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Here is an older essay on @pittparents that is still relevant today. We hear our sons are either ASD or AGP when neither is the case if they are heterosexual. pittparents.com/p/think-my-son…

Why Therapy Stats Break People’s Brains

@MaryMcD78213092 @stellaomalley3 @joeroganhq Yes, the "good enough" mother. Psychology lost that idea in the quest for "perfection" when there is zero perfection because we are HUMANS.

@stellaomalley3 @joeroganhq Mothering is the sauce - good enough, not perfect. We used to know that intuitively but now doubt it.

When only 36% of psychology studies are replicable, it’s very difficult to trust any mention of studies. Who knows how each of these mothers behaved in childhood? Who knows if super loving during infancy is the magic sauce? @joeroganhq

1/4 Book tickets for Rethinking Youth Gender Medicine conference 5/6 July. buytickets.at/clinicaladviso… We'll be looking in detail at the proposed puberty blocker trial, with Professor Sallie Baxendale on the effects of puberty blockers on the adolescent brain.

So I have some good news at last. The @SocExistential has published my next article "It's OK to talk... just not in the SEA" which lays bare the censorship that is currently embedded in the therapeutic professions, including the Society for Existential Analysis. In the article I criticise @SocExistential for refusing to put forward my AGM Motion last year advising against the use of "gender identity affirming therapy" with those who are under 18. Kudos to Sohrab Honar, the editor of the Hermeneutic Circular (the SEA's magazine) for being brave enough to publish the criticism. Hopefully the Committee of the SEA reads it and subsequently reconsiders their position. @UKCP_Updates, @BACP and @BPSOfficial should all take note.

Friendly reminder that making whatever activist movement you’re a part of your entire identity is dangerous and will always turn you into a less intelligent person. You should have clear goals in mind that you want to help accomplish with your activism but also make sure you have hobbies, passions, and an identity outside of it so you can move on with your life once those goals are accomplished instead of having to jump to the next activist movement in order to have a sense of purpose.

Was this sissy hypno porn? Wonder what parents of guys who have TW themselves due to this say about their personality growing up? Any good research on effect of porn?

@TheRabbitHole They cut off for just not agreeing, that’s not poor behavior.

Most of Gen Z (60%) has cut someone off. 38% of Americans have reported going no contact with a friend or family member in the past year.

"Thore Langfeldt assisted in the organizing of a 2009 WPATH conference in Oslo that focused on gender identity and children." A reminder that Christina Richards and Meg John Barker also did a joint presentation at the Oslo conference called "The intersection of trans and non-monagamies". wpath.org/wp-content/upl… Richards went on to write the ethics guidelines for @BPSOfficial. x.com/i/status/18810… Meg John Barker went on to write the guidelines for @BACP. x.com/i/status/17957…

@jbvconnor I think for many of the ROGD - they consumed too much content influencing them that because they are not the typical male archetype they are really the opposite sex.

@jbvconnor I haven't yet delved into porn research, but Steven Hassan mentioned on insta that sissy hypno porn is very problematic, but the TRAs came after him. TW talk about porn usage in husbands. But yes, there is something wrong.

Ray has now blocked me after I posted this. It’s the typical pattern with trans-identified people. They know what they are doing is wrong but their minds refuse to accept it and when pressed to the edge with logic, they break. In Ray’s case, we have to give him some credit. He finally came to discard the absurd idea that he was actually the opposite sex (or as these people like to say, the opposite gender). He came to realize that he has an uncontrollable paraphilia (what he calls “kink”). He is now struggling with the morality of the “kink.” He knows it’s wrong but he can’t help himself and he does not know what to do.

@jbvconnor Paraphilia was a useful descriptor. 4. How much has porn influenced not only today’s males, but those in the past? 2/

@jbvconnor Lots of thoughts. 1. I hope RAW gets help for whatever is causing him to have an unstable identity. 2. I wonder how much is performance. 3. Creating the category of AGP causes some to justify their behavior and the fact that sexologists affirmed their desire detrimental. 1/

@Tararrrdee @buttonslives @6WingsManyEyes @sbkaufman Where did you get that info? You should learn more about her studies. So much conflation with HSP and ASD. Sad people are unable to parse nuances and details.

@George4Tea @buttonslives @6WingsManyEyes @sbkaufman She wrote the book after observing her two nieces, who were later diagnosed as autistic!

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-…

@SwipeWright That's sweet! Makes of for calling her weird. :-)

When Christina first started writing professionally, she would send me drafts of her articles to edit, and I would make lots of edits and comments. Over time, my edits and comments became increasingly sparse. Today, I might offer only a few word-choice suggestions. She occasionally accuses me of becoming increasingly lazy when editing her work, but the truth is that she has quickly become a much better writer than I am, and I’m mostly just trying not to get in her way.

@sven_scharpen I don’t know what to say about the Rx - sounds 😞

@George4Tea It’s definitely mandated. My parents were also forced by doctors to prescribe me Zoloft & Risperdal when I was just 5 years old.

This is very different from the male autistic experience of being diagnosed early and forced into a broken system that claims to be the only way forward for an autistic toddler. This can sometimes even happen to children that aren’t even autistic. Women deserve to know the truth behind whatever they may be struggling with, and be given REAL help & support that won’t coerce them into believing a certain way if they need it. The entire “neurodiversity” narrative and the movement behind it is the biggest joke I’ve ever seen, and they play a huge role in so many people being needlessly harmed and/or forgotten. It’s time we start treating autism as the disability that it is, give ONLY the necessary support, and make sure autistic people can have the best quality of life possible.

@sven_scharpen I suppose some of that is also what school district you are in as some of it is state mandated.

@George4Tea I’m talking about the school & medical systems. They’re extremely corrupt and driven by profit & power rather than children’s best interests.

@_cl_knox_ @6WingsManyEyes @buttonslives davidsongifted.org/gifted-blog/gi…

@6WingsManyEyes @buttonslives Yeah, i have an allegedly high IQ etc and it is supposed to be a separate form of neuro divergence, just not a polite one. I took one of those autism diagnostic tests that seemed more serious than an internet quiz and I didn't seem to have autism.

@6WingsManyEyes @buttonslives It’s not so much overlap but a differentiation. davidsongifted.org/gifted-blog/gi…

@buttonslives My hypothesis is that high IQ (gifted) people (especially women) fall into this trap. There’s some over lap between gifted traits and autism. And since the woke had marginalized gifted people, they don’t understand their quirks

@Elsebeth_Is @KShabby16334956 My Kdg son had 2 ASD in his class with a shared aid. My 3rd grade son had 1 w/ aid and 2 w/o.

@Elsebeth_Is @KShabby16334956 What is the send system? Schools in the US are not uniform, it depends on the state. In our city back in the early 2k, ASD were mainstreamed into school. In our city, each neighborhood school was a magnet for certain disabilities - our neighborhood school was for ASD kids. 1/

Insightful post, i suppose. Both my girls were diagnosed very young, 3 1/2 and 2, on the NHS by a multidisciplinary team and a paediatrician. One of them nearly fell into the trans trap in 2020 because of lockdown but i managed to save her from it. Her hatred of her developing-