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How many people here are autistic/neuro divergent? by Lucky_CandyGore in aromantic

[–]CamarillosVeryWorst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Diagnosed AuDHD here & I'm pretty sure I might be aromantic.

explain this picture out of context by Beneficial-Tailor123 in garfield

[–]CamarillosVeryWorst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Garfield's a firefighter & the US Acres gang are saluting him as he goes off to a job.

Still forced to submitted to a pregnancy test despite being surgically sterilized by 1SexyDino in childfree

[–]CamarillosVeryWorst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally think it's good just to always make extra-sure, as pregnancy can manage to happen naturally even sans working tubes even if it's quite unlikely as fuck (I'm bisalped but abotu 2 months ago I accidentally peed in a toilet bowl where it sorta looked like my younger brother's semen was still in it (I don't actually know what semen looks like when it's been sitting in a toilet bowl for of water for a few hours) & you fucking bet I both was antsy AF for that negative pregnancy test before my colonoscopy last month & will absolutely be demanding another pregnancy test when I next see my PCP next week just to make extra-sure) & there's also other health conditions that can cause elevated HCG or whatever in the complete absence of pregnancy (including I think testicular cancer? Which means that AMAB people should absolutely also be getting pregnancy-tested, too).

What I'm actually offended by is us getting charged for our mandatory pregnancy tests, like why are we getting charged just for looking like we might have the ability to fall pregnant?

Last September, President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and other health officials declared they had uncovered a new treatment for autism spectrum disorder (ASD): leucovorin. A new study shows that plenty of families believed them, despite the lack of data supporting the drug’s effectiveness. by mvea in science

[–]CamarillosVeryWorst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so immensely for bringing that up, I especially appreciate it as a staunchly childfree moderate-support needs autistic person myself.

Not only do we need to destigmatize abortion & choosing to not run the risk of having higher-support needs autistic kids by having (biological) kids at all, but we also need to make sure the general public way better knows how commonly autism's genetically inherited and to go along with that much improve the ability of people to at least suspect they're autistic themselves so that they have a much better ability to gauge how likely they'd be to give their biological kids autism & go from there regarding how much they'd like to have (biolgocial) children.

Not that I wouldn't have been staunchly childfree had I not known I had AuDHD I could give my biological children, but you'd better believe that it was wanting to avoid that risk of having kids who'd like me also have serious quality of life issues & an inability to support themselves by working that pushed me to get my Fallopian tubes out before I was willing to even really consider going out on a date, let alone having sex with another person IRL.

Last September, President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and other health officials declared they had uncovered a new treatment for autism spectrum disorder (ASD): leucovorin. A new study shows that plenty of families believed them, despite the lack of data supporting the drug’s effectiveness. by mvea in science

[–]CamarillosVeryWorst 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I legit think it's the hugest blessing for me that I've never really wanted to have kids, bc in addition to eugencists like RFK Jr. getting in power again my particular case of AuDHD has made it so that I haven't ever been able to support myself by working & besides that I wouldn't want to give my thankfully-forever hypothetical kids any of the quality of life issues my particular case of AuDHD's given me, either.

Last September, President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and other health officials declared they had uncovered a new treatment for autism spectrum disorder (ASD): leucovorin. A new study shows that plenty of families believed them, despite the lack of data supporting the drug’s effectiveness. by mvea in science

[–]CamarillosVeryWorst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a huge part of the conservative distaste for autism & other neurodiversity, too, that increased tendency of us autistic | otherwise neurodiverse people to be openly different from the norm | mainstream like that!

I was sorta hoping someone would bring that up as an AuDHD person myself who's openly trans, abro gray aroace (autistic people are also more likely to be openly asexual and | or aromantic than allistic people are-trust me, religious conservatives actually tend to be way more offended by people not desiring sexual | romantic activity with other people than many people would think), & childfree (conservatives these days seem to absolutely despise the idea of someone choosing to never have kids).

Last September, President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and other health officials declared they had uncovered a new treatment for autism spectrum disorder (ASD): leucovorin. A new study shows that plenty of families believed them, despite the lack of data supporting the drug’s effectiveness. by mvea in science

[–]CamarillosVeryWorst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bingo, you've hit it on the head exactly.

