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  • Yeah, SzPD has a reputation for being super rare, but my theory is that it’s not as rare as people think.

    I think SzPD’s reputation for being rare among those seeking therapy is well deserved, but I think it’s probably more prevalent in the general population than is estimated.

    Definitely not trying to influence your self-diagnoses or anything, but yeah.

    (Also, I suppose I should mention that SzPD and autism present very similarly and if SzPD seems to fit you, it might be worth checking whether autism fits you better or worse. That said, I do think I’m much better described by SzPD than autism and SzPD is probably much more often misdiagnosed as autism than the other way around.)


  • Good eye. It reminds you of OpenSCAD because… all those images are screenshots from OpenSCAD. :D

    Some of how she’s building the dollhouse with my help is kindof “set in stone” already. She started with an Ikea FLISAT dollhouse shelf unit kit:

    A two-story Ikea dollhouse that's fairly "vertical"

    And we’re modding it from there. So some things like the a split-level would be pretty hard. Also, it’s 1:12 scale and we’ve been able to calculate things like, for instance, head clearance when going up the stairs and seen that much shorter couldn’t really work without making the stairs even more unrealistically steep.

    That bar cabinet is 3.25" tall. Typical cabinet height in the real world is apparently somewhere around 3’. (In the 30 seconds I’ve spent googling just now, I’ve seen figures between 30" and 42", though I think the upper end of that range is kindof meant for taller-than-average people.) 3.25" times 12 is like 39". So yeah. Seems pretty counter-height already. The first iteration of that bar cabinet was quite a bit shorter, but I always make my designs nice and parameterized, so when she asked for the dimensions to be tweaked, it was pretty trivial to make an adjustment and send it to the printer again.





  • She just deals with the actual product being different from what’s on her screen.

    That’s honestly helpful to hear.

    Even inkjet ought to be better despite the glue issue

    Yeah, actually we tried an experiment with an inkjet printer after getting that feedback in other comments and the results are definitely more vibrant. The colors are “off” in a different (and more acceptable) way than they are with the laser printer, but we haven’t tried calibrating that printer with the colorimter yet, so we might get better results once we try that.

    unusual printer technologies, like solid ink, thermal wax, or dye-sublimation.

    Ooo. Yeah, ok. That’s definitely a rabbit hole to go down. Lol. I’ll definitely do some looking.

    have your stuff printed at a print shop.

    Yeah, that’s an option I’ve run across in my research as well. I’ll bring it up and see what that produces.

    (By the way, where are the pics of the MCM dollhouse??)

    Ha! Well, it’s still pretty early in the process, but I do have some things I can show. A lot of it is going to be 3d printed and I’ve designed some 3d printed parts for it.

    Here’s a rough render of what the “main part” will look like (ignore the colors, those are just to call out different elements, not a reflection of the ultimate color scheme):

    Here’s an extension to be put on the left side. A kitchen with a deck above:

    A couple of shots of a bar cabinet:

    And a fridge:

    There’s a bit more I could show, but I’ll leave it there for now. Thanks for your interest!


  • That’s interesting to hear.

    I’ve got a major tangent to go on here quick. You know the YouTube channel “Legal Eagle”? (I think he’s also on Nebula.)

    I have a lay interest in law, particularly contract and IP law, and sometimes the YouTube algorithm recommends Legal Eagle. I watched something random about how “Disney might lose the rights to Spiderman”. Seemed interesting and all.

    But in the middle of the video he totally confuses the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) passed in 1998. He said the Copyright Act of 1976 was “the life’s work of Sony Bono”. The CTEA was the life’s work of Sonny Bono. Sonny Bono had, so far as I’ve been able to determine, nothing to do with the Copyright Act of 1976.

    And I knew enough about the CTEA and Copyright Act of 1976 to catch the error immediately. And honestly, I’ve tried to steer clear of Legal Eagle. If he can get something as basic as that wrong (despite being a professional lawyer, mind you) then how can I be sure I’m not getting BS every time I watch his content. Or at least so my reasoning went.

    And I’m super interested in the human story around these laws. For instance, did you know that the CTEA was introduced posthumously (as in, after Sonny Bono’s death)? By his widow Mary Bono who ran for and won the seat that Sonny’s death left vacant? And it was introduced only 9 months after his death? And that Mary Bono advocated for continuing to extend the term of copyright forever? And in the court case Eldred v. Ashcroft which challenged the constitutionality of the CTEA, Lawrence Lessig was the lawyer for the petitioner? Who called the CTEA the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act” in reference to Disney’s strong lobbying for the CTEA? And Aaron Schwartz testified to the SCOTUS in that case on the side of the petitioner? At the age of 14?

    That stuff is super interesting to me, and Legal Eagle getting something as simple and basic as that wrong made it seem like he really didn’t care to get such details right, which made me reticent to want to expose myself to much more of his content.

    Anyway. Super tangent, but your comment about how law school doesn’t seem to value knowledge of history explains a bit, I think.