...You did NOT just say someone who kills their kid needs “support.” You did not. Sorry but that shuts down anything else you might have to say.

Pretty much. Also they’re more for people who aren’t on the spectrum who feel affected by loved ones who are. They do not have anyone, not even someone high-functioning in leadership who is on the spectrum. They are for the people who want to go “my kid’s making my life hard!”

Oh yeah. They got slammed for it and pulled it but a lot of people know about it and there are still videos out there.

Autism Speaks defends parents who have killed their autistic children as understandable due to the stress. They dehumanize the severely autistic instead of trying to help them in any way. And yes, I have. My mother teaches autistic kids, including some who are severe. They’re still human and there are things that can…

They are TERRIBLE! Autistic kids are always treated like burdens on their family—you should be SCARED of autism because your autistic kid will RUIN YOUR LIFE! My fav ad is one where a woman—in front of her autistic daughter—admits she once considered driving them both off a bridge and only didn’t because of her…

Not entirely. See, I’m an obscenely picky eater due to broken taste buds that reject way too much stuff (this deeply irks me so much good-looking, good-smelling food gets nope’d by them...) so honestly I think a big part of it is my body is 100% used to what I eat (none of which is too terrible barring occasional good…

This. My mom only started losing weight after years of her and my dad overhauling their diets, not via any fad diets. Hell, her doctor forced her to lay off the grapefruit during on diet—she was eating it so often becuae it was one of the “allowed” snacks that t was throwing her body chemistry off—we’re talking over a…

...Idea. Get organized labor behind all people in that sort of situation to sue Scientology for withheld wages. 80 hours a week for however many years, even at minimum wage, is going to be a decent amount. Like, if you just use a $7 minimum wage it’s nearly 30k per year per person.

Both: encase the book in a concrete block.

I started snickering at “first we shall attempt peace” and it only got better from there.

Trust me, some of them DO want that. They don’t care if you’re fully transitioned, if your chromosomes say otherwise they’ll still be an ass. Brats like that crop up all the time to be asses on Think Progress

Yep. This was a big discussion in my business class last night, where we’re doing a case study on Chipotle’s supply chain and it’s problems. Did you know only 5% of pork producers in the US meet Chipotle’s standards? That makes it REALLY hard for them to buy local for pork (in fact even at peak season only about 10%…

I think there’s also some stuff that’s just not supposed to be in there period. Like I drink organic milk since it doesn’t have some of the hormone issues non-organic milk can (all I know is my acne tends to be better w/organic and my dermatologist blamed growth hormones used on non organic-milk cows, I’ll still drink…

Agreed. The windows in my apartment aren’t great, and get a ton of condensation on the inside on cold nights. So I constantly have to check around them for mold and scrub it out. Thankfully I recently discovered Lysol makes a version especially for mold killing that works a lot better than the normal Lysol I was…

I liked it. Then again, I also liked it when Doug Walker did one like this, addressing old Critic vs. new Critic and styles of review and such. I like seeing creators look at how their work has changed in general, I guess.

To be fair, he has one point: we don’t have to note all the massive, assholish stuff Jackson did to say why he shouldn’t be on the 20.Hell, you can make an argument for it that sounds like you like the guy and still get him off it:

I want Cersei to be defeated by other women so very badly. Cersei is such a female misogynist, she doesn’t think she shold have power becuase women are equal to men, but becuase she’s not like the other girls, she’s superior and should have been born a boy to prove it. That’s why I loved her vs. Margaery: Cersei…

No, no, no, Theon pretends he’s going to be in control of the North as part of Sansa’s plan while Yara just goes for an alliance because otherwise she’s out of power. Also because the Islands didn’t do so well last time they pissed off the Targaryens so she might want to have something to keep her on Dany’s good side,…

Here’s my plan: Sansa and Theon (mostly Sansa using Theon) try to win the Kingsmoot to get a fleet to help the North. They fail because Euron’s a butt, but team up with Asha-Yara and just steal the fleet (a la Cersei’s pirate boyfriend from that weird book subplot). They then decide “fuck all this shit, we got White…

Other places are saying she’s like 500 or so which means she must really moisturize.