• Jaysyn@lemmy.world
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    Hey, that 65 year old neighbor with the $200k model trainset? Yeah, probably autistic.

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    ‘He Cannot Be This Stupid’

    He’s even more stupid than they are acknowledging.

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      Yes, I was going to post “hearing CAN be that stupid”.

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      Don’t insult Brain like that! He is legitimately smart and does what he can given his circumstances (he is a literal lab rat in a lab that he has to escape from every night… and his only companion is barely functional).

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    I’m sorry but if you can listen to RFK speak for longer than 10 seconds without becoming enraged then you really are just fucking dumb.

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    Short answer: if they got it bad, they’re dead or in a nursing home. That’s why they aren’t walking in a mall. They ran out of health.

    Long answer: in recent times, there seems to be lower threshold of diagnosis.

    But if he truly thinks he can pinpoint exposures that increase autism - things like the exposure to tetraethyl lead which probably increased criminality and decreased mental health - good luck for combing scientific studies. There may be some. But if he’s gonna rewind the age old “vaccines cause” record and replay it, nah, I won’t be listening.

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      It’s not that there’s a lower threshold. It’s that the definitions and our understanding of Autism changed. People who formerly would have been labeled with Asperger’s are now labeled (correctly) with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Plus we’ve learned how Autism can present differently in other communities that aren’t white male children. Acknowledging that girls can even be Autistic is a relatively recent development (the 90s).

      The truth is that there are likely a ton of people out there with undiagnosed Autism, because they wouldn’t have met the criteria to be diagnosed as kids based on our understanding at the time. It’s why there are so many adults now getting late life diagnoses.

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          Yeah, my uncle who passed definitely had Autism, and so does my dad. They’re half-brothers, which means it’s highly likely my grandmother was as well (which my dad also agrees with).

          It’s definitely hereditary in my family. I also clearly get my ADHD from my mom.

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    Y-u know guys at some point you just have to roll with this shit because it’s too absurd. I mean I remember I used to be outraged far far in the past when I still treated these seriously

    Now it’s just hilarious. Outrage to entertainment pipeline

    What you can do is laugh and be entertained because such stupid people at the top will probably never happen again for decades. It’s your chance to soak up all the entertainment potential

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        Exactly. My family is like “why does this bother you so much? You have a good job, a house a family, great holidays! All of this doesn’t affect you at all!”

        “Well yeah, I guess I could just ignore that the world is going to shit and that people less lucky than me are suffering through all of it…”

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    I love how this is the hill people finally die on, and not the other absolutely wild shit this guy has said before he even got this gig, like collecting roadkill or his extremely well documented conspiracy-esque, anti-vaccine history.

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    Unfortunately lots of old folks think this way, actually today in the morning this same topic was brought up at breakfast by my mom, she was not being disrespectful necessarily but still is incredible how she cannot see that herself might be autistic and just never got a diagnosis

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    Look, he’s killing people. He should be arrested and go to trial for criminal negligence and manslaughter. Like the rest of the bunch.

    But they can’t even say it lol. “oh, some people touted!”

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      There was a thread on reddit that had someone speculate that he is an indirect serial killer. Meaning he tries to influence people into doing ‘healthy’ things that are anything but and keep bullying them into them until he results in their health declining to the point that they die. He had a relative that he did this to. The justice system isn’t built for that kind of stuff and proving it there would be damn near impossible unless he somehow confesses to it.

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      Not even. Older people got the mercury-stabilized vaccines he’s ranting about, they should be more autistic according to him.

      He’s just fucking stupid.

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    All the people who made the boomer neurodivergents disappear either have dementia or are long gone. Easy scapegoat.

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      Not to mention that there are heavy correlations between queer identities and Autism. A lot of neurodivergent Boomers likely died during the AIDS epidemic, unfortunately.