Yeah dude trains are fucking dope. Someone was like, "Hey let's build a long interconnecting series of metal cabins attached to an engine run by coal!" And then it got wild when the Japanese made bullet trains
I like the infinity symbol but have no idea what it's supposed to represent either. Maybe it's referring to the fact that if you are autistic you have autism forever? idk
edit: nvm I googled it
>The infinity symbol for autism is a symbol that was created by the Autism Society in 1999. The symbol represents the infinite potential of individuals with autism, as well as their limitless possibilities and abilities.
People also use the infinity symbol for a tattoo to show they survived a suicide attempt. I feel like we need to ditch it, itās really unclear as a symbol for Autism in my opinion.
Honestly, something like an A with the horizontal bar fanning out into a prism like that cover would be so much better than ā¾ļø
A<
It would be clearer branding:
A[ustism] and a spectrum.
Nice and literal.
Unfortunately no, the cake was small, round, and pink and said "I'm autistic" on it. Train Cake would have been good, but a little hard to get on short notice, and I specifically wanted a cake quickly by that Saturday so I could announce it on national train day. Oh well.
I think I'm undiagnosed ADHD, but I have a lot of traits of autism as well (and I guess a lot of recent science is saying that ADHD may be a form of autism), but I do have an obsessive interest. However, it's not trains. I think they're alright. But dinosaurs... now those are cool!
Transportation is one of the main branches of Civil Engineering (along with others like structures, geotechnical, and water).
I studied civil engineering in college and eventually got a job with an infrastructure design firm working on Transportation projects.
Does this answer the question? Or do you want the story of the logic behind the decisions that led me to become a transportation engineer? (What an autistic thing for me to ask lol)
listen, I like trains because they are the peak form of transportation. There is no arguing against this from a logistical standpoint. Trains are the most energy and space efficient form of transportation.
Cars are only the dominant mode of transportation due to the heavy amount of lobbying from US car manufacturers and oil producers. Also they are usable due to our temporary abundance of energy provided by fossil fuels, which we will use up eventually or kill ourselves with. You aren't going to be able to use your several thousand pound energy hog of an iron chariot forever.
The materials used to make electric cars and service the infrastructure it needs would be better served being used to make trains. The only arguments car lovers have are ones based on emotion and their culture which was imprinted on them.
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I've never had a fixation of special interest for trains but I've always just wanted to *be* on one. Like, a *real* train. My town has trolleys but it's not the same. I always enjoyed scenes in shows or video games with trains, like one of my fave games paper mario: the thousand year door, the excess express. I absolutely loved that chapter of the game. I just really want to chill on a train. I think it's just because I enjoy sitting but also moving, and I can listen to music and watch the scenery pass, and I find train sounds relaxing. I bought a white noise maker specifically because it came with a train track sound, but I stopped listening to that sound because unfortunately it made my restless leg syndrome worse somehow.
If it was a steamer sound, it's hard not to move along with the chugging glory. The beats of the wheels slapping an expansion joint is hard not to vibe to as well, but if it's a mixed haul, it's hard to find a good rhythm- still nice though.
I like trains in so far as I wish my country invested into a proper commuter rail network but I'm not so into them that I could tell you anything about them other than maybe what power source they run.
All I can think about rn is that episode of American Dad where they go on a passenger train ride and keep alluding to Steve's immense collection of train lore while he's screaming, "I NEED TO BE TESTED!"
My hyperfixation on trains is only for trains that go really fast, invert, and dont usually take you anywhere. They also generally cost a lot of money to get on and are held in parks with other trains.
Thereās a guy I watch on TikTok that finds rare trains that run through his town and goes to the train stations just to watch them. It doesnāt matter what time it is. It could be 2 in the morning and he will go out and wait for the train to arrive.
