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Good for Kennedy finally calling out publicly for the need to attack this head-on.
the problem is that's not autism to most people, they really need to separate these levels by giving them new names entirely, because when people hear about people with autism. its not the boy you describe, its the girl starring in a HBO show, its the hot chick on OF making a million a year, its the woman CEO in a mini.

I also feel like RFK jr isn't doing enough on that front, because based on what you're seeing we're absolutely seeing 1000x women being diagnosed with l1 and thats keeping it from seeming like the sort of shit someone needs to cure. Like at minimum its fucking obvious that L1 has been way more screened and diagnosed vs 20 years ago, you'd have to be retarded to not see that.
He seems to be stuck in the 80's where an autism diagnosis was reserved for drooling retards, and not kids that don't make eye contact with the guidance counselor.

Does he even know about 'neurodivergency advocates', or teenage girls who diagnose themselves as 'AuDHD'?
RFK jr said blacks weren't being given enough welfare by the government, he's 100% stuck in the 80s. he especially doesn't think people are "gaming the system" because as a life long democrat he doesn't believe that the system can be gamed or that its a bad thing if a few people are desperate enough to do it.
 
It only has a population of nearly 10,000 people. What can possibly be wrong with it?
It has a lot of hippie stuff (e.g. crystal healers), but you can ignore all that and just focus on the beautiful nature.

The reply suggesting Flagstaff as an alternative is horrible advice:
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Flagstaff is an incredibly woke college town whose city hall flies the troon flag. The only thing worthwhile there is the ski resort during the winter.
 
I wasn’t being hyperbolic. It's 3,000 miles from Diego Garcia to Tehran and going around Maldives' dubious airspace claims adds less than 200 miles. But feel free to doompost about it.
"Durrr, but they can just fly around it."

No shit Sherlock.
I added the Maldives banning Israelis as extra info after the NYT article (about supposedly Trump backing off striking Iran). The Maldives publicly banning Israelis is signaling their aligning against Israel. Turkey signaled aligning with the Maldives by donating a military ship. The US striking Iran by flying from Diego Garcia has to take the Maldives into account.

We don't know what ships, or planes of what various countries are now hanging around the Indian Ocean. They could be searching for the Red October or Malaysian Air flight 370 for all I know.

And, dooming? I'm glad it seems like war with Iran is less likely. That is the opposite of dooming. You might be bummed out Israel might not get to drag the US into a war, but I'm happy about it.
 
The American West seems to be a magnet for occultism, New Age beliefs and general strangeness.
Always has been. Can confirm being Utahn. Even before the pioneers, you had the Injuns here worshiping the Great Spirit and shit.

I'd argue it's because a lot of the American west was settled by people seeking religious freedom, at least at first. It kinda devolved in to crystal shit over time. Area 51 doing stuff with prototype jets didn't help with the kooks.
 
It’s a center of new agey weird rich occult people and ufo believers. I’m surprised people don’t know the lore.

Maynard Keenan moved out around there and became a leftist who made a band for his girlfriend to be in
The UFO stuff is a combination of old incidents and the military using the desert (most of the West) as a testing ground for every weird ass jet imaginable, which makes anyone looking at the stars at night and sees that shit think "that's a fucking Ailen".
 
Always has been. Can confirm being Utahn. Even before the pioneers, you had the Injuns here worshiping the Great Spirit and shit.

I'd argue it's because a lot of the American west was settled by people seeking religious freedom, at least at first. It kinda devolved in to crystal shit over time. Area 51 doing stuff with prototype jets didn't help with the kooks.
Nothing pisses the wife off quite like new agey beliefs from the upper income huwites about native shit.

Quote: “why are our burial grounds supposed to be cursed?”

Note the URL here is “visit Sedona dot com” so this is the official tourism stance

Also I didn’t crop it horizontally. That’s the fucking site did that

It’s also kinda revealing that they note “locals don’t know that the plural of vortex is vortices”
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