As someone with psych training I’m going to jump in here and say nah, bud, that isn’t how it works!

There are butch trans women as well, who don’t fit traditional gender roles. ‘Funnily’ enough, those women are often told they must not really be women after all for not performing their gender in a traditional way. And if they do perform it in a traditional way, they are told they are reinforcing gender roles and the…

Or maybe stuff like this is always subjective, and the writer genuinely think the best is what they have listed?

“neighboring countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran”

If only your politicians weren’t in the pocket of farming lobbyists they might do something useful, like ban the use of antibiotics as growth promoters.

Unfortunately even seeing someone to ‘rule it out’ can result in false negatives, given the woeful state of knowledge of autism even in the clinical field.

Well, this is extremely horrifying. And I imagine it’s still not horrifying enough to cause the farming industry to stop using antibiotics to make production cheaper, unfortunately.

Thank you for being open and listening! Your original point is a good one, it will be better now without the (inadvertent) ableism.

Abuse of power, corruption, and structural racism has nothing to do with mental health. Or rather, people with mental illness are often victims of abuses of power, and structural racism sabotages the mental health of POC, especially black people.

“It seems to me this is the very group of people who invented “autism” as a way to put their mundane social and personal awkwardness into a protected category of tiresome behavior.”

None of those things are mental illnesses. Mentally ill people are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.

I don’t really know what you mean.

It’s not super surprising I guess, they already filmed Thor: Ragnarok in Brisbane and Sydney.

Which Australian landscape? It's a continent after all, with many different climate zones.

It absolutely is.

Mine are pretty big, and as such I like to wear a tight band size for support. Doing it up in front then rotating around just sounds impractical.

No problem! Sorry it embedded weirdly, I had just meant to link it.

Is your use of 'autist' supposed to be an insult? It doesn't reflect too well on you if so.

That’s not harsh, that’s pretty reasonable.

It’s probably for the best that ABA isn’t accessible, given how many people come out of it with PTSD symptoms.