I'm autistic. So I'm going to try to address this from the inside. I'm also old as fuck at this point, so this isn't the zoomer perspective.
Please don't let the tumblrina and your dislike of the tiktok autism face-claimers cause you to treat autistics like shit or scoff at the autistic spectrum. Trust me, we don't like the tiktokers or the tumblrina any more than you do but they still became the face of the movement. It's just like gaming, and how every gaming company is standing up bluehairs and nose ring, gauged ear motherfuckers going on about how great diversity is.
I'm going to explain some things. The surge in autistic diagnosis. The reason why a spectrum is needed for helping autistic people survive. Why autism can be helpful in the gender critical bullshit fight.
Regarding the surge in autism diagnosis.
The impossible1 is going to love this; it is surging because of gynocentrism and a lack of expectations on mothers to put fetus and nursing babies first. Read all this with the following in mind; various pediatric associations reversed their stance on mothers getting drunk because they were concerned about appearing sexist in telling women what to do while pregnant. Fetal alcohol syndrome be damned. Stay through to the end of this section for the real culprit of increased autism and ADHD. Might just save you from having an autistic NEET like me to raise.
Remember thalidomide? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
The mother's medical needs > a baby's safety. That's the attitude in modern society. The standard for pregnancy for literal decades of American medicine was that you didn't give a mother anything if you could avoid giving them medicine. As it almost always impacts the fetus in some way. Or even if the mom was still nursing. As feminism came along, the first wave, this attitude eroded. Despite the warning on almost all medicine remaining in place, for liability reasons, doctors lost this ethic.
Thalidomide is also relevant here because it shows just how overtly a simple medicine can impact a fetus.
Now. Before Tylenol, the only option you really had for any kind of pain relief as a woman during pregnancy was an injection directly into the motherfucking spine. Tylenol came along and it offered women a "safe" medicine they could load up on during pregnancy. Tylenol being a medicine where we have theories about why it works on blocking pain, but nothing we've concretely proven.
You can note, they pretty much admit in the conclusion that the link to autism and ADHD is valid, but they're chicken shits, and they use terms like "pregnant persons" and how they should "consider carefully" on using OTC pain killers. These concerns are valid enough that multiple national and international lawsuits have been launched against people for Tylenol use and Tylenol recommendation... this includes the american military facing a big lawsuit for megadosing pregnant spouses of soldiers and creating a gigantic wave of mental illness among their children. As for why, it was cheaper for the military to megadose moms rather than offer epidurals or let their husbands have leave to tend to the moms.
My mom was one of these moms. I'm an airforce brat. Those lawsuits have survived the initial motions for dismissal. That means that the legal system sees enough evidence to let the trials proceed.
As an afterthought: there is also a rush to diagnose autistic females because the psych community feels really bad and really guilty. They don't want the undiagnosed autistic females to get caught by the trans community and gaslit into double mastectomies. They're trying to make up for a decade of 10-to-1 gender diagnosis rates.
Why the spectrum is needed to help autistics survive.
Most autistic people as a whole are pretty useless. Not counting ADHD here. 85% of all autistics, verbal and nonverbal, and aspergers, are not employed. The 15% that are, 75% of them are employed because of government employment programs such as the government subsidizing a company if it hires autistic people.
This means how much help we need, be it a half-way house or group home, be it a wage subsidy, or a job coach, is highly individual. In order not to waste resources, we needed to be seen and treated as individuals. The government treats most conditions as a one-sized-fits-all go or no-go system of fully disabled or not disabled. The SSDI/SSI programs for example use a "bingo chart" of sorts, and enough things = you don't die homeless.
This takes us to aspergers. The majority of communicative autistic people fall into the aspergers category. This is a category invented by a German doctor in a schindler's list situation. The Nazi were gassing people if they had disabilities that require assistance. To save some small segment of autistic people, those who could talk and reason enough for the doctor to feel sympathy for, they had to convince the Nazi that these people could be useful.
Hence, Asperger invented this new class of autism that was "Bad social fit for life, but still capable of specialized tasks. Therefor, useful. Do not kill."
This was a half-truth. Yes, we could hold basic conversations but we always seemed like the aliens in a skin suit. We set off that creepy uncanny valley alarm. We don't keep jobs very long and instability plagues our life unless we are either a.) self made and our own boss. b.) in a job where performance matters more than if the office ladies like you and feel comfortable around you.
