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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Father asks court to stop daughters assisted suicide |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2024, 3:00 pm
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Replies: 25
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| She doesn't appear to have a terminal illness, at least based on current reporting. She stated in her application that her death is "reasonably foreseeable", but was approved for track 2, which means that's not agreed with by the courts. Exactly why is she doing this? "her death is r... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Father asks court to stop daughters assisted suicide |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2024, 7:50 am
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| She doesn't appear to have a terminal illness, at least based on current reporting. She stated in her application that her death is "reasonably foreseeable", but was approved for track 2, which means that's not agreed with by the courts. Exactly why is she doing this? "her death is r... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Father asks court to stop daughters assisted suicide |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2024, 4:41 pm
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| She doesn't appear to have a terminal illness, at least based on current reporting. She stated in her application that her death is "reasonably foreseeable", but was approved for track 2, which means that's not agreed with by the courts. Exactly why is she doing this? "her death is r... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Putin Wins Russian Presidential Election |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2024, 3:44 pm
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Replies: 10
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| Even western organisations admit all opinion polls in Russia put Putins approval rating around 70% or at least above 50% as a minimum. So someone with an approval rating of around 70% winning an election is hardly a surprise. The problem is there is no credible opposition running. From what I read t... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Father asks court to stop daughters assisted suicide |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2024, 3:28 pm
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| He's hoping to treat her like a child who's incapable of deciding what's best for herself. Her choice, not his. Strange view is it not everyone’s duty to prevent suicide or assisted death as it’s called unless under extreme circumstances? ie unless to protect the individual from unnecessary sufferi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: high functioning vs classic autism |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2024, 3:27 pm
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Replies: 23
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| Classic autism is the old 20th century autism before Asperger's was added to it. It usually came with Intellectual disability. The term classic autism is not really used anymore rather its just called the spectrum or ASD. They are still there though within the spectrum, the most disabled of which ar... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: California Teen killed by sheriff deputy |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2024, 3:23 pm
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Replies: 4
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| This kind of thing happens in the UK, but does not end in shooting, usually the autistic person is locked up for an indefinite period usually years or decades. When you hear stories from the UK of autistic people locked up in secure facilities for decades, this is exactly the type of situation where... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think that chatbots can help with lonliness? |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2024, 2:37 pm
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| Chatbots are computer algorithms designed to respond with answers to appropriate questions. In other words they are not real anymore than your sandwich toaster is a real person. Unless you are using as practice conversation for the real thing, i would recommend a dog or cat for company instead. At l... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why wernt conditions like autosm taken more seriously in... |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2024, 5:32 pm
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Because the autism world is tiny and insignificant to the huge universe of other issues.
It seems huge to us because we are in the middle of it all.
But to put it in perspective we are tiny fish in a small pool of water left behind by the tide on the beach next to the giant ocean. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: What’s behind the UK’s increase in autism diagnoses? |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2024, 11:28 am
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Replies: 3
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Maybe it’s time to change the diagnosis criteria sub divide autism according to disability.
It’s clear psychologists haven’t a clue what their doing in fact they just make the situation more absurd |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Neurodiversity affirming practice and mental health |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2024, 10:43 am
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Replies: 4
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| I work remotely and it certainly helps. It’s great that the range of good jobs open to autistic people has exploded inadvertently due to COVID homeworking initiatives. I once remember Mona saying she wanted the end of the open office, that would be good for the small no of days when people are expec... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Historians Rank Donald Trump as Worst President in History |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2024, 7:57 am
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Didn’t Hoovers policies cause the Great Depression?
I remember in school telling us they named the homeless shanty towns that sprang up Hoovervilles
While trump wasn’t the greatest president US ever had he certainly wasn’t the worst.
Sounds politically motivated ranking |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: How the Autistic Brain Processes Information |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 29 Feb 2024, 1:32 pm
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| If you click on the author link David Rowland you’ll see his others papers, a short glimpse shows theories about autism how the universe was formed, heart health and quantum physics. So he’s either the smartest man that ever lived or just a smart man who knows things about science but not a master o... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Neurodiversity affirming practice and mental health |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2024, 11:43 am
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| I forgot to add the nearest we have to the “natural difference” state where nobody bothers with cure talk is Down Syndrome. Ask yourself are they any better off do they not get discriminated against. Are they not looked down upon as lesser humans by others I think the huge abortion figures for Down ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Neurodiversity affirming practice and mental health |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2024, 3:31 pm
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| For a start the author incorrectly treats autism as an incurable single condition rather than multiple conditions that all have autism symptoms in common on a multiple circle venn diagram. This means some autisms are likely to be curable in the future, but being a psychologist the area of genetics a... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Questions about the terms Neurodiversity uses |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2024, 4:17 pm
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Replies: 20
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| Many schizophrenics had small incidents of psychosis in their childhood before the full blown condition happened, many disorders are there at birth but take a while to come out. I would add that Schizophrenics have their own ND movement where they too sugar coat the condition. https://en.wikipedia.... |
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