Bernie Luckily Does It

I just want to stop as much human suffering as possible. I don't think that's too much to ask. #ActuallyAutistic

Immigration is a human right!
Trans rights are human rights!

Profile picture: A much younger Bernie Sanders picking up trash in a public park. Honestly I keep it around mostly so that people who knew me from the other site recognize me.

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2026-04-10 19:57:00 UTC

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To the right kind of person, you won't be too much. You'll just be abundantly wonderful.

2026-03-17 01:04:39 UTC

It would be hilarious if the rest of the world reopened the Strait of Hormuz and then didn't allow any US ships or ships traveling to the US to go through.
#uspol #worldpol

2025-12-22 20:33:37 UTC

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I've seen some people associated with TBS immediately respond to every single piece of criticism, no matter how mild, respectful, or obviously valid with ad-hom accusations of racism. This makes me highly doubt those people accuse others of racism in good faith. It's pretty obvious that they just use those accusations as a general purpose weapon.
That said, there are a few people associated with TBS from whom I'd take an accusation of racism very seriously.

2025-12-06 23:15:45 UTC

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Abolishing the EU won't keep him from being tried by The Hague.

2025-11-19 17:21:00 UTC

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That's horrifying! I can't imagine what they were thinking.

2025-11-19 14:29:46 UTC

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Never said to me seriously, but said to a lot of people my age: "Don't cry or I'll give you something to cry about."

2025-10-22 20:02:12 UTC

This was entirely predictable.
https://www.them.us/story/laker-jackson-gender-trans-sports-arizona-eastmark-high

2025-08-02 22:25:33 UTC

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I was just looking at that "backed by the full faith and credit" line at my bank and thinking that wasn't so reassuring anymore.

2025-08-02 15:48:25 UTC

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I think Americans read too much into Duverger's law. It doesn't require there to only be two parties on the national level. There are a lot of countries with FPTP that elect more than two parties to the legislature on a regular basis.

2025-07-19 17:54:04 UTC

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"empirical, mathematical proof" is *chef's kiss*.

2025-07-13 22:53:49 UTC

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I just realized that by releasing the instructions that made grok "accidentally" go MechaHitler they're giving their users a way to re-enable that behavior if they want it.

2025-07-05 14:56:33 UTC

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Immigration is a human right.

2025-07-04 03:42:15 UTC

When I decided in 6th Grade that I wanted to live in historically significant times, THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT!
#uspol

2025-06-30 23:14:19 UTC

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This is way cooler than Centralia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia%2C_Pennsylvania

2025-06-11 14:51:42 UTC

Immigration for political reasons is a human right.
Immigration for social reasons is a human right.
Immigration for safety reasons is a human right.
Immigration for economic reasons is a human right.
Immigration is a human right.

2025-05-17 15:52:33 UTC

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That's not a justification for committing genocide and you know it. Two wrongs don't make a right. You should have learned that in kindergarten.

2025-05-01 23:35:38 UTC

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I am so not looking forward to getting black market vaccines from civilized countries.

2025-04-30 16:14:25 UTC

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This brings back bad memories of Driver's Ed.

2025-04-23 22:33:52 UTC

When I was a kid growing up I sometimes thought about what I'd do if fascism came to my country. The thought that maybe my children and I would be some of their first targets really never occurred to me.
#ActuallyAutistic #uspol

2025-03-13 02:08:37 UTC

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It looks so much nicer from above than at ground level.

2025-02-15 19:31:23 UTC

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I'd rather see his wealth redistributed to his victims.

2025-02-06 17:28:07 UTC

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I never thought I'd live to see the day where the Paperwork Reduction Act did anything other than generate paperwork about complying with the Paperