@Mecha_Twitchy - I had those on the wall above my desk when I decided to stop being a slob and make a full album, back in 2019. They did help 
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You know, autism was seen as something fairly rare and usually massively crippling in the past decades. Nowadays, it appears that anybody is diagnosed as âon the spectrumâ every 5 minutes. Talk about going from one extreme to the next⌠A bit like, when Prozac had to sell their medicine, everybody was diagnosed & prescribed as chronically depressed (âProzac Nationâ comes to mind). I mean, they gave antidepressants to kids. Way to fuck up even more the ones who didnât need it to begin with⌠Then it was ADD/ADHDâŚ
An old friend of mine in France has a teenage/early twenties son that is autistic. For years it was so bad that my friend considered having him placed in an institution Between violent fits of rage and general odd/destructive behavior, the son pushed his parents to the brink. They were heartbroken and simply didnât know what to do anymore. Nowadays heâs better. What has helped a lot is playing music. The kid fell in love with bass guitar and has been playing like a mofo, which has calmed him down greatly and theyâre all doing better now, thankfully.
Saying this because sometimes it irks me that people say theyâre autistic âon the spectrumâ, when really theyâre not. It cheapens it somehow, make it seem like no big deal.
Sorry, just thinking out loud here, really 
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Now THATâS funny 
I think if it comes down to itâŚ.natural stupidity will keep artificial intelligence in check.
Cause it would be like people arguing with stupid trolls on the internet.
Itâs not that people are just given diagnosis for the tiniest reason itâs that people are finally getting the help they need when they werenât able to get that before. Not being rude, just explaining.
Both people have a point on the autism conversation
Thereâs a lot of people out there that are only slightly neurodivergent and have autism diagnosisâ because itâs a massively wide and borderline incomprehensible spectrum. I still think that there is an autistic line though - anything below it or close to it is just âquirkyâ or âinteresting,â and thatâs not a negative thing.
Iâd consider myself autistic. I donât understand in-person communication properly and cannot for the life of me look somebody in the eyes (unless iâm really into them, lol), among many other things like not being able to stand somebody interrupting my schedule. Do I have a diagnosis..? No, I donât - so I think (and this is really just in my opinion) that Iâm the opposite of that majority of diagnosed-but-not-really-autistic people. (Actually, Iâm not diagnosed for anything, and it really fucking sucks.)
Either way, nobody should capitalize on it for their outward personality. Most people donât care if youâre green and purple or smell sounds, theyâve got their own problems to worry about. Of course you canât avoid showing some things publicly, and your personality traits will influence your public image, but thereâs no reason to go to anybody and say âHi, my name is ___â and then tell them your social security number, yâknow?
Anyway 
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Yeah, I deleted that post because I didnât really want to get too into any of it (it always goes the same way, over and over again, so exciting) but I think some people forget that thereâs a high-functioning version. A lot of people who suspect they have it and score extremely high on the tests go on to get a formal diagnosis, too, which is why the community usually accepts both pretty openly. And why a lot of neurotypicals are happy to call their bluff and tell them theyâre full of shit.
When people start asking you a million questions about the subtle things you do that you donât even know you do, but they can tell thereâs something out of sync with your sociability and they start getting insecure or thrown off by it, it really can be worth it to tell them. Not as if itâs a âcool clubâ card, so much as an apology for why you naturally act the way you do and youâre not treating them as oddly as they seem to think. Or at least, thatâs just your demeanor or whatever.
Iâve had people get genuinely pissed at me for just hanging out in the background, not engaging with them as much as theyâd like, and all sorts of weird unspoken rules that people tend to just pick up on that I didnât even know existed. There really does feel as if thereâs a subtle social language that NTs have and understand quite well, that some of us just are never really going to grasp, no matter how hard we do the same weird dance everyday.
Iâll probably delete this one too, because Iâm not trying to sound like a keyboard warrior but itâs always nice when someone stops by who understands the subtle nuances, too
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Donât delete it, that would make it a waste of time.
