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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: High Needs Autistic Advocates. |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2023, 6:06 pm
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| To add to my last comments, you cant be legally disabled without having an official medical disorder. You cant get disability welfare or a blue disabled badge for a car in the UK without doctors / medical evidence. I cant just demand a carer to do my shopping for me because i cant be bothered to wa... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: High Needs Autistic Advocates. |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2023, 3:15 pm
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| To add to my last comments, you cant be legally disabled without having an official medical disorder. You cant get disability welfare or a blue disabled badge for a car in the UK without doctors / medical evidence. I cant just demand a carer to do my shopping for me because i cant be bothered to wal... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: High Needs Autistic Advocates. |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2023, 5:57 am
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| Although most autistic self-advocates have no issue with calling autism a "disability," many of us are uneasy about calling it a "disorder." Our main issues with the "disorder" framing are: I suspect that kind of creeping orwellian doublespeak is exactly the kind of th... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: The Tylenol causation lawsuits |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2023, 12:14 pm
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| Not sure why you think it’s “a conspiracy theory”. Tylenol is a drug like any other and adverse effects are not abnormal. The fact that it could cause autism if taken in pregnancy is not beyond possibility The problem for the provers is the same as the scientists looking for autism drugs which is - ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: High Needs Autistic Advocates. |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2023, 8:25 am
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| I very much support you and wish you luck. In fact most of what you say is what I've been saying for quite some time on WP. Maybe you should try to connect to The National Council for Severe Autism( link) since combined forces will have a stronger impact https://www.ncsautism.org/ They seem to be t... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: High Needs Autistic Advocates. |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2023, 11:34 am
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| I very much support you and wish you luck. In fact most of what you say is what I've been saying for quite some time on WP. Maybe you should try to connect to The National Council for Severe Autism( link) since combined forces will have a stronger impact https://www.ncsautism.org/ They seem to be th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Nobody interested in the Russia-Ukraine conflict? |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2023, 11:33 am
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| It didn't work that way when Nazi Germany and Soviet Union divided Poland between them. We've been subjected to many attempts of making us disappear. It's called genocide and it causes more angry people and more insurgencies, unless you flat out physically destroy a nation, which is considered a cr... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: MSNBC column on pros and cons of early diagnosis |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2023, 11:27 am
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| What's the obsession & point in early diagnosis anyway, its not like anything can be done about it unless its to promote useless ABA. Promoting ABA is the whole point. The theory is that the genetically predisposed process of becoming autistic can be stopped by ABA. Most of this “brain wiring” ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is there any good new movies with autistic characters? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2023, 2:47 pm
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| Depends what you mean - characters suspected of having some form of borderline Aspergers - unlimited huge numbers of movies Actual Autistic characters - very few cant really name many, perhaps "the accountant" an autistic character stared by Ben Affleck. Good movie but unfortunately lots o... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Nobody interested in the Russia-Ukraine conflict? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2023, 12:36 pm
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| More in respect to insurgency warfare against an occupying army Can you explain what you mean in the context of this discussion? Of course in the international arena of politics any successor could bring up the self determination issue too You mean rhetorics? Everyone keeps talking big words about ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Nobody interested in the Russia-Ukraine conflict? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2023, 7:30 am
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| Lol. A funny assumption that life looks the same under Kremlin and under "Western" influence, so it's all about ethnicity plus some technical details. You wish it was - in such case, it could be settled with diplomatic means only. If Russians cared about self-determination of nations, the... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Nobody interested in the Russia-Ukraine conflict? |
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Posted: 15 Jan 2023, 6:50 am
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| Maybe this explains Russia`s strategy a little here. They don`t want millions of angry ethnic Ukrainians to feed and look after, like the US in Iraq. During WWII, 1/3 of the population of the Baltic states was deported to other parts of the USSR and Soviet citizens were brought in to "Russiani... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Nobody interested in the Russia-Ukraine conflict? |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2023, 3:04 pm
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| Has anyone thought maybe all this western aid is actually helping Russia in the long term. If seems they wont pass a threshold that will win the war, rather make it harder for them to advance, all its doing is fueling the fighting, which will further cause the destruction and emptying of the populat... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Liberalism and Dietary Restrictions |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2023, 3:05 pm
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| Question: When one becomes a liberal, does their gut recoil in such disgust that they can no longer ingest basic food groups like dairy and wheat? :scratch: Just wondering because I have noticed there is a severe correlation with left-leaning ideology and not being able to eat normal food anymore. ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: MSNBC column on pros and cons of early diagnosis |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2023, 2:47 pm
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| I had an early diagnosis and I suffer with my mental health because of it. I wish I was like 99% of other mild/high-functioning Aspie females who go all through childhood freely without being noticed as on the spectrum. All my childhood consisted of was assessments, appointments, psychiatrists and ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: MSNBC column on pros and cons of early diagnosis |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2023, 3:13 pm
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| What's the obsession & point in early diagnosis anyway, its not like anything can be done about it unless its to promote useless ABA. |
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