#Neuro-classism

[bullet-farmer]

All I Need to Know about Life I Learned in Elementary School

No seriously. Read on. I feel like my elementary-school experience taught me everything about society that is worth knowing. I've just spent the last 30+ years learning the nuances. This is a pretty pessimistic post, but the last eight years have shown me that my belief that humans were basically good was entirely wrong. And I think that my major mistake was turning twelve without internalizing this message. (I blame Star Trek lol, and I can't think of any other piece of media that gave humanity so much false hope.) This is what I learned: 1. Most people who have maximum social privilege don't give a shit about anyone else.

Unless that "anyone else" is in their same social/economic group (and most often only if they're also white or willing to carry water for white supremacy). I saw this play out when I was a kid. I wasn't part of the dominant religious culture in my state, which meant that no one saw me or my family at Sunday services. In fact, I was probably the only person in most of my classes who wasn't part of the dominant religion. Therefore, I was not human; I was a thing to be abused, whose pain wasn't real and could therefore be ignored. But I also saw the same mistreatment happen to kids who were part of the dominant religion...but who were any combination of poor, fat, neurodivergent, traumatized, from abusive homes, learning disabled, or physically disabled. Ableism, the dominant religion, classism, neuro-supremacy, fatphobia/lookism, and society's interest in ignoring child abuse conspired to keep the powerful in power and to remind the have-nots to stay in our place. (If my school had had more than two Black kids who I didn't know well and who were never in my classes, I suspect race would've been a widespread factor too--rather than one that only applied to those two kids.) Yes, it was the 80s. But being "a different time" doesn't excuse the fact that families taught their children (directly or by inaction) to be cruel to those with less social cache, and the fact that the adults who served in loco parentis enabled it. Teachers and staff either gave no shits about peer-on-peer abuse, or, if they did, their attempts to stop it were well intentioned but ultimately ineffective. Because they were going against a system designed to elevate the privileged and damage the underprivileged. This essay's difficult to write, so I'll have to take it one part at a time. Stay tuned for more.

[soulvomit]

Man, my feelings about Empathy and where Empathy fits into Modern Autism Discourse are... so generational and probably borderline Boomer

I am an empathy impaired person who uses an interior *algorithm* to navigate situations where the right display of empathy is required.

I have interacted with so many people who claimed to be "more empathic than the norm" - ranging from autists who genuinely experienced themselves this way, to flaming narcissists, to predators and woo woo hucksters.

Nobody in my life who's ever claimed to have more empathy, has actually *shown* that they have it. Sometimes they think they're more empathic *because* they're empathy impaired. Sometimes, people are just projecting their own emotions and reactions onto other people. And sometimes what they think is having empathy, is just having really poor boundaries and... I've been there.

I am facing some generational stuff here because I grew up with a solid cultural overlay of "love is a verb." And also I've taken a lot of shit for my empathy impairment and faced potential loss of a social support system, which for anyone poorer than the average ND author or speaker (which means 90% of the population or more in the US), would mean homelessness.

I have gotten absolutely nothing from persisting in any belief that I have deeper, more meaningful emotions than NTs. I had to learn to better *approximate* empathy, to do *empathetic actions* *despite* not recognizing within my emotions or body what I am feeling when I do them as anything but an intensely delayed reaction.

And I have been often deeply and powerfully hurt, and my boundaries intensely violated, by people who claimed to have deeper feelings or more empathy than other people.

You can feel all the feelings in the world but if you're impaired to act on them, you're impaired. All the world around you knows is how you act. It does not know how you feel, and very little of it cares.

And sometimes lots of empathy discourse in ND discourse just demonstrates... a lack of empathy, or confusion around what empathy is. It's weirdly defensive: "we don't lack empathy, how dare you say that!"

Except yes often people who say this do lack empathy and in my own case yes it has been part of my impairment in my own life and what do I get exactly from not seeing myself as impaired, especially when I don't have the luxury of surrounding myself with a handpicked elitist group of Ph.D.s who will validate in me the same affluenza they all share?

And if they want to say "yes, we have empathy, no more or less than other people, and sometimes more" yes I can argue that's the case - comparing them with allistic rich people. But not with the general population.

[bacchant-of-dionysus]

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[kim-poce]

Full House 15 - Old Friend

Anon asked:

Eri used to have a childhood friend, but he cut ties after they got into the whole pet thing. He doesn't want to call, he swore he never would, but he is so overwhelmed. He really needs the help, so he swallows his pride and starts dialing. Oh, how he hopes they are not like his parents.

Thank you for the patience, I wanted to answer this but the story had to move before it :)

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CW: pet whump, institutionalized slavery, implied classism.

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Eri glanced to the phone in his hands, wondering how things got this far, wondering how much of this was his fault.

He was friendly since childhood, but he struggled to keep long-lasting friendships, it’s hard to keep friends when your parents keep moving you from school to school, looking for “good friends” and allowing him to play with the few that passed their never end checklist to a proper human being.

Eri stopped making friends out of his parents' circle when they started to expel from the school any kid that he interacted with but was too low to be around him, he didn’t want to make anyone’s life any harder, it was better to be alone was around boring people.

Beckett was a special case, he wasn’t proper enough to be allowed to have a deep friendship, but was useful enough to keep around, Eri was happy to have someone to talk to other than the spoiled children from his parent’s friends.

He was an old friend, someone Eri always could count on, they didn’t agree on everything but it was never a problem, well, it wasn’t before the pet commercialization started. They were both young, there was a fight, and to be this close to this sick slavery was too much for Eri, so just like this they cut ties, Eri never deleted his number, though, and many days he felt inclined to call him.

