This is certainly good in the case of places where actual genocides are taking place, Syria being the go-to example today (although civil war is more apt than genocide). However the vast quantities of undocumented immigrants in the US do not come from war-torn Syria, but from Mexico, central and south American…

Having healthcare is important to the overall health and well-being of individuals. Conflating that important issue with sheltering individuals from institutions (slavery, holocaust) that actively engaged in systematic, sanctioned genocide may be eye-grabbing but is ultimately just minimizing their contribution and…

And yes, committing green card and insurance fraud are serious crimes. So were hiding Jews in your attic or slaves in your basement.

I think the implication of “navigating the system” is that it is not just simply a matter of filing paperwork to marry an immigrant and obtain a green card.

I’m pretty happy about a show that starts out saying women are just big bitches to each other and then it ends like women are a village and they’re the only ones they can really trust. Like holy shit mind blown I love all you ladies out there I’d kill your abusive husband and help raise your kids.

Not on the spectrum, but I’ve heard that criticism and frankly more chilling ones about the idea that it represented the missing piece that would make some one “normal.”

LOTS of women diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (which is now what they’re calling Aspergers - I think they used to define it as a separate condition from Autism) in their late teens or even their 20s. It’s because the diagnostic criteria heavily favor boys and many professionals will go so far as to refuse to…

If anyone would like to support charities that do actual work for helping individuals with Autism, may I suggest 4 Paws for Ability Inc, which works to place trained support dogs with individuals (usually children). Charity Navigator gives them 5 stars and a 97% rating, with about 83% of funds raised being used for…

Seems on the nose with what the people at Autism Speaks want with autistic people. They want us to be pieces to a puzzle that fit neatly into place... but we don’t, because we aren’t like how they want us to be.

Goes along with the current Republican motto: “Fuck you, I got mine.”

None of his former coaches have called him lazy. Has anyone heard former teammates calling him lazy?
Where are you getting this information? It seems like you might have an ulterior reason(s) for being anti-Kaep when you said baseless, dumb shit like this.

According to Paul Ryan, the following are people who should either A) just have a lot of money, or B) be Christian and belong to a wealthy Catholic parish from the 1950's that will take care of them, or C) be able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps:

Yet they can’t be arsed to deal with neo-Nazis, open neo-Nazis that objectively fit that term, with thousands of followers that love to direct harassment against people who post political opinions they don’t like.

Last night I read an excerpt from an article that was posted on another site, something about how it isn’t rich people who create jobs but customers and how trickle-down is something created by the rich to ensure their paychecks. True enough. But here’s the fact about the empire and the cottage industries that have…

I’m not sure it’s difficulty empathizing with others, so much as it is difficulty with the Input/Output circuits of empathizing with others. Understanding and caring about other people’s feelings, it is my understanding, is not the problem. It’s being able to perceive other people’s actions clearly and express…

Those diagnosed on the autistic spectrum are actually deeply affected by others feelings, but expression of the empathetic response is hindered by the intellectual/developmental disorder. They also have a poor time understand what other people are thinking - but they do understand other peoples feelings.

I honestly think that it isn’t really more prevalent in boys at all. They’re just the ones getting the diagnosis.

Can you guys take your empty moral posturing elsewhere? My wife and I are navigating the system right now, and inundating the State Department with sham green card applications as a political statement is going to make life even more difficult for people who actually, ya know, love each other.

Nah, if they were autistic they would at least probably have some special interest and be good at something. I don’t think competence is in these guys’ vocabulary.

He and his idol Ayn Rand have lots in common! Like that time they both utilized “government handouts” to prevent themselves and their families from going into poverty.