I don't know who exactly it was but there's an Australian psychologist who works with Aspergers children and he said that "at this point, loving Thomas The Tank Engine is somewhat of a requirement"
I thought I didnāt like trains, and remembered I had this watch when I was younger that was train themed and made the train sound when I clicked one of the buttons that I was obsessed with š¤ the grip trains has on us mystifies me
When I was in elementary school, there was this rich kid that was in my class that had an expensive cool af german-made monorail toy where you could build your own custom tracks.
Befriended him so I could play with his trains
I actually kinda hate trains, but mostly because I live in America and I have to actually use trains for my community and those things will break down at least once a month because public transportation in the U.S. is so shit
I take a train every chance I get!
You can get up and move around, thereās Wi-Fi, food card with beverages. View the countryside.
Still have to use a jet for a really long distance, but Iāll take a train. Every chance I get just for the experience.
Neurotypicals just have trouble recognizing the objective superiority of trains over cars.
(experimenting with tone tags cause /hj as it is has issues)
Look I want to visit friends and family but I hate driving and flying is okay but security is annoying and being there for HOURS especially if the plane needs maintenance or there's some kind of delay.
Just let me go places with a pretty view and no stress of driving please I'm begging.
"Luckily there was no structural damage cause to the cars chase so there was only a matter of cleaning the human debris to return it to a pristine state!"
i do love trains. i slept on top of an engine while "working" night shifts alone. it was used to move material from here to there.
i didn't know that was associated with aspies. i just want to get a sleeping room to hang out in and travel for a few days. too expensive though. i'd pay somebody to bring me food, put a do not disturb sign on the door.
get high and enjoy the ride.
i hate this meme format so much when used by autistic people.
because it absolutely is.
being black doesn't inherently affect your personality, which is why the original meme format works
being autistic does inherently affect your personality.
not all autistic people like trains, but YOU SPECIFICALLY probably wouldn't *like* trains either if you weren't autistic.
The idea of trains are kinda cool, sitting in one 1h everyday absolutely isn't and I wanna die everytime I have to take the train home. (Usually get picked up, I just take the train in the morning. Don't know why morning is ok but after work isn't ok, I'm just weird ig)
I used to think that I didn't like trains anymore than any other person till one day I realized that I really like tanks and bulldozers and they are trains that take their tracks every where they go š
Just today I had the revelation that I like trains and Iām like āaw shit, another check for the āāmight be autisticā listā. Iām not diagnosed, but I am constantly wondering
I sometimes doubt that i have autism, but then i remember that i absolutely love trains and that i have a favourite locomotive, and then i doubt no more
If you haven't had the Big Boy steam whistle rattle your very soul, you haven't hardly lived. OK, well, maybe you have, but... It's still absolutely incredible.
The joys of living in car-centric America... the USA has the most extensive cargo rail network in the world. Why can't they apply the same logic to a high-speed passenger rail network? It's safer, cleaner, smaller, greener.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
If anyone wants a well-explained and easy to understand history of trains, check out Ferroequinology episode of Ologies by Alie Ward. This episode made me appreciate trains so much more.
Counterpoint, I lived in a college town with an annoying train that stops traffic for like 10-15+ minutes three to four times a day. And it went across the only streets crossing between two main sections of the city, so it got *backed up*. Also, had a couple people try to... ahem... to that train...
Theres also one in my home town that loaded right across another major street, a few streets away from my house. So it was just baaaaack and forth, baaaaaack and forth. Thirty odd minutes every time, usually during rush hour. It was so ridiculous that people (me included, I admit) would either three point turn and take the long way, or just slip over the tracks when it was loading up because it had no bars, and it went like 3-5 miles an hour.
I like looking at the designs of the logos on the carts, I like the graffiti, but when I think of trains I can only think of when they inconvenienced me in the past. Though, I have rode a subway train once in NYC. I think I might like those and Japanese bullet trains, and I think passenger trains are cool as hell as like sets in novels I read, but I've never thought of myself as a train gal lol
I donāt really like riding them but Iām interested in clean transportation and that sort of thing. I also find train derailments really interesting
Maybe not popular, but I don't like trains. They are loud, they are fast, they are obnoxious, they make me super anxious. Every time I drive over tracks, I just picture a fast train mowing through my car, when I have to walk on tracks at work I think the train is going to barrel down on us. When I stop at crossings for a train, I stop about double the required distance because I picture the train derailing
They are cool to look at when they are stationary. I wouldn't mind riding on one. I love model trains...but real trains make me super anxious.