This wasn’t Eri’s fault, it was how things turned up, he knew that he would never truly call Beckett just for some nostalgic feeling, it would be a forever ruined friendship, he knew.

But this was Eri’s fault, the smallest one of the people he owns being this sick is his fault, it doesn’t matter that no hospital accepted to take him in even with how much money Eri offered, it doesn’t matter that the “pet doctors” said that the only option was to “put it down and buy a new one.” The only thing that matters is that Eri had a responsibility, a duty, and he failed to keep everyone safe and well.

Eri called the old number, in truth not even needing to look for it, he knew it by heart, he forgot his pride and the fight so many years before, only hoping for two things: that Beckett didn’t change his number and that he isn’t like his parents.

As he waited for someone to pick up the call Eri realized how he was acting like his parents, trying to change people’s opinion with money, calling someone just because they are useful, No, Eri shook his head, he is different, different, But is he really?

“Hello?” said a voice from the other side of the voice, and Eri held it closer to his ears, “Who are you?”

Deep breath, “Eri, I’m Eri. Am I speaking with Beckett?” please, please, please-

“Eri?” the voice said in a mix of surprise and excitement, “Oh dude, I thought I would never hear your voice again! I would have called you but I lost all my contacts long ago,” he said in a fast pace just as Eri remembers, “Why are you calling me, buddy?”

“Well…” Eri started, voice full of shame but mind full of worry and despair, no time to be proud, “To be honest I want to ask you something…”

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[deniigi]

For the salty ask list: 9 and 10, that is, most disliked character(s) and arc

9. Most disliked character(s)? Why?

I--

Yeah okay. I don’t like Tony Stark.

I can see a Tony Stark that I could like, but in Marvel fandom and MCU stuff, I really, really, REALLY don’t like him.

I don’t like him as a dad. I don’t like him as a leader. I don’t like him as a person.

I just have zero sympathy for fictional Jeff Bezos/Elon Musk. I’m almost positive that he’s some kind of wish fulfillment character for a lot of people--like, folks working through shit like poverty or feeling helpless and if that’s the way that they cope, all power to them.

but like, man.

Irondad has criminally ruined a character who I have always held closest to my heart.

Spiderman is like me: an artist, working-class, Jewish. Like, he natters on and makes bad jokes that are only funny to him and he works his ASS off trying to make the world a better place day after day, even when the world around him feels like an ocean that’s going to crash in and make all his efforts meaningless in the next second.

This is my experience. And then for him to be associated with Ironman?? To be turned into this helpless little child who just follows the lines drawn for him on the pavement? Head down, sad sack of shit?

Horrible.

And then for the fandom to latch onto that and turn Spidey into some woobified prop for them to live out their white, protestant, small town fantasies on?

Unforgivable.

How dare Ironman take my urban, working-class, Jewish representation and reduce him to this passive body speaking empty words to uphold a war criminal. How dare you reduce another Jewish man into a lifeless body dependent, like a parasite, on the wealth and prosperity of a so-called pillar of society.

Beyond the fact that the character is virtually lifeless because of Ironman/Tony Stark, the stripping of Peter as representation for people like me feels like a punch to the gut. It’s dripping layers of classism and antisemitism.

So for what Tony Stark has done to Spiderman? I fucking hate him.

(That said, I will continue to write the Tony Stark that I can tolerate: which is that of a neuro-divergent boss trying to do his best to relate to people and failing on almost every count--but not without optimism for a better future.)

[the2headedcalf-archive]

You really just said “classism exist” and anon started going on about victim mentality, that’s how u know theyre the type to complain when neuro-divergent ppl got accommodations at school.

ngl I read the anon in Ben Shapiro’s voice lol

that ask disturbed me so much tbh...how can you be so blind to people's suffering? it's horrible...

[nanowrimo]

Why One Voice Is Never Enough: Weaving Intersectionality into YA

Humans are complicated and multi-faceted—and so are the best fictional characters who reflect the reality of what it is to be human. Today, writer Rachel Werner shares why it’s important to create intersectionality in the characters you write:

Does my protagonist get to be Black and have clinical depression? Be neuro-divergent and transgender? The default setting for writing diverse stories often presents as a “this or that” scenario, or leaves an author feeling as though certain demographic boxes need to be “checked” to ensure their book is perceived as inclusive “enough.” The fallacy to these mentalities is that neither is an appropriate benchmark to strive for.

Unfortunately, this is where numerous character compositions go hopelessly awry—ultimately undermining story arcs no matter how well they’re crafted. It’s not enough to simply make one’s heroine Asian or disabled, then proceed with the plot. What truly makes characters resonate with readers is complexity, usually achieved via intersectionality.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines intersectionality as the “the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups.” It also astutely credits the scholar and a civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw who originated “the idea that when it comes to thinking about how inequalities persist, categories like gender, race, and class are best understood as overlapping and mutually constitutive rather than isolated and distinct.”

Crenshaw’s theory exposes the reality that those within BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and/or different-abled bodied communities rarely connect with a single identifier. Thus, a “White vs. Black” antagonistic premise set in suburbia now falls flat because a narrative should be based on more than blatant friction between teens with different skin colors. 

