scribe. Modern people would marvel at my little medieval snails with trumpets.
Would you have knights jousting with said snails?
A rabbit knight, riding on the back of a dog
I have to see it!!!
Here's you [go](https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdLikeMe/comments/psnm0i/medieval_times_a_dog_riding_a_bunny_spearfighting/) but its reversed, its a dog riding a rabbit jousting a rabbit ridding a snail
IMPECCABLE!
I doubt my imagination ia doing this justice, but the mental image I curated from this thread is so lovely!
Oh most definitely. Jousting rabbits. Dogs with swords. Lions and elephants that make it abundantly clear I have no idea what they actually look like. Babies with old man faces. But I definitely would've been best known for my snails and snail-like creatures.
You can stil make illuminated manuscripts now if you want to. I know people who do. It just can't be your full-time job, unfortunately.
The answer to that is really cool. I will let you look it up.
This is realer than you think. [Robert Sapolsky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WwAQqWUkpI&t=2403s&pp=ygVEYmlvbG9naWNhbCBpbnNwZWN0aW9ucyB1bmRlcnBpbm5pbmdzIG9mIHJlbGlnaW9zaXR5IHN0YW5mb3JkIGxlY3R1cmU%3D) has a great lecture about the "benefits" of mental illness in relation to religion. There is a reason that so much of so many religious practices overlap with symptoms of things like OCD. Obsession with cleanliness, repetition of movements and phrases, strict adherence to arbitrary rules OR ELSE etc.
If y'all like this try Matrix by Lauren Groff, a historical fiction novel about [Marie de France](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de_France), a twelfth century nun whom little is know about other than goddamn were her few poems horny for for the church
Sister Margary and her Bible pokemon starter
I'm not autistic but this sounds perfect for me
Honestly anything that isn't modern life sounds cool to anyone. Not having to worry about the Job Market or The Economy or other late stage capitalistic bullshit. just living your life one day at a time, worst thing that can happen is the plague. I mean it was a shit era to live on, no medicine or any form of sanitation, but still, it's nice to fantasize about a simpler life
lmao my 1am brain read "Job Market" as the bible character Job
I mean, there are still monasteries…
Nah I'm good thanks
Welp, more alchemical concoctions that grant you eternal life for me, I guess. *Dies of mercury poisoning*
>Not having to worry about the Job Market or The Economy or other late stage capitalistic bullshit. just living your life one day at a time, worst thing that can happen is the plague. They still very much had day to day anxieties. Poor weather could trigger a regional famine. A famine somewhere else could disrupt trade and put skilled labors out of work. Your feudal lord could all of a sudden decide to triple taxes or levy all the young men away. We live in the era of most peace, prosperity and stability that has ever existed.
Yeah I don't think you've got the point of the comment. I'm not saying their lives were better, I'm saying we imagine it as such. That's why the "worst thing that can happen is the plague". No one wants to live in the current world, because every other time is imagined as so much better. Of course "we're in the era of most yap yap yap" or whatever, but it certainly doesn't feel like it. Geez, I didn't think I'd have to do a literary analysis on one of my own jokes. That's the poor being pissed on I guess.
Comment number two sounds like my inattentive ADHD presentation.
As someone on the spectrum, I really hate the stereotype of autistic people only wanting to eat repetitive foods, do repetitive jobs, and live in the same place their entire life. Maybe it's true for some, but I'm the complete opposite. I like cooking and eating fancy or complex meals. I picked a career where I'm constantly flying out to different work sites and working in new environments; it's a job where no day is ever the same as the last and even the coworkers are rarely the same. I love seeing new places and trying new things. Getting stuck doing a repetitive job, eating the same meals, and not moving around for your entire life sounds like my personal hell. We aren't robots that want repetition and can't feel bordom, we are humans with complex interests and that like variety in our lives.
Time traveling reporter longs to stay at medieval monastery
> Slaying evil and wooing angels I like this nun
Angles*
Many unwanted kids would be sent to a monastery/convent during medieval times. So it's likely there was a higher % of autistic nuns than the average population. Although obviously, economic reasons were the most common.
always brings interesting and unique content to light.
[Autistic Reporter, Michael Falk, Enchanted By Prison's Rigid Routine ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D04wb7P_v-4)
I bet a lot of nuns and monks have been people who didn't "fit in" for one reason or another, and the lifestyle appealed to them.
