A term born in neo-psychology (a pseudoscience) to describe anyone who has even the slightest behavioral quirk when compared to "normal" people. This theoretically should mean people with ADHD, ASD, DID, BPD, or one of the ever growing list of mental illnesses that the medics prescribe maladjusted teenagers into believing they're special or quirky.
As someone with actual ADHD I hate it and hate the online "ADHD community" behavior of making it their entire personality. I wish they all died from forgetting to turn off the gas
When I was younger I was screened for autism twice the answer was that I was probably autistic, but they were never sure. I feel like I dodged a bullet, since I have a particular fear of medications, since I was overmedicated as an infant (Amoxycillin "epidemic", it never truly was recognized as one, but everyone I know that was my age was prescribed it and I think you can see a lot of moronation among my age group to know that something is a little bit "off").
These autism diagnoses are codswallop in my opinion, though. Autism is not a personality trait, but an ailment of the mind, one which only goes away with a proper lifestyle change, no medications or "affirmations" or whatever the Hell most people not only my age, but younger (and even slightly older) believe in. They are too easily swayed and have become easy prey to the sellers of snake oil.
Excuse the blogpost, just those "autistic" people are the bane of my existence too.
Don't mind the blogpost, I love when a conversation goes on random tangents. Unfortunately that part of the ADHD stereotype is true.
In my case, my parents did me an IQ test when I was 4 or 5. I scored ~140 but the testers also mentioned I most likely had ADHD as well. My parents, however (God bless them) simply shrugged it off. In my late teens, I learned about what ADHD was and went to a psychiatrist which confirmed it. Surprisingly, she didn't medicate me anything, perhaps because I pretended to be more "normal" as well.
Which leads me to another point, I can "fake" being normal for the most part. It's how I've lived the majority of my life. My short term memory issues are simply tagged as "absentmindedness" which people usually forgive me once they realize I'm not actually stupid, just forgetful.
I still have the certificate for any time someone tries to confront me, I'll just shove my license for moronation in front of them. It's a good trump card to have kek
1 month ago
Anonymous
Well, first, I am legally required to say this: Nice Dubs.
My I.Q Story is similar (again, an official test came out around 140). No ADHD, but the man who did the test noticed something interesting about me too (specifically, my thought processes).
Now that that is out of the way, I am of the opinion that autism is no worse than a long-term cough or a "long-cold", in fact I have a "long-cold" right now (still stuffy and coughing, after I caught a cold in January).
I can fake being normal (which my interests do lay out of the ordinary), but sometimes I get questioned. Like once, I was questioned for reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep while I was in Middle School. I was in seventh grade and an eighth grader wondered why i read such oddly titled books, needless to say, she was reading a contemporary YA romance. Dick is not even that hard to read, considering how "recent" his books are.
On another occasion, in high school, it was getting caught reading The Thresher's Guide, as I was looking at purchasing a traction engine as a means of short distance transport (I love old engines, by the way). I was only caught because I was discussing it with somebody else, who was a "prepper". I argued that steam was the ultimate engine for a "bug out" scenario, since wood or charcoal made from wood can be used easily (just avoid "fat" pine, due to the turpentine content). His family was looking at an Army Surplus vehicle that would run on Corn or Onions Oil in order to replace their camouflage square body pickup.
This might be too much of a tangent, but what I am trying to say is that, it is easy to hide, except when it comes to minutiae. Trust me, people are watching. People's organizations are watching too (though not because of "le hecking conspiracy").
I never stop thinking and that is the problem. I go on "thinking binges". The last one, I wound up devising a helicopter alternative by staying awake, thinking for 48 hours straight, which uses a cyclical, rather than a rotational motion to achieve lift (no, this is not schizophrenic, I am studying Aerospace Engineering, that is why I did this). I want to patent it, but apparently, somebody patented it circa 1920 and did nothing with it (so it is public domain now).
You are probably better at hiding autism than how I do it.
That said, I have to ask about LOGH, I have been putting it off for a while, is it anything like the works of Leiji Matsumoto or Kaoru Shintani?
1 month ago
Anonymous
P.S: Do you have Discord? We can chat on there.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Well, first, I am legally required to say this: Nice Dubs.
My I.Q Story is similar (again, an official test came out around 140). No ADHD, but the man who did the test noticed something interesting about me too (specifically, my thought processes).