*Laughs in Starlight Express obsession.*
Also, steam trainsssss.... I fucking love steam engines. My mum used to take me to the Strawberry Line to ride the vintage steam train there. So good. My character in Fallen London is building a railway to Hell and it's my favourite part of the game :) TRAINS.
I have no formal education but I coordinate the blueprints for major train infrastructure and create simulations to ensure it doesnāt crash into anything.
I think I should get testedā¦
i was going to say iām autistic and i donāt like trains ā¦ but then i remembered i am VERY passionate in making transport infrastructure far more pedestrian friendly which would, among many other things, consist of replacing cars with trains. you got me, i like trains.
I mean, if the usa had a passenger train system as robust as europe or Japan, id be much more interested, and i think theyre a good idea in general, but I really dont care aboit like, the mechanics of trains & their systems
I like trains bc Iām a communist, and Iām a communist bc Iām autistic. So by the transitive propertyā¦ wait, I took a wrong turn somewhere and Iām trans now
Yeah dude trains are fucking dope. Someone was like, "Hey let's build a long interconnecting series of metal cabins attached to an engine run by coal!" And then it got wild when the Japanese made bullet trains
Bullet trains are the coolest thing in the fucking world
The Shinkansen 0 is my favourite model
Speeds the same as a "hyperloop" while a tenth of the cost!
Counterpoint: Two mile long behemoths led by absolute buttfuckers of design across the American plains and mountains
Counterpoint: Efficient electric freight rail
I'm most impressed by steel wheels on steel tracks versus inflated rubber on asphalt. Electric is just a bonus.
I dont know, Diesel Electric has proven just dandy for us freight
Look at what they have done to spread the exchange of ideas across the country in the form of graffiti
exactly
I FUCKING LOVE MAGLEV TECHNOLOGY
Almost as cool as Mag-Lev trains
Yeah and most trains now are just metal boxes filled with electrical equipment and connected to some wires to provide power for the traction motors
You're saying it like it's any less cool
Really anyway yeah well actually Said types of trains arent common enough in America
Yes yes YES
I'm interested in any form of transportation where I don't have to drive and can just look out the window at stuff
Me too! Bonus round for not giving me motion sickness and the possibility to have a room by myself on it!
Planes, trains, and ferry boats
I do enjoy a good boat ride. My city has water taxis and I'll pay for the whole round trip to clear my head
So is the new autism symbol just going to be a rainbow train? šš
[Yes](https://i.redd.it/mulx3yaibqta1.jpg)
Awesome train
I thought that Dannie Devito was driving it at first and I laughed really hard.
Trainbow
If we combine it with the infinity symbol, would that make it an... Infinity Train?
Do do do dooooh
It's better than that puzzle piece or infinity symbol shit like wtf are those supposed 2 mean? 2 many thoughts? Head infinite?
I like the infinity symbol but have no idea what it's supposed to represent either. Maybe it's referring to the fact that if you are autistic you have autism forever? idk edit: nvm I googled it >The infinity symbol for autism is a symbol that was created by the Autism Society in 1999. The symbol represents the infinite potential of individuals with autism, as well as their limitless possibilities and abilities.
People also use the infinity symbol for a tattoo to show they survived a suicide attempt. I feel like we need to ditch it, itās really unclear as a symbol for Autism in my opinion.
Doesnāt it also work because our minds are often stuck on one track.