“Representing experiences at the intersection of two or more marginalized identities is so necessary for children's literature. Authors often hear that their stories (and their lived experience) are 'too much,' that a character cannot be both Black and Muslim, or both trans and Latinx, and so on. Authors come up against gatekeepers who want them to sanitize their work and remove an aspect of who the characters are or what the story is in order to make it more palatable and 'marketable' to readers,” explains We Need Diverse Books Communications Manager Alaina Lavoie. 

“But readers—kids and teenagers—live these experiences, and very rarely get to see themselves on the page. This could result in them feeling they need to sanitize part of their lives for others; someone might feel they need to be "less disabled" in order to be accepted by the LGBTQ+ community; or that they need to downplay or hide their Blackness to feel at home in Jewish spaces,” Lavoie states. “Books that center the multiply marginalized, such as Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender or Color Me In by Natasha Diaz, might be the very first time that a reader sees that they can show up as their full self, without trying to mask or change who they are in order to be accepted and seen.” 

Lavoie’s insight into the current publishing climate is a crucial reminder that within no community does one word ever “fit all.” As a writer, I can personally attest to navigating what, at times, is a grueling creative process. The need for more representation in YA for people of color with mental health issues inspired my short story, “Brown Girl Blues”. Writing from personal experience can provided a feeling of connection for others, plus be cathartic for oneself. I’ve been in clinical treatment for an eating disorder off and on for over two decades. But I never read one book growing up that featured a young woman of color grappling with this sort of illness. Would it have made a difference? Perhaps. I may have felt less isolated or... “crazy,” since I was already coming of age in an environment in which mental health struggles weren’t openly discussed and acknowledged, aside from alcoholism or drug addiction.

The need for more own voices sharing real, lived experiences is one young audiences continue to crave. Challenge yourself to share the stories no writer other than you can tell. One day, a kid might thank you for it.

Rachel Werner is faculty for Hugo House and The Loft Literary Center; a We Need Diverse Books program volunteer; and a book reviewer for Shelf Awareness. She has contributed print, photography and video content to Fabulous Wisconsin, BLK+GRN, BRAVA, Madison Magazine and Entrepreneurial Chef. She is also the founder of The Little BookProject WI, a community arts and nonprofit bi-annual collaboration. A passionate commitment to holistic wellness and sustainable agriculture keeps her a Midwestern girl at heart—and Madison resident. 

Top photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash (mural painted by Annabelle Wombacher, Jared Mar, Sierra Ratcliff and Benjamin Cahoon).

[theskyexists]

Orphan 55

I got so mad at Thirteen getting choked AGAIN that I paused.

Why. WHY. WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway wow that was...weird.

Look I agree with the message - I am a FERVENT environmentalist - but I found that last bit ridiculously on the nose. That whole speech almost straight to the camera. Would it have killed them to intersperse with more reverse shots? I'm a bit of traitor to myself here but Jodie is not good enough at long speeches yet to carry that off entirely.

What I DID love was the way the Doctor couldn't relax, muscled her way in, took over, told people off, was absolutely brilliant. 'Come on, Kane.' she says very sharply and Kane comes. Whenever somebody tries to challenge the Doctor she puts them in their place and if somebody doesn't tell her something then she'll figure it out herself and notice all the details. Powerful and a bit grumpy compared to her cheery old self

Also loved the moment where Yaz and Graham were like, oh shit where's Ryan. Also loved Ryan being like, ah that must have been the Doctor who saved my life. Also LOVED the bit when the Doctor efficiently removes the Hopper virus from Ryan (who is hilarious), catching him when he falls over, there's just something so - almost parental about their dynamic and I love it.

But the way all the people got murdered? There were zero twists to that, they just fed all the location characters into the kill machine, Hyph3n, Vorm, Benni, Vilma, Kane, Bella. Jfc. I thought the fact that they kept Benni alive might have been an indication of something more. And yeah all the monsters turned out to be sentient victims of classism but they still got blown up? Like, they had an understanding - the Doctor and the 'alpha' (yikes, no) and it clearly was extremely intelligent, but it was impossible to come to a long term agreement ? To negotiate? Apparently they were lost causes despite being victims? But the Doctor just showed they weren't?? Once again, not even an attempt - a start at structural change. What do they eat anyway?? Good survival episode for a change but the Doctor should be making an impact in structural and imaginary forces! Instead we get...oh it might not happen though.

i don't think we've ever had this take on time travel from the Doctor before??!!? This is Moffat opposite. Everything they've experienced could apparently just be an alternate timeline on the eddies of the continuum???

Loved YAZ drawing attention to the Doctor's bad mood. And her also questioning her very sharply on WHEN she knew it was Earth. And her being like: NO SHOW US. That twist was also very nice. But I thought Kane would have had something to do with the dregs/victims?? Beyond wanting to provide for her family? Some sort of solidarity or ancestry or outrage. She also seemed ....idk...coded as .... well very 'literal' - almost like neuro-atypical? Thought the acting gave it a lot of depth so was surprised to find the character so shallow. And how the fuck did she show up by the end of it totally fine if the Dregs are so dangerous.

Benni and Vilma (oh ha, I only got it now) were very like the couple in the Titanic Christmas special who also sacrificed themselves - but not as sympathetic.

There were two parallels with Ryan going on, one for Ryan and one for Graham. Bella resented her mother (didn't she look young????) for never being there for her to the point of multiple counts of manslaughter. And Sylas and Devi, Sylas being a much better MECHANIC than his dad but dismissed. I'm not sure...what it was supposed to say about the companions.

The way people kept throwing themselves into the Dregs' jaws kind of diminished the effect of the sacrifice. Love how Yaz was caring for Vilma- the weakest among them - but she AGAIN gets the least to do. And she still expects the Doctor to take care of herself. The Doctor points to her not having an oxygen supply and she's like: alright she'll be fine ey.

