Yes. They still suck because I hate tomato flavor and texture. The only way I tolerate it is in things like Bolognese, but there’s enough other flavor to override the core tomato flavor.

On another note, I would really appreciate if my saying “I dislike A” was just once not met with the attitude of “surely you just haven’t done A right”.

Like, I’m not even saying don’t say what you were going to. Just… Don’t insist it’s my fault? You could’ve just said, “that sucks, but I found that with tomatoes quality makes a huge difference - maybe if you can get your hands on high-quality ones it’s worth trying again” and it would just feel so much different.

Sorry for going off on you a little, I’m sure there was no I’ll intent on your side, but it’s reactions like yours that always make me very hesitant to even talk about food with new people. Which is kinda sad, because food can be a very awesome topic of conversation.

Not trying to rain on your parade, but I have yet to find anything positive about tomatoes at all 😅 they taste bad, have this really gross skin that weirds me out texture-wise, and inside is full of glibber.

That being said, in general your advice is sound - I can’t eat shrimp because of the texture, but I love the flavor. Ground small enough so I don’t have to feel it against my teethe when chewing and I’m a happy camper!

I’m lucky enough that I can get myself to try almost everything at least once - but if I don’t like it after that I will refuse to eat it without remorse. I think the second part for me made trying more stuff easier, because the trying was my way to give myself permission not to like it?

Only thing I really couldn’t bring myself to try is chicken feet. I was a bit disappointed since lots of people were raving about it, but still - I genuinely tried. That’s enough for me!

For me having an official diagnosis first gave me words to research what was wrong with me since I had no clue.

Second, after thorough research it made me give myself permission to work with me and not against me - I wasn’t lazy or anything, I just genuinely was disabled. Having a diagnosis was my shield when someone called me that, and it was so fucking necessary as a late-diagnosef woman. Especially when it came to family to get them off my back.

In my case no medication, but the internal permission to cut myself some slack and figure out in what weird ways my brain works.

Edit: that was supposed to be a reply to someone - it’s been a long day 😅 @[email protected]

You’re quite new to the internet aren’t you? There’s tons of people trashing artwork made in Photoshop. Earlier today I saw a comic and everyone complained about how it shouldn’t have been made.

Not liking art is common on the internet. The difference between ai generated and human-created is that humans usually have an intention when they create. AI just… Creates.

In this case my interest was piqued why the subject matter, because it seemed to promise an interesting story. More interesting than memes are usually the stories behind the pictures used, and they often come from very different places.

This one had nothing. And that’s why the interest vanished. Not because it was AI or because I want to deny I had a feeling at first - simply because my expectations for a good story were disappointed.

Do with this what you want, if you want to keep trying to twist this into AI hate, you do you - I’ve explained myself and I’m not going to reply again :)

It was interesting… Not as a picture, but because the stuff depicted is so unusual. What was the story behind it?

…turns out there’s none. It’s just AI-generated. Very few pictures are interesting/awe-inducing as a picture, most of them fascinate because of the story they present a glimpse of. For me that’s the heart of pictures. And AI pictures are missing that.

So yeah, knowing it’s AI-generated instantly makes me uninterested in the vast majority of cases.

If you measure empathy by understanding other people, I’m a lot closer to 1 than to 100. But if you measure empathy as “feels the vibe of the room, but has no clue if they caused it or someone is angry and doesn’t know how to react if they had the knowledge anyway” then I’m above 90, probably.

I’m not saying you’re assessment of yourself is wrong - I obviously don’t know you. But I’m saying that just because you don’t understand why people are upset doesn’t necessarily mean you are not empathetic. It was a huge revelation for me when I got that.

I’m not sure if what you describe is really an inability to get the big picture or the lack of available information to really base decisions on.

For me it’s hard to make that kind of decisions because other people can’t plan well and their estimates are notoriously wrong and forget to take into account a lot of things.

But what I’m really good at it seeing the bigger picture in the sense of knowing the interdependences between things. If I see a requirement I don’t just follow it point by point. I think about what how it fits into the whole and where things can go wrong and ask if people have considered that. (90% of time the answer is no)

So I consider seeing the big picture and the details my strength, but like you I struggle to plan ahead long-term or estimate things because I don’t feel confident with the amount of information available to make such guesses.