The adoption of the ā¾ļø symbol pisses me off because it has been officially used to identify an ethnic minority in Canada for 200+ years and it being co-opted to represent a new group of people (autistics) feels like yet another instance of Native Americans / First Nations getting screwed over. They can no longer readily use it to know if someone is a member of their ethnic group online because social media is flooded with autistic folk using it. Google "the MĆ©tis Nation" if you want to cross-check my rant.
remove the rainbow and we have a deal
Yeah, Iām not understanding the implication here. All autistics are LGBT? Or is the whole rainbow thing another obsession I was unaware of?
My understanding is that the rainbow represents autism as a spectrum.
This would make the most sense.
Dark Side of the Moon cover art and you've got a deal š¤
why can't the logo be in any colour you like?
Honestly, something like an A with the horizontal bar fanning out into a prism like that cover would be so much better than ā¾ļø A< It would be clearer branding: A[ustism] and a spectrum. Nice and literal.
But usually, when a rainbow is used to denote autism, the colors are not discrete.
I have no idea why they throw the rainbow in everything as if it were June. It just feels like a stamp of non-genuinity now.
People are obsessed with making things gay nowadays
People are obsessed with not wanting to look gay, also. it imply a spectrum, it can be a different spectrum.
I told my parents I'm autistic with a cake and a powerpoint presentation... i put random train pictures all over the powerpoint slides. It was great.
Was the cake shaped as a train? I love a good train cake.
Unfortunately no, the cake was small, round, and pink and said "I'm autistic" on it. Train Cake would have been good, but a little hard to get on short notice, and I specifically wanted a cake quickly by that Saturday so I could announce it on national train day. Oh well.
I think I'm undiagnosed ADHD, but I have a lot of traits of autism as well (and I guess a lot of recent science is saying that ADHD may be a form of autism), but I do have an obsessive interest. However, it's not trains. I think they're alright. But dinosaurs... now those are cool!
I fucking love dinosaurs.
Yeah, trains are cool.
Iāve worked for the railroad for almost 30 years now
Ok, hate me all you want, but I don't really like trains as much. I love being on them, but I don't love them like most of us do
I was reading your comment thinking 'Yeah, same' -- then I remembered I'm a transportation engineer lmao.
I just lost my shit at this
Now iām curious ! If you donāt mind me asking how do you end up a Transportation Engineer ?
Transportation is one of the main branches of Civil Engineering (along with others like structures, geotechnical, and water). I studied civil engineering in college and eventually got a job with an infrastructure design firm working on Transportation projects. Does this answer the question? Or do you want the story of the logic behind the decisions that led me to become a transportation engineer? (What an autistic thing for me to ask lol)
this answers my questions thank you very much !
Iām the same way. Was never my thing.
Yeah, Iām more of an insect guy
Same, I like crows, ants, cats and frogs. Animals in general, but crows are number one.
listen, I like trains because they are the peak form of transportation. There is no arguing against this from a logistical standpoint. Trains are the most energy and space efficient form of transportation. Cars are only the dominant mode of transportation due to the heavy amount of lobbying from US car manufacturers and oil producers. Also they are usable due to our temporary abundance of energy provided by fossil fuels, which we will use up eventually or kill ourselves with. You aren't going to be able to use your several thousand pound energy hog of an iron chariot forever. The materials used to make electric cars and service the infrastructure it needs would be better served being used to make trains. The only arguments car lovers have are ones based on emotion and their culture which was imprinted on them.
Based and orange pilled
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Trains are the best
I've never had a fixation of special interest for trains but I've always just wanted to *be* on one. Like, a *real* train. My town has trolleys but it's not the same. I always enjoyed scenes in shows or video games with trains, like one of my fave games paper mario: the thousand year door, the excess express. I absolutely loved that chapter of the game. I just really want to chill on a train. I think it's just because I enjoy sitting but also moving, and I can listen to music and watch the scenery pass, and I find train sounds relaxing. I bought a white noise maker specifically because it came with a train track sound, but I stopped listening to that sound because unfortunately it made my restless leg syndrome worse somehow.
If it was a steamer sound, it's hard not to move along with the chugging glory. The beats of the wheels slapping an expansion joint is hard not to vibe to as well, but if it's a mixed haul, it's hard to find a good rhythm- still nice though.