Now that that is out of the way, I am of the opinion that autism is no worse than a long-term cough or a "long-cold", in fact I have a "long-cold" right now (still stuffy and coughing, after I caught a cold in January).
I can fake being normal (which my interests do lay out of the ordinary), but sometimes I get questioned. Like once, I was questioned for reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep while I was in Middle School. I was in seventh grade and an eighth grader wondered why i read such oddly titled books, needless to say, she was reading a contemporary YA romance. Dick is not even that hard to read, considering how "recent" his books are.
On another occasion, in high school, it was getting caught reading The Thresher's Guide, as I was looking at purchasing a traction engine as a means of short distance transport (I love old engines, by the way). I was only caught because I was discussing it with somebody else, who was a "prepper". I argued that steam was the ultimate engine for a "bug out" scenario, since wood or charcoal made from wood can be used easily (just avoid "fat" pine, due to the turpentine content). His family was looking at an Army Surplus vehicle that would run on Corn or Onions Oil in order to replace their camouflage square body pickup.
This might be too much of a tangent, but what I am trying to say is that, it is easy to hide, except when it comes to minutiae. Trust me, people are watching. People's organizations are watching too (though not because of "le hecking conspiracy").
I never stop thinking and that is the problem. I go on "thinking binges". The last one, I wound up devising a helicopter alternative by staying awake, thinking for 48 hours straight, which uses a cyclical, rather than a rotational motion to achieve lift (no, this is not schizophrenic, I am studying Aerospace Engineering, that is why I did this). I want to patent it, but apparently, somebody patented it circa 1920 and did nothing with it (so it is public domain now).
You are probably better at hiding autism than how I do it.
That said, I have to ask about LOGH, I have been putting it off for a while, is it anything like the works of Leiji Matsumoto or Kaoru Shintani?
It's always "I took this 'official' test", it's never "I took the WAIS, Stanford-Binet, Cattell, Mensa test, etc. test". What the frick is the 'official test'? You also could have gotten 1/5 of a full test and scored well in literally only one domain, yet we have no idea because the details are always missing in these purports
1 month ago
Anonymous
I was a kid at the time, I cannot remember the name, though looking at the options you listed, Wechsler does ring a bell. It was also a full range test (I remember for a fact that it was full range).
1 month ago
Anonymous
Guess what, I don't remember the name of the test and should probably go archive digging everywhere in my parent's house to find it. I'm not going to do that to tell a personal anecdote. You are not obligated to believe me, but neither are you obligated to demand evidence for it.
Well, first, I am legally required to say this: Nice Dubs.
My I.Q Story is similar (again, an official test came out around 140). No ADHD, but the man who did the test noticed something interesting about me too (specifically, my thought processes).
Now that that is out of the way, I am of the opinion that autism is no worse than a long-term cough or a "long-cold", in fact I have a "long-cold" right now (still stuffy and coughing, after I caught a cold in January).
I can fake being normal (which my interests do lay out of the ordinary), but sometimes I get questioned. Like once, I was questioned for reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep while I was in Middle School. I was in seventh grade and an eighth grader wondered why i read such oddly titled books, needless to say, she was reading a contemporary YA romance. Dick is not even that hard to read, considering how "recent" his books are.
On another occasion, in high school, it was getting caught reading The Thresher's Guide, as I was looking at purchasing a traction engine as a means of short distance transport (I love old engines, by the way). I was only caught because I was discussing it with somebody else, who was a "prepper". I argued that steam was the ultimate engine for a "bug out" scenario, since wood or charcoal made from wood can be used easily (just avoid "fat" pine, due to the turpentine content). His family was looking at an Army Surplus vehicle that would run on Corn or Onions Oil in order to replace their camouflage square body pickup.
This might be too much of a tangent, but what I am trying to say is that, it is easy to hide, except when it comes to minutiae. Trust me, people are watching. People's organizations are watching too (though not because of "le hecking conspiracy").
I never stop thinking and that is the problem. I go on "thinking binges". The last one, I wound up devising a helicopter alternative by staying awake, thinking for 48 hours straight, which uses a cyclical, rather than a rotational motion to achieve lift (no, this is not schizophrenic, I am studying Aerospace Engineering, that is why I did this). I want to patent it, but apparently, somebody patented it circa 1920 and did nothing with it (so it is public domain now).
