An autistic person who vowed to pick their battles is reportedly frozen with indecision over which of their many important battles to let go of.
Des Ackerman, 30, has spent their entire life fighting all the good fights, only to be now be told to thin the herd somehow.
Ackerman said: “Have you seen the state of everything? The other day I saw a news article about flesh-eating screwworms and I had to read it twice to check it wasn’t a horrific extended political metaphor. How the fuck do you pick your battles in this timeline?”
“Is someone queue-jumping at Asda as bad as billionaires destroying our entire planet? Probably not. But it’s all rooted in the same selfish behaviour!”
“If I let this slide, what next? The queue at the Stoke-on-Trent Asda could be the first domino to fall.”
At the time of publication, Ackerman had not fought any new battles but had made a decent start on a comprehensive battle-picking chart.
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