If you're concerned about vaccine safety, you should watch the documentary The Bleeding Edge on Netflix so you can be concerned about medical device safety instead! those things don't even have to be tested on humans for the FDA to approve them! That is bad!
It's just amazing how people will be afraid of whatever the media tells them to be afraid of, and it's never what they should actually be afraid of. Corporate-owned media is never going to draw attention to their advertisers’ and parent companies’ moneymakers.
I still can't get over all the people who got mango juul pods banned because a small group of people got sick or died from black market THC vapes, aka not juul pods at all, so they were terrified of vaping and then one year later they were “not living in fear!” during a pandemic
I don't think I'm ever going to stop being resentful about the mango juul pod ban. I miss them and we squandered the best opportunity so far in history to help people stop smoking and cut down lung cancer rates bc people only look where society’s finger is pointing
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People keep asking me how I don't mask and honestly it never occurred to me that I should until 7th grade when I decided to figure out all the social stuff. I failed miserably, I just could not figure out what the secret rules were. it sucked and was boring. not worth it
I realized if I wanted to succeed in life I had to figure out how to be normal so I figured out all the stuff I could see but when it became clear that something essential about my personality was what was hated I just thought they were wrong, so their opinions were irrelevant
I did know there were ways you were supposed to do things but I honestly thought they were optional, they were for people who wanted to be good little Christian Republicans and I did not so I didn't bother learning them and I didn't care when people got mad at me for it
Hi, non-autistic parents of autistic kids - I'm an autistic adult and I would like to help. I hear a lot how hard it is to raise an autistic kid and I would just like to say that yes, everything is difficult when you do it wrong. #AutismAwarenessMonth#autism#ColorTheSpectrum
This is not me being rude, it is the truth. When everything you're told to do by the “experts” is the absolute worst thing you could be doing, the entire process will be difficult & the results cannot ever be what you are hoping for. The experts are the ones making your life hard
The truth is, when allowed to develop naturally, autistic people develop all the same skills that you have but in a different way. If you stunt our developmental process with training like ABA, you are preventing your child from developing into their adult brain. You're doing it.
this is heartbreaking. it’s a report of again and again making a kid feel bad about the completely harmless things they enjoy, stop doing what they enjoy, and do a pointless task instead to garner adults’ approval. this mindset is a moral sickness. #AutismAcceptanceMonth
“taught to play with other toys in the presence of bank checks” go to jail. just go straight to fucking jail get out of society you are a danger to all of us if you think that’s a good thing to train a kid to do
I would like a public debate in front of a live audience with someone from this research team over the value of the goal of their research. i want to make them defend the importance of forcing kids to play in ways they don’t enjoy. i have questions & i want to watch them fail.
half a million dollars to study how to cyberbully autistic kids out of lining up their toy cars and looking at ceiling fans. how about you see some flexible and functional behaviors when i kick your ass, Brian
I hate this extra bc my family is in the area. they are looking for kids like my little brother & sister and I'm so grateful that when my little brother lined up his Elmos we all just thought it was fucking CUTE and my little sister’s obsessed with X-rays so she gets MORE X-RAYS
my parents saw their six-year-old obsessed with anatomy and wanting to look at x-rays all the time and they didn't think it was weird, they just got her more x-rays to look at and she learned the names of all the bones. it’s that fucking easy. just support your kid’s interests
New blog post is up on my Patreon - how the process of memory integration and recall differs by neurotype and creates learning style requirements that are often disregarded as preferences or never recognized at all. #AutismAcceptanceMonth
This post was inspired by a conversation with my allistic ND best friend in which we found out that despite having photographic memories that use visual representations of words - we're the students who need to take our own notes – our memories are PHOTOGRAPHING DIFFERENT THINGS
And then what our memories do with those photographs and how we use them are completely different and run in precisely the opposite order from each other. Our recall works using completely different information - she can't use my method and I can't use hers
i finally figured out the pattern of some very confusing conversations I've been having lately! I am so relieved. This is not a subtweet of anyone, if I had a conversation like this with you I'm not trying to shit on you, it just kept happening a lot & was mystifying
I keep having these massive misunderstandings with people I frequently agree with & know could get my point, but the way they respond to me makes me see they think I'm making a different argument, and it's a common one that I've seen before, so I get why they think that
I start out in good faith trying to explain that I'm making a different argument, and I know the argument they think I'm making and I understand their point about that, but I making a different one. I assume they will immediately get it, so I'm not making a big case for myself