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Yeah I just wish they had gone into detail since this was a groundbreaking medical discovery

I wish this article talked about how they are treating it? They just said she is doing well

I would highly recommend you stop speaking for other autistic and ADHD people. If you think accommodations can help you with everything, that’s great. I’m not doubting that. But it’s ignorant as fuck to assume that your experience is the one true experience and you already know my entire life experience and autistic traits to be able to correct me like that.

Let other autistic and ADHD people speak for themselves. We are more than capable.

I mostly agree, except for the last part about marginalization. The idea you can always overcome whatever disability/disorder/whatever with hard work and the right mindset is not accurate at all. And that’s not you wanting to be a victim, it’s you advocating for what you need. Accommodations exist for everyone, they just cater to abled/neurotypical people instead. Once I finally admitted to myself I was disabled and stopped trying to live my life like I am 100% able bodied improved my life A LOT.

And disabled/chronically ill/neurodivergent people DO face a lot of discrimination regardless of if you want to admit it or not. We should be fighting for improvement in treatment, acknowledging people treat you like less of a person doesn’t mean you actually are less of a person. ESPECIALLY in the current political climate… once LGBT+ people are dehumanized sufficiently disabled people are going to be next.

I don’t disagree that neurodivergent people would have a way better time if people/society took them into consideration more. But I am low support needs and still consider it a disorder. My boyfriend has ADHD and agrees. While there are a lot of things that would be fixed by having sensory friendly environments for example, there are still a lot of things about being autistic that hinder me that I wish would go away regardless of what accommodations exist.

I knew this was going to be MA. I know exactly who owns that Ghostbusters car lol. Not sure about the Scooby Doo though

Keeping track of what to boycott became to burdensome, so I’m just kinda doing a universal boycott where I buy everything possible second hand.

Hobby Lobby is probably one of the biggest on my shitlist

I haven’t paid attention for a couple years, but the last time they “stopped” they just started donating to a charity they made to cover up that they are still donating to the same places. But they didn’t do it directly so it doesn’t count.

And the owners themselves are still donating to anti LGBT shit regardless, at least one of them has been funding an organization that has been assisting with putting out all these recent anti LGBT+ bills.

Ok now we are gonna have to fight irl

Send me your address

I actually agree with you that the hate is overblown. But in comparison to 1 and 3 it’s definitely not as good. I wouldn’t even say it’s a bad movie, it’s just kinda meh

Cars 1 and 3 are really good movies and you should watch them if you have not. Cars 3 is my favorite.

And I don’t even like cars

Yeah “just” got hacked 3 days ago lmao

I would consider a new dentist, and probably a sedation dentist if you have issues with numbing.

Depending on what you are having done, there is also laser dentistry. And my dentist has some special drill where he has done shallow cavities for me with no novacaine and I didn’t feel shit except the usual drilling/pressure feeling.

This dentist just sounds shitty. Yes you were tensing up but you already told them a bunch of times you were in pain. They should have had a plan in place that y’all had agreed upon for dealing with a situation where the lidocaine wears off. Or maybe schedule you at a time where there are no other patients so they could go as fast as possible with no interruptions. Maybe I am expecting too much here but my dentist is the bomb and would easily do that for someone.

Pet food. I have done a lot of research into the pet industry in general and there are a lot of things being sold for pets that are literally unsafe for them. Like cages that are too small, treats that aren’t safe for them, chew toys full of toxic shit they shouldn’t invest, food that is the equivalent of McDonald’s every day, etc

Don’t get me wrong, there’s good quality pet food you can get fairly cheap and bad quality pet food you can get that is very expensive. It comes down to research. But if you’re just grabbing whatever is cheapest is most likely setting you up for potential health issues down the line.

This is speaking as someone who has experienced this with both cats and rabbits. The cheapest food for rabbits is usually full of alfalfa and whatever else weird ass colorful shit they threw in there that is not healthy for adult rabbits. And cat food is usually too high in carbs, too high in salt, or both. Diabetes and kidney failure in cats fucking sucks, it’s not worth it.

We have good butter and cheap ass store brand butter and I alternate depending on how much you will be able to taste the butter in the recipe

Pretty similar experience to what others have mentioned, so mostly echoing what they said.

With a shutdown I “hit the wall” so to speak. I could have been fine when things started out but I have reached the point where whatever it is has built up and I have reached my limit of overstimulation. I will stop participating in conversation, if it’s really bad I won’t even move much or be paying attention.

Because I grew up with “you’re not autistic you’re just high maintenance” parents I learned to “save” my meltdowns. I may have short responses or act annoyed when I’m around others. Inside I am raging. And I know I’m raging for no reason aside from the environment, but I can’t help it. Which makes me more mad lol. Overstimulation is not just “wow it’s loud in here” it’s physically painful to me to continue to exist in that environment. Once I get home I rage cry.

Another thing that can make me shutdown or have meltdowns is plans changing, not only overstimulation. When I have plans it is like my entire life leading up to that point is built on the fact that I will be doing X at Y time. I have spent the time to mentally prepare myself to do X at Y time. If those things change, everything feels fucked up.

Recognizing when I am becoming overstimulated helps me a lot now that I actually understand what is happening. If I get to take a break and go for a walk or go somewhere quiet it usually prevents me from having a full on meltdown later. Also just… Admitting what is happening. Like “I am angry because the time changed from 3pm to 5pm and I was not mentally prepared for that.” But some situations are just too much and it ends up happening anyway.

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Still not worth using slurs