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To be clear: my post was not about dismissing you or anybody who isnât severely autistic âonlyâ. It was more about questioning the cycles that happen when a disease is focused on and the potential over-diagnosis that comes with it.
You may know that I have ben working in Pharmaceutical market research for a long while⌠so maybe I am more cynical about all this than I should be.
Yet I can guarantee that Big Pharma will push their shiny new drugs all the time by having sales reps going directly to the prescribing doctors. Youâd be amazed if you knew the number of segmentation and tracking studies that pharma corporations run to make sure they know who the âhigh prescribersâ are, so they can make those doctors prescribe their drugs even more. Millions are also spent on marketing/advertising campaigns (âAsk your doctor about Seroquel!â). The one major example we all know about is OxyContin, and weâve seen the results.
I mentioned Prozac, because this thing seemingly came out of nowhere and became prescribed to millions of people very fast and steadily. We can safely state that many of these people did not need it. Does that mean people were not existing on a wide spectrum of depression? Of course not. It just means that, unfortunately, massive over-prescribing led people to potentially misguided over-reliance on addictive medication, because it was accepted and encouraged to do so.
In the US, everything is a âinsert latest trendâ syndrome. The narrative that there is a pill to fix everything is well and alive.
So, again - I am not belittling anyone who is on the autistic spectrum. I only question people who are too quick to jump on a bandwagon, whether they realize it or not, because the manipulation that pharma companies can pull is very powerful.
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Floating turd nuggets
I largely agree with pretty much everything youâve said.
This might be an interesting topic for another thread (that I continue to derail), but what I find to be so interesting in the development of neurodivercity is that ADHD seems to have a few commonly-accepted medical âcuresâ (medications that donât quite get rid of the symptoms entirely, but people seem to swear by), and ASD is still a gigantic cluster of, âOh god, nothing works on this!â. In fact, it seems like the whole world is still not sure of what to even make of ASD because of its extremely spiky, often-random cluster of symptoms.
Thereâs a lot of spitballing, but usually itâs a game of whack-a-mole that never really solves the main symptoms (if any), yet people with ADHD can usually try pill A or B and have a pretty decent outlook. This seems to differ from when Prozac or whoever once ruled the world, since the whole serotonin deficit was built on some interesting assumptions that later turned out not to be true at all, but there still are people who seem to benefit greatly, either by placebo effect or something else.
With that said, Iâm also open to the idea that society / technology is shifting and some of us are just having a harder time keeping up. Maybe I should post this in the mental health thread? 
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Itâs hard to keep a straight face when listening to Scandinavian languages
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https://idmforums.com/t/sobriety-mental-health/
Itâs an interesting topic that I have some thoughts about but no time at the moment (gotta watch Dark Crystal), but this thread had some decent discussion.
Nothing made me genuinely laugh today outside of the general work chuckles.
Carry on!
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Hm, only took me 10 fucking minutes to get the link to work 
Iâve been feeding the neighbourâs cats while they were away and I discovered that none of the light switches in their house turned on the lights in the same room as the switches. It was like playing some bizarre game, stabbing them at random until I got lucky. The ironic thing is that the person who owns the house is an electric arc furnace engineer at a local specialist steelmaker. Either theyâll go bust or heâll kill himself in a horrible industrial accident involving molten metal at 3,000 degrees and a 60 MVA transformer.
Maybe his last job was at Chernobyl?
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Kinda like dildos anything is a daw if your brave enoughâŚ
Had a good lol thank you.
Iâm happy for this whole thing and was laughing about the OG video when it came out butttt as a junglist / dnb ⌠person âŚanyway, as a person representing 174bpm, which is the only correct tempo, i reject the over-saturation of this bullshit in my feed and it becoming âthe biggest remix of the yearâ and all that shit. i cannot wait for this to be BURRIED BRUK BRUK IREEE LIKE MEW CURRY GOAT PEAS. ok cool now head goes back in sand /bye
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Ice spice was asked by someone if she had down syndromeâŚthe video got uploaded on social media and she cussed him outâŚlmao
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