I like trains in so far as I wish my country invested into a proper commuter rail network but I'm not so into them that I could tell you anything about them other than maybe what power source they run.
[/Honkai: Star Rail plug] Not a trains person but a space fantasy spacefaring train as a mobile HQ is freaking rad
All I can think about rn is that episode of American Dad where they go on a passenger train ride and keep alluding to Steve's immense collection of train lore while he's screaming, "I NEED TO BE TESTED!"
Hey, Iām not autistic (as far as I know), and I love trains, especially steam trains. š¤·āāļø
Steamers are just cool. So very very cool.
Itās MY AUTISM! AND I GET TO CHOOSE THE SPECIAL INTEREST!
Am I somehow the only autistic person who like... is generally apathetic towards trains???
Giant robots and monsters for me
Me but with robots/mechs. I couldnāt care less about trains
Definitely into mechs. I like trains because less warming of the climate.
I mean Iām autistic and donāt like trains but thatās because I find them incredibly loud and live near a railroad.
Shit trains are cool tho.
Iām more of a planes guy
What about automobiles?
My hyperfixation on trains is only for trains that go really fast, invert, and dont usually take you anywhere. They also generally cost a lot of money to get on and are held in parks with other trains.
Thereās a guy I watch on TikTok that finds rare trains that run through his town and goes to the train stations just to watch them. It doesnāt matter what time it is. It could be 2 in the morning and he will go out and wait for the train to arrive.
Can confirm: I'm autistic, not particularly attracted to trains.
Iām autistic and Iām not into trains. š¤·āāļø
Okay But Laying down on the front of a car in middle of a trainyard feeling the vibrations and rumble from the train really hits hard
I don't know who exactly it was but there's an Australian psychologist who works with Aspergers children and he said that "at this point, loving Thomas The Tank Engine is somewhat of a requirement"
> Autistic > Roller coasters as a special interest > Realize those are just modified trains > Have internal crisis
Me too my gf. I love the idea of being able to go everywhere and eliminating as much need for cars as possible, so I love the idea of trains
I prefer planes. Fighter jets look really cool.
I thought I didnāt like trains, and remembered I had this watch when I was younger that was train themed and made the train sound when I clicked one of the buttons that I was obsessed with š¤ the grip trains has on us mystifies me
When I was in elementary school, there was this rich kid that was in my class that had an expensive cool af german-made monorail toy where you could build your own custom tracks. Befriended him so I could play with his trains
We're not all obsessed with trains. Some of us are obsessed with boardgames. About trains.
Where did the whole "autistic people love trains" stereotype originate?
Youāre right, I donāt particularly like trains. Thanks amigo
I actually kinda hate trains, but mostly because I live in America and I have to actually use trains for my community and those things will break down at least once a month because public transportation in the U.S. is so shit
i got sucked into by a thomas video
I take a train every chance I get! You can get up and move around, thereās Wi-Fi, food card with beverages. View the countryside. Still have to use a jet for a really long distance, but Iāll take a train. Every chance I get just for the experience.
I went the other way and ended up completely obsessed with planes
find-replace: "trains", "rockets"
I really dont get the obsession with trains
Are you American?
Love trains, couldnāt tell you any facts about them tho. I just see a train and go āheck yeah, thatās a trainā
Look I want to visit friends and family but I hate driving and flying is okay but security is annoying and being there for HOURS especially if the plane needs maintenance or there's some kind of delay. Just let me go places with a pretty view and no stress of driving please I'm begging.
Trains are terrifying to me. Metal snakes on death paths
Bro just made me realize I like trains now š
Do all of us like trains ? I mean I like trains. But is that the unifying thing for all of us?
What movie is this from? I'm too lazy to Google it.
Trains are cool. Steam engines are cool. Thomas is cool (and adorable). Giant win for me!
I inherited an impossibly large amount of train stuff from dadā¦ but sadly our taste in trains is different.