In conclusion, great writing for the Doctor. Some good bits for the companions. The message super weirdly on the nose and the setting and other characters didn't have much else to say. The parallels to companions weren't super clear. And there was another count of choking (GODDAMMIT) and Yaz not getting to do anything. Also that last speech made me flashback to the end of Cats with Judie Dench looking me straight in the eyes reciting a Jellicle cats poem for ten minutes.

Ed Hime did better last series, in my opinion.

[riviae]

just venting abt my own indecisiveness lmao: 

i’m so stressed rt now :/ 

i’m graduating which is great, but i honestly don’t know what to do next. i’ve got a few viable options but i’m frozen at the crossroads of my education out of sheer indecisiveness. what’s the right choice?? is there such a thing as a ‘right’ choice?? should i fight for the hardest path or should i take the easier path, the one with the least remaining schooling? if i make a standard cost-benefit analysis then of course the easiest option is the best--but it feels like i’m giving up on my original dream. 

option 1: med school. that’s what all this work’s been abt--there needs to be doctors that are knowledgeable & supportive of lgbt+, neurodivergent, and disabled ppl as well as poc & understand how these identities intersect/overlap. the state of biomedical ethics is absolutely awful right now--it’s not a required course/topic in the majority of medical schools & so doctors are never really challenged to think past their inherent biases or how they should treat their patients or how knowing a patient’s background can aid in the patient-doctor relationship. patients aren’t a commodity, yet i can count on 1 hand the amt of doctors who know the 4 established virtues of medical ethics or can even explain them: beneficence (you must do what is best/good for the patient), maleficence (”do no harm”), justice (i.e., appropriate rationing of health care, services, supplies, & actively keeping historically-targeted groups of medical malpractice from harm), & autonomy (arguably the most important imo--the patient has their own autonomy & a doctor can /never/ take that away/do things against the patient’s will, which, by definition, makes mental health institutions unethical but i digress).

rt now i’m interested in working as either a neurologist, psychiatrist, pathologist, or specializing specifically in rural medicine (i.e., underserved populations/small towns), but can i really devote the next 8 yrs of my life to an occupation wrought w/ sky-high suicide rates, 36 hr shifts, & all the emotional trauma that comes w/ a field so intertwined w/ death?? idk if i’m strong enough for the demands. i don’t have any interest in money or prestige (i’d prefer to have no attention at all honestly), but i just wanna use my love of science to do some good, no matter how small. 

option 2: PhD in neuro. makes logical sense since i’m getting my MSc in a month & also neuro is my fave science of any subfield. i could do a lot of good w/ my research interests (that being of neurodivergent populations--seeing as i have adhd myself). understanding the neurological mechanism(s) behind neurodevelopmental disorders, for instance, can help in reducing harmful symptoms of certain disorders ((note: i do not mean wanting to ‘cure’ autism or anything that obtuse. more like providing pharmacological or genetic-based approaches to therapies. so for instance, i’m a big supporter of the cortical excitability hypothesis of autism which basically states that difficulties in sensory processing, insofar as being especially attentive to stimuli i.e., hypersensitivity/hyposensitivity is concerned, is due to the cortex’s inability to mitigate excitatory signals. so an ASD individual will experience sound or touch/texture aversion bc their brains are truly experiencing the sensory inputs at an incredibly high or low signal, as if their brain is a radio stuck continuously at a volume of either 100 or zero. it’s also why ASD & epilepsy are so often found to be comorbid--hypersensitivity to stimuli is more common & cortical excitability/excess firing of neurons outside of phase synchrony can explain the mechanics behind epilepsy too. oh, & this could also explain adhd symptoms since adhd and autism have considerable overlap both in symptoms as well as brain structure pathology). long story short, academia is great for me bc i love teaching, learning, and putting my brain to use (studying other brains). it’s a good fit & i’d be happy......... but i still have my own hesitations bc academia, esp science, is historically a field wrought w/ misogyny, racism, classism, u name it. it’s a mess™ 

option 3: pathologists’ assistant. the easy road. i could matriculate in jan (assuming i’d be accepted) & complete the degree in 2 yrs. i’d be able to teach, do clinical stuff (tissue sample analysis, post mortem autopsies, etc.), all w/o having to do all the paperwork, patient-juggling, & long hours that doctors do. i could specialize in pediatric pathology (by applying for a job at a children’s hospital) and really feel like i’m doing good work, helping to make accurate diagnoses of samples & leave it to the docs to tailor their treatment to my diagnosis. i love puzzles/solving things. this would give me a lot to do & it’d be good, honest work. it’d be behind-the-scenes so i wouldn’t need to overextend my naturally shy personality too much either. & the starting salaries are a real nice bonus (insofar as paying off my current student loans are concerned). but idk if i’m as passionate abt tissue sampling as i am abt the brain. i don’t wanna settle for a job simply bc it’s arguably easier than my other academic pursuits and makes good money or is ‘safe.’ ughhh can someone make the decision for me lol? 

& all this doesn’t even touch upon my own inferiority complex/inability to recognize my achievements as actual achievements. like sometimes i wonder if i’m even smart or capable of reaching any of my academic goals :/ as they say, u are always gonna be ur biggest critic. 2019 was supposed to be the yr i learned to love myself (or at least my brain), but i fell off at some point & i’m struggling to see my self worth as more than what i ascribe by default to myself & others (since all humans have intrinsic value no matter what imo). 