The modern medical community took the diagnosis, wholesale, and said "If you have aspergers, you are functional enough not to require any government support." They never stopped to realize that the no support line was added to the original diagnosis for the literal purpose of preventing our extermination.
We need support, a job coach at the very least, to be part of society... but if the original diagnosis included that, the Nazi would have just killed people like us.
They eliminated Aspergers as a modern diagnosis to shed the "no support" blanket statement. As part of the autistic spectrum, we are now able to be evaluated individually and have our support needs assessed.
Why autism is useful in fighting gender critical bullshit.
Aspergers boys are about as different from drooling retard non-communicative autistics as girl autistics are from boys. They have the same social rejection issues in the end and the transgender community is sweeping up autistic girls and convincing them that they're trans. I've seen estimates that FtMs are something like 6 to 18 times more likely to be autistic.
The autism "spectrum" has to exist because of how differently the mental illness/disorder presents itself in men and women. Without it, so few girls resemble the male default, and thus, would never be diagnosed. Which means, we'd never catch out the predatory people in education.
This is creating a gigantic fuckton of trans regret and detransition. This is also exposing the education and medical sectors as predatory and negligent.
Since women are more able to fight back against this stuff without being ostracized from society, this is far more useful than we give it credit for.
I'm autistic. So I'm going to try to address this from the inside. I'm also old as fuck at this point, so this isn't the zoomer perspective.
Please don't let the tumblrina and your dislike of the tiktok autism face-claimers cause you to treat autistics like shit or scoff at the autistic spectrum. Trust me, we don't like the tiktokers or the tumblrina any more than you do but they still became the face of the movement. It's just like gaming, and how every gaming company is standing up bluehairs and nose ring, gauged ear motherfuckers going on about how great diversity is.
I'm going to explain some things. The surge in autistic diagnosis. The reason why a spectrum is needed for helping autistic people survive. Why autism can be helpful in the gender critical bullshit fight.
Regarding the surge in autism diagnosis.
The impossible1 is going to love this; it is surging because of gynocentrism and a lack of expectations on mothers to put fetus and nursing babies first. Read all this with the following in mind; various pediatric associations reversed their stance on mothers getting drunk because they were concerned about appearing sexist in telling women what to do while pregnant. Fetal alcohol syndrome be damned. Stay through to the end of this section for the real culprit of increased autism and ADHD. Might just save you from having an autistic NEET like me to raise.
Remember thalidomide? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
The mother's medical needs > a baby's safety. That's the attitude in modern society. The standard for pregnancy for literal decades of American medicine was that you didn't give a mother anything if you could avoid giving them medicine. As it almost always impacts the fetus in some way. Or even if the mom was still nursing. As feminism came along, the first wave, this attitude eroded. Despite the warning on almost all medicine remaining in place, for liability reasons, doctors lost this ethic.
Thalidomide is also relevant here because it shows just how overtly a simple medicine can impact a fetus.
Now. Before Tylenol, the only option you really had for any kind of pain relief as a woman during pregnancy was an injection directly into the motherfucking spine. Tylenol came along and it offered women a "safe" medicine they could load up on during pregnancy. Tylenol being a medicine where we have theories about why it works on blocking pain, but nothing we've concretely proven.
You can note, they pretty much admit in the conclusion that the link to autism and ADHD is valid, but they're chicken shits, and they use terms like "pregnant persons" and how they should "consider carefully" on using OTC pain killers. These concerns are valid enough that multiple national and international lawsuits have been launched against people for Tylenol use and Tylenol recommendation... this includes the american military facing a big lawsuit for megadosing pregnant spouses of soldiers and creating a gigantic wave of mental illness among their children. As for why, it was cheaper for the military to megadose moms rather than offer epidurals or let their husbands have leave to tend to the moms. My mom was one of these moms. I'm an airforce brat. Those lawsuits have survived the initial motions for dismissal. That means that the legal system sees enough evidence to let the trials proceed.
As an afterthought: there is also a rush to diagnose autistic females because the psych community feels really bad and really guilty. They don't want the undiagnosed autistic females to get caught by the trans community and gaslit into double mastectomies. They're trying to make up for a decade of 10-to-1 gender diagnosis rates.
Why the spectrum is needed to help autistics survive.
Most autistic people as a whole are pretty useless. Not counting ADHD here. 85% of all autistics, verbal and nonverbal, and aspergers, are not employed. The 15% that are, 75% of them are employed because of government employment programs such as the government subsidizing a company if it hires autistic people.
