Constantin Semenov

@LehnEconomics @buttonslives Sorry to hear that. However, this is not controversial. You have Asperger. Your son has autism. Social awkwardness and honesty is not disability. Inability to talk or communicate is.

@semi_const @buttonslives That’s bullshit. I finished high school in 3 years. It didn’t stop the social awkwardness, over honesty, pattern recognition, and my son is severely disabled. It’s a spectrum of disability, all with related genetic markers. It’s not many dissimilar unmatched conditions

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-…

@jasonbourne4206 @buttonslives Yes, it does. We don't call hives level 1 skin cancer. And there is a good range of reasons why we don't do that.

@semi_const @buttonslives They just changed it to level 1,2 and 3 autism. Evidence seems to suggest he didn't know what was going on but he sent a lot of children to the Nazis euthanasia clinic. Does it make that much difference if it's called level 1 autism or Asperger's?

@blz314 @buttonslives It's not about the association with Nazi - just give it a different name. We're doing much more damage by erasing the classification. Today when somebody is called autistic it means absolutely nothing.

@semi_const @buttonslives I spent the first several years post-diagnosis knowing my condition as Asperger's. I don't totally run away from that label nowadays, but I get why it's problematic (the actual Dr. Asperger had some level of involvement with euthanizing disabled children during the Nazi era).

@lontano_da_qui @buttonslives "Melting" is not a diagnostic criteria. Autism is a learning disability that prevents kids from mastering important developmental milestones, such as speech, and modeling social interactions. It does not make much sense if you go beyond that. We can as well call everyone autistic

100% not true. I have worked with autistic kids in schools, at home & in clinics, and between schools “promoting” undeserving kids to graduation and many autistic kids’ ability to “mask” in select public situations (then completely melting down outside of them) it’s completely possible for an ASD-1 or ASD-2 kid to finish regular school.

@cremieuxrecueil Yeah, he also perfectly understands how to apply chemistry in real life, e.g., use bleach for COVID treatment. Such a smart mate.

Trump seems to have pretty good instincts for understanding medicines, vaccines, etc. For example, here he's saying he's surprised to hear antidepressants don't work that well. And he's right, because they are extremely effective. Even if you halved their effects they would be.

@MeemsAz @BrianAtlas @Suffragent_ I somewhat agree with this. However, it is safe to say that what today is called feminism is actually radical feminism. And pathological radical ideas just slightly less extreme than above today are completely normalized and presented as healthy feminism.

@BrianAtlas @Suffragent_ Generalizing about half the population based on extreme quotes does not help anyone. Every person deserves to be treated as an individual, not as a target. Strengthening family and community requires us to speak with more care and respect for the dignity of all citizens.

DO NOT EVER let them tell you feminism is about "equality". It's a hate movement. Feminism is anti-male. Feminism is anti-family. Feminism is cancer. We must reject and fight feminism!

@econcallum This proves that you don't really need AI to do slop science and slop journalism.

Important new Fed paper on coding employment federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/f…

@jayvanbavel That's maybe not a bad thing? How else do we reform institutions if everybody lives in idealistic delusion? The idea that vanilla democracy is good for us simply because it is based on this sacred ritual of voting is probably one of the most damaging cultural assumptions.

Spending lots of time on social media is associated with less support for democracy. Other research has linked it to distrust of democratic institutions primarily through narratives that attack the integrity of institutions nature.com/articles/s4156…

@arcticsrock @BritainElects Before Trump's victory many moderates would vote for Reform seeing that as a lesser evil. But after what happened in the US, many will vote for any as they say "degenerates" just to avoid voting for sociopaths and fascists. If the only alternative is Greens, then Greens it is.

@BritainElects Bollocks. Not 1 single person who would vote reform would vote for this loon show that want open borders etc Not a chance in hell. Everything is polar opposite

Ben Walker: There is growing evidence the Greens are taking Reform votes newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

@jwestonharvey @PabloSt981 @sentientist It is very peculiar that you formulated this as "human life". The issue is that right wing narrative doesn't go any farther than life of European/American White people. Your formulation gives away subconscious assumption that the rest are not even humans.