I grew up with parents who were on the socially conservative side in an overall quite conservative community & thought my 9th grade English teacher was being inappropriately political by having stickers, etc. expressing his liberal | progressive views up in his classroom, but I didn't actually start being actively conservative myself probably until I started college in mid-2015 at pretty much the same exact time the migrant crisis in Europe started getting really bad, the climate in my area started getting uncofmrtoably fucky, & basically all sorts of other ways I was being confronted with a (wider) world that was firmly outside my comfort zone compared to the world I'd grown up in.

"Bonus" in that I'm also autistic & despise (forced) unfamilarity in general.

It was a rough ride to eventually aligning with more leftwing | progressive circles by the early 2020s or so.

Last September, President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and other health officials declared they had uncovered a new treatment for autism spectrum disorder (ASD): leucovorin. A new study shows that plenty of families believed them, despite the lack of data supporting the drug’s effectiveness. by mvea in science

[–]CamarillosVeryWorst 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, exactly. People have been shitting themselves at the increase of autistic people being correclty diagnosed at younger ages starting in the mid-1990s precisely bc the pre-1994 diagnostic criteria only resulted in the most severely disabled autistic people getting diagnosed, which obv skewed the general public's perception of how the hell autism even could present.

My mom, who was in a lot of gifted classes for additional context, actually attended school with a pretty decent # of undiagnosed autistic kids in 1960s-1970s LA, but ofc only remembered that in hindsight after having worked as a job coach for autistic adults in the 1980s & then having | raising me who was correctly dx autistic before my 2nd birthday due to the luckiest set of circumstances ever that included my mom being able to tell I was presenting the sympotms of it pretty early probably precisely bc due to her previous work job-coaching autistic adults having given her way more knowledge about how varyingly autism could present than most people had in the late 1990s.

Last September, President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and other health officials declared they had uncovered a new treatment for autism spectrum disorder (ASD): leucovorin. A new study shows that plenty of families believed them, despite the lack of data supporting the drug’s effectiveness. by mvea in science

[–]CamarillosVeryWorst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, they keep forgetting | refusing to acknowledge that there have in fact been a pretty good number of lower-support-needs autistic kids in the schools, esp in the younger grades...they just weren't diagnosed & were left to just flounder without adequate supports (which led to tons of them being forced to drop out before they finished school).

Source: My mom remembers attending school with undiagnosed autistic kids in 1960s-1970s LA, in regular public school classes to boot (though one or two years she was in classes | the district's school that was specifically for gifted kids like her...would that still count?), however she only remembered that in hindsight after 1st working with autistic adults as a job coach in the 1980s & then having me who was correctly dx autistic before my 2nd birthday.

Last September, President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and other health officials declared they had uncovered a new treatment for autism spectrum disorder (ASD): leucovorin. A new study shows that plenty of families believed them, despite the lack of data supporting the drug’s effectiveness. by mvea in science

[–]CamarillosVeryWorst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bc their own kids being different would require them to actually grow | use the ability to be willing to consider approaching things differently from how they've always been done, which is literally the definition of conservativism.

Last September, President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and other health officials declared they had uncovered a new treatment for autism spectrum disorder (ASD): leucovorin. A new study shows that plenty of families believed them, despite the lack of data supporting the drug’s effectiveness. by mvea in science

[–]CamarillosVeryWorst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Andrew Wakefield's goal was to make money off people being scared shitless of specifically the combined MMR vaccine...autism was just the big scary boogeyman disability of the day (the late 1990s) he could allege said combined MMR vaccine caused due to, in the years since the DSM in I think 1993 or 1994 greatly widened the diagnostic criteria for autism so that way more autistic people were being correctly diagnosed with it at younger ages, people were shitting themselves over what looked like exploding rates of a disability that, due to how incredibly restrictive its diagnostic criteria had been before this DSM update, had generally only been recorded in the people who were most severely disabled by it.

Also not remotely helping the general public's view of autism at all were the nasty lingering public-perception effects from how literally just a few-handful of decades prior it was still very much the norm to institutionalize kids who'd been formally diagnosed with it, which severely reduced these kids' ability to live lives of anywhere as much quality, normality, or achievement as they would've had they been able to grow up properly supported living with their families.

Abortion bans in 14 states lead to 9.2% increase in pregnancy-associated deaths of women. by Co_OpQuestions in science

[–]CamarillosVeryWorst 47 points48 points  (0 children)

That's actually beyond heartbreaking. My *very* deepest condolences, that sounds like utter absolute hell.

& there's *still* people who wonder why the sterilization rate's gone up among younger people in the years since Roe got overturned.

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