[bertstrassburg]

The Unconscious Mind’s Role in Education Transformation

My approach as an educational leader utilizes the findings of cognitive psychology, neuroscience research, and neuro-linguistic practices. Focusing on student strengths and designing pedagogy that gifts all students with the ability to tap into both the conscious and unconscious mind is the true purpose of education and provides the conditions necessary for high intellectual performance. My belief is that school needs to be an oasis where racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, and religious discrimination are all eliminated and are no longer a barrier to having the support and learning necessary to achieve self-actualization.

Educational systems, both past and present, are primarily based on “conditioning the conscious mind”.  Yet research has proven for years that 95 percent of our brain activity is unconscious.  This means that a majority of the decisions we make, the language we use, the actions we take, our emotions, and behaviors, depend on the 95 percent of brain activity that lies beyond conscious awareness.  Tapping into the unconscious mind is necessary for self-actualization.  Defined, self-actualization is the realization or fulfillment that every persona has inherent talents and potentialities, a drive to live a life of learning. This means that ALL students WANT to learn - marginalized students cannot be excluded in this statement, even though systems, structures and societal norms may indicate “evidence” otherwise.  Every human is given a promissory note that they have an intrinsic desire to gain knowledge and live a more fulfilling life.  This belief or rather this knowledge creates the critical foundation for educational transformation.

For more information about me, please visit my website at:  www.bertstrassburg.com!  

[marxistsweetheart]

Why haven't we answered the most important questions?

Traditionalist regression and its preservation of oppression for cheap labor of the masses that produce the money they don’t have entitlement for, nor the commodity availability to own what they produce. Harvard privatizes the education of the rich and poor admitted to their instituation to profit from the colligates intellectual labor. We can reach enlightenment when we defeat fascist democracy of the voter ignorant of political philosophy and the electoral college who promotes social control through election processes that secure fundamentalist ideology in legislation, government grants, and tax revenue. 

I’ve fostered a foundational allied structurally sound ideal of humanity and their relations to time and modernized industrial mechanisms they utilize to manipulate our environmental and even physiological architectures by creating evolutionary pressures of adaptation that occur more quickly now that we have the resources to support those in allignment of allied statehoods which provide socialized necessities and defend the centralization of these technologies available to their people from those who exist to fund the weakened practices of ideological impurities by the repressed traditionalist familal structure in Americanized conformity to a nation inclined to deprive its masses and that of the more successful nations who reach social democracy in order to further the goal of communism for their state and defend it against American imperialism in militarized borders.

Neuroscience is a growing field and a very young one at that. It still today maintains to be a politico-scientific revolutionary quality to progressive leftist notions of property and the individuals right to the care we all seek to ensure for ourselves by healthy living in modernization of industry when addressing ethical control over new technologies on human consciousness by tech companies accruing, for example, crypto data for cash you should be making just sitting on your phone. yeah, seriously, every time you create crypto data by using platforms who code for your most visited categories of interest. This data searching is sold by ad companies contracted with, Facebook, Instagram, & YouTube, for example. Company control of crypodata encompasses the inclusion of data enscripted ad’s in addition to this for the use of commercialist profiteers of free-media. We are forced to consume Western commercialism and exploited by our produced media published on these platforms. 

Perhaps we should have more conferences in the process of determining authorities points of knowledge that apply to the applicational goals adhering to a neuro bioethical doctrine in applications of the digitally mapped and artificially controlled functioning of neurologically controlled pharmaceutical technology controlled by U.S forces federally financed by tax dollars to a 2 trillion dollar a year expense on defence. That could reach Western militarised forces of axis evil in the generation we never paid to fight a war they destroyed through America’s 20th century, wet, 1950’s — prevented USSR jealousy of propagandist artistic approaches to delivering a new cultural workers revolution in the Soviet Union, with intent to decomodify goods and resources during collectivisations ruined implementation by Stalin’s agenda to forward Full World Communism in a chess-like war game with America during the Cold War that consisted of eventually the Occupied Axis Power forces on CCCP snow and soil.

He burned the fields with his peasants. They were sickened by the American imposition of geo occupation of a Centralised Republic of the borders came down in Bolshevik aggression in liberation armies of the People. They couldn’t afford in all its perverse communist poverty stricken interest of the basis of lifestyle health care a Marxist denotes as a trivial and elementary introductory suggestion to the most dramatic effectual renaissance of a culture liberated by Marxist economic revolution backed and mathematically statistically, changing caches of probability orders entered in population census collections agency documentation and restitutions to a socially and federally protective nationally syndicated populations globally performing Marxist application of study to community health and organisation through the sharing of knowledge to the masses by educational institutions would be federally insured in a communist centralized state of evolutionary biologically inclined doctrine to neurally progress against the desensitization of traditionalist values propagated by fundie pennies and dimes of the masses indoctrinated by their lack of liberation and the false sense of security trillions of dollars are invested in federally granted money procured through taxes of the people and never applied to defend a neuroscience doctrine that promotes evolutionary adaptations that are experienced through the ill-health of the American masses today by factory farming to institutional classism within academia by privatized government grants to the non progressive traditionalist ideologically based statehoods of the Northern states where bougeious bandits sit and await for their moment of intellectual superiority through a non-progressive application of commodities and currency that is the least dependable out of any other USD to foreign currency. Everything represented by preoccupation with fundamentalism in interest of stock piling capital for the wealthiest neighborhoods who seek nothing of the advancement required to fulfill an enlightened existentially motivated understanding of academic appreciation, participation, or social acceptance from anywhere outside of their own gated communities. This is fine. Revolutions occur elsewhere, and no one lets a fascist advise them on political superiority in the name of neurological health and evolutionary advancement of our species. We are all not so smart, but we are lucky these people live in their own gated ghettos of New English classist segregation away from us, our solidarity, and our statehood that will revolt against what we witness as unprogressive, demotivated, willingly-ignorant to the luxuries available to those that defend the ideological doctrine of marxism rather than national socialism. We love to see them fail, it may be their only lesson in leftism they ever bare to witness. 

