Ryan W

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@NatPurser but since nothing I do or say will ever have any impact on it, I don't need to get obsessive about knowing about it or having opinions on it

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@NatPurser One thing that I often consider is that there are two questions:

1. Is this issue important?
2. Is it important for me personally to know and think about this issue?

And these questions are not the same. A lot of things can be very important in themselves,

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@maybe_ghuf Definitrly this. It's best when authorities afe explicit and clear. When they're not, the authority is still there. It's just not accountable

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@_mariaslibrary_ A. OK, but if they are, do you want to be the one that loses a job because you couldn't go without coffee for 15 mins?

B. What about when 2 or 3 candidates ALL have all the qualifications possible?

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@unMaskedRogue Sometimes. But sometimes the social contracts are actually what make workplaces safe for disabled people. Disabled people generally don't thrive in chaotic do-what-you-want environments. It's a matter of having the RIGHT norms

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@luckynumrotrece @Jmax528 @BosCybertruck @kmlsazr This is the key. Yes, a company that would go without a qualified employee over a coffee is stupid. But that's usually not the situation. Most often, they have 2 or 3 candidates who are all fully qualified. In that case, a small thing like a coffee could be the difference

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@kmlsazr Most of it isn't "Be more docile". It's "Don't be a narcissistic antisocial freak". You're not a special little flower that just has to fully bloom 24 hrs a day. Professionalism means that everyone mutes themselves a little bit in work environments, which helps things go smoothly

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@Smthingedgy someone like me that it be recognized that I'm NOT just an otherwise ordinary guy who's a little bit weird in social situations.

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@Smthingedgy And this is what was so practically damaging about the separate Asperger's diagnosis. It led to what are now called level 1 autistic people not receiving support they actually needed because their symptoms weren't as visible. It's actually important in very practical ways for

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@Smthingedgy version of the same things I experience. Again, literally every condition ever has degrees of severity

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@Smthingedgy as a level 3 autistic person. They have sensory sensitivities, struggle with interruptions of their routine, tend to hyperfixate on things and experience executive dysfunction. So do I. What they're experiencing isn't something different from me. It's a much more intense

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@ScubertDubert70 @TArchcast I meant the description in a tongue in cheek way. It's not that New Yorkers literally hate everyone, but there's a sort of default gruff demeanor that contrasts with the demonstrative friendliness in other regions

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@stendhalist Russia is not in fact particularly atomized in comparison to Western countries, and is becoming less rather than moreso as it recovers from the cultural damage of the communist years. There are so many crude stereotypes about Russia, but in many respects it's not so unusual.

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@stendhalist This is of course not true. Decriminalization is not the same thing as legalization, either in effect or intent. And decriminalization only applies to the first offense. Obviously people can criticize that, bad to pretend that "Russia legalized domestic violence" is disingenuous

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.

The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.

A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.

Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture.

The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.

Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.

"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.

Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.

The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.

The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.

How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@grumpy_woof @TArchcast It might be relevant that all my interactions with American West-coasters have been short interactions when I was traveling. Maybe I should qualify my statement to "superficially polite in situations where you're not actually bothering them much"

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@CoreyWriting For what it's worth, I was genuinely annoyed by what happened, and liked this statement. So this successfully targeted an audience of at least one.

[Ryan W @arbyw888]

@MenTalMysTic1 @claireternal @st_louis_stan @annakhachiyan Or you could...you know, read the DSM entry. It's less than a page long.