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Q&A: Who would win if all the Disney princesses fought, Hunger Games style?
Q: Who would win if all the Disney princesses fought, Hunger Games style?
A:Putting these girls into a Hunger Games-style arena simply wouldn’t end with a Hunger Games-style brawl ( Read more... ) -
Q&A: Faking Normal
Q: Why do you "bash" autistic people who want to learn to be normal? Why do you encourage them to be autistic?
A: We encourage people to “be autistic” because we’ve tried faking normal ourselves, and it led to a lot of pain. We want to spare them that ( Read more... ) -
5 deaths, 9 days
I think we're having a summer homicide spike. Homicides of autistics have been coming in very fast lately.
June 19: Kevin Wilkes is killed by a fellow group home resident who was known to beat him up and bully him; staff kept them housed in the same location despite Kevin's previous injuries.
June 20: The body of Aaron Pajich is found buried ( Read more... ) -
History of the oppression of the disabled
Q: What did people with disabilities have to deal with before laws were made for them?
Well, let’s see… Infants with disabilities have always been subject to infanticide. Ancient societies, as well as some modern ones, kill or abandon disabled infants at birth. These disabilities can be quite mild-a club foot, a cleft lip.
If you were disabled and ( Read more... ) -
School bus alarms
In the news:
California bill targets school bus deaths
SB1072 would require school buses to have child safety alarms. The alarm sounds when the engine is turned off and requires the bus driver to walk to the back of the bus to turn it off.
Paul Lee was a 19 year old autistic student who died of heatstroke when he was left alone in a school bus on ( Read more... ) -
For the record...
I'm autistic and support vaccines. The risks are so low, the benefits so great, and large-scale participation is so crucial, that I believe vaccination should be enforced by law ( Read more... ) -
"Because he's crazy!"
Look, folks, when you write your villains, stop using "They're crazy!" as a motivation. Crazy is not a character trait. Crazy is not a reason to be a villain. Crazy is a thing that happens to villains, heroes, and bystanders, and it doesn't turn the one into the other. I'm looking at you, Batman writers ( Read more... ) -
I have a headache...
I have a headache....
Well, go take a tylenol.
I go to the kitchen, forget why I'm there, and make coffee. I like coffee.
I still have a headache.
Did you really forget to get that painkiller?
I go to the kitchen, wander away halfway there, and end up petting the cat. She purrs.
I still have a headache.
Really? This time, get up and actually ( Read more... ) -
Theory of Mind
I remember the first time I explicitly used theory of mind ( Read more... ) -
Anencephaly
I'm on the last day of finals week, finishing up a term paper for a fetal behavior class. My paper is on the neurological development of the premature infant, but along the way, I came up with some interesting ideas that can't go in the paper... so they are going here ( Read more... )