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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: A very Chinese problem in Ukraine |
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Posted: 03 Mar 2022, 2:08 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,696
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| Volkswagen announced they're closing their factory in Russia. So Russia does have some manufacturing industry. (Without one, how could they build weapons to sell to India and Turkey?) I wonder how they'll restructure their economy over the next few months and year. And how many assets of Western com... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Nazi support on social media |
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Posted: 01 Mar 2022, 7:20 am
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Replies: 211
Views: 6,682
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| I don't think adding avowed Nazis to your official military are the actions of a few idiots. Well, maybe, if you're talking about the idiots who took power after the 2014 revolution. We shouldn't be sending Ukraine any military aid until they dissolve the Azov and we can be sure we aren't arming Naz... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What's the difference between Aspergers and Austism |
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Posted: 01 Mar 2022, 7:17 am
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Replies: 30
Views: 3,477
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| For most of the world, they're separate conditions. Ignore the silly American's who think the DSM is the global standard. They get lumped together because of similarities, but there are a lot of conditions that share a lot of traits, that doesn't mean they're the same thing or have the same cause. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autistic Speciation versus Autistic Supremacy? |
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Posted: 23 Feb 2022, 1:14 pm
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Replies: 45
Views: 7,625
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| Evolution works only when genetic changes provide an advantage to reproductive success. People with autism often complain about being involuntarily celibate. Therefore, Autism provides no advantage to reproductive success. Personally, I believe that if autism is somehow a product of evolutionary... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Lancet Report: Momentum builds toward breaking up of ASD |
| Magneto |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2022, 10:37 am
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Replies: 72
Views: 12,382
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| Really the term should be scratched out altogether. Sometimes you need to go back to the beginning and try and rebuild your understanding of it without the baggage of the past. If this was done, I think it would become pretty obvious that "ASD" is a worse than useless term, lumping togethe... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: California to pay reperations - forced sterilization victims |
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Posted: 03 Aug 2021, 8:43 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,559
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| Well, it's constitutional, as decided by the Supreme Court... after all, as Justice Holmes put it, "The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes." |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I find this contradicting |
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Posted: 09 Nov 2020, 2:06 pm
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Replies: 104
Views: 10,663
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| Aspergers doesn't preclude making friends... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I find this contradicting |
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Posted: 09 Nov 2020, 5:58 am
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Replies: 104
Views: 10,663
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| It's deemed more socially important that kids socialize (or at least interact) with other children their own age than it is to match them precisely to a specific level of teaching or intellectual ability. Which is a big, big problem. Because only interacting with people within a year of your age is... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I find this contradicting |
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Posted: 08 Nov 2020, 8:27 am
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Replies: 104
Views: 10,663
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| Child IQ scores don't mean all that much - certainly not the same as adult scores. If IQ wasn't adjusted for age, you'd find everyone gaining significant increases in IQ as they grow up. Child IQ is more about how fast or slow you're developing relative to the average for your age. Grammar schools s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What even is autism? |
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Posted: 07 Nov 2020, 5:21 pm
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Replies: 51
Views: 7,184
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| Depends. Are you talking about autism as a diagnosis, or autism as a neurotype? Very different things. I'm quite confident that at least some of the symptoms of autism are not *directly* due to the autism, but due to how the autism interacts with the broader world. A lot of features (rocking back an... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Meltdown" |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2020, 1:43 pm
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Replies: 52
Views: 10,514
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| KT67, Being overwhelmed by your situation to the point you can no longer function isn't "behaving badly". It doesn't matter what's causing it. Autistic people don't just have *sensory* issues, and a meltdown brought on by the fact that you can't explain what's wrong with you in a stressful... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I find this contradicting |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2020, 11:25 am
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Replies: 104
Views: 10,663
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| There is no contradiction between wanting accommodations for the way you're wired and not thinking you're disabled. Being left handed isn't innately a disability, even if it means you struggle without any accommodations made for it. Disability is context dependent - change the context, and what is c... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Meltdown" |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2020, 8:08 am
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Replies: 52
Views: 10,514
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| No. *Some* meltdowns happen because of sensory overload. Maybe all of yours do. But don't think that your experience is reflective of everyone. A meltdown is what happens when circumstances overwhelm a person's ability to deal with them. That happens to everybody. It doesn't have to be sensory in na... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Meltdown" |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2020, 6:15 am
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Replies: 52
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| "Our word". Meltdowns aren't tantrums, but they are things that are experienced by everyone. Just more frequently by autists, because we operate closer to the edge than normal for most people. But if you push someone to that point, they're going to have a meltdown, whatever their neurotype... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The things I can never have due to my autism |
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Posted: 02 Nov 2020, 11:46 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,615
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| If you 'cured' an autistic loser, you would simply gain an neurotypical loser who would be in no better position, since they still wouldn't have learned to interact with people very well. Honestly, people act like 'social skills' are things that come innate to most human beings, rather than being le... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stories that resonate with autistic people? |
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Posted: 02 Nov 2020, 8:44 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 825
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| Not an "which fictional characters are autistic" thread, but what stories do autistic people find resonate with them, regardless of whether any the characters themselves are autistic? For example (and I have to bring this up, being at present *slightly* obsessed with Elsa... again), I can ... |
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