[kim-poce]

🐣 for Eri?

Full House - Proper People

Eri was spoiled a lot as a child.

CW: Eri's mom being an asshole, classism.

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"Eri, dear, can you come here for a bit?" Courtney called in a sweet voice, in a minute the blond boy showed up, glancing to the armchair she was sitting on, "I heard you played a lot today."

Eri smiled, remembering the morning and his new friend, "Yes! there is this new boy, Dani, he started school today," he said happily as he walked closer.

"I see," Courtney said, picking him up and sitting him on his lap, "And I heard this... Dani-" her voice showed disgust at the name "-is a special case in the school."

Eri tilted his head for a bit, trying to make sense of his mother's words, "Well... he entered in the middle of the semester and... uhm... Oh! he said that as long as he gets good grades he doesn't need to pay! He is really smart!"

Courtney grimaced at the words, "I'm glad you are making friends, baby, but you can't talk to this boy anymore, okay?" Eri's eyes widened and he was about to protest when she spoke again, "Listen, dear, you know mom wants the best for you, don't you?"

"...Yes," Eri said slowly, he never liked the decisions she takes after those words.

"You are too young to understand, but listen to me when I say you need you to hang out with best people," she said, caressing his hair, "I'll make a nice party and call in some friends' children, you'll like them, they are proper people, understood?"

"...Yes," Eri said looking down, there was nothing wrong with Dani, or at least he felt it, but his mother should be right, and if this didn't feel this way, "I won't talk to Dani anymore," he said in a low voice.

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Autistic Community Manifesto Part 1: Us Autistics Chapter 1: Autistic Brotherhood by Charles McIntyre

Prelude: 

Greetings fellow Autistics, I am Charles McIntyre, I am 26 and was diagnosed with PDD-NOS (Autism) when I was 4. My greatest strengths are Hyper Empathy, being analytical, seeing details and patterns others miss and word-smithing.

My greatest struggles are connecting with people, executive dysfunction, SPD, CAPD. I officially formed the group Call "Intelligent Autistic Media" in April 2017. Our mission statement is to spread 1. Autistic Pride 2.) Encourage and instruct Autistic Self Advocacy 3.) Defeat Anti-Autistic stigma and myths, 4.) Encourage and instruct NT Ally ship 5.) Improve the lives of Autistics and their families as much as possible.

               I run this Facebook Group has at this about 380 members and we have been active for almost a year. We are an okay group, but I have not been as a successful leader as would like to be. I believe this to be because I my struggles with struggles with executive dysfunction and my inability to connect to people in an effective and consistently. In short, I am more a creative, ambitious visionary, than a leader and organizer.

So, I decided to write this sort of "Manifesto of Campaigns" as way to offer up a list of campaigns and initiatives I believe could elevate the status of the Autistic Community and solve some of our problems. It is hope that this manifesto will inspire various members of the community to time, resources, and talents to execute the fore mentioned project and initiatives. I feel like success hinges on ability to organize and mobilize. With our collaboration and unity can we ever hope to overcome NT supremacy. I am not sure if everybody will agree to all my ideas, but I am throwing them out there regardless. If you do find ideas appealing, please contact me. I hope to set up some collaborations.  If you have any constructive criticisms, please elaborate. If you don’t have anything of meaning to add please ignore and scroll pass.

 Part 1: Us Autistic Chapter 1: Autistic Brotherhood 

Now, as were particularly diverse demographic of exceedingly unique individuals, unification is of   course easier said than done.  I would propose constitution or a share list of demands. As often have embracive personalities and none of us like to walk on eggshells we try to be patient with each other as much as we and agree to interact with a shared written code of ethics or social guidelines

Here is an example of such a code: 1.) If you are not of groups demographic stay in your lane. Ie don't talk about something that you don't understand. 2.) If you post something covers anything that may cause someone a panic attack or extreme discomfort; ie Sexual assault, violence, bigotry ect... ad a Trigger warning. 3.) If you post anything that has possible uncomfortable subject matter or contents; ie swearing, sex, sensory issues ect ad a content warning. 4.) Do not use sarcasm or hyperbole or otherwise confusing language.  5.) While in debate or disagreement do not assume hostility unless it is blatant. You maybe projecting or overthinking. Try asking the other person to clarify.  6.) Try to stay on topic with the post while commenting. 7.) If you see a post or comment that upsets you or that you disagree with scroll past it unless you deem it necessary.  8.) When engaging in a debate be polite and avoid using vulgar language or name calling.  9.) Walk away from an argument if it gets to heated. 10.) If someone does not want to argue, don't drag them back into thread by tagging them. This is harassment. 11.) Do not play mind games or gaslight. This is harassment. 12.) Conversing with multiple people use tags to distinguish to whom you speak.

