For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house

Judging by how they progressively loaded top to bottom on my usually fast (350 Mbps) internet, yes. Each tiny image was barely 128*128 on my phone screen but they still loaded very slowly.

Being neuroatypical happens in roughly even amounts between men and women.

However, while a man - unless he is wealthy, whereupon he is merely “eccentric” - will be nailed to the wall for his differences and beaten up on a constant basis for not conforming (and until the 80s, were literally beaten black and blue for failing to conform), women will mostly be forgiven by society for the exact same peculiarities. They are “acceptably eccentric” regardless of wealth or social status, whereas men could only be “acceptably eccentric” if they were exceedingly wealthy such that they didn’t even have to hold down a job at any point in their lives.

Things have gotten a lot better for men in the last few decades, and especially in the last decade with it’s open acceptance of neurodivergence, but I was born just late enough to escape the era where I would be coming home from school with serious physical injuries - meted out by teachers seeking to violently force my conformity - on pretty much a daily basis. Those tools were taken away from teachers in the 70s (in Canada) as a part of removing potential sources of abuse from the school system.

Deep philosophical insights gained through pedantic accounting - I genuinly love it.

Some constructive feedback to the site owner: Instead of having the webpage spend several minutes slowly loading thousands of barely-compressed 500x500 JPG images, please consider this advice:

1. Convert the images to WEBP or AVIF or at least run them through something like TinyPNG to compress them better.

2. Save two versions of each images; a 75x75 version that gets used for the 75px thumbnails shown on the page, and a 500x500 version that appears in the lightbox after a thumbnail is clicked.

3. Only load a few dozen thumbnails at first and then load more after the user scrolls down or clicks a "show more" type button.

I'm not sure optimization is her goal. If you just load the page and let it sit without scrolling down, it slowly counts the number of photos she has taken. That is not the design choice of someone seeking speed. So she might be deliberately allowing it to be slow. That would track with her other works, one of which specifically says she finds beauty in imperfection.