Autism

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40823048

Hello everyone! I posted about a month or so ago about a new website for us. I decided to add an old school BB forum since Reddit has become unusable due to censorship. We have Lemmy, and it’s awesome! We simply need an exclusive area for us that are ND.

It’s ready for use while I tweak things. I’m also still working on the main website thedigitalaspie.com

I’m also still looking for writers/contributors and now moderators for the forum.

There is a dedicated board on the forum for suggestions and requests also.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38445203

I just launched a website for us all. The reason I created it is because good quality and relevant websites FOR us are hard to find. I mean, there are organization-owned websites that push political agendas, but ugh. I felt like there is a need for this.

I’m also looking for contributors! I want this website to have voices from all over the world. This is not my blog, I want it to be a valuable resource.

Please feel free to check it out, and give feedback on how it can be improved.

The link: https://www.thedigitalaspie.com/

The “aspie” part of the website name was chosen because it sounds less clinical or rather more casual/friendly. Please know that no offense is meant.

My wife and I are sitting here watching TV when I have the urge to blurt out, “MAMBO NUMBER FIVE!”

She immediately starts singing the song!

Anyone else doing ridiculous stuff unmasked at home?

If you do find yourself making the comparison then you should seek a therapist that has experience with ASD.

I used to think i only told people about my autism in order to feel more comfortable or trusting. I suppose that’s part of it but i’ve begun to realize that the trust is what encourages me to share.

I want to give them tools to understand our communication with less friction.

Obviously I must continue to use my own tools to better understand the people around me but if i can avoid causing suffering before it happens ill do that too.

The Lobotomy 2.0.

Assholes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/421421

Transcript from the post:

I've read here and there about how autistic people aren't able to recognise social hierarchies. Obviously I can't speak for everyone, but in my experience it's not that I haven't been able to recognise them, it's that I don't respect them and I don't care (inverted smiley face)

Great, more potential "diverse" imperialists to deal with.

Politics is full of nuance and contextual information; so struggling with interpreting social contexts can lead to autistic people being gullible.

So much for "social democracies", they may as well just be capitalist countries.

Once again, capitalist try to eliminate autistics rather than help them.

Welp, I'll make sure to dodge therapies in the future.

Every capitalist country ever.

Sigh.

I know this is the autism community but as someone with ASD and ADHD, I thought people here might appreciate this video. There tends to be an overlap between the two.

So it means that the diagnosis Autism really targets people whose brains have developed differently from the average person.

Now the eugenicists are going to try to edit the progenitor cells. I guess it's time to prepare for a large-scale attempt at eugenics.

U.S legal system at its finest: "You aren't actually harmful to children; but you downloaded child porn and that's all that matters! You are sentenced to be a sex offender… even though the sex offender registry had never worked and failed to complete any of its goals.

What struck me about Augustus’ comments was that it is completely normal to start dating in your early twenties. I started dating in my early twenties, for one, and so have many of my friends, both disabled and temporarily non-disabled.

1. What are their sources? (Other than anecdotal evidence.)
2. "Normal" is an alienating term; not everyone will receive an average expectation.
3. Most incels have not gotten a relationship or had sex. That is the definition of involuntary celibate.
4. Who are the author's friends and what are their material conditions? There could be different material conditions that separate Augustus from them.

• They could be female (teens can get dates too) humans who are more likely to get dates.
• The author could have lived in a place accepting of neurodiversity.

What is clear is that the fight against incels and their ideology must include a fight for comprehensive sex education for all students

Unlike in the old Soviet Union…

The Soviet Union had discovered autism (although as a different term) in 1926;^[Sukhareva-Prior to Asperger and Kanner] the Soviet Union also cared for autistic people.

Because of the lack of state resources going into treating autistic people, many parents of autistic children have to rely on “NGO’s” (they are unable to register as such, but are NGO’s according to the international interpretation of such a term). [5] These NGO’s are often rather inadequate: although many claim that they use ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis), very few professionals working for these organizations have received formal training in ‘‘real’’ ABA principles and techniques. [6] Those organisations that do, such as the Stars and Rain institute in Beijing, are costly. Stars and Rain offers a 10-week programme in ABA, but the cost of the treatment is 3000 yuan (about $361.) with families being responsible for travel and accommodations on top of this. For most families in China, this is too much. [7]

Sigh... Looks like it's those ABA worshipers again.

I haven't been able to figure how sensory traits (like hypersensitivities, hyposensitivity, and sensory triggers) are formed or if they change. I tried searching online; but I keep coming up empty.

I guess science hasn't been able to figure that out yet.

Wait, I already posted about this topic... Oh well, this post is much more elaborate on my opinion anyway.

Deepfakes can generally be detected by analyzing the movement of the deepfake,^[Deepfake Detection Techniques: A Review]^[Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI] or general sensory details.

However, some traits of autism conflict, while others align, with those methods. I think it should be important to have a discussion about autistic people and deepfakes.

Sensory overload

Sensory overload could be a problem when analyzing a Deepfake; it could result in a potentially large delay in deepfake verification.

• If an autistic person were to get sensory overload from the facial movement of a deepfake, it could be difficult to discern multiple deepfakes from facial movement.

• If an autistic person were to get sensory overload from sunlight, then the autistic person would not be able to discern fake sunlight in deepfake videos well.

Also the autistic person could only be able to verify few videos during recovery or burnout (if it occurs).

Nonverbal communication deficits.

The inability to perceive nonverbal cues means that relying on the deepfaked person's body cues to detect deepfakes becomes less reliable. (e.g Using real videos of Zelenskky or Tom Cruise to detect deepfakes of them.)

Hypersensitivities

Hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli could be an advantage or disadvantage in detecting deepfakes; hypersensitivities include an increased sensitivity sensory stimuli, which can be helpful in determining if the medium is believable enough to be verified as a real video. Deepfakes rely on creating believable media to trick the viewers.

• A hypersensitivity to light could result in an ability to easier detect unnatural light simulations.
• A hypersensitivity to movements can result in the autistic person detecting unrealistic body movements easier.
• A hypersensitivity to sight (or seeing textures) can result in the autistic person detecting unrealistic textures easier.

However, these hypersensitivities could also result in an increased probability of receiving sensory overload, which could reduce the ability to discern deepfakes for a time period.

I've been thinking about banning those "aww" posts for some time. You know those posts flared with "aww" on r/autism? I like those posts, but they unnecessarily clutter up the subreddit; and I think I would prefer this community to be a more serious discussion platform.

Also I'm going to change a term in rule 1: 'related' to 'relevant'. Relevancy is a more definition to my idea of rule 1.

I should really make a bot account that automatically posts news articles from this website.