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  2. 🏘️ Community Standards

    • Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
    • Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
    • Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
    • Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.

  3. 🧬 Keep it Real

    • Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.

  4. πŸ“½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due

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    • Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!

  5. πŸ“‹ Post Formatting

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    • Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
    • When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
      βœ… Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
      ❌ Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/

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    • Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 πŸ–) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 πŸ–) will be removed.

  7. πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)

    • Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
      SΓ­, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]

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    • When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
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The following artists are banned from the community.

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When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:

Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)

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XXL [SMBC] (discuss.online)
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/47437499

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/xxl

Alt textI haven't dated in a long time, so this may be unrealistic.

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[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago

For context, autism doesn't really have anything to do with accuracy of maths. It has symptoms like difficulty communicating and special interests.

It's hard to explain, but "your autism has failed you" just feels weird. I have autism myself. I'll probably struggle to explain why, but here goes:

  • The original comment was using autism as a joking explanation as to why they enjoy doing calculations. The reply turns that against them: "your autism should have made you good at this, but you failed." It's ok to have self deprecating humour, but it's less funny to deprecate others.
  • It reinforces the stereotype that all autistic purple must be good at calculations, logic, and detail oriented tasks. As if it's a superpower or special talent, and this person's autism powers simply failed to activate correctly. It turns the joke into a standard they're supposed to meet.
  • It makes the mistake seem more serious and personal than it is. We're calculating condom based floatation devices here lol

They could have just supplied the corrections to the calculations without making it about their identity. I assume (in good faith) that they meant it as a joke as well; it just came across as a bit insensitive and demeaning.