Diamond market

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If by last century, you mean 1900-1999; 2

If you mean in the last 100 years; 1. Which is honestly impressive all things considered.

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Yeah only question for me right now is if it will go to 0 or 2 before going back to 1.

Uriel238 [all pronouns]

It was weird to me, when I was looking for rings and jewelry that there are gems that have a higher brilliance and luster than diamonds (and unlike super-fancy bright glass is actually robust enough for typical use). And yet, the folks that want diamonds want diamonds. Since around 2016 after seeing the Mnuchins in the news, it felt like conflict diamonds and slave-mined diamonds are in.

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Don't limit yourself, could go to 2 and then 3 instead of back to 1.

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Anyone can be interested in anything.

Yeah, but I'm responding to a comment that says that neurotypical people aren't curious or passionate about the things they're interested in, and I think that's too narrow of a way to define "interest."

I'd reject that way of thinking because that principle could be weaponized to accuse some neurodivergent people of not caring about people by misreading why they might not be great with social cues or things like that.

AreaSIX

Well, we do label everything nice as "exclusive", as in excluding others from ownership. So how nice things are deemed to be seems to be fuelled by pure spite for other people. You can't have it, so it's "exclusive", meaning good and desirable. Our values in modern societies are just awful and misanthropic.

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The whole economy has already crashed multiple times, based on frivolous financial speculation on a massive scale with fiat currency. Gold, which is not a rock by the way, is at the very least finite so it inhibits the ability of these people to print fake money and burn it up, destroying people's lives in the process. I'm not saying a gold standard would be preferable, but I do believe the question to be far more nuanced than "idiots wanna base money off of rocks, instead of just feels as we do currently".

Flying Squid

Did you really just do an 'um askshully' because I called gold a rock?

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That'd be a problem if people were using blanket statements, but that's not how the comment is worded.

If someone said, "Autistic people tend to have strong, specific interests," nobody would be getting insulted. We'd be like, "Yeah, that tracks." Even if somebody autistic lacked that particular trait, the phrase "tend to" allows for exceptions to the statement - it'd be understood that not every autistic individual fits that description, but many often do.

Which is why it's interesting that when an autistic person flips that exact same sentiment around to show what "normal" people look like from their perspective, neurotypicals are taken aback.

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Really? I always thought it looked gaudy. Maybe that's because most the ones I see are comically large ones that would cost more than an SUV if they were diamond.

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That's an adorable nickname

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it's the suffering that makes them special.

MentalEdge

I honestly couldn't care less about the actual rocks.

But pretty colors are pretty colors.

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it's a good show

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Is this supposed to be a description about a person with adhd or a person without cuz that description was spot on for some of my relatives with adhd in that they can’t hold attention on one thing too long so passion and interest was very brief. And if we’re studying one relative I had in particular, she was constantly trying to fit in and buy things to fill a void. It did much harm. ADHD was only one of the comorbidity she was struggling with.

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AuDHD refers to simultaneous autism + ADHD.

Some symptoms appear to "cancel out" each other from an external perspective.

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I prefer lab grown vehicle to the ones mined out of the ground.

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my neighbour’s son is autistic with adhd. Their son was preyed upon by a gang. and my nephew is autistic with adhd but presents very differently. Hopefully he will grow to not be so easily taken as the neighbour’s son. it’s so tragic.

my niece I had adhd. Their father had adhd but again, very different.

No two are exactly the same.

It’s a massive stretch to say simply being atypical means you’re invulnerable to peer pressure. If anything it’s been quite the opposite.

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You edited your original post. I thought you were unaware of what AuDHD meant. I'm not for or against anything anyone else wrote, mostly because I'm half-reading while intermittently socializing with inlaws on Christmas eve.

Carry on.

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So typical for you to just ignore the whole content of the comment pointing out your asinine argument thinking you're conveying some deep reasoning, just in order to be able to reply to a tiny shred of it like an internet smart ass. Just Squid things, it turns out it's useless to hope for you to say anything non-pathetic, that's just who you keep insisting on being. Good for you big guy! Merry Christmas.