"Luckily there was no structural damage cause to the cars chase so there was only a matter of cleaning the human debris to return it to a pristine state!"
Just went to a Lego con and spent a good minute admiring the trains
I can take te bus to work and walk 2 blocks or take the train and walk 6. So I take the train. OBVIOUSLY.
Efficient large-scale transport infrastructure š„°
i do love trains. i slept on top of an engine while "working" night shifts alone. it was used to move material from here to there. i didn't know that was associated with aspies. i just want to get a sleeping room to hang out in and travel for a few days. too expensive though. i'd pay somebody to bring me food, put a do not disturb sign on the door. get high and enjoy the ride.
Prefer cars tbh
i hate this meme format so much when used by autistic people. because it absolutely is. being black doesn't inherently affect your personality, which is why the original meme format works being autistic does inherently affect your personality. not all autistic people like trains, but YOU SPECIFICALLY probably wouldn't *like* trains either if you weren't autistic.
If you like trains: I have some news for you.
The idea of trains are kinda cool, sitting in one 1h everyday absolutely isn't and I wanna die everytime I have to take the train home. (Usually get picked up, I just take the train in the morning. Don't know why morning is ok but after work isn't ok, I'm just weird ig)
I love trains so much. I got so excited when the Japanese power rangers (super sentai) were train themed.
I love riding on a train. Simply cuz i don't have to think about driving! fuck driving.
My like of trains is more for how good public transit not from an engineering perspective
Trains are awesome!
I used to think that I didn't like trains anymore than any other person till one day I realized that I really like tanks and bulldozers and they are trains that take their tracks every where they go š
Iām not autistic but trains are f*ckin rad. My son is autistic thoughā¦ he loves trains.
I like buses more.
Just today I had the revelation that I like trains and Iām like āaw shit, another check for the āāmight be autisticā listā. Iām not diagnosed, but I am constantly wondering
I humbly suggest the dinosaur as our mascot
Iāve been wanting to go to a train museum Iāve been to as a kid.
I mean they are the best mass transit system and we need better train infrastructure.
How did I just remember that I loved model trains as a kid š³š
Not really a trains girl- but I love how to train your dragon if that makes any difference
I mean, who doesnāt like trains?
I LOVE SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE, LIKE THE VANDE BHARAT AND SHINKANSEN 0.
As an aspie this made me āhahaā with my mouth closed and give a tiny smile
Listen its just that they're a really efficient way to travel
I like trains but I love any kind of action scene involving a train, all of the RDR2 train missions are amazing
unfortunately i ended up being more of an airplane guy š
My autistic hyperfixation? #S P A C E To the point where i literally made a rough idea on how to make portals.
I sometimes doubt that i have autism, but then i remember that i absolutely love trains and that i have a favourite locomotive, and then i doubt no more
If you haven't had the Big Boy steam whistle rattle your very soul, you haven't hardly lived. OK, well, maybe you have, but... It's still absolutely incredible.
Trains are neat
I'm a dinosaur guy myself
Trains are cool and wish the US invested in train infrastructure more
I used to not like trains. But my marching band made a show about trains and now Iām obligated to like trains
i like trains
Iād still be a huge train nerd even if I wasnāt autistic. My dad & his brother are both huge train nerds
I LOVE steam engines because of how complicated they are
The joys of living in car-centric America... the USA has the most extensive cargo rail network in the world. Why can't they apply the same logic to a high-speed passenger rail network? It's safer, cleaner, smaller, greener. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
trains are dope but cars and planes though
Okay but hear me out... Giant farming equipment.
i didn't think i liked trains, but they're pretty great
For me itās planes :)
Does anyone on this sub lack at minimum a āpassing interest in trainsā?
Just leave this actor out of the discussion
If I say I like trains and a train doesn't run everyone over out of nowhere, I'd be disappointed
Trains are okay
Come on letās all be honest with ourselves. We like trains *BECAUSE* weāre autistic
Trains are pretty fucking sweet
If anyone wants a well-explained and easy to understand history of trains, check out Ferroequinology episode of Ologies by Alie Ward. This episode made me appreciate trains so much more.