You are probably better at hiding autism than how I do it.
That said, I have to ask about LOGH, I have been putting it off for a while, is it anything like the works of Leiji Matsumoto or Kaoru Shintani?
>I am of the opinion that autism is no worse than a long-term cough or a "long-cold"
As in, it's not that terrible of a condition, but still somewhat annoying? I agree. It could be better, but at the same time I can't see myself living such a banal existence as the majority of people do. There's a reason I'm here on IQfy and not every other social media. The anonymity and honesty of this place are comfy.
>I can fake being normal (which my interests do lay out of the ordinary), but sometimes I get questioned.
I actually discovered a girl was crushing on me because she didn't mind my tirades on military history kek. Usually they question me when I start texting directly about the subject instead of saying "hi, how are you" or whatever conversation starter one may use
>it is easy to hide, except when it comes to minutiae
Agreed. My rants and obsession with historical guns come to mind
>I never stop thinking. I go on "thinking binges".
Oh yeah, I relate. keeps me up at night too often >The last one, I wound up devising a helicopter alternative by staying awake, thinking for 48 hours straight, which uses a cyclical, rather than a rotational motion to achieve lift.
Not that detailed, but I can mentally envision situations that haven't happened yet to a degree where I can essentially gaslight myself into thinking this invention is actually a personal memory.
I might have even gaslighted myself in thinking I have ADHD and made a self-fulfilling prophecy when getting diagnosed.
I don't mind it really. I think it's cool what I have, though I still have doubts on the ADHD diagnosis, as I find myself relating on many autistic traits, but the attention span And my ability to jump from topic to topic without much problem are "distinctly" ADHD.
Which is why I have my doubts on almost the entire psychiatric wing of medicine as a whole.
I dare say the term "neurodivergent" had a good intention, expressing that someone thought differently, but that was still functional. However, the "nEuRoDIVerGent COmMuNiTy" Is so unbearably moronic that I've come to hate it. It is like Pride but for people who don't want to be gay
1 month ago
Anonymous
I should have been more clear in my analogy, but yes, it is a minor nuisance more than anything else. Truth be told, I think IQfy is more of a forum than a social media platform.
There was this really cute girl in high school that I think liked me, I could never be certain, but the night she was trying to make her advances on me, I was sick (went to the ER about a week later). She later found out about my disdain for certain types of literature, some of which she liked, and she distanced herself from the thought. (Lost Generation, YA, Twilight-ade are my big dislikes, some of my classmates, as well as myself, took turns reading My Immortal to see which one of us would laugh first).
I somehow got a girlfriend now, she is kind of like me in some ways and is always interested in what I have to say.
I guess you are right on the gaslight part. The thing is, I never knew such a thing existed, the parent is extremely obscure, bit I researched it and I found that some people have actually experimented with it and there are now videos on YouTube of this sort of craft flying.
If I had a choice, I would be using Temple of the Screaming Electron rather than IQfy, but that website is no more.
Were they really going to medicate you? I was told that if I got diagnosed I'd just need some sort of therapy program to practice social skills.
1 month ago
Anonymous
They tried therapy and things got worse, so they were going to suggest meds. My father withdrew me from seeing that doctor for about a year and instead taught me phonics and reading, specifically reading aloud. I have him to thank.
Yeah, nah. You can basically train yourself to appear normal, and endure all of the shit you hate, but that's not the same as not being autistic.
If you have hyper-sensitivity to sound and the experience of being in a room with loud music is basically unbearable, there's no amount of "proper attitude" that's going to make that go away. You can force yourself into the room, and be miserable, or you can just not go in the room. Either way you're not having the normal person reaction which is "oh boy. I love music!".
1 month ago
Anonymous
This is the one thing that gets me. That is why I hate halogen and LED lights. They make this constant droning sound that drives me mad.
Today I learned that I might be about to get an eye infection. The last person I knew who got one went mad and was locked away in a cell.
>This theoretically should mean people with ADHD, ASD, DID, BPD, or one of the ever growing list of mental illnesses that the medics prescribe maladjusted teenagers into believing they're special or quirky. >uh, as someone who is actually special and quirky
lol
also if anybody's the 'neurodivergent one' in LOTGH it's Yang. He's the self insert, obsessed with history and its lessons. Solving the greatest problems of his time yet unable to fix any of them on principle. Aware of the story taking place, and knowing his place within it.