  First and foremost, though, we must spread Autistic Pride and self-love. I did not want to admit to having any connection to my fellow Autistics until I was able to accept my own Autism. Even now sometimes I get discouraged and wish I was different. I think Autistic self-defecation should thought as virus that we must try to remedy as soon as possible lest it spread through toxic interaction. This does not we shove pride down are fellow Autistics’ throats, but we must always strive to encourage and uplifting whenever possible.  This again would require us to mutually patient with each other.

One idea I have for unification is reject any ideas that we can be or should be Neuro-typical. We shall not try to be what are not. In do this we should reject Neuro-typical social customs viewpoints. We should instead develop our own Autistic social customs and viewpoints. Thus, establishing Autistic social culture.

 As we all know functioning labels divide, silence and stigmatize people across the autistic community. The simplest fly, generalize, and stereotype the experiences of all autistic people. We must never let the neuro- typicals force them on us nor any other autistic. At the same time however, we must be sensitive to the two different ways autistic people struggle. We must never imagine that our experience with autism the same as anyone else’s experience with lot. To demonstrate this point, I’m going to exemplify to members of the autistic community with very different forms of autism without relying on functioning labels.

               Many of us know of John Elder Robinson. He is the author of such books as “look me in the eye”, “be different” and others. In both books, he talks about his struggles and talents. Some of his struggles include sensory processing disorder, social ineptness, aversion to eye contact and possibly executive dysfunction. There is natural engineering talents and creativity, he was able to leave home, find employment, incomplete independence, at age 16. (He also grew up in a different time).

 This contrasts with the experiences of Carly Fleishman. Carly, who is a brilliant young woman, is a brilliant writer, and has developed quite the charming TV personality has struggles and talents very different to Mr. Robinson. In the memoir she wrote with her father Arthur Fleischman; “Finding Carly’s Voice” Carly is described as being nonverbal, having episodes of intense sensory overload, as well as experiencing more extreme meltdowns and coping with more prominent stemming. Throughout her early in adolescent years Carly has been sent to live in a variety of institutions designed for people with her type of autism. Before she learned to effectively type, or diagnosis also included intellectual impairment. She has recently been nominated for a reward called a “Shorty”, but I am uncertain if she has managed to live independent yet.

Essentially what I’m saying is, we must give recognition to struggles and talents of the Carly Fleishman’s, the John Elder Robinson’s, the Naoki  Higashida’s, Stephen Wiltshire’s and everyone else in between in the autistic spectrum. It might be most convenient, we mapped out different types of autistic. This way be as crude was insensitive as functioning labels but would be more like 16 personality types. It would provide some symbolic shorthand to understand the person struggle and strength, without knowing everything about that person.

                 If we do not commit ourselves to encouraging self-advocacy and union ship in cooperation with people throughout different autism types, if we say, “oh yes, I am autistic, but I don’t want to be associated with these autistics, because I’m not freak like them,” then we are not really better than those neuro- typical bigots alienate, and discriminate against us. We autistics are also all we have. We must be inclusive as possible to maximize our numbers. If we cannot be inclusive to towards our own people how can we expect neuro- typicals to be inclusive towards us?

                 Once we have figured out way to bring empowerment, self-love and pride to people across the spectrum must also remember to be intersectional. Intersectional means that while we focus on autistic issues, make ourselves aware that people with identities other than autistic marginalized in different ways and therefore may have different struggles. To illustrate example, I once got accosted with a police officer because he suspected me of smoking cannabis at a town dance. The truth is my eyes were red because I was crying. I couldn’t look him in the eye, because I am in fact autistic and my ability to look people in the eye diminishes as I get more nervous. He thought I was lying in my have arrested me of his partner had pulled him away as he pulled away he shouted, “if you’re lying to me 10 times worse!” Now this was not my only encounter with police. Not my only misunderstanding. It is very common for autistic people to have some dealings police either as a victim or as a suspect. As we are autistic, it can be difficult to be out how to figure these situations and police sir severely under trained to understand or accommodate autistic people. While this incident was fortunate, I will tell you, that would ruin been worse if I were Black. Police tend to unjustly patrol black neighborhoods more and act more hostile towards people of color. If I had been black is much more possible that I would have been arrested and/or beaten by the police. Being intersectional means that we are sensitive to such issues of extra vulnerability to autistics who have extra vulnerability due to belonging to another marginalized demographic.

                 Being intersectional means that as leaders we do not let the members of our community indulge in any form of bigotry. Mustn’t allow any; racism, six them/misogyny, homophobia, trans-phobia, ablism, Islam phobia, anti-Semitism, classism or any other form of bigotry. (If we criticize any creed or religion we must be careful not to act discriminatory against all the members of that said creed or religion. For example: is perfectly fine to criticize Christianity and other religions for things that homophobia, trans-phobia, misogyny, racism and ablism Etc. but we cannot take this out on a random Christian. We should be accepting of people of differing creed identities under the condition that they are accepting of people different identities as well. Again, if we are not willing to be accepting of people from demographics that are different from us, if we indulge ourselves in bigotry, we are no different than those neuro- typical bigots that alienate discriminate against us.

                 Once we formed an all-inclusive and all accepting that all intersectional, autistic community we must strengthen it. We need people to feel pride. To do this we must remind people that autism is a pervasive condition meeting affects every aspect of a person. This means that while your struggles are because autism strengths and talents and expertise is also thanks to autism. We must also remind those autistics who have not found self-acceptance, of those autistics across the spectrum are found major success. Again, self-pride is necessary to push one’s self forward on a tough road ahead.

