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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13942739

Sometimes I look back on my life and wonder exactly how much of my life and current personality is purely due to the autism.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ok this is kinda unrelated but the phrase "looking back on my life" triggered a meta-memory of one of my favorite lesser known Green Day songs from my adolescence, and I've decided to subject you all to the lyrics of the first verse/chorus.

Looking back upon my life and the places that I've been 
Pictures, faces, girls that I've loved, I try to remember when 
Faded memories on the wall, some names I have forgotten 
But each one is a memory, I look back on so often

I look into the past 
I want to make it last 
I was there 
I was there

Thanks, hadn't heard that one in a while.

[–] ArnoldMal@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cool! Btw, how did you get those words to come out purple??

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

They're not purple on my side, must be your app. I just formatted it as a code block with the ``` on either side.

[–] ArnoldMal@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Weird, I'm on desktop. Maybe it's my theme: darkly-pureblack. Anyway, here's how it looks on my end:

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Huh, weird. No clue!

[–] carbon_based@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Mine (web browser) does the same. Looks as if [programming code] syntax hilighting failed at determining the programming language but hilighted some possible keywords anyway. iow:

if viewing_app.defaults['hilight_code'] == true:
  try(codeblock.interpret('is this Python somehow?'))