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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Lancet Report: Momentum builds toward breaking up of ASD |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 8:18 pm
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Replies: 72
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| It's a common misunderstanding that our IQ is a) measurable on tests and b) related to our functioning abilities with Autism. Yes, and even if it was measurable, should we just give up on children and stop trying to help them just because they failed some IQ test from some IQ test provider? Of cour... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Lancet Report: Momentum builds toward breaking up of ASD |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 7:46 pm
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| IsabellaLinton -- Actually I think he meant I'm the one with the "intellectual disability", not you, because I'm so bad at IQ tests. That was the accidental implication in his message. But he didn't mean it. He had good intentions. It's just a type of prejudice/discrimination that people c... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Lancet Report: Momentum builds toward breaking up of ASD |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 7:31 pm
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| I guess this autistic student is in the high IQ group No. The article says a high VCE score, and says nothing about any IQ tests. The VCE test is vastly different to any IQ test. There is insufficient information in the article to draw any conclusions about what score the son might receive if he do... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Lancet Report: Momentum builds toward breaking up of ASD |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 7:18 pm
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Replies: 72
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| If nearly 50% of autistic people have an IQ below average and 30% intellectual disability ... That's a racist comment, or rather a prejudiced/discriminatory comment. As I said in my previous message: When people say that anyone with an IQ of 60 or 70 is "intellectually disabled" or uninte... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Lancet Report: Momentum builds toward breaking up of ASD |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 6:07 pm
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Replies: 72
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| I think there needs to be some distinction. The obvious one is IQ. Executive functions aside, IQ is the ultimate deciding factor. IQ is misleading. For example, I have low IQ but fall into the so-called "high-functioning" category anyway, and people usually view my work as intelligent, pr... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do people believe in lies? |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 3:30 pm
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Replies: 156
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| Evolution is to blame. Evolution is the reason why the majority of people continue to believe outrageous lies and myths even after being repeatedly shown stacks of heavyweight evidence. The majority of humans are programmed by their genes to create a distorted alternate reality inside their heads. M... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Best speech delay treatments for visual learners? |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 3:17 pm
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Replies: 19
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| blazingstar -- I wish we had an opportunity like that. Last time we tried, we were verbally attacked because my wife was following the WHO recommended guidelines for breastfeeding, which meant she breastfed X months longer than the other woman did. The other woman felt threatened simply by seeing th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are liberal women attracted to conservative men more? |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 2:47 pm
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Replies: 197
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| I think liberal and conservative are red herrings in this case. It's nothing to do with their political views. I've noticed that too many people actually SEEK some degree of conflict/fighting in their relationships. They don't want peace. Verbally they say peace is great, but in their behavior they ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Can autistic people exhibit a higher degree narcissism? |
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Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 2:16 pm
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Replies: 15
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| I notice that some on the spectrum who I have spoken to entirely lay the blame on neurotypicals for everything and professing that we are mentally superior beings or even the future of human evolution The number (or percentage) of NT's who believe they are mentally superior beings is far higher tha... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The ACLU and free speech |
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Posted: 16 Dec 2021, 8:05 pm
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Replies: 21
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| Today, I was forced to use a bicycle to travel to the other side of the city for an appointment with a medical specialist. Including the return trip, it took hours. I'll have to do it again next month. Myself and everyone else in my group (millions of people) are forbidden from travelling on public ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The ACLU and free speech |
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Posted: 16 Dec 2021, 7:24 pm
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| In Europe, after what WWII did here, most people do believe that harm of Nazi ideology outweights benefits of freedom of expression - and we have an explicit limit to freedom of expression here. The anti-Nazi laws in Europe are incorrectly designed. They're defective laws because they are written a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The ACLU and free speech |
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Posted: 16 Dec 2021, 6:56 pm
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| It's not that expensive nor technically hard to mass-create fake "users" spreading conflicting messages if your goal is just to create chaos and distrust. More fake news should be generated. Lots and lots of it. Fake news should be spread all over the place. It's very dangerous to allow a... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Best speech delay treatments for visual learners? |
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Posted: 16 Dec 2021, 6:01 pm
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Replies: 19
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| Here's a related question that interests us a lot: What do you all think about how much speech an AS or ND child learns from other children of similar age? A lot or practically nothing or ...? I mentioned in my previous message that we withdrew our child from the kindergarten, because of the shockin... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Best speech delay treatments for visual learners? |
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Posted: 16 Dec 2021, 5:32 pm
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| Her speech development was behind the schedule but it didn't come into arrest until a rigid teacher in second grade started trying to make her "be normal". It was quite a lot of hard work to repair the damage done then. Interesting. In that case, I believe we made the right decision when ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Employer that only employs neurodivergents? |
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Posted: 16 Dec 2021, 3:24 pm
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Replies: 29
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| Nothing prevents it except wealth, you know. The big challenge in the wealth/funding issue is that if ethical people start an organization to help other people, then wealth/funding is needed (as you said), but unfortunately wealth is normally obtained via the exploitation of other people. Thus the ... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Employer that only employs neurodivergents? |
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Posted: 16 Dec 2021, 2:55 pm
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Replies: 29
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| There are companies who view themselves in the right niche and are making great efforts at hiring autistic people. That's interesting, but I'm cautious because I've learned the hard way that there exists at least 2 forms: (1) Organizations that genuinely want to help autistic people. versus (2) Cor... |
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