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Marcos Alano 
I just had the greatest idea that I probably won't do, but I should: a device, likely based on an ESP32 or other MCU, that pairs with two headphones with microphones and allows both people to communicate with them over a very short range. The idea is that an autistic couple could go out using ANC headphones and still speak with each other. #autism #esp32
DroggelbecherDo you ever feel like a lot of conflict and controversy could be avoided if everyone was more clear about what they mean?
Do you ever feel like a lot of conflict and controversy could be avoided if everyone was more clear about what they mean? - Lemmy.World
With other neurodivergents, I feel like we explain what we mean in more detail. If not that, the other one recognizes the lacking detail, asks about it, and it gets cleared up. When I talk to neurotypicals, or read or hear them discuss among themselves, this doesn’t happen as much. When I ask, it’s often seen as rude. Here’s some examples of what I mean: There’s a lot of ackshually, x is a fruit/berry/not a berry/ etc. When in fact, the terms each have two definitions: a culinary one and a botanical one. A strawberry is a berry in the culinary sense, but not the botanical one. A tomato is a fruit in the botanical sense, but not the culinary one. Ive repeatedly been called a know-it-all for bringing this up, and ironically usually by the person correcting others by saying, eg., a tomato is a fruit. ‘Do(n’t) you trust me?’ I may 100% trust your intentions, but I don’t 100% trust your judgment. This has nothing to do with you; I never 100% trust anyone’s judgment, including my own. This happens the other way around, too, when I ask someone for feedback about a decision I’m making, and they say they trust me and thus won’t give input. Like, thank you for trusting my intentions, but I don’t want you to blindly trust my judgment. That’s why I’m asking for feedback. Another one is respect. Sometimes, to respect someone means to accept them as an authority figure, and sometimes it means to treat them with basic human dignity. It’s hardly ever specified which it is. I could go on here, so please feel free to add your own, I’m curious! Do you also find this to be an issue with as well as among neurotypicals or am I way off here? Thanks for you replies!
NLISN'Assessing the Experiences of Autistic Academic Librarians in Positions of Leadership : A Case Study' ⬇️
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#Employment
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"autism4autism relationships are the best because autistic people communicate with each other in a way no allistic person ever could" no autism4autism is you & your partner screeching most bizarre & unnerving vocal stims at each other until one of you loses the will to live
(jk autism4autism4eva)
Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen WingIf we inhabited an alternate Universe in which autism did not exist, these same extremist parents would latch onto some other disorder that they regarded as (a) intolerable and impossible to live with in peace, and (b) conveniently caused by something obvious and nefarious, like chemicals in the clouds or mysterious food additives. Left-handedness would be construed as a badge of corruption, or speech impediments.
#Autism, however, seems to have this one important trait, as a universal cause of childrens' ruination: by the miracle of doublethink, if you're the right sort of person, with a high enough social status, it's GOOD to be #autistic. It's special.
~Chara of Pnictogen
If Christian extremists or other similarly intolerant persons were to go on a crusade against a purported epidemic of near-sightedness caused by (oh, let's say) childhood vaccination or common food additives, and demand immediate and far-ranging social changes in order to protect their children's visual acuity from being corrupted by measles shots or food dyes deliberately pressed on children with full knowledge of the danger to eyesight, that would be an incomprehensible moral panic of approximately similar weight to the reactionary Christian panic about #autism.
There are parents who can't pounce fast enough on some medicalized way of regarding their children as broken.
(cont'd)
Guiding Exceptional ParentsThis study "highlights the impact everyday school events and interactions have on young people’s emotions; and how young people with neurodevelopmental conditions in particular can find school a source of emotional challenge." — Susie Chandler, Ph.D.
Read here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/emotional-burden-at-school
Neurodivergent adolescents experience twice the emotional burden at school compared to their neurotypical peers
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, in partnership with University College London and Anna Freud, has found that negative school experiences generate twice the emotional burden in autistic and ADHD adolescents compared to their neurotypical classmates, and that this is significantly correlated with depression and anxiety.
Well... that's the theory, anyway.
In practice, here in the United States at least, the commonly accepted notion of who's sick and who's well is increasingly out of the hands of the individual. One is determined by some external authority to be sick or deranged in some way, according to an officially accepted and recorded diagnosis.
Thus, for example, has #autism become routinely discussed as if it were an epidemic in need of treatment even though (a) to be autistic is not to be infectious and (b) autistic persons themselves, left to their own devices and allowed to make their free decisions, do not regard their autism as a disease any more than one would regard flat feet or myopia as a "disease" even if it was an inconvenience to one's life in some minor respects.
(cont'd)
Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴#CDC Rewrites #Vaccine-Autism Page, Echoing #JFKjr's #AntiScience Views
"Today is a tragic day for public health," one #health expert said abt the changes.
And a tragic day for any #AutismParent & real knowledge that could identify real causes of #Autism.
Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis
The Department of Labor’s new rule cutting farmworker wages bluntly states that souped-up immigration enforcement has devastated the agricultural workforce and created a significant “risk of supply shock-induced food shortages,” according to a document filed in the Federal Register last week.