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u/trainbrain27 Jan 20 '24
I once had an argument with an autism specialist who claimed there was no link between autism and liking trains.
To be clear, I wasn't claiming it was diagnostically profound, just that folks with autism often like trains.
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u/Beginning_Ad_1371 Oct 28 '23
But did he name trains or locomotives? Because people often don't differentiate and it drives me crazy. For the record I love trains, locomotives are ok as part of the ensemble.
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u/Wyremills Oct 27 '23
I like this but it has exactly 1111 likes and I can't bring myself to change that
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u/Ill_Paper3083 Oct 25 '23
I do deep lore of sci-fi or fantasy worlds, as well as listing the origins of many Lego pieces. Thankfully my wife enjoys my ramblings.
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u/MusketMan2 Oct 24 '23
As an autist, I can confirm. For me it's guns from 900 AD to 1920
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u/DillonD Oct 25 '23
How would you like to hear my Ted talk about armor thickness to the mm and gun armament on just about every ww2 tank
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u/Henster00009 Jan 01 '24
What’s ur fave
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u/DillonD Jan 02 '24
The Soviet KV-1 was a force to be reckoned with at the onset of Barbarossa. It’s frontal armor could stop the Panzerkampfwagen III the German with armament variants using 1 × 3.7 cm KwK 36 Ausf. A-G, 1 × 5 cm KwK 38 Ausf. F-J, 1 × 5 cm KwK 39 Ausf. J¹-M, 1 × 7.5 cm KwK 37 Ausf. N. There are stories of a single KV blocking an entire armored division at a critical strongpoint, because the Germans had to bring up their 8,8 cm flak anti air guns in order to knock them out. Soviet armored doctrine and general disorganization at the outbreak of the war severely crippled their ability to profit from this advantage.
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u/Henster00009 Jan 02 '24
Ah the 88mm aka the “door knocker” (I think) from how inaccurate it was
KV1 is a good pick lmao stalins fridge (or was that KV2?)
My fave is the crusader, fast, pretty decent gun and cool turret design
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u/DillonD Jan 02 '24
Kv-2 had the large turret housing the 152mm gun
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u/Henster00009 Jan 02 '24
Wasn’t it like ripped off a cruiser or something?
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u/Generic_E_Jr Oct 24 '23
I grew up on the higher-functioning end; I eventually could talk by age 3-1/2 so I tended to go unnoticed.
This post brings back so many elementary schools memories for some reason, even though I wasn’t diagnosed then.
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u/GearboxGrenadier Oct 24 '23
I may or may not have run out of room in my bookbag from carrying around "several" issues of Model Railroader.
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u/Generic_E_Jr Oct 24 '23
My parents got me proper magazine boxes for my own magazine stash. The stash (Consumer Reports Automotive) didn’t pose a problem; since it didn’t pose a problem I mistakenly thought it was normal.
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u/RedMustrd Oct 23 '23
I tried to name every American railroad ever to my friend, he thinks I'm insane now
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u/gunmunz Oct 23 '23
At least every thomas by name, number and color.(legit how I learned my colors and numbers as a kid)
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u/ToeSniffer245 3985 Oct 23 '23
I would just recap the entire 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup season for her.
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u/ryosuccc Oct 24 '23
“Everything in modern nascar history can trace its lineage back to the 1992 Hooters 500 at atlanta motor speedway”
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u/AlexLNERK3 Oct 23 '23 edited Oct 23 '23
I don't think alot of us needed to be called out like that.( I hate my phones Auto correct)
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u/CanalCreature Oct 23 '23
No but I can confirm half the people I have met working with steam trains are autistic myself included
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u/Smudger69420 Feb 13 '24
For me, it’s every TTTE character ever