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Usually there's symptoms. Often media can help. Growing up how my family did, we didn't really have a reference for what was neurotypical. Even dad who grew up human had a lot of trauma and mystic bullshit to deal with.

And the Depression.

Also mental health was atrocious most of his life.

But then I looked up stuff online about a character I identified with and then saw a lot of talk about them being written as autistic, and then a lot of other things started matching up on the list when I looked up symptoms and there was....there was a lot that I checked off.

Like you obviously suffer from over stimulation because of your hearing, which may not be a sign of any other neurodivergence, buuut the tricks to help with overstimulation may still help you.

Also, you almost definitely have PTSD.

I'm not sure about the PTSD thing, it might just be that, torture dimensions aside, dying and then coming back isn't the most normal thing, there's bound to be some effects.

If there's tricks for dealing with my hearing being so sensitive though, I'd be stupid to not at least hear what they are.

PTSD does not have a requirement for how severe or typical the trauma is, the point is how are you reacting to it after and how does it mess you up. There's no normal about what the Kraang did, and I got several new triggers from that.

Hm, I can compile them. Most of the time just isolating and noise canceling headphones worked for me, and we figured those out before Mikey and I went on our psychology bender, so we didn't examine it too far.

I do have headphones that work pretty well, but I try to only use them sparingly. Not being able to hear what's going on can be dangerous.

Compile away. Seems like you'd be good at that.

I could make a sensor that can alerts you of things when you have them in? I've done things like that before, when senses were taken away in the Temple.

I am.

That sort of thing only works when it's a proximity thing, right? In my case I'm probably better off being able to hear. That's how Korone called for me a couple of weeks ago. For example.

It's fine, I'm used to it. I mostly use the headphones for my phone.

I can make literally any kind of sensor, I've been in charge of my family's security systems since I was ten.

As well as destress beacons.

I should also make her and Eve an escape pods...but that wouldn't have solved the kid issue, ugh...

If your sensors are more powerful than my hearing, I'll eat my boot. [ He has faith in you kiddo, but no one beats him in that area. ]

...The kid issue?

Not yet, there is still some limits to the range, but I can still get quite far.

But I need to make security alerts everyone can wear. And Korone may agree to a tracker. [This boy has some Issues, okay.]

She was protecting kids. The escape pods are made for individuals because its hard to make sure no one gets HURT if there's more than one per pod.

I'll think about it. [ No offense it's just that he has a hard time trusting machines all the way. ]

She might agree to it now, yes. [ Part of him wants to make a totally unnecessary pint about make sure you're not pressuring her into it, but it's totally unnecessary so he won't. ]

You mean here? Or before?

She's thinking about it more seriously now, yes.

[HE LEARNED THIS LESSON. They know his stance, and they know to not bring it up until they're seriously considering it.]

The escape pods were before. I used them in my world. Just once, but it was....mostly effective.

I didn't account for one scenario that I really should have.

I'd feel better if she had a tracker, even though my hearing is what it is. The soundproofing in some rooms is unusually good here. [ Depends how many windows and doors there are how clearly he can hear into it. ]

I would too, but she has medical trauma.

And it was very, very clear I cannot sneak those kind of things onto her. Especially into her.

Though she wants to hear more about the tracking program, which is good, because I don't have SHELLDON here to alert people when mine is sending distress signals.

[HE AT LEAST CHIPS HIMSELF TOO.]

I know. There's a reason I didn't say that she should, I said I'd feel better. If she can't, she can't.

If you need help, by the way, call for me and I'll hear you wherever you are. Just in case. That's how she got me there before.

I know. But! She brought it up! And she would not bring it up to me without being willing to try. She knows how I feel about them.

[He is Overprotective to the nth degree.]

Do you want a beacon too?

Me?

[ He considers that. Normally there'd be no reason he couldn't just get himself out of a bad situation, but this place does like its abnormalities. ]

If you want me to, I can.

[He nods and he tugs up his hoody sleeve, showing off the black wrap. He unties it from his arm and holds out a specific section.]

[Its nearly impossible to tell, the device still able to bend and twist with the fabric with nothing more than slightly more tension, but when he taps it, a stylized T lighting up.] I can put it into any piece of clothing.

[ Macaque pulls off his red scarf and hands it over. ]

If something separates me from this thing, there's way bigger problems than where I am.

[He nods and takes the scarf, and pulling away from him. Mechanical purple hands form, as do other tools as he expands out the fabric and its kind of like watching an embroidering machine go to work, needle like tools moving the beacon slash communicator from the wrap to the scarf.]

I'll need a few days to make the wrist beacons, but this can connect to any of my tech regardless. I need to make some for Eve and Korone too.

Probably Wylan as well, he likes to get into trouble.

But a tap allows it to open up communication with any connected devices as well. Double tap is off. Triple is mute. And hold is distress.

It only vibrates when distressed, I have been told audible confirmation was a terrible idea in practice.

Not the most practical thing, especially if someone isn't conscious.

I don't anticipate needing it, but I figure if you wait until you need something like that, it's probably too late.

Exactly. The whole reason I made the trackers in the first place is because dad got kidnapped and we only found him in time is because he used to date a mob boss and she liked him enough to not demand a deal. For once. [Big Mama deals are not deals any of them want to be in.] So. Trackers.

They're a lot better if someone isn't conscious. General life signs, heart rate, any extreme changes in ambient temperature, and of course location, but... [He waves a hand in the air.] They get weird about it like all of my supposedly 'invasive practices' hadn't been useful everytime they found out about them. We can't call the cops for help, I'm just being proactive!

Edited 2024-02-12 05:10 (UTC)

[ chuuuuckle ] Hey, whatever works. I've been accused of being invasive too, doesn't bother me a bit. [ He'll just keep right on spying and teleporting. The eavesdropping he mostly can't help, but. ]

So would you be willing to accept a tracker?

It takes at least three passwords to get into the program and a biometric scan, with oscillating firewalls that would take a billion and one genius to hack through.

As long as it's only accessed in emergencies.

I do happen to know at least one other billion to one genius here. I'm just saying, we're not exactly cookie cutter in these parts.

Of course. They give emergency alerts when states when gone critical, either heart or temperature, which I'll need to know what's bad for you because obviously I have it set rather high for cold since terrapin base, but otherwise I've only ever accessed them when someone was missing.

[Or when he woke up from a nightmare and just Had To Be Sure people were accounted for.]

You mean the multi-tailed fox?

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