Reinhard embodies the spirit of writing or reading a Space Drama on that scale. single minded in his pursuit to unite the galaxy, the story can only end when he does. He held love for his gay Patroclus or gay Hephaestion, because he is a man of action and they gay men of healing. you feel him in your soul, just like Yang admitted to doing, just like every one else in the galaxy. op likes him because op is gay.
>books with neurodivergent main characters
Wordslop ignored. Should I even write? Im afraid the fact that Im (high functioning) autistic will be too evident in the characters dialogue and behavior.
> St. Michael sat upon Mt. Sinai, casting a mist over the region overlooking a wasted Israel. Sword in hand, hail and lightning came down with fury upon the desert border of the Promised Land, but none like such it had just experienced. The toxic cloud ensured that what was not poisoned, was, and what wasnt dead already would die soon. Once renowned for his purity, Michael rained down filth and soot, staining the landscape black. None were the victors of Armageddon, save God. God was the only one left alive. The land now promised to whoever next dare step upon it.
I honestly like this style of writing, though I know it is not bestseller material, which is not much above middle school level writing. It is in a sense, high brow, but also, truth be told I think this partially works due to the biblical content. If I were to write, I would write similarly, but I have nothing worth saying to the common audience, unfortunately.
1 month ago
Anonymous
I'm glad you liked it. If you could elaborate further on what you enjoyed VS did not enjoy and anything else you gleaned from the excerpt that would be nice. I feel Im bad at that instance focused style of writing where individual events and people are described in detailed, like in novels.
1 month ago
Anonymous
I like the pacing and the time it took to lay out the scene, that said, I feel that this could be on the verge of purple prose if you had chosen a fat more mundane subject.
I know that I simplified, rather than elaborated, but I am phoneposting at the moment, so I cannot afford the luxury of posting in long form.
Main characters can afford a long description, same with important objects and anecdotes, nothing else.
What even is "neurodivergent"? This is the third time that I have heard it today and I still do not know what it is.
I guess it is a case of Zoomers and their neologisms, oh well.
A term born in neo-psychology (a pseudoscience) to describe anyone who has even the slightest behavioral quirk when compared to "normal" people. This theoretically should mean people with ADHD, ASD, DID, BPD, or one of the ever growing list of mental illnesses that the medics prescribe maladjusted teenagers into believing they're special or quirky.
As someone with actual ADHD I hate it and hate the online "ADHD community" behavior of making it their entire personality. I wish they all died from forgetting to turn off the gas
I see now.
When I was younger I was screened for autism twice the answer was that I was probably autistic, but they were never sure. I feel like I dodged a bullet, since I have a particular fear of medications, since I was overmedicated as an infant (Amoxycillin "epidemic", it never truly was recognized as one, but everyone I know that was my age was prescribed it and I think you can see a lot of moronation among my age group to know that something is a little bit "off").
These autism diagnoses are codswallop in my opinion, though. Autism is not a personality trait, but an ailment of the mind, one which only goes away with a proper lifestyle change, no medications or "affirmations" or whatever the Hell most people not only my age, but younger (and even slightly older) believe in. They are too easily swayed and have become easy prey to the sellers of snake oil.
Excuse the blogpost, just those "autistic" people are the bane of my existence too.
Don't mind the blogpost, I love when a conversation goes on random tangents. Unfortunately that part of the ADHD stereotype is true.
In my case, my parents did me an IQ test when I was 4 or 5. I scored ~140 but the testers also mentioned I most likely had ADHD as well. My parents, however (God bless them) simply shrugged it off. In my late teens, I learned about what ADHD was and went to a psychiatrist which confirmed it. Surprisingly, she didn't medicate me anything, perhaps because I pretended to be more "normal" as well.
Which leads me to another point, I can "fake" being normal for the most part. It's how I've lived the majority of my life. My short term memory issues are simply tagged as "absentmindedness" which people usually forgive me once they realize I'm not actually stupid, just forgetful.
I still have the certificate for any time someone tries to confront me, I'll just shove my license for moronation in front of them. It's a good trump card to have kek
Well, first, I am legally required to say this: Nice Dubs.
My I.Q Story is similar (again, an official test came out around 140). No ADHD, but the man who did the test noticed something interesting about me too (specifically, my thought processes).
