Lifehacks for Aspies

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LOL...It's not the process of cooking something that really matters...it's the tastiness of the Final Result.

On top of that you can eat directly out of the pan you cooked it in to save even more dishwashing.

Yeah...I do that, too--to the eternal aggravation of my wife.

They actually have special boxes where you can tear the sides off. For traditional boxes, I personally leave it open. I know some people who pour the baking soda into a bowl and put the bowl in the back of the fridge. The more air exposure to the baking soda, the better it works if I'm not mistaken.



YES. I scramble my eggs in the pan, cook them in the pan, and eat them out of the pan.

I disagree. If I have to eat a thousand times a year, I want to streamline the process. Give me meal pills any day and then I will have something good on my birthday or some occasion.

I love to cook and eat lol. I'd hate to have meal pills

Meal pills..... hmmm, not a bad idea. Then we wouldn´t have to cook on "Yakk"- days
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After the bringing up of these meal pills, it makes me wonder what the most calorie dense food is.

I'd love meal pills but would they have flavours?

Also, on the topic of pills, I use vitamins instead of fruits and vegetables. Saves money and is better than nothing.

I tried that a while ago but it gave me a rash Curse my hypersensitive skin.

I think my best hack is to keep away from judgemental mainstreamers.

An mp3 player containing pink noise and wind & rain effects has rescued my sanity many times from incoming noise.

Living frugally and saving up enough money to quit my job so I don't have to fit in with the hierarchy so much.

I forget where you live, Tough Diamond--but, in most places, you could get at least a reduced retirement pension.

In the US, your benefits would be reduced by about 25% if you retire at 62. Some people opt for the reduced Social Security, and get a job they like, instead of a job they need. They use the Social Security as a basis, not as something to totally rely on.

The UK pension system absolutely sucks, in my opinion. Social Security sucks--but not as much as most pension schemes.

Sorry, I didn't explain it very clearly. I'm in the UK, and I've already saved up and quit work. My pensions will kick in when I'm 65, and they're forecast to give me pretty much the same income as I had when I was working. Meanwhile I'm coasting along on savings, and as I'm very frugal by nature (and own my home outright), I won't run out of money unless something really awful happens. I agree that UK pensions and benefits are becoming pretty lousy, but luckily I held down a job for most of my working life, and built up a decent occupational pension.

Happily, I'm also old enough to be on the tail end of the "baby boomer" thing, so I can get the few remaining scraps from the old system which was comparatively generous. Had I been a month or two younger, I'd have had to wait till I was 66 for my State pension. And there's something called Pension Credit that is supposed to kick in when I'm 63. It's a means-tested income top-up, payable to anybody of female pensionable age (regardless of actual gender) - they're currently racking up the female pensionable age from 60 to 65, to harmonise it with men, so with zero income, it could be quite good, though I'm expecting them to fight tooth and claw to fob me off with nothing.

They're bringing in the pension draw-down option here, but it seems that my pensions aren't of that type, which at least means that they can't use it as an excuse to cut my Pension Credit. I studied it all in great depth some time ago, and I've allowed some good safety margins, with typical ToughDiamond defensive pessimism.

Pension draw-down is an interesting thing here. When I thought it might be an option for me, I calculated the age at which I would have to die in order to break even - it was rather young cf. the average life expectancy, so for a healthy person in the UK, it only makes sense if there's no better way to fund the gap years.

If you own your home outright, you're ahead of the game.

Do you have to pay much taxes on your home, besides Council Tax?

Also: local public transportation tends to be free in the cities beyond 60. And I believe you get decent senior discounts on longer trips.

Indeed!


Nothing apart from Council Tax. And anybody qualifying for any Pension Credit at all is exempt from even that. A chap's home is sacred over here.


They're clawing it back here. I will now apparently get free bus travel when I reach female retirement age. Not sure what they're doing with longer trips.

I've just done a quick calculation for a male USA pension draw-down at 62 years old, normal retirement age 65, and sacrificing 25% of the pension. To break even, I reckon you would have to die at age 72. According to the WHO, the life expectancy of an American male is 76. So it might work if you ate a lot of cupcakes and became a couch potato. That'll show the insurance company who's boss.

Presently, we get full Social Security at age 66, and that age is rising--to the point where I'll have to be 67 to draw full Social Security benefits.

You could wait until age 70, and draw maybe about 20% more than "full" benefits.

Yes they're gradually racking the age up to 70 here too. In some ways I'm glad to be old. They've also got the pension deferment option here. Nice reward if you can find a job you can enjoy (dammit!). Of course once they've got the normal pensionable age up to 70, you won't get the reward. And last time I looked, 70 is the average healthy life expectancy age. So on average, an enjoyable retirement will soon be impossible. Birth, school, work, feeling ill, death. The only hack for that is to arrange to have been born at a time that makes you a baby-boomer. Either that or do your exercises and eat your greens. Not sure which is hardest to achieve.

such a severely restricted diet isn't healthy. variety is important.