Here are some avoidable issues that may upset autistic people to the point of self-injury or aggression, yet parents or caregivers might be told such behavior is “just autism,” or that the autistic person needs behavioral conditioning therapy. At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2022/01/auti... 1/

The strange story of How I became part of a global conspiracy.

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I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller November 23,1944

When I was 14 or something, I went on a few hunt saboteurs. I wasn’t particularly good at it . Always liked this song. youtu.be/8crZV_iUD8Q

''X Just Accidentally Exposed A Vast Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans'' it is impossible to know the circumstances of the people or bots making these posts, with the alarming raise in human trafficking and scam canters ect weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/x-just-acc...

images by Eduard Pechuël-Loesche from an 1888 book on the strange skies produced the world-over after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.⠀⠀

While consultants try to convince us that progressive policies are too left for mainstream: have you considered that the problem with male voters isn’t really about some fundamental disconnect between liberals and masculinity, but the massive disinfo apparatus built to manufacture one?

“What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come -”

HUGE COMMUNITY SIGNPOSTING LIST SUPPORTING AUTISTIC/ NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE. Neuro-affirming advocates, orgs, charities, social media pages and more.... ! autisticrealms.com/nothing-abou...

(h/t @helenbranswell.bsky.social) PSA: Please do not buy Botox off the internet and try to perform your own treatment. Botulinum toxin literally has among the lowest lethal doses of anything on the planet Also, how are people just purchasing select agents on the internet

Interesting! When Prophecy Fails is a fascinating read, but it’s obviously messy to have observers embedded within a fringe group for an extended period, actively interacting with members. Seems to me, what matters with cognitive dissonance theory is that it holds up fine in the lab?

What is going on . A crazy price .

Watching Philip k dick former psychiatrist talk about him is very interesting. archive.org/details/gosp...

This was good youtu.be/xUnNNwA4MiA

Trying to get the parents of my friend to understand that taking their autistic child to the local witch doctor is more challenging than expected.

You may have heard of the "DoorDash girl"—a driver who alleged a customer exposed himself and filmed it. Afterwards, many Black content creators saw AI-generated versions of themselves defending the customer on TikTok, though they'd said nothing about it: www.wired.com/story/the-vi...

this is an amazing resource and I’m not just saying that because I used to work for ASAN. terrific debunking of disinformation and stressing what matters: autism research needs to focus on improving quality of life and services for autistic people.

Using psychiatry for political or self-aggrandizing purposes is stigmatizing for our patients and negatively impacts our profession.” Dr. Lee’s psychiatric colleagues at Yale noted: ctmirror.org/2018/01/24/d...

Judy Mikovits ideology is not that much different from Mark Houghton hopenothate.org.uk/who-are-the-...

I'm deeply skeptical of mainstream disinformation discourse, and it's pretty clear that most of the foreign X accounts are just engagment farming. But to the extent they're politically important, it's to X's gathered elites, not the masses nymag.com/intelligence...

Imagery from Paperbag counterculture magazine, 1968. Publisher Lou Kimzey went on to create Easyriders and Iron Horse

خانه سیاه است The House Is Black directed by Forugh Farrokhzad. archive.org/details/the....

Self-Portrait with Pipe Van gough

I guess I’ll reshare this cartoon strip i did years and years ago..

Modern day slave trade ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

Natural Nurse or Toxic Influence? The Paloma Shemirani Story. This carefully researched series examines the complex and tragic story behind the inquest using official findings, publicly available interviews, and media commentary. www.patreon.com/collection/1...