“your autism isn’t exactly the same as mine AND you have a completely different personal experience?? you aren’t autistic and you’re harming the community👹👹👹”
once again
i hate to say it even but the average autistic person isn’t that deeply concerned with hotness because it’s a social construct. i’m not saying it’s something we’re fully unaware of, but it kinda requires a level of social awareness that isn’t typical in autistic people.
Imagine taking a few Bible verses on human sexuality as literal divine commands from God for all society, but minimizing 2,000+ verses calling for the care of immigrants, the marginalized, the oppressed, and the poor to be a personal choice.
Take a slave owner or residential school founder’s name off a street or remove a statue and there’ll be endless screaming about preserving history. But when Israel destroys Tyre - older than all European capitals - in Lebanon and destroys ancient monuments it’s silence.
Being a “Defaults to explaining things to people even if they might already know, because the risk of redundancy is preferable to the risk of leaving someone out, and it’s very important that everyone be included” autist in a world full of “Explains things as a social power move”
When people say "I'd do anything for my child," everyone praises them, but when a parent risks crossing a border to save their child from war, poverty, or danger, suddenly they're treated like criminals.
This clip reminds me of what most Boomers are like when you bring up real life, genuine problems to them. They act like you're just opinionated, like it's an inconvenience, you're being rude/unkind, it's no big deal, they know better, and it's fucking *infuriating* to deal with.
I just want to point out....
The amount of money the United States has spent on war in the last 67 days, is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never can we afford it, it's what we choose to prioritize.
Reminder he’s never authored a paper, never done journal club, never taken a single biological science course post high school, never, taken a stats class, has no training in epi…
But called a well-controlled study “garbage”. The audacity of his ignorance
Poetic answer: “It’s better to know you’re a normal zebra than to think you’re a weird horse.”
Direct answer: “Without those labels, most people chalk up your symptoms to character flaws they can use as excuses to hate you, abuse you, and discriminate against you.”
"Scientists don't want you to know this"
What? Have you ever met a scientist? This is like saying chefs don't want you to taste their food. They are desperate for you to be informed, they will often give you information for free, to walk you through your misunderstandings.
People who have better de-escalation training than ICE agents:
- Drunk girl at the bar
- Preschool/special ed teachers
- Any mom who has ever existed
- Servers at Waffle House
As an American citizen it is intensely offensive to me that we would spend this kind of money on Greenland when we don’t have universal healthcare, mandatory maternity leave, good public schools or any sort of social services.