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 Topic: Time to stand up against anti-cure |
BokeKaeru
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 Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 11:34 pm Subject: Time to stand up against anti-cure |
| You seem to not be getting the point. "You'll realize as time goes on" sounds a LOT like you'll telling me like I'll understand something too complex for my wee little brain when I'm older and wiser ... |
| Topic: Time to stand up against anti-cure |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 163
Views: 11016
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 4:48 am Subject: Time to stand up against anti-cure |
| I specifically pointed out the wording I found to be condescending - the "you'll understand as time goes on" language, which is very patronizing. I would have still disagreed with your point if you h ... |
| Topic: Time to stand up against anti-cure |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 163
Views: 11016
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 3:54 am Subject: Time to stand up against anti-cure |
| I think damage is done to those of certain views for seeking attention certain ways. You will realize as time goes on how different people with autism are from one another based on type groups. The au ... |
| Topic: Time to stand up against anti-cure |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 163
Views: 11016
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 3:57 am Subject: Time to stand up against anti-cure |
| If the mainstream dialogue about cure was about treatment - speech therapy, social skills classes, motor skills training and all that - I think that most people in both the current "anti-cure" and "pr ... |
| Topic: Does autism need a It Gets Better campaign? |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 23
Views: 5718
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:02 am Subject: Does autism need a It Gets Better campaign? |
| It seems a lot - not nearly all, but a good number - of people on the spectrum's problems stem from public ignorance and stigma. We learn to value ourselves less, to lower our expectations, to questi ... |
| Topic: Why are a lot of women on here so hypocritical??? |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 186
Views: 12120
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Forum: Love and Dating Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:37 am Subject: Re: Why are a lot of women on here so hypocritical??? |
| Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "The woman's place is in the home", nor do I have any problem with having a boss who's female. The point is she would've known it would make me undesirable to other ... |
| Topic: American Children Tortured |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 55
Views: 5439
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 1:53 am Subject: American Children Tortured |
| About the electric shock level - the JRC has revised its GED three times (they are now on GED-IV) to make it more painful. Just to be clear, this means that they have shocked people who are sent ther ... |
| Topic: I'm kind of offended by The Autistic Pride movements |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 59
Views: 15288
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:03 am Subject: I'm kind of offended by The Autistic Pride movements |
| Please go read about the use of aversives like electric skin shock on autistic people at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Read about the use of restraint and seclusion, which often leads to serious injury ... |
| Topic: Aspie teen arrested for Sitting While Black |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 69
Views: 10293
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:02 pm Subject: Aspie teen arrested for Sitting While Black |
| Jeez, this is awful. :\ I really hope that he and his family can find an excellent legal team to get him off the hook, and then sue the pants off the police department and/or the city (to say nothin ... |
| Topic: Good science fiction and fantasy books? |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 46
Views: 5688
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Forum: Women's Discussion Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:23 pm Subject: Good science fiction and fantasy books? |
| I second Discworld and Temeraire. I'd also recommend A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, if you're into big medieval (low) fantasy epics with lots of characters. |
| Topic: Is there even a point to living if you're ugly? |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 173
Views: 55053
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Forum: Women's Discussion Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:14 pm Subject: Is there even a point to living if you're ugly? |
I can say from experience that life can be worth living as a woman that the mainstream culture would consider "ugly."
I've got a couple facial deformities and, depending on how you count it, 7 or 8 ... |
| Topic: Today's college students lack empathy? |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 23
Views: 1824
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 10:31 pm Subject: Today's college students lack empathy? |
| Hmm. I answered "yes" to a lot of the questions about feeling bad about people who are suffering, but I had a hard time with the questions asking about whether I can see other people's point of view ... |
| Topic: We Shouldn't be Offended by Ppl. Saying Autism is a Illness |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 17
Views: 1659
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 10:09 pm Subject: We Shouldn't be Offended by Ppl. Saying Autism is a Illness |
Everyone has a right to their opinion, but that does not preclude other people from questioning their opinion, and hopefully helping them to refine it if it is based on inaccuracies or biases.
I am ... |
| Topic: Autistic boy, 10, handcuffed by police during anxiety attack |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 27
Views: 3753
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 12:14 am Subject: Autistic boy, 10, handcuffed by police during anxiety attack |
| Okay, I've been reading about two of these cases today, and in both cases people are saying that the parents of the kids are to blame for these sorts of incidents for even trying to mainstream their k ... |
| Topic: 13 year old autistic boy arrested for meltdown |
BokeKaeru
Replies: 36
Views: 4368
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 7:35 pm Subject: 13 year old autistic boy arrested for meltdown |
| As if the incident weren't disgusting enough, the comments on the article were absolutely sickening. No wonder more regular human rights abuses against the disabled like those that occur at the JRC o ... |
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