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unfortunate, but every failure of a new experimental surgery is one step closer to success. lets just hope they can learn what went wrong, so they can prevent it in the future.

not defending those doctors in any way as they should keep up to date in their medical training, but we didn't even really have a proper definition of autism until ~1994 when the dsm-4 was released and the name "Autism Spectrum Disorder" wasn't used until the DSM-5 came out in 2013. The DSM-5 it's self isn't even a great definition as experts say that it's definition excludes more older people and women than the DSM-4 did.

this means that therapists who have not kept up with their learning, and have been practicing for decades may not have been told ANYTHING about autism, and the ones who stopped their learning 11+ years ago may have been trained on incorrect/bad information.

Mental health professionals are far and few between, are prohibitively expensive to see, and in many cases are working with an outdated education which leaves them unprepared to diagnose/treat certain conditions. That last point is really coming to light in the Autism/ADHD crowd, where if their therapist even knows/recognizes it (quite often people get misdiagnosed with anxiety, depression, bipolar, etc.) their outdated training may end up being harmful. With people who have these sharing not only their experiences, but also successful ways to handle and cope with their conditions, teens are able to get the help that is largely not available to them. That and the therapists that genuinely want to help as many people as possible are giving generalized advice on apps such as tiktok.

oddly enough, this tiktok explains many of these points and more better than I can

A country is supposed to provide 4 things to it's citizens, and the united states are failing on all 4.

1. food: “We are in danger of running out of food,” said Vince Hall, Feeding America’s chief government relations officer. “We are doing everything we can to avert a major hunger crisis.

2. safe to drink water: Nearly half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with ‘forever chemicals,’ government study finds

3. shelter: Homelessness rates have been climbing nationally by about 6% every year since 2017, the alliance said.

4. safety: The record 48,830 total gun deaths in 2021 reflect a 23% increase since 2019

additionally, nearly every fundamental system (education, healthcare, insurance, car-dependent city designs, etc.) within the united states is designed to take everything away (or restrict access to everything) from it's citizens through poverty, thus making the above problems exponentially worse.

What is there to fight for?

as we hear more politicians talk about universal basic income, it's important to remember, Monopoly has a universal basic income in it (passing GO). it's better than not having it, but capitalism is still unsustainable, even with UBI.

Hay babe, wake up! It's time to commit gay war crimes.

that's assuming he still has a country in 2027

me want drink

oh cool, so the glass on phone screens will become ~~tougher~~ thinner?

Canada wrote half of the Geneva convention with blood.