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@buttonslives @NoNonsenseND So your argument is “I’m autistic but not autistic enough for a label?” Wild.

@NoNonsenseND I go back and forth on this, but I can’t honestly say I was misdiagnosed. I met the criteria. But I don’t believe “high-functioning autism,” as it is currently understood, is a meaningful diagnosis anymore. Autism should be reserved for people with significant impairment.

I thought I was autistic. I was wrong. I was 30 in 2019 when stories of women discovering they were autistic all along began appearing everywhere. They popularized a newer understanding of autism, with its own “female presentation.” It was framed as a scientific correction to a historical wrong against women, the kind of narrative the press finds irresistible. Like so many women, I felt immense relief when I was formally diagnosed. It offered an explanation for the mental health crises of my youth and the daily realities of my adult life. Then I spent a year in the online autism community. What I saw there, especially the way activists treated parents of severely impaired children, turned me into a critic of neurodiversity. But it was becoming a journalist in 2022, after discovering detransitioners’ stories, that forced me to question narratives about identity and diagnosis, including my own. Journalism also required the social skills autism says I should have lacked. From there, the rest unraveled: many traits I had come to associate with autism are not uncommon in the general population, but through the “female autism” framework, they looked like a meaningful pattern. I don’t think my story is unique. The same incentives that kept my diagnosis intact may also help explain why so many women are entering the autism category in adulthood. Read my first article for @thefp: thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-…

@PopBase I see you, lesbians, keep up the good work!

Today is National Lesbian Visibility Day.

@lanabeesfw Ya, but most of the time they ignore me haha, but I don't mind tbh cause I mean it and I'm gonna keep doing it.

Yes and i always say it first and they always reciprocate with this gentle surprise and then we say it to each other forever

@supadude5000 @ILucasK Are you fucking stupid? The conversation is a correct dig at Blizzard's clear use of AI in QA and development, which has caused one of the buggiest and worst patches in it's 20+ year history. At what fucking point did I bring up generative AI art? Moron.

@Arilyn_Moon @ILucasK Bro thinks AI that checks for bugs and runs around to test boundaries is the same as generative AI art that we all hate. Point and laugh. Lmao

Blizzard / Microsoft: “we will enhance our WoW with AIs to make our work faster and create more fun contents. But you’ll see us screw up this Midnight expansion” Meanwhile Mr Prime: “hi I am Mr Prime. I was abandoned in the airport by my boss, and I created math boss strategy. Watch me change all of these gameplay design and make it good without needing AI”

@suchnerve ???why you call me out like this?

“I don’t remember my childhood.” Lemme guess, you have allergies + you poop weird + you sleep weird + you feel dizzy when you stand up quickly + you’re weirdly sensitive to certain smells/sounds/tastes/textures + you struggle to do stuff you WANT to do + you’re often sad/nervous?

@pierbiwierbi Can I get some tips?

pov: ur in bed with an ascendant ranked deadlock player <33

Shipping companies say the Strait of Hormuz is closed. An elderly convict who regularly shits himself in public says it's open. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

@cheersitskatie Honestly I think now is really the time to be angry at Blizzard. Not at the people who work extremely hard to make our favorite game, at Blizzard/MS. This patch is the result of layoffs, increased workloads, and cutting corners for profits. I can only imagine how bad it is there.

this is how world of warcraft players act

@RepLuna @hasanthehun is right, when you steal from the poor you get rich, when you steal from the wealthy you go to jail. Either release him or arrest them all.

Maybe not a popular take but I am calling for this guy to be pardoned. Unless the DOJ plans on going after all the crooks in congress currently insider trading, this is simply skewed justice. There is no “justice” when guys like this get the book thrown at him yet members are illegally profiting every day. I don’t agree with what he did and he should be required to disgorge all the profits however, unless the DOJ plans on doing Congress next, this is not justice.

@satyanadella Have you ever thought about becoming a moral person?

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@cenkuygur @TuckerCarlson So just to sum up what your saying here, you are happy to welcome Tucker fucking Carlson, a man who has manufactured more hate than most towards Muslims across the world, but anyone who "lacks grace" towards that man is not your ally? Do you hear yourself?

I’m a little disgusted by the lack of grace some people on our side are showing people like @TuckerCarlson for not only opposing Trump but apologizing for supporting him. They definitely don’t speak for Muslim-Americans, who are grateful for our new allies. The humanity Tucker, @FmrRepMTG, @RepThomasMassie and others have shown as they fought to help children in Gaza, and to stop this war, and stop Israel’s genocide, has been amazing and appreciated. If some pundits on the left demand we condemn people who have shown millions of our fellow Americans on the right that we deserve compassion too, my answer is a firm no. Maybe some elite liberals have enough privilege to have the genocide and the wars on Gaza, Lebanon and Iran as lower priorities for themselves, but we don’t have that luxury. This is a matter of life and death. We don’t have time for partisan games in serious times like this. And as an American, I care deeply about American sovereignty. And if you think Israel hasn’t robbed us of our sovereignty or that it’s not that important, then you’re no ally of mine. In my opinion, these figures on the right have been heroic in their fight against the war. Either do better than them or have the decency not to criticize someone fighting harder than you.

@jdotb I mean the reality is that this is what layoff after layoff while increasing content frequency looks like.

honestly the more patches I see from blizz in midnight with turbo broken shit, the more I swing from angry bewilderment to grudging admiration that these wild motherfuckers imagined they could do 8 week content releases AND overhaul addons simultaneously shit goes crazy 🫡

Nobody is worth respecting or forgiving if it took them (or their clearly calculated persona) this long to acknowledge Trump is a conman. They’re welcome to exist in the world and pursue their dreams but the insistence of kumbaya-ing with every regretful trump voter is pathetic

@cenkuygur @TuckerCarlson I dunno, maybe he could stop being a hateful bigot too? Wtf do you mean, lmao? He's not on your side dude, unless...

Everyone rejecting @TuckerCarlson's apology for backing Trump - what the fuck else do you want? If you don't think it's good enough that he rejected Trump and joined anti-war, anti-genocide side, you're a bit of an asshole. You don't speak for any of us who'd like to end the war.

@JesseCox @james_gammell I mean, I agree with you, but that stance is inherently political. You called for a political solution to the problem as well, the redistribution of wealth after a certain asset amount, like...what?

@james_gammell Respectfully, I don't believe anyone should have the monetary power to influence the world to a degree that hurts the VAST VAST majority of people. I don't believe that's politics, but call it what you will.

If you think me saying billionaires are bad = politics... it only proves my point about the problem with Billionaires. They are buying our country and turning us on each other.

@KyleXekyl @JesseCox "Free thinker" but licks billionaire boots, lmao.

@JesseCox None of your problems are because someone else has too much. If billionaires didn't exist your life wouldn't be better.

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@Newsweek Do you think he wrote it while he was drunk?

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