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I haven't read it, but it looks like Carrots Love Tomatoes (by Louise Riotte) is a good one.

I have a large collection of ebooks on many topics, which were mostly selected after researching what books were the best on their subjects at the time that I acquired them. I don't remember adding this one, but I'm sure I had my reasons, and it looks like it is considered a classic and has a 4.0 on goodreads. In the absence of replies with more personal recommendations, that might be a good place to start.

Edit: while rummaging through discussion of that book to try to ensure I hadn't given terrible advice, I found at least one person saying you're better off reading the ATTRA guide on the subject. The link they provided was dead but I believe this is the document they meant, so you might find it helpful too: https://www.theunitygardens.org/uploads/1/4/5/0/14506314/companion_planting_handout.pdf

I have actually seen a fair bit of discussion of this where autistic people suggest it's an autistic trait, but I don't think there's any studies correlating the two. It could be one of those things that is just a human trait, that autistic people have latched onto and ascribed to autism. Although, I've only seen it come up in discussions of autism for some reason, maybe just because those are the only communities I'm in where people are constantly examining the idiosyncrasies of their own experience. Then again, your migraine theory holds up - a quick google says 42% of autistic people have migraines, compared to 10% of the general population.

I experience it quite often, and usefully am actually experiencing it right now. I guess it hasn't directly informed my comment, but it's fun to glance up at the white ceiling while typing this and be like "yup, definitely a real thing, can confirm what it looks like". In my case it's very fine-grained, like noise varying on the individual pixel level at quite a high resolution, not like big blobs on a CRT tuned to a dead channel, and is multicolored. But it's also mild enough that it's easy for me to ignore. I think I've seen some people describe it as more obtrusive, blobbier, and/or monochrome, so I guess it varies.

Actually, I went ahead and pulled up an image that's pretty similar to what I experience. It's basically this image but extremely transparent, tiled over my entire field of vision: https://physbam.stanford.edu/cs448x/old/attachments/Noise_Review/white_noise_256_3c.png

you mean jumping the stark

I came to the comments looking for context, but since nobody has provided it yet, did some googling. I believe this is the reference: https://news.sky.com/story/tyrannosaurus-rex-could-have-been-even-bigger-than-previously-thought-study-suggests-13184470

Autism coded characters are 100% a thing - I'd go a step further and say it's possible for a character to be Autism coded without the author realizing. Ultimately, all characters are based on experience (either the writer's own, or the experience of other writers they're influenced by), and I think it's fairly common for writers to draw on a particular archetype, inspired by someone they know or a character they've seen elsewhere, and implement that archetype without realizing that their inspirations (and hence their derivative creation) are autistic.

One of the most famous ones is Abed from the TV show Community, who supposedly wasn't initially written to be autistic, but when everyone pointed out that he was it led the showrunner to realize he himself was probably on the spectrum as well.

I've seen people suggest that Peridot from Steven Universe is autistic coded as well (although I'm not sure it makes sense for her to be literally neurodivergent, since she is an alien rock and doesn't have actual neurology).

I feel like I had a bunch of examples of characters who are autistic coded but not confirmed to be autistic, but they're not springing to mind right now. I've thought about this before because a bunch of them are great characters that I resonated with before even noticing their autistic traits (or mine). Someone already mentioned Judah Mannowdog from Bojack Horseman.

Oh, I've seen people say Lilo from Lilo and Stitch is autistic coded, and I guess I can see it. Also, obviously Sheldon Cooper is a negative portrayal of autism that the creators will never admit is autistic because then they'd have to admit he's a mocking caricature of autism.

There are some great characters from one of my favorite shows who I'm pretty sure are autistic, with differing presentations. But, while I'm happy to identify as a fan of that show, and happy to identify as autistic, I worry that identifying as both at the same time is playing into some negative stereotypes about both groups. But one of the characters is really into rocks and the other is really into kites. Iykyk.

I briefly googled autistic coded characters to try to refresh my memory, but have only included characters I have personally previously formed opinions about, since that seemed to be what you were asking for. But if you just want a bunch of discussions and lists, googling "autistic coded characters" will get you a lot of different takes.

In general I feel like autistic coded characters are often better representation than explicitly autistic characters, because when a piece of media explicitly labels a character as autistic, they can often lean into making Autism their only personality trait, or even make it a selling point of the entire work. Autistic coded characters have the luxury of being an actual person that happens to be autistic, instead of a walking billboard for the writer's research on neurotypes.

if a lamppost is powered by poop, does that make it a shitpost

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Aha, thanks! I guess that concludes this thread, as I don't really expect to get a dev chiming in explaining why.

It's not my preferred way of handling it but I don't have the energy to make a fuss. I guess if I click a link that needs to be http, I'll copy it to a browser, and if I post one I'll remind others to do the same. Probably won't come up often enough to care about.

At least you've satisfied my curiosity as to what was going on 😀

Edit: I was repeatedly told while trying to post this comment that the request timeout had expired. When the error stopped appearing, I had posted 4 copies of this message. I have deleted them but I apologize if they still spam your inbox as [deleted] or something.