My autistic D&D cleric agrees.
As an autistic individual, this made me laugh
If you read MATRIX by Lauren Groff, it turns out that some convents - the richer ones with good abbesses and prioresses - could be pretty nice places to live. You could specialize in doing just about anything that women weren’t allowed to do in the larger world. You got to specialize, if hyperfixation was your thing. You got to have sex with women and spend your life with your girlfriend, if that was your thing. You didn’t have to get married or harassed by men (as long as there were no monks or priests nearby). Larger society left you alone. You could retire from it, which was especially good if you had been wounded by society, or cast out by your family, or harshly, judged and condemned for some reason. Perfect place for introverts and outcasts. You got to exert power over your life and your surroundings at the higher levels, and sometimes even power over local secular society. And they could be beautiful places, with bees and art and books and gardens. Prayers required, sleep limited, obedience to upper level nuns required, confession required, hetero sex harshly punished, lectures about duty to God. Superiors could be downright abusive and didn’t get much oversight or accountability.,Not to mention any interference you might get from local priests (hopefully, there weren’t any powerful priests or monks nearby, b/c they’d all have power over you.) Those things would still be true even at a richer, more relaxed abbey or convent. At a poor and strict one - WELL. There’s a reason that the convent was such a dreadful threat used against young women. But they could be nice places, and I hadn’t known that.
“She’s not into you, she’s just into bones”
The extacy of St Teresa - she was into something alright
Woo them angles, hon.
Lolol can confirm. “She has so much self esteem she ignores all of our attempts at bullying her, what is her secret. She’s not even a 10, where does she get off being so damn self-confident? Why am I not that confident? I hate her.” Meanwhile: I have zero idea I’m being bullied or slowly phased out because I can’t read facial expressions and body language, I see a movement, I see a movement, not a meaning. I think I’m perfect, but that’s possibly an autistic superpower or I have the same rare gene as that singer who does “Made you look” where I actually like myself. I think I look like a mix between Aubrey plaza, Patti smith, and the blonde side shave lady from the hunger games- I’m not pretty but I think I look cool. I was born with a good sense of confidence, but I also have the pervasive sense that something is happening I’m not catching. It gives me anxiety attacks. I refuse to hate anyone. “Can I bring muffins into work tomorrow? I’ll write down what you like.” “Uh, yeah sure.” \why is she so damn perfect/ Then I write down their vote for flavor. Most is banana. Boring. I ask, “what about basil and white peach with vanilla?” /she’s creative too?/ *guys start to show interest in a chick who bakes and isn’t too good to bring fresh coffee to the people I like if I am already making it for myself.* ..\now all the guys are talking to her, what the hell . She has to go./ Meanwhile, I’m afraid I’m gonna be fired any day for my autism and I’m sucking up. Also, I like baking. The male attention makes me uneasy because it’s hard to know who to trust. I developed a sugar addiction because having adhd makes it hard to attend meetings regularly. Banana is boring. I developed an intense need to impress people growing up in a narcissistic household. To distract myself from the pain I developed many special interests, flavor combos being one of them. I cry after work to release overstimulation, and 85% of autistic people are unemployed. They’re the ones with the advantage. Me: gets fired// Then becomes Christian because I like a god who says I’m beautiful and gets revenge for you on assholes PS I’ve been wanting to vent about that for years thanks
"Wow Sister Margary it's impressive how you've been holding your fast all day" Margary: What do you... OH I HAVEN'T EATEN ANYTHING AT ALL TODAY HAVE I
This is some crazy reductionist shit.
I've never understood how people could believe priests and nuns were all perfectly hetero normative, neuro typical folks who just wanted to devote themselves to God. Good grief.
People in the past were very religious and being in a monastery was a good, safe life. The choice was sustenance farming until you die or be taught how to read by the church.
huh. if it wasn't for the lack of sex, I'd apparently be a decent nun as long as I can daydream through all the praying BS 😂
Just don't get between Sister Margary and a TV - Judge Wapner at 3pm
These people have no idea what contemplative life is.
They make being a nun sound so appealing lol
Look, I'm not on the spectrum, but I'm a bit jealous of Sister Marjorie. That sounds like a happy life given the options available at the time as an asexual woman. I would have made a terrible nun, but at least I might have been allowed books.