In a specific way. Autism isn’t the same as retardation across the board. You can be autistic and have an average or above average IQ, and you can be a retard who is happy and chatty socially.
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I think most of that is social - it's just that doctors go "bingo" when they find some genetic markers amassing in these ill-fitting kids and teens and then invent groups around that. The process is always this: some early 20th century dude finds a behaviorally similar groups of weird kids, a post ww2 "geneticist" or brain scan enthusiast find some in between, shared markers, they double down and zero in on that particular subset of the former behaviorally defined group and redefine the behavioral "symptoms" from that new group and then do away (for economic reasons) with the hard science tools and go by behavior again and end up with a completely synthetic, over -or underdiagnosed "disorder". If they really went large scale with the brain scan and genetic testing, they would find that it's worthless, because then it would show many unassuming people without issues also have those. That'd be my bet. I guess these markers, which don't seem to do anything on their own, unlike full on down syndrome, are just amounting to acting a little off as a toddler and kindergartener and the rest is their upbringing's doing.
Tbh, most autists ARE borderline retarded. People just focus more on the quirky aspie ones or savants.
I'd also point out another factor, which I mentioned in another thread before- it links in with Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed (oppressed people must play a key role in their own liberation, teachers should not see students as passive receptacles of their knowledge but instead have dialogue with them) to Robert Alford, Mike Oliver and the Union of the Physically Impaired against Segregation's work creating an emancipatory model of disability (disability is not the same as impairment; disabled people should be understood as a class oppressed by a society rather than just people suffering a medical condition; disability is a social construction). The role patient advocacy has played in the shift we've seen cannot be understated.
There are a few which do do something alone. There are some single gene mutations like MeCP2, or ADNP, which cause a syndrome of which autism is a part. It’s a reproducible part and even the mouse models show the same paw flapping in at least one of them. I do get the point about scattershot ‘this is a marker honest’ stuff, and my disdain for some types of brain scan enthusiasts is palpable. FMRI in particular is bunk
Yeah, but is "paw flapping" just coinciding with what can become full fledged autism, is it maybe just a weird quirk that can occur isolated of the other problems? Kids will now get autism'd for the flapping, even if that alone may not be IT. And they will get othered for that weird tick alone anyhow. But then, how many adults do it still? Only the most exalted, certified autists, I'm sure. If I'm thinking hard on it, I have seen it in little kids more than once, but never in adults. As a layman, I would actually think it's too common to make anything of it, but I def. seen it more than once and was kinda shocked that it's supposed to be indicative of autism.
Again, very informative.
Lol at 'something that feels a little more natural in the underwear'. Nothing says 'natural feeling' like something that's not part of your body.Did a double take parsing the subject line. STP == "stand to pee".
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How about it gentlemen? You stand to pee. Right? Does that make you euphoric?
I sure hope if he goes to Seattle to meet up that it turns out to be legit. Hours from home, few-to-no people that are going to question his whereabouts, and a 'freeze' stress response adds up to an ideal victim.
I don't think it's a value judgement on the person, I think that it's saying that an interaction with a store clerk or waiter isn't the same thing as chatting with someone at a bar or in some type of social group.
In the syndrome I’m thinking of, which is caused by MeCP2, no it’s a very direct replica of the human condition. It’s a pretty unpleasant one which mainly affects girls, and they develop apparently normally up to about 18m then lose any acquired language and develop specific stereotyped behaviours, autism and digestive issues. They die young. The mouse model replicates the human, from the biochemical to the behavioural - this one is turning into one the textbook mouse model examples which is why I mention it.
This is NPD. She's Tess Holliday but with poonerism instead of fat.
This is just a mockery of dsyphoria. I know plenty on here view GD as stupid, but even then I'm sure people can understand the pain of BDD.
I don't necessarily think that dysphoria is completely unreal. Just that it's rather a symptom of other things rather than a diagnosis itself. Another user (I think in the detrans thread) mentioned that it comes back up when they're stressed and anxious and going through a rut. It's something your mind creates to be a solution to other problems, basically constantly ruminating on how XYZ would be different/okay if you were a woman or a man. It's not something that springs up on it's own. It's always, always downstream of something else. HSTS for example, aren't dysphoric because they're "supposed" to be women, they're dysphoric because they'd rather be women than have to deal with what it means to be men that are into other men. That's what most kiwis want people to be honest about, because trying to get real with root causes would help a lot more people from putting themselves on damaging drugs and surgeons' butcher blocks.
But I thought you were always a man...
Dysphoria is real, and I think gender EXPRESSION, to a degree, is real (and a large part of it is social) - there are traits and behaviours generally associated with males and females which some people don't ascribe to, and it's fine, but it doesn't make you the opposite sex. Its not because you have a wrong sexed brain though. Its because you have a mental condition. You should recieve health and support, but the way society helps you currently, in the long run, frankly is just cruel. No other dysphorias so we commit to surgeries and corrective medications (as in cross sex hormones, weight loss pills for annorexocs, etc). We don't do tummy tucks on bulemics even though they think they're lardarses and even if it might make them feel better in the short term and possibly even prevent or postpone a suicide, Because we know it's both physically harmful and in the long run mentally harmful.
I think most common people know this but are lead astray by what amounts to "don't believe your lying eyes".
For TIFs it's the opposite:
In the pre-troon era of psychoanalysis "dysphoria" simply meant the neurotic symptom of irrational unhappiness, with no particular implication of it being about one's sex. To be addressed on an individual basis, not a general category.