Now that that is out of the way, I am of the opinion that autism is no worse than a long-term cough or a "long-cold", in fact I have a "long-cold" right now (still stuffy and coughing, after I caught a cold in January).
I can fake being normal (which my interests do lay out of the ordinary), but sometimes I get questioned. Like once, I was questioned for reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep while I was in Middle School. I was in seventh grade and an eighth grader wondered why i read such oddly titled books, needless to say, she was reading a contemporary YA romance. Dick is not even that hard to read, considering how "recent" his books are.
On another occasion, in high school, it was getting caught reading The Thresher's Guide, as I was looking at purchasing a traction engine as a means of short distance transport (I love old engines, by the way). I was only caught because I was discussing it with somebody else, who was a "prepper". I argued that steam was the ultimate engine for a "bug out" scenario, since wood or charcoal made from wood can be used easily (just avoid "fat" pine, due to the turpentine content). His family was looking at an Army Surplus vehicle that would run on Corn or Onions Oil in order to replace their camouflage square body pickup.
This might be too much of a tangent, but what I am trying to say is that, it is easy to hide, except when it comes to minutiae. Trust me, people are watching. People's organizations are watching too (though not because of "le hecking conspiracy").
I never stop thinking and that is the problem. I go on "thinking binges". The last one, I wound up devising a helicopter alternative by staying awake, thinking for 48 hours straight, which uses a cyclical, rather than a rotational motion to achieve lift (no, this is not schizophrenic, I am studying Aerospace Engineering, that is why I did this). I want to patent it, but apparently, somebody patented it circa 1920 and did nothing with it (so it is public domain now).
You are probably better at hiding autism than how I do it.
That said, I have to ask about LOGH, I have been putting it off for a while, is it anything like the works of Leiji Matsumoto or Kaoru Shintani?
P.S: Do you have Discord? We can chat on there.
It's always "I took this 'official' test", it's never "I took the WAIS, Stanford-Binet, Cattell, Mensa test, etc. test". What the frick is the 'official test'? You also could have gotten 1/5 of a full test and scored well in literally only one domain, yet we have no idea because the details are always missing in these purports
I was a kid at the time, I cannot remember the name, though looking at the options you listed, Wechsler does ring a bell. It was also a full range test (I remember for a fact that it was full range).
Guess what, I don't remember the name of the test and should probably go archive digging everywhere in my parent's house to find it. I'm not going to do that to tell a personal anecdote. You are not obligated to believe me, but neither are you obligated to demand evidence for it.
>I am of the opinion that autism is no worse than a long-term cough or a "long-cold"
As in, it's not that terrible of a condition, but still somewhat annoying? I agree. It could be better, but at the same time I can't see myself living such a banal existence as the majority of people do. There's a reason I'm here on IQfy and not every other social media. The anonymity and honesty of this place are comfy.
>I can fake being normal (which my interests do lay out of the ordinary), but sometimes I get questioned.
I actually discovered a girl was crushing on me because she didn't mind my tirades on military history kek. Usually they question me when I start texting directly about the subject instead of saying "hi, how are you" or whatever conversation starter one may use
>it is easy to hide, except when it comes to minutiae
Agreed. My rants and obsession with historical guns come to mind
>I never stop thinking. I go on "thinking binges".
Oh yeah, I relate. keeps me up at night too often
>The last one, I wound up devising a helicopter alternative by staying awake, thinking for 48 hours straight, which uses a cyclical, rather than a rotational motion to achieve lift.
Not that detailed, but I can mentally envision situations that haven't happened yet to a degree where I can essentially gaslight myself into thinking this invention is actually a personal memory.
I might have even gaslighted myself in thinking I have ADHD and made a self-fulfilling prophecy when getting diagnosed.
I don't mind it really. I think it's cool what I have, though I still have doubts on the ADHD diagnosis, as I find myself relating on many autistic traits, but the attention span And my ability to jump from topic to topic without much problem are "distinctly" ADHD.
Which is why I have my doubts on almost the entire psychiatric wing of medicine as a whole.
I dare say the term "neurodivergent" had a good intention, expressing that someone thought differently, but that was still functional. However, the "nEuRoDIVerGent COmMuNiTy" Is so unbearably moronic that I've come to hate it. It is like Pride but for people who don't want to be gay
I should have been more clear in my analogy, but yes, it is a minor nuisance more than anything else. Truth be told, I think IQfy is more of a forum than a social media platform.