This means how much help we need, be it a half-way house or group home, be it a wage subsidy, or a job coach, is highly individual. In order not to waste resources, we needed to be seen and treated as individuals. The government treats most conditions as a one-sized-fits-all go or no-go system of fully disabled or not disabled. The SSDI/SSI programs for example use a "bingo chart" of sorts, and enough things = you don't die homeless.
This takes us to aspergers. The majority of communicative autistic people fall into the aspergers category. This is a category invented by a German doctor in a schindler's list situation. The Nazi were gassing people if they had disabilities that require assistance. To save some small segment of autistic people, those who could talk and reason enough for the doctor to feel sympathy for, they had to convince the Nazi that these people could be useful.
Hence, Asperger invented this new class of autism that was "Bad social fit for life, but still capable of specialized tasks. Therefor, useful. Do not kill."
This was a half-truth. Yes, we could hold basic conversations but we always seemed like the aliens in a skin suit. We set off that creepy uncanny valley alarm. We don't keep jobs very long and instability plagues our life unless we are either a.) self made and our own boss. b.) in a job where performance matters more than if the office ladies like you and feel comfortable around you.
The modern medical community took the diagnosis, wholesale, and said "If you have aspergers, you are functional enough not to require any government support." They never stopped to realize that the no support line was added to the original diagnosis for the literal purpose of preventing our extermination.
We need support, a job coach at the very least, to be part of society... but if the original diagnosis included that, the Nazi would have just killed people like us.
They eliminated Aspergers as a modern diagnosis to shed the "no support" blanket statement. As part of the autistic spectrum, we are now able to be evaluated individually and have our support needs assessed.
Why autism is useful in fighting gender critical bullshit.
Aspergers boys are about as different from drooling retard non-communicative autistics as girl autistics are from boys. They have the same social rejection issues in the end and the transgender community is sweeping up autistic girls and convincing them that they're trans. I've seen estimates that FtMs are something like 6 to 18 times more likely to be autistic.
The autism "spectrum" has to exist because of how differently the mental illness/disorder presents itself in men and women. Without it, so few girls resemble the male default, and thus, would never be diagnosed. Which means, we'd never catch out the predatory people in education.
This is creating a gigantic fuckton of trans regret and detransition. This is also exposing the education and medical sectors as predatory and negligent.
Since women are more able to fight back against this stuff without being ostracized from society, this is far more useful than we give it credit for.
I'm autistic. So I'm going to try to address this from the inside. I'm also old as fuck at this point, so this isn't the zoomer perspective.
Please don't let the tumblrina and your dislike of the tiktok autism face-claimers cause you to treat autistics like shit or scoff at the autistic spectrum. Trust me, we don't like the tiktokers or the tumblrina any more than you do but they still became the face of the movement. It's just like gaming, and how every gaming company is standing up bluehairs and nose ring, gauged ear motherfuckers going on about how great diversity is.
I'm going to explain some things. The surge in autistic diagnosis. The reason why a spectrum is needed for helping autistic people survive. Why autism can be helpful in the gender critical bullshit fight.
Regarding the surge in autism diagnosis.
The impossible1 is going to love this; it is surging because of gynocentrism and a lack of expectations on mothers to put fetus and nursing babies first. Read all this with the following in mind; various pediatric associations reversed their stance on mothers getting drunk because they were concerned about appearing sexist in telling women what to do while pregnant. Fetal alcohol syndrome be damned. Stay through to the end of this section for the real culprit of increased autism and ADHD. Might just save you from having an autistic NEET like me to raise.
Remember thalidomide? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
The mother's medical needs > a baby's safety. That's the attitude in modern society. The standard for pregnancy for literal decades of American medicine was that you didn't give a mother anything if you could avoid giving them medicine. As it almost always impacts the fetus in some way. Or even if the mom was still nursing. As feminism came along, the first wave, this attitude eroded. Despite the warning on almost all medicine remaining in place, for liability reasons, doctors lost this ethic.
Thalidomide is also relevant here because it shows just how overtly a simple medicine can impact a fetus.
Now. Before Tylenol, the only option you really had for any kind of pain relief as a woman during pregnancy was an injection directly into the motherfucking spine. Tylenol came along and it offered women a "safe" medicine they could load up on during pregnancy. Tylenol being a medicine where we have theories about why it works on blocking pain, but nothing we've concretely proven.
