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Cake day: March 23rd, 2022

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  • Not everyone who engages in sensory-seeking is neurodivergent. Stimtoys and sensory videos can appeal to everyone. Many humans like to have things in their mouths, and gum is the semi-modern incarnation of this. Autistic sensory requirements are a whole other thing, and frankly you do not see stimtoy companies successfully marketing silicone chew toys. The most popular toys are tactile because they appeal to the largest demographic rather than an autistic niche.

    As for the videos you linked… ASMR and other sensory videos take advantage of animal biology, and capitalism simply cracked the code with technology and marketing. You can actually turn on a video of dancing fruit on your TV and hypnotize your dog with it. It would probably have the same effect on medieval peasants as it does to the modern proletariat.




  • The point is the word “tankie” is quickly becoming as vague and useless as “woke”. Mearsheimer and Chomsky get called tankie nowadays for crying out loud. In three years when the USA Gulf of Tonkins itself in the Taiwan Strait, people are going to call you a tankie for dodging the draft!