It will also be important for autistics to be experts in autism. We must do this to best understand ourselves and spread awareness to others. Also, I want us all to be old to really drive it home to those neuro- typicals who believe they understand autism better in anyone else that we are the ultimate experts. And we understand autism in ways that no one else can possibly can.

 One of the most important things for everyone in the autistic community to know how to do is self-allocate. I will go over this in more detail in a future chapter. It should go without saying that is a tool that carves our path to self-empowerment and control of our own destiny. Self-efficacy is something that autistic children should learn from an early age. We must never allow members of her community to be apologetic for being autistic.

One interesting person has memorized the basics of self-advocacy, they are ready to graduate to social political activism for the entire autistic community. I will also go into more detail on such ideas in a later chapter. Basically, we must make sure people the autistic community are aware of the political and activism tools out their disposal. We must help make sure members over community are aware of how they are being marginalized and how their community the daily subject of social political discussion whether they like to acknowledge it or not. A shocking number of autistics seem to be oblivious facts. Thing to consider is while autism can make it difficult to stand up for oneself against an oppressor, we all must learn to do so.

 This has been chapter 1 of my autism community manifesto. And I discussed basic folkways autistics should apply to themselves to get along with the community, how to make sure the community stays all-inclusive and intersectional, how people in the community should be proud aware of their own autism now they should learn how to self-advocate and eventually politically activate for the community. I hope you found it useful so far or at least provocative. Next chapter will discuss stuff out is the and social political activism in greater detail. Until then, this has been Charles McIntyre, power and peace to the community!

[the-breath-in-air]

My theory is that the "bullied nerd" is really a residual effect of a whole host of other (actual) marginalizations. The OP talks about neurodivergence. There's also stigmatized aspect of getting really into anything not typically associated with masculinity - so much of the bullying was misogynistic and homophobic. So "nerds" were bullied for not performing their privileged identities correctly - for being perceived as too similar to actually oppressed and marginalized people along a few axes.

The 1980's "nerd revenge" movies (and characters) ignored all that and presented the straight cis white boy nerd who was coded "weird" but never explicitly neuro-atypical, as a distinct category of people who were marginalized because they belonged to a subculture of "nerds" without any of the larger cultural context for what that means. Also, the 1990's saw heavy marketing of nerd thing to middle class white boys as a thing that made them special...and now here we are...

Straight white cis neurotypical man nerds actually thinking their an oppressed class while they perpetuate blatant ableism, homophobia, classism, misogyny and racism.

As the OP said, this masks the actual causes of and victims of bullying. PLUS it hides the ways that neurotypical, straight cis white boy nerd groups perpetuate bullying (and outright abuse) themselves.

Ive seen several posts saying that “no one gets bullied for being a nerd/geek anymore” but to be honest i dont think anyone ever was in the first place.  

Things like star wars and star trek, which are often thought of as “nerdy” or “geeky”, were huge with the general population even when they first came out.  Being intelligent and academically successful is a commonly admired and desired trait.  Media makes it seem like so many people were being bullied for liking geeky stuff or being smart, despite the these qualities being common and/or desirable.

But the thing is, people arent bullied for just for liking things or being smart.  Theyre bullied for liking things too much.  For knowing too much.  They fixate on things.  They “dont know when to shut up”. Theyre awkward. They don’t socialize normally. They dont fit in. They become a target and their interests or intelligence or whatever else become weapons that their harassers use against them.

This is the same exact shit that autistic kids, kids with ADHD, and other neurodivergent people are bullied for today.

The targets of bullying have not changed.  If anything, the portrayal of bullying in media (and in anti-bullying campaigns) is a misrepresentation that gives false ideas about the targets and perpetrators of such harassment and  does nothing but disguise the ableism that is at play behind the stereotypes.  

[rabbitindisguise]

"Not being wrong if you don't use these things" ohh, dear, you definitely need to reflect on how many implied rules are learned and employed and how difficult it can be for people with ADHD/autism/neuro-developmental disorders to use English. Just sarcasm alone, nevermind contronymes, etc. Those are "tone" things, too in the most literal sense if not a linguistic one. Also, we have the "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" sentence which is a headache of its own.

I'm not sure I even want to tackle the elitism, classism, and racism of "non-standard English doesn't count." I don't know why you think it doesn't, but from a descriptivist mindset, this is plainly how language is used, so non standard English definitely include the defining factors of English. I don't care if it's shitposts, feminine language like the word "like" used to mean something not seen in "standard" English, AAVE, or whatever. Language is crafted by the commonly used errors of the past variations of English. Which by the way, in case anyone's forgotten, was a commoner's language.

I might agree that any language is not better or worse than another, they're all just different, but pointing out those differences probably shouldn't require like. Wholesale opinions on qualities and stuff. In my opinion it's safer to be equally exasperated by all language.

When people go off about how English is the worst language, I just wanna point out a few things:

- Our future tense requires only one word (looking at you, Spanish)

- Words don’t change meanings depending on tone (Cantonese)

- We don’t live in some bizarre Beauty And The Beast world where we give inanimate objects genders (romance languages, German)

- Likewise, we don’t have have two different words for “they” because we don’t care whether “they” were male or female (Spanish, French)

- There’s no formal “you” because we don’t play mind games about whether or not we respect you (Spanish, German)

- We don’t alter the whole fucking language based on how much we respect you (Japanese)

- The letters and sounds might not be consistent, but at least we have letters, not just pictures (Mandarin)

- We don’t have a fucking stupid tense specifically for talking to two people because some idiot decided that a two-person tense was necessary (Arabic)

So yeah, I think we’re doing okay as a language