Mrfiddles @ Mrfiddles @feddit.nl Posts 0Comments 26Joined 5 mo. ago
You have to be very careful with this. Neurodivergence is a spectrum and while some of the symptomatic behaviors are definitely mild things that society should probably just learn to accept and accommodate-- other cause real damage and make it impossible for the patient to live a satisfying life.
This is especially true with ASD, where the "highest" functioning patients might just be harmlessly quirky, but other patients with the same diagnosis on paper (important for insurance and legislation) aren't able to express themselves and might not even be potty trained, or able to dress themselves.
Saying that we "shouldn't try to change people with Autism, society should just adapt" provides cover for politicians and health insurance companies to cut the very expensive therapies that help mold young children and enable them to achieve what they want out of life.
The fact is that we all have to change a little to accommodate society. Humans don't spring from the womb talking, wearing clothes, and using the toilet. Society isn't going to adapt to allowing my wife's patient who likes to rip off all of their clothes and masturbate at the grocery store to do so. And now, because of the online discourse of "Neurodivergence isn't a mental illness", politicians are trying to cut my wife's funding. After all, why would you spend tens of thousands of euros per child if their illness isn't even real?
I'm in a university town, so it's probably more of a problem here 😅
Unless you're in the Netherlands, where 2/3rds of the bikes will have the shitty "this is legally a light" LEDs from the convenience shops... Oh, and 2/3rds of those will be either out of battery, or installed facing the wrong way.
Good that the backend validated it, but why in god's name would you ever lower the maximum password length?!?
Where do you think food comes from that having fewer workers means more food for everyone?
At least the bad take is getting downvoted? 😅