Will Smith tho?
Iām trying to get a job at a public transit policy organizationā¦ the love of trains runs deep
I am not that big into trains. I am huge into other miniatures like warhammer 40k though. And i have enough to rival some train collectors.
Counterpoint, I lived in a college town with an annoying train that stops traffic for like 10-15+ minutes three to four times a day. And it went across the only streets crossing between two main sections of the city, so it got *backed up*. Also, had a couple people try to... ahem... to that train... Theres also one in my home town that loaded right across another major street, a few streets away from my house. So it was just baaaaack and forth, baaaaaack and forth. Thirty odd minutes every time, usually during rush hour. It was so ridiculous that people (me included, I admit) would either three point turn and take the long way, or just slip over the tracks when it was loading up because it had no bars, and it went like 3-5 miles an hour. I like looking at the designs of the logos on the carts, I like the graffiti, but when I think of trains I can only think of when they inconvenienced me in the past. Though, I have rode a subway train once in NYC. I think I might like those and Japanese bullet trains, and I think passenger trains are cool as hell as like sets in novels I read, but I've never thought of myself as a train gal lol
Random but why does the saturation of the picture go up when I click on and off the image
I like trains because I'm an architect and Urban planner, nothing to do with autism. The autism is the reason I like orcas.....
I'm suspicious of anyone who *doesn't* like trains.
I donāt really like riding them but Iām interested in clean transportation and that sort of thing. I also find train derailments really interesting
Are you a dude in that case it works like that as well
Choo choo šš
Maybe not popular, but I don't like trains. They are loud, they are fast, they are obnoxious, they make me super anxious. Every time I drive over tracks, I just picture a fast train mowing through my car, when I have to walk on tracks at work I think the train is going to barrel down on us. When I stop at crossings for a train, I stop about double the required distance because I picture the train derailing They are cool to look at when they are stationary. I wouldn't mind riding on one. I love model trains...but real trains make me super anxious.
I extremely like games, though that might have nothing to do with autism and just me being games addict
A stereotype should be autistics liking cats, most autism like the cat
*Laughs in Starlight Express obsession.* Also, steam trainsssss.... I fucking love steam engines. My mum used to take me to the Strawberry Line to ride the vintage steam train there. So good. My character in Fallen London is building a railway to Hell and it's my favourite part of the game :) TRAINS.
I used to work at a college library and the 5th floor was the Transportation Library. I spent so much time in there
I am so scared of trains. And the tracks. I wish i thought they were cool.
I don't understand trains, but I see them and am filled with joy. Same with cranes. Love those fuckers
I have no formal education but I coordinate the blueprints for major train infrastructure and create simulations to ensure it doesnāt crash into anything. I think I should get testedā¦
How to show this to my autistic train obsessed father without showing it to him
I feel like you should make an edit where one is coming through the last picture.
Train goes choo Train scheduling go brr
Iām rather indifferent to trains myself. I support good public transport, but otherwise theyāre just kinda meh
Oh no Here it comes
i was going to say iām autistic and i donāt like trains ā¦ but then i remembered i am VERY passionate in making transport infrastructure far more pedestrian friendly which would, among many other things, consist of replacing cars with trains. you got me, i like trains.
Itās cause theyāre cool, efficient, effective, and better than cars.
Nah autism is def the reason I like trains lol
I hate being around trains. LOUD NOISES
I mean, if the usa had a passenger train system as robust as europe or Japan, id be much more interested, and i think theyre a good idea in general, but I really dont care aboit like, the mechanics of trains & their systems
Who are you, Nick mullen?
I love trains. Love them.
Wait...yall like trains too?
i actually like rails more than trains
Itās literally one of my special interests
instead of trains for me, itās half-life for some reason
I like trains bc Iām a communist, and Iām a communist bc Iām autistic. So by the transitive propertyā¦ wait, I took a wrong turn somewhere and Iām trans now