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My 18 year old son has severe learning disabilities and Autism. In my experience there are very very few, if any “Autism” charities actually directly helping people with Autism, I have certainly never seen a penny go to anything we are involved with, but anyway the point to this post is that if you want to do the thing where your money really helps then donate to a local special needs school - they usually have a specific thing they are raising money for, like turning a unused area into a sensory garden and so on.
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On the topic of Autism Speaks and not in any way an idiot (at least based on this tweet): https://twitter.com/BrownBirdTown/status/1329792138767458304
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Nov 20, 2020 23:38
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My nephew is on the spectrum and constantly chooses Joker in Smash. I don't know if those two go hand in hand but he really needs to stop because he's kicking my rear end.
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Nov 20, 2020 23:57
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Push El Burrito posted:My nephew is on the spectrum and constantly chooses Joker in Smash. I don't know if those two go hand in hand but he really needs to stop because he's kicking my rear end. As someone who also plays Smash Bros and is autistic, I can assure you that him picking Joker isn't necessarily related to autism, but him kicking your rear end certainly is.
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Nov 20, 2020 23:59
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Push El Burrito posted:My nephew is on the spectrum and constantly chooses Joker in Smash. I don't know if those two go hand in hand but he really needs to stop because he's kicking my rear end. Have you considered getting good?
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Nov 21, 2020 00:00
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The way I heard it is there’s two distinct but related things called “autism” - there’s ‘my brain just works differently’ autism and there’s ‘nonverbal, unable to exist without heavy and constant care’ autism. The second is what Autism Speaks focuses on, the first gets (rightfully) mad about being lumped in with the second.
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Nov 21, 2020 00:01
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Inceltown posted:Have you considered getting good? It's spelt "get gud" (how do you put the line over the "U"?)
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Nov 21, 2020 00:01
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For fun, I tried to see if I could think of anybody I know who's a millennial and lives alone. Went through college friends, work friends, cousins...absolutely no one. Even the married couples live with roommates half the time.
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Nov 21, 2020 00:07
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christmas boots posted:Only an IOSM for the original ad because it's supposed to be Pro-Jesus. Believe in the Satan who believes in you 
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Nov 21, 2020 00:21
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Byzantine posted:The way I heard it is there’s two distinct but related things called “autism” - there’s ‘my brain just works differently’ autism and there’s ‘nonverbal, unable to exist without heavy and constant care’ autism. Wouldn't it be beneficial for updating the terms used in this case? It seems lumping the two categories into one basket doesn't benefit either.
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Nov 21, 2020 00:29
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hyperhazard posted:For fun, I tried to see if I could think of anybody I know who's a millennial and lives alone. Went through college friends, work friends, cousins...absolutely no one. Even the married couples live with roommates half the time. I'm a millennial and I live alone. As of like three weeks ago when my (married) roomates moved out, and it's almost certainly temporary. But there's at least one!
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Nov 21, 2020 00:35
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*taps the sign marked “it’s a spectrum” My son used to be non-verbal “worst case” (18 years of therapy in the right environment got us working together as a coping mechanism team today) and the stuff that helps him will also help people who don’t have it as “bad”. Colours, noise, routine that kind of thing  Reality is it’s government funding to get kids the therapy they need that will help the most, and the misinformation spread by hormonal autistic teenagers sitting in a internet echo chamber unsupervised causes a lot of damage.
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Nov 21, 2020 00:41
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Mega Comrade posted:Wouldn't it be beneficial for updating the terms used in this case? It seems lumping the two categories into one basket doesn't benefit either. Some people with arthritis just get sore joints. Some can barely move. They are still both Arthritis, just to a different degree.
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Nov 21, 2020 00:43
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Byzantine posted:The way I heard it is there’s two distinct but related things called “autism” - there’s ‘my brain just works differently’ autism and there’s ‘nonverbal, unable to exist without heavy and constant care’ autism. Autism Speaks presents itself as literally the source of information on autism, not as "resources for the most severely disabled".
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Nov 21, 2020 00:46
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I once shouted quite a lot at a group of people standing around with miniature ponies who were claiming to be a autism therapy group, they were not and when I left the police were trying to work out if they could put the ponies in the K-9 unit van. People are bastards and grifters gonna grift.
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Nov 21, 2020 00:57
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hyperhazard posted:For fun, I tried to see if I could think of anybody I know who's a millennial and lives alone. Went through college friends, work friends, cousins...absolutely no one. Even the married couples live with roommates half the time. I'm a millennial and I live alone. However: I do not live in a major metropolitan city, I live in a place with a half decent minimum wage, and also I live in a one room apartment, so I can make it work. I also might be on the spectrum, to cross over the conversations in the thread, which is possibly why I continue to insist on living alone even though there are cheaper options, but I'm undiagnosed and I don't see the point in getting that diagnosis when I'm 37 and already more stable than I've ever been. So.
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Nov 21, 2020 01:14
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christmas boots posted:Only an IOSM for the original ad because it's supposed to be Pro-Jesus. Satan is a good friend.
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Nov 21, 2020 01:21
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Wholesome tbh
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Nov 21, 2020 01:33
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learnincurve posted:I once shouted quite a lot at a group of people standing around with miniature ponies who were claiming to be a autism therapy group, they were not and when I left the police were trying to work out if they could put the ponies in the K-9 unit van. hosed up of the police to arrest the ponies for this.
