Now that I have a ~hit tweet~ a reminder I'm always down to talk about nonacademic jobs (including gov jobs and the @uscensusbureau), qual methods, and childhood/disability/gender. I have free resources at https://t.co/CpLjahOIQa.
Me: see, bundt is a kind of cake, and "nothing but" is a phrase that signifies..
Midevil peasant I brought back to life to show him the Mainline: no i get it, it's just dumb.
There is no reason not to listen to #ActuallyAutistic people. Doing so does not invalidate parents or clinicians. We need to provide adequate support and services, rather than pretending it is autistic people hurting other autistic people (6/6).
If you listened to The Daily's reporting on #autism today and you were like "huh, that doesn't sound right" here's the context you're missing and what they got wrong, by an autism researcher (who they are mad at for not researching "severe" enough people) (1/6).
Also missing is the discussion in inequality in diagnosis. For a long time, only upper middle class white gender conforming boys were getting diagnoses. At all. This colors who got to be autistic under the old guard (5/6).
So! I studied children's hospitals for my dissertation. He's wrong in that there's been children's hospitals for 100+ years. Disabled kids have always existed. Also! There are more disabled kids because they die less due to medical interventions. We should still care about them.
Lot of talk of people being afraid of Philadelphia when, on the bus, I just saw the bottom fall out of someone's grocery bag and a stranger immediately produced a replacement for them and that's honestly the kind of thing I see on a daily basis.
Just a reminder that being a garbage collector/sanitation worker is more dangerous than being a cop. And their roles are absolutely essential to preserving public health.
People who live in small towns are scared of cities, and people who live in cities are scared of small towns. People who have lived in both are only scared of small towns.