@PabloSt981 @sentientist Supposedly it supports the dangerous right wing narrative that human life is sacred and meaningful or something

@sentientist These crusades are painful to watch. BPD is no joke, and everything that happened to her was likely amplified if not directly caused by that. People with BPD attract trouble like a magnet. Getting diagnosed at 13 likely = severe case. Poor soul.

@Panegyrick @cremieuxrecueil I think you're lying to us and at very least omitting some important details. Unless maybe you literally lived on street, in which case it proves the point of the charts above being complete nonsense. This is not what honest people describe with a word "prosperity".

@semi_const @cremieuxrecueil I survived on less than $20/day in NYC and now I survive on a lot more. Thanks capitalism!

Capitalism creates prosperity

@Panegyrick @cremieuxrecueil I wonder if any pro-capitalists actually tried surviving on $20 per day in the UK?

@cremieuxrecueil anti-capitalists genuinely believe that equality is better than prosperity

@EPPCdc And almost nobody knows how to ride a horse these days. We urgently need a bill to fix that.

"A new model bill from the Ethics and Public Policy Center aims at getting kids to read again. Even better, it sets its sights on the best type of reading material a kid could have: real books." thefederalist.com/2026/03/16/som…

@PhilipScheffers @JustBotBecky Patriarchy is who is in charge of a family and holds dominant positions in society. It's difficult to deny we had and still have it. The reality of blatant anti-male discrimination is actually created by men themselves, paradoxically.

@JustBotBecky Bingo. Rudman and Goodwin's 2004 research in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology demonstrates that patriarchy is literally impossible. Men simply don't have the required in-group bias for it.

No, it's hypocrisy and double standards. Treat others the way you want them to treat you, regardless of how they treat you. The patriarchy is a myth. Men aren't in charge, RICH people are in charge, which are men AND women. Because if men were in charge or had privilege, they wouldn't make it so courts would favor mothers, they wouldn't have to pay child support, they wouldn't be forced to be drafted, there would be shelters for men, etc.. There's alot of proof that the patriarchy is a myth created by women to scare gullible people like yourself.

@AntiFemGrandma @TheTinMenBlog Yes, also "threatened to hurt themselves" proportion is something that should make everyone very skeptical. It's a typical women abuse tool, which is uncharacteristic for men. Which suggest that the whole survey is designed to be highly biased.

@TheTinMenBlog I know for a fact that the proportions here should be reversed. Also, as noted by others, in the last 9 years women were almost harassed in reporting abuses to compensate for the new-found abuses on men awareness.

Every few years, the CDC releases their National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS); which is arguably America’s largest, and highest quality survey on intimate partner violence. In the previous release, from 2015/16, and in every NISVS published prior (2010, 2010-12, and 2015), the data revealed near gender parity in victimisation of intimate partner violence; a shocking, and deeply unpopular finding, that you will have seen on TheTinMen. But in the new survey, released just a few weeks ago, things have changed; with the cumulative victims of those who experienced sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner, shifting from near 50:50, to become 70:30, in favour of women...

@KirkegaardEmil Yeah, it's tough to be a patriot nowadays. Filthy refugees come to your house from a country you helped ruining, and you can't even put them into a gas chamber thanks to libtard part of the population. What a mess.

Every refugee story be like.

@j_kalla @TheArgumentMag We at least need to know what distribution inside these brackets looks like to make any meaningful conclusions. 10 transaction in a year - it's basically telling us that nobody is really using these services.

Today in @TheArgumentMag, Milan Singh and I do a deep dive into the data on who is ordering food delivery. theargumentmag.com/p/whos-really-…

@TomHCalver This is highly misleading. The way this thing works is mostly selection and then by providing people prestigious credentials that give them access to better paying jobs.

This week's column: choose your university wisely Post-1992 providers have been rapidly expanding business, law and computing courses. Yet the returns for students 5 years after graduating from these courses have, to date, been woeful 1/4