343. Put on Your Donut Ordering Face

From Topic Lords by Jim Stormdancer

May 18, 2026 · 1h 10m

About this episode

The episode discusses autism masking in parenting, the struggles of understanding complex systems, and the joys of interactive objects.

Lords: Jenni Chris Topics: Having to relearn how to autism mask for parenting situations because the rules are different APPARENTLY Only after five years learning to how make an irrigation system for a thousand plants, do I finally truly understand Han Solo's struggles with the Millenium Falcon. The D&D conspiracy theory I saw a few days ago and can't find now Don't Ever Kill the Buddha, by adzolotl https://irrealisms.tumblr.com/post/677079389150887936/dont-ever-kill-the-buddha Microtopics: Kitchen Bitchin' Forgetting about plugs because there's a small child. Out of Taskmaster again. A tiny, very opinionated man. Only understanding about seven concepts but having strong opinions about all of them. Plugging PicoSteveMo again. The Longing is Real Time. Being in charge of all the Jaunt capsules for a few minutes before you fuck someone's life up. What Stephen King would say if he heard about PicoSteveMo. PicoSteveMo: it's a good time. People at the bank thinking you're normal. Ordering whatever donuts make sense. Whether autistic people can order donuts. Putting on your donut ordering face and instructing your toddler to do whatever makes sense. Enjoying activating objects…

People in this episode

Host: Jim Stormdancer

Guest: Jenni Chris

Topics covered

autism masking
parenting
D&D conspiracy theories
child-rearing
interactive objects
donut ordering

Keywords

autism
parenting
donuts
D&D
child development
interactive play
Han Solo
Stephen King

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PicoSteveMo, Taskmaster

Books & works: Don't Ever Kill the Buddha

Places: Millenium Falcon, Kitchen, bank, dog