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learnincurve posted:I once shouted quite a lot at a group of people standing around with miniature ponies who were claiming to be a autism therapy group, they were not and when I left the police were trying to work out if they could put the ponies in the K-9 unit van. imagining this as a brony meetup with toy ponies
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Nov 21, 2020 01:52
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Skwirl posted:Why did Sia even make an autism documentary? Does she have an autistic kid or niece or nephew or something? Not saying you need to be personally affected by something to want to do something about it, but that's something pretty far outside her normal wheelhouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OEh1GdzVoA
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Light Gun Man posted:imagining this as a brony meetup with toy ponies Guess who wrote the credits song for the MLP movie
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Knormal posted:It's not a documentary, it's a musical. The autistic girl is played by Maddie Ziegler, the dancer from all of Sia's music videos who got her start on that Dance Moms reality show. Oh, she thought Autism was a fun toy to play with.
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Nov 21, 2020 02:45
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Goddamn, that looks dire. I don't know what Kate Hudson's been up to recently, but surely Leslie Odom Jr. doesn't have any lack of projects to choose from.
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Nov 21, 2020 03:34
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https://twitter.com/mbaram/status/1329896177073074182?s=20 Please, every Georgian Republican, either boycott the senate runoff or write in Trump's name.
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Nov 21, 2020 04:13
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Of course their galaxy brains will say that even though they boycotted the election or abstained, the vote was rigged or stolen.
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Nov 21, 2020 05:04
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Knormal posted:I remember being told in a (community) college American Government class that America is the oldest currently-existing nation under these criteria. I'm sure there's some extremely pedantic way you can discount all other countries' governments to make this true, so even if that tweet is a joke post there are some people out there who do sincerely believe that America is the oldest surviving nation. I had a similar experience in a US History class in community college in Texas, ~2010. The lady they dug up to replace the original professor a week before the semester began informed us that Texas is the only state that was an independent nation before becoming a state. When I objected, I was informed that Hawaii "didn't count".
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Nov 21, 2020 05:11
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lmao they're trying to reclaim "liddle" Need an extra spurious apostrophe guys
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I had a similar experience in a US History class in community college in Texas, ~2010. The lady they dug up to replace the original professor a week before the semester began informed us that Texas is the only state that was an independent nation before becoming a state. California was also a country for about a month between leaving Mexico and joining the USA. That's why the state flag says California Republic instead of just California.
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Geocities Homepage King posted:Hey, thanks Satan. I will. Thanks, Satan. Thatan.
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That's a much shittier religion.
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Skwirl posted:California was also a country for about a month between leaving Mexico and joining the USA. That's why the state flag says California Republic instead of just California. I told a dude from Texas that Texas was a traitor state because they fly the flag at the same height as the American flag (he wouldn't shut the gently caress up about the Texas independent nation poo poo like it wasn't the obvious legal fallacy it was, I didn't just start out with that). He punched me in the face, so I had to pick him up and throw him over the railing on the (ground level) deck. That's about the closest to a fight I've had as an adult. "Everything's bigger in Texas" they should try making the fuckin' people bigger 'cause dud was like 5'6 and a buck sixty and really shouldn't try to punch Yankees almost a foot taller and 80lbs heavier than him.
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Elviscat posted:I told a dude from Texas that Texas was a traitor state because they fly the flag at the same height as the American flag (he wouldn't shut the gently caress up about the Texas independent nation poo poo like it wasn't the obvious legal fallacy it was, I didn't just start out with that). Getting punched in the face and then throwing the dude over a railing means you were in a fight, there's no "closest" about it. "The closest I've ever been to a gun fight is when a guy shot his gun at me and I shot my gun at him." "The closest I've ever been to being a professional athlete is the fact that I'm Lebron James."
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Skwirl posted:California was also a country for about a month between leaving Mexico and joining the USA. That's why the state flag says California Republic instead of just California. I only learned that later when frantically searching on the internet for more points to score, before I realized that the whole thing was in fact pointless. She brought in a guest speaker later in the semester who dressed up like a Colonial Army soldier and told us that voting for Democrats would be throwing away everything he had fought for. It was a long and obnoxious semester. Elviscat posted:I told a dude from Texas that Texas was a traitor state because they fly the flag at the same height as the American flag (he wouldn't shut the gently caress up about the Texas independent nation poo poo like it wasn't the obvious legal fallacy it was, I didn't just start out with that). Texas is a traitor state because we fought a war of secession to defend the practice of owning people. But I bet he wouldn't have liked that either. Lemniscate Blue has a new favorite as of 07:51 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Texas is a traitor state because we fought a war of secession to defend the practice of owning people. Hell, Texas fought two.
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Midnight Voyager posted:Some people with arthritis just get sore joints. Some can barely move. They are still both Arthritis, just to a different degree. Yes and if you have a migraine you also just have a headache but the term migraine instantly communicates the severity. I'm not suggesting dumping the term autism. I'm saying add new ones so it can be more easily communicated what a person's needs might be.
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Mega Comrade posted:Yes and if you have a migraine you also just have a headache but the term migraine instantly communicates the severity. We used to have one, but then it turned out Asperger was a Nazi and the medical community as a whole realized that he probably wasn't the best kinda guy to name something like that after. Generally speaking the term 'high-functioning autism' has caught on fairly well among people that really need that sort of descriptor, and it does its job. I don't know if 'low-functioning autism' or something like that is in use, though.
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Lol. I was wondering why the term Asperger's had kind of gone out of fashion. I had no idea it was because he was a nazi.
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Mega Comrade posted:Lol. I was wondering why the term Asperger's had kind of gone out of fashion. I had no idea it was because he was a nazi. From what I can tell, it was kinda two separate things that happened very close together. The DSM-V just called the whole spectrum 'autism' because it's just the same thing and having an entirely different label for parts of the spectrum just wasn't very useful. Then a few years later an article came out that Asperger said and did a WHOLE bunch of stuff that, while not explicitly saying he was a Nazi, definitely indicated he supported them rather enthusiastically. Calling it 'Aspergers' was already on its way out, but 'it turns out we were naming it after a guy that sent kids like that to gas chambers' really speeds up the drop.
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