There was this really cute girl in high school that I think liked me, I could never be certain, but the night she was trying to make her advances on me, I was sick (went to the ER about a week later). She later found out about my disdain for certain types of literature, some of which she liked, and she distanced herself from the thought. (Lost Generation, YA, Twilight-ade are my big dislikes, some of my classmates, as well as myself, took turns reading My Immortal to see which one of us would laugh first).
I somehow got a girlfriend now, she is kind of like me in some ways and is always interested in what I have to say.
I guess you are right on the gaslight part. The thing is, I never knew such a thing existed, the parent is extremely obscure, bit I researched it and I found that some people have actually experimented with it and there are now videos on YouTube of this sort of craft flying.
If I had a choice, I would be using Temple of the Screaming Electron rather than IQfy, but that website is no more.
Were they really going to medicate you? I was told that if I got diagnosed I'd just need some sort of therapy program to practice social skills.
They tried therapy and things got worse, so they were going to suggest meds. My father withdrew me from seeing that doctor for about a year and instead taught me phonics and reading, specifically reading aloud. I have him to thank.
Yeah, nah. You can basically train yourself to appear normal, and endure all of the shit you hate, but that's not the same as not being autistic.
If you have hyper-sensitivity to sound and the experience of being in a room with loud music is basically unbearable, there's no amount of "proper attitude" that's going to make that go away. You can force yourself into the room, and be miserable, or you can just not go in the room. Either way you're not having the normal person reaction which is "oh boy. I love music!".
This is the one thing that gets me. That is why I hate halogen and LED lights. They make this constant droning sound that drives me mad.
Today I learned that I might be about to get an eye infection. The last person I knew who got one went mad and was locked away in a cell.
>This theoretically should mean people with ADHD, ASD, DID, BPD, or one of the ever growing list of mental illnesses that the medics prescribe maladjusted teenagers into believing they're special or quirky.
>uh, as someone who is actually special and quirky
lol
most of them, writers are autistic.
also if anybody's the 'neurodivergent one' in LOTGH it's Yang. He's the self insert, obsessed with history and its lessons. Solving the greatest problems of his time yet unable to fix any of them on principle. Aware of the story taking place, and knowing his place within it.
Reinhard embodies the spirit of writing or reading a Space Drama on that scale. single minded in his pursuit to unite the galaxy, the story can only end when he does. He held love for his gay Patroclus or gay Hephaestion, because he is a man of action and they gay men of healing. you feel him in your soul, just like Yang admitted to doing, just like every one else in the galaxy. op likes him because op is gay.
>books with neurodivergent main characters
Wordslop ignored. Should I even write? Im afraid the fact that Im (high functioning) autistic will be too evident in the characters dialogue and behavior.
Write a short passage, setting, genre and plot of your choice, let us judge that for you.
> St. Michael sat upon Mt. Sinai, casting a mist over the region overlooking a wasted Israel. Sword in hand, hail and lightning came down with fury upon the desert border of the Promised Land, but none like such it had just experienced. The toxic cloud ensured that what was not poisoned, was, and what wasnt dead already would die soon. Once renowned for his purity, Michael rained down filth and soot, staining the landscape black. None were the victors of Armageddon, save God. God was the only one left alive. The land now promised to whoever next dare step upon it.
I honestly like this style of writing, though I know it is not bestseller material, which is not much above middle school level writing. It is in a sense, high brow, but also, truth be told I think this partially works due to the biblical content. If I were to write, I would write similarly, but I have nothing worth saying to the common audience, unfortunately.
I'm glad you liked it. If you could elaborate further on what you enjoyed VS did not enjoy and anything else you gleaned from the excerpt that would be nice. I feel Im bad at that instance focused style of writing where individual events and people are described in detailed, like in novels.
I like the pacing and the time it took to lay out the scene, that said, I feel that this could be on the verge of purple prose if you had chosen a fat more mundane subject.
I know that I simplified, rather than elaborated, but I am phoneposting at the moment, so I cannot afford the luxury of posting in long form.
Main characters can afford a long description, same with important objects and anecdotes, nothing else.
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.
We Have Always Lived in The Castle