Male doctor: you might feel a little pressure
Female patient: cries out in pain
Male doctor: stop it silly goose, my textbook said the vagina region cannot feel any pain ever, which I took as truth instead of a potentially horrifying insight into the sex-life of the guy who wrote that https://youtube.com/shorts/7Ersjx2XcyU?si=yG7oJCHjBrWxMpST
Outside the Fort Lauderdale courthouse earlier, was a small Palestinian demonstration. One was chanting “Palestinians need ‘their’ land back.”
I asked him if he understood that that’s how many Jews have felt for about 20 centuries. He started screaming at me, called me a “Jew-loving fascist” who was “ignorant of history.”
@melindrea@filmfreak75@eo@actuallyautistic
I see it as the difference between 'went to university' versus 'cannot read'.
In my view it is a somewhat useful distinction because in the recent past all autistic boys were automatically lumped into the 'stupid' category. And thus denied a chance to sit for national exams and get the education they wanted (this also happened to children in a wheelchair or with cancer: all lumped in with the 'slow' children)
@nedraggett
A devastating witch-hunt, with zero concerns for the victims.
Feuled by the idea of 'new methods from modern psychology'
He caused so much misery.
@actuallyautistic Late diagnosed here, last year aged 55. I'm remembering stuff from my life and going "ah, that makes sense" a lot. An example is when I was accused of skipping school(I was waiting for my Dad to pick me up for an appointment, with permission) and I just meekly took a telling off from the Head of House because I didn't have the words to tell her she was wrong.
@mraharrison@arisummerland@actuallyautistic
I've always sought out situations where I was above-average smart: that way someone else would be asking the questions that I didn't want to ask
(Of course I knew it's not a great way to learn or a great way to communicate)
With experience and trust I've gotten a little better at asking questions, but that means I'm still pretty bad at it.
A tin of crushed pineapple, a packet of marshmallows and a hefty dose of pistachio dust and this delicious Georgia salad could be yours for lunch. 🤮
Optional extra: an entire tub of "whipped topping", whateverthefuck that is.
Americans: shut up about beans on toast forever.
One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.
@cy@eyrea
Seems that doing very female-coded activities gets you labeled as gay.
So, like, do the activity if it genuinely interests you, but being surrounded by women might give you less dates than you assume 🤷
@geomannie@Lassielmr@fkamiah17
He may be a loon, but gotta say, ID cards really aren't that bad.
In Europe there was a bit of 'just like Hitler' when we first got them, then a few years of police thinking double price if they ticketed someone for something else and they didn't have an ID card on them, but nowadays it's just another card next to your debitcard and public-transport card.
Afaic an effective government needs to know where people live and work 🤷
Requirements to put in a job description to discourage or filter out autistic people:
Comfortable with ambiguity
Strong people skills
Good culture fit
Multitasking
A fast-paced dynamic environment
Bachelor's degree or better
I see these things and think you don't want my >30 years of programming and machine learning experience, or my problem-solving skills and comprehensive knowledge that had people mistaking me for one of the team's PhDs, or my solutions that have proven patent-worthy. Your loss.
@hosford42@actuallyautistic@neurodivergence
For me it is mostly about using terms like 'people person' or 'team-player' as filler-words that they think apply to basically everyone.
Please put them in the description if they really are qualities you are looking for, but don't put them in just to stretch word-count.
These are the 2 pots of #hostas that I use as #edibles - the others I don't harvest for cooking. Those ones are split & put into different garden areas. If you enjoy asparagus & endives - you'll enjoy cooking & eating young hosta shoots too. They taste similar to those veggies.
“In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away”
@pvonhellermannn
The Netherlands used to have privately funded dikes. Turns out that leaving protection to people who just want to protect their own property at the cheapest possible cost is not a great idea.
In shows like Poirot or Elementary or CSI or hundreds of other murder-of-the-week shows the reason that it has to be murder is because that creates a sense of great urgency and allows for some rule-bending: what's a little burglary or emotional manipulation when Rick Castle has to solve a murder
In the real world I think it quickly becomes distasteful to speculate about a gruesome crime with only the limited clues the podcast gives you.
The trailer has finally given up the ghost, so it was a hard packing & piling return from the local town after my morning ride. Needless to say, everyone else was asleep, although the dug woke up to remind me that I needed to provide coffee PDQ in the bedroom and then take him out (again!)