You can note, they pretty much admit in the conclusion that the link to autism and ADHD is valid, but they're chicken shits, and they use terms like "pregnant persons" and how they should "consider carefully" on using OTC pain killers. These concerns are valid enough that multiple nation and international lawsuits have been launched against people for Tylenol use and Tylenol recommendation... this includes the american military facing a big lawsuit for megadosing pregnant spouses of soldiers and creating a gigantic wave of mental illness among their children. As for why, it was cheaper for the military to megadose moms rather than offer epidurals or let their husbands have leave to tend to the moms. My mom was one of these moms. I'm an airforce brat.
As an afterthought: there is also a rush to diagnose autistic females because the psych community feels really bad and really guilty. They don't want the undiagnosed autistic females to get caught by the trans community and gaslit into double mastectomies. They're trying to make up for a decade of 10-to-1 gender diagnosis rates.
Why the spectrum is needed to help autistics survive.
Most autistic people as a whole are pretty useless. Not counting ADHD here. 85% of all autistics, verbal and nonverbal, and aspergers, are not employed. The 15% that are, 75% of them are employed because of government employment programs such as the government subsidizing a company if it hires autistic people.
This means how much help we need, be it a half-way house or group home, be it a wage subsidy, or a job coach, is highly individual. In order not to waste resources, we needed to be seen and treated as individuals. The government treats most conditions as a one-sized-fits-all go or no-go system of fully disabled or not disabled. The SSDI/SSI programs for example use a "bingo chart" of sorts, and enough things = you don't die homeless.
This takes us to aspergers. The majority of communicative autistic people fall into the aspergers category. This is a category invented by a German doctor in a schindler's list situation. The Nazi were gassing people if they had disabilities that require assistance. To save some small segment of autistic people, those who could talk and reason enough for the doctor to feel sympathy for, they had to convince the Nazi that these people could be useful.
Hence, Asperger invented this new class of autism that was "Bad social fit for life, but still capable of specialized tasks. Therefor, useful. Do not kill."
This was a half-truth. Yes, we could hold basic conversations but we always seemed like the aliens in a skin suit. We set off that creepy uncanny valley alarm. We don't keep jobs very long and instability plagues our life unless we are either a.) self made and our own boss. b.) in a job where performance matters more than if the office ladies like you and feel comfortable around you.
The modern medical community took the diagnosis, wholesale, and said "If you have aspergers, you are functional enough not to require any government support." They never stopped to realize that the no support line was added to the original diagnosis for the literal purpose of preventing our extermination.
We need support, a job coach at the very least, to be part of society... but if the original diagnosis included that, the Nazi would have just killed people like us.
They eliminated Aspergers as a modern diagnosis to shed the "no support" blanket statement. As part of the autistic spectrum, we are now able to be evaluated individually and have our support needs assessed.
Why autism is useful in fighting gender critical bullshit.
Aspergers boys are about as different from drooling retard non-communicative autistics as girl autistics are from boys. They have the same social rejection issues in the end and the transgender community is sweeping up autistic girls and convincing them that they're trans. I've seen estimates that FtMs are something like 6 to 18 times more likely to be autistic.
The autism "spectrum" has to exist because of how differently the mental illness/disorder presents itself in men and women. Without it, so few girls resemble the male default, and thus, would never be diagnosed. Which means, we'd never catch out the predatory people in education.
This is creating a gigantic fuckton of trans regret and detransition. This is also exposing the education and medical sectors as predatory and negligent.
Since women are more able to fight back against this stuff without being ostracized from society, this is far more useful than we give it credit for.
I'm autistic. So I'm going to try to address this from the inside. I'm also old as fuck at this point, so this isn't the zoomer perspective.
Please don't let the tumblrina and your dislike of the tiktok autism face-claimers cause you to treat autistics like shit or scoff at the autistic spectrum. Trust me, we don't like the tiktokers or the tumblrina any more than you do but they still became the face of the movement. It's just like gaming, and how every gaming company is standing up bluehairs and nose ring, gauged ear motherfuckers going on about how great diversity is.
I'm going to explain some things. The surge in autistic diagnosis. The reason why a spectrum is needed for helping autistic people survive. Why autism can be helpful in the gender critical bullshit fight.
Regarding the surge in autism diagnosis.
The impossible1 is going to love this; it is surging because of gynocentrism and a lack of expectations on mothers to put fetus and nursing babies first. Read all this with the following in mind; various pediatric associations reversed their stance on mothers getting drunk because they were concerned about appearing sexist in telling women what to do while pregnant. Fetal alcohol syndrome be damned. Stay through to the end of this section for the real culprit of increased autism and ADHD. Might just save you from having an autistic NEET like me to raise.
Remember thalidomide? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
The mother's medical needs > a baby's safety. That's the attitude in modern society. The standard for pregnancy for literal decades of American medicine was that you didn't give a mother anything if you could avoid giving them medicine. As it almost always impacts the fetus in some way. Or even if the mom was still nursing. As feminism came along, the first wave, this attitude eroded. Despite the warning on almost all medicine remaining in place, for liability reasons, doctors lost this ethic.
Thalidomide is also relevant here because it shows just how overtly a simple medicine can impact a fetus.
Now. Before Tylenol, the only option you really had for any kind of pain relief as a woman during pregnancy was an injection directly into the motherfucking spine. Tylenol came along and it offered women a "safe" medicine they could load up on during pregnancy. Tylenol being a medicine where we have theories about why it works on blocking pain, but nothing we've concretely proven.
You can note, they pretty much admit in the conclusion that the link to autism and ADHD is valid, but they're chicken shits, and they use terms like "pregnant persons" and how they should "consider carefully" on using OTC pain killers. These concerns are valid enough that multiple nation and international lawsuits have been launched against people for Tylenol use and Tylenol recommendation... this includes the american military facing a big lawsuit for megadosing pregnant spouses of soldiers and creating a gigantic wave of mental illness among their children. As for why, it was cheaper for the military to megadose moms rather than offer epidurals or let their husbands have leave to tend to the moms. My mom was one of these moms. I'm an airforce brat.
Why the spectrum is needed to help autistics survive.
Most autistic people as a whole are pretty useless. Not counting ADHD here. 85% of all autistics, verbal and nonverbal, and aspergers, are not employed. The 15% that are, 75% of them are employed because of government employment programs such as the government subsidizing a company if it hires autistic people.
This means how much help we need, be it a half-way house or group home, be it a wage subsidy, or a job coach, is highly individual. In order not to waste resources, we needed to be seen and treated as individuals. The government treats most conditions as a one-sized-fits-all go or no-go system of fully disabled or not disabled. The SSDI/SSI programs for example use a "bingo chart" of sorts, and enough things = you don't die homeless.
This takes us to aspergers. The majority of communicative autistic people fall into the aspergers category. This is a category invented by a German doctor in a schindler's list situation. The Nazi were gassing people if they had disabilities that require assistance. To save some small segment of autistic people, those who could talk and reason enough for the doctor to feel sympathy for, they had to convince the Nazi that these people could be useful.
Hence, Asperger invented this new class of autism that was "Bad social fit for life, but still capable of specialized tasks. Therefor, useful. Do not kill."
This was a half-truth. Yes, we could hold basic conversations but we always seemed like the aliens in a skin suit. We set off that creepy uncanny valley alarm. We don't keep jobs very long and instability plagues our life unless we are either a.) self made and our own boss. b.) in a job where performance matters more than if the office ladies like you and feel comfortable around you.
The modern medical community took the diagnosis, wholesale, and said "If you have aspergers, you are functional enough not to require any government support." They never stopped to realize that the no support line was added to the original diagnosis for the literal purpose of preventing our extermination.
We need support, a job coach at the very least, to be part of society... but if the original diagnosis included that, the Nazi would have just killed people like us.
They eliminated Aspergers as a modern diagnosis to shed the "no support" blanket statement. As part of the autistic spectrum, we are now able to be evaluated individually and have our support needs assessed.
Why autism is useful in fighting gender critical bullshit.
Aspergers boys are about as different from drooling retard non-communicative autistics as girl autistics are from boys. They have the same social rejection issues in the end and the transgender community is sweeping up autistic girls and convincing them that they're trans. I've seen estimates that FtMs are something like 6 to 18 times more likely to be autistic.
The autism "spectrum" has to exist because of how differently the mental illness/disorder presents itself in men and women. Without it, so few girls resemble the male default, and thus, would never be diagnosed. Which means, we'd never catch out the predatory people in education.
This is creating a gigantic fuckton of trans regret and detransition. This is also exposing the education and medical sectors as predatory and negligent.
Since women are more able to fight back against this stuff without being ostracized from society, this is far more useful than we give it credit for.