u/WayWornPort39

Basically, instead of fixing prices directly, my idea is regulating how prices are formulated.

Based on satisfaction of the following principles, which prices would be judged on:

- Empirical

- Transparent

- Formulaic

- Reasonable

The idea behind this is that companies whose prices don't hold up to real scrutiny would lose customers and would very quickly have to implement a proper decision making process that's more nuanced.

This would ideally eliminate the arbitrariness of pricing more generally and force companies to take into account more factors than just profitability. Ideally, this should improve welfare across the board due to this.

Alongside this, I would add various other rules like banning dynamic pricing.

So, I'm non-binary, not willing to disclose my assigned gender at birth but basically my symptoms are a mix of what is usually considered "female" and "male" (which I think is kinda arbitrary anyways but hey ho). I'm mostly closeted to one half of the family but the other half is full of queers so I'm out to them. I have autism, ADHD, and dyspraxia.

The reason I'm mentioning this is because gender dysphoria kinda intersects with a lot of the other problems I've been having.

So obviously, as y'all know, autism makes interoception (understanding and interpreting your own feelings and bodily impulses) quite difficult. So I've spent my time finding it very difficult to share my feelings with others as a result, not to mention the fact I frequently go nonverbal under periods of stress, even though I'm normally quite vocal. This often means that people often tell me what I'm feeling, or tell me what I want, rather than me intuitively knowing myself. But I think this has also caused another problem - I don't exactly know how to express my feelings to people in the right way. Like I kinda feel like I haven't learnt how to ask for help and set boundaries at the same time. Like for example, I often say very specifically I only want help with part A of this task, as I am confident that I can manage the rest of it, but my mannerisms and the way I talk makes me seem stupider or less confident or uncertain/anxious, and it means they end up taking too much charge over the task and leaving me feel powerless. I guess years of being unable to understand my feelings led me to subconsciously not trust myself as much even though I'm starting to learn (slowly).

The second problem is a mixture of gender identity, trying to unmask, and rejection sensitivity. So, I've had some pretty sad trauma in the past (nothing physical) from the way I've been treated in the education system and socially more broadly, like bullying and stuff. It's kinda meant I have a really low self esteem, and that's embedded itself into my subconscious. It's less so that I as a person genuinely believe I'm bad or something, it's more that there's this force inside my head that knocks me down whenever I try to do something good for myself, or when I try to do something like unmasking or stimming or whatever my brain basically tells me to not do it out of an extreme fear of rejection. And it's not just about interacting with people, it also hits me quite suddenly when interacting with the physical world in general. It's like I'm constantly experiencing these mini-meltdowns over the smallest things like spilling a little bit of water or something. But at the same time I'm so paralysed by fear of yet more social rejection I can't even cry or express my feelings and it just makes me more physically shaky and clumsy. It kinda gets so bad sometimes that I get avoidant of doing things that are important (like asking for pain killers if I get a migraine or whatever) because I'm so extremely scared that I'm using too much or I'm taking too much or I'll get a lecture about how much I'm relying on "crutches" or idk what else even though I haven't done anything wrong.

I'm not entirely sure how to deal with this. Whilst counselling has offered very useful practical solutions I've always been stuck in the mindset of overcoming difficulties rather than recognising where there is a genuine lack of ability. And I think I am actually dealing with the second one in this case.

"Pricing Standards" as an alternative to flat price caps and/or unregulated pricing.

Something bad happened to NS again?

Enby AuDHDer, struggling with unmasking and RSD