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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Trump president win impact on healthcare and autism |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2025, 9:24 am
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Replies: 98
Views: 10,230
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| I'm not sure if this has been posted elsewhere, but a favourite pet conspiracy theory of Donald Trump has been given the green light to be given multiple millions of dollars of funding from the CDC. March 7 - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potenti... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Trump president win impact on healthcare and autism |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2025, 9:12 am
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Replies: 98
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| It just bothers me to hear so many people becoming so emotional about things. That energy could go into coming together to find new solutions to problems that we all care about. I believe that is intentional. The current administration looks for ways of bringing up an emotional response with short ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Parents made you |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2025, 9:08 am
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| My mom was into healthy eating. At the time, it bothered me because we could have had more to eat if we got cheaper food. But now I am glad that I have more of a taste for simple, healthier food as opposed to things that would not be good for me. She read to me out loud and read a lot herself. I enj... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Colic baby |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2025, 8:48 am
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Replies: 11
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| Colic can really be anything. You just have to experiment. My son had it as well. Our pediatrician suggested he was bored. Alleviating his boredom was what helped the most. We would walk him around and show him different things. He is now 11. It turned out that he has ADHD and is gifted with languag... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Advice for young son on spectrum/autistic fatigue/burnout |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2025, 8:43 am
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Replies: 3
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| You should unashamedly go into Helicopter Mom Mode. It sounds like the teacher is not unsympathetic, but perhaps ignorant. Be a noisy wheel and she will quickly learn to accommodate YOU so you are not a problem. 1) Yes, it is as others and you have said, he is sleeping because he is socially overwhe... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Trump Offers South African Farmers A "Rapid Pathway" For US |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2025, 8:18 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 505
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| I used to volunteer with one of the refugee organizations that is losing funding and will probably collapse. I loved it and would do it again if I could. It was an amazing experience. This will not be a popular opinion, I'm sure, but there was definitely a difference in the types of refugees we'd ge... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Suspect in Idaho killings has autism |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2025, 7:59 am
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Replies: 13
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| I wonder if he really is though. There was an early Simon Baron Cohen book I read (I can't remember the title) where he contrasted autistic people with several other types of people, including non-human persons, actually, which was weird. There were some characteristics that autistic people and psyc... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: being bullied as an autistic adult |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2025, 7:51 am
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Replies: 10
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| There is a social psychology thing called a "social breach experiment." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaching_experiment In such an experiment, the experimenter purposefully makes a social error, such as walking up to someone and saying "goodbye" instead of saying "hello&q... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is this normal or do I need to seek help? |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2025, 7:41 am
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Replies: 12
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| This is completely normal. There are more variations with our "inner worlds" than each of us may think. Most people are supposed to think in some kind of combination of pictures and spoken or visual language, with some automatic knowledge that zips through so fast we don't have a cognitive... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Trump president win impact on healthcare and autism |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2025, 12:39 pm
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Replies: 98
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| The problem is the current administration would rather just talk about it and not fund research. The other side doesn't have the funds to do critical research. So nothing gets done besides talk to stir things up. The current administration has cut NOAA funding, so it will be harder to collect and o... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Trump president win impact on healthcare and autism |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2025, 8:53 am
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| WP has recently passed its 20th anniversary and managed to avoid degrading into an unsafe place. It will never become a Reddit, or a Twitter, or any number of other rabid echo chambers. Thank you, Cornflake. This is indeed the place inside WP for this kind of discussion. I am proud of us all for be... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: how do you experience and plan with your "empathy" |
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Posted: 28 Feb 2025, 12:52 pm
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Replies: 16
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| My EQ is pretty low but that's alright, as I don't have much interest in what other people are thinking or feeling. It doesn't mean I'm not sympathetic when peoples' problems or difficulties are made known to me. People get empathy and sympathy mixed up; they often go together, but not allways, and... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How respond to implied "lower rank" in casual chats? |
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Posted: 28 Feb 2025, 12:48 pm
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Replies: 19
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| Oh wow this seemed so rude until you spoke to the person again and got clarification. Interesting. I ramble in real life conversation so I say something similar but I use more words. I'll say something like, "I'm sorry! I'm running my mouth and I'm sure you're busy." Then if the other pers... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Apparently doing things these ways are not normal |
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Posted: 28 Feb 2025, 12:42 pm
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Replies: 10
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| I tell you guys what is a little bit hard for me. A lot of those things on the list apply to me too, but only because I prefer being around people who are not neurotypical. Even though I am myself. Without thinking about it, I will expect the truth, factually correct information, or no hidden motive... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Why do some people treat life like it's a competition? |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2025, 1:52 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,904
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| There was a book I halfway read once about how when human beings were able to see the stars in greater detail, they developed the ability to conceive of time in greater expanse as well. Seeing far away, seeing larger things, and then seeing microscopic things, gave humans longer senses of time, whic... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: I HATE MY MATH TEACHER!! !! |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2025, 1:40 pm
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Replies: 12
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| Can you go back, in your work, to a time when the work made sense? Then carefully go back over things step by step again? Just on your own at home? Math is a learned skill, such as driving a car or replumbing a sink. Literally anyone can do it, but it has to be done slowly. Sometimes you need to fin... |
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