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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: hhs vows to find the cause of autism by September? |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 12 Apr 2025, 10:08 am
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| My guess is they are betting the farm on the testimony of so called whistleblower William Thompson that the cdc covered up evidence of a link. So from their point of view they believe if they test whatever he says was covered up it will bring a positive result. Which would explain the narrow time ex... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: hhs vows to find the cause of autism by September? |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2025, 6:12 am
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If that happens I’ll have to go out and buy a hat then eat it.
However don’t think that will happen |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Acceptance Month |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 10 Apr 2025, 6:31 am
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Replies: 42
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| Autism acceptance is classic Orwellian Doublespeak. It’s problematic behaviours that get autistic people into trouble, not the autism label itself. Nobody cares what something is called people are only bothered about how it may impact them. For example schizophrenia has a stigma of fear around unpro... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: New Research Challenges Beliefs About Autism, Eye Contact |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 09 Apr 2025, 3:45 pm
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| The whole diagnostic manual needs to be torn up its outdated and not fit for purpose These so called psychologist's don't seem to have a clue. I suspect its because psychology which is what the DSM is based upon is completely divorced from the science of what autism is, which in most cases is a whol... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Brace Yourself: It’s World Autism Month Again |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2025, 3:42 pm
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| In reply to the rhetorical question by the author, its always easier to deal with easy things like puzzle logos and criticise autism speaks for an ad they put out 15 years ago than deal with the big problems https://theautismcafe.com/world-autism-month-puzzle-piece-awareness-profound-autism/ Brace y... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Acceptance Month |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2025, 2:22 pm
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| It’s unclear what is meant by acceptance How can you not accept something that is present in reality ie I accept the sky is not green I accept I was diagnosed with ASD, I’m not frantically looking to challenge that, is anyone? That autism is not a disorder? They cannot do this because it is a disor... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Acceptance Month |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2025, 8:19 am
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| It’s unclear what is meant by acceptance How can you not accept something that is present in reality ie I accept the sky is not green I accept I was diagnosed with ASD, I’m not frantically looking to challenge that, is anyone? That autism is not a disorder? They cannot do this because it is a disord... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Did your Autism get better with age? |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2025, 5:03 pm
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| I think the key thing is stress goes down with age. When your young your expected to reach milestones like dating , socialising career expectations etc.. Your at peak dynamic point in your life where everything changes rapidly After a certain age those expectations are gone life slows down to a craw... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism Acceptance in the US in the last 20 years |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2025, 12:43 pm
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Accept autistic people of course, but also accept autism is a disorder for most too, as the name suggests and different autistic people have varying opinions on their autism
That's the meaning of acceptance |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Did your Autism get better with age? |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2025, 7:57 am
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| Spikey and intermittent impairment depending on unknown biological factors |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism Speaks 20th anniversary benefit concert |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2025, 7:16 am
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| Most of the criticisms of autism speaks relate to things they did before 2013 when autism was merged with Asperger’s. So the old AS policy was tailored to profound autism or autism severe enough to be considered a severe disability/ disorder 2013 came and suddenly those with mild conditions joined a... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Newsweek - Autism Awareness Still Has a Long Way To Go |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2025, 10:54 am
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| On another site, a guy with a PhD told me that they had made progress, and identified a gene which may play a part in autism. I asked him which autism that would be and got no answer. Progress in science comes mostly from breaking things down and simplifying them, to ease analysis, and to different... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Newsweek - Autism Awareness Still Has a Long Way To Go |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2025, 2:56 pm
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| When talking about autism you have to take IQ into account and don't write off what appears to be "high functioning" persons as less autistic. I think it would be extremly odd if an autistic person with an IQ of 140 would act and perform in the same way as an equally autistic person with ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Moon Landing Never Happened, a serious discussion |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2025, 4:33 pm
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I would recommend watching the Bart Sibrel interview and make up your own mind, all the arguments are made and Joe does a good job of challenging the points made on this forum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7xu0t9dTbI |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Reduced male hormone exposure may be linked to autism |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2025, 3:18 pm
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| Take that Simon baron Cohen and your extreme male brain theory that annoyed so many female autistics https://www.psypost.org/reduced-male-hormone-exposure-may-be-linked-to-autism-like-traits-in-males-study-suggests/ Reduced male hormone exposure may be linked to autism-like traits in males, study su... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Armchair diagnoses |
| carlos55 |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2025, 1:52 pm
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| Facts are irrelevant to many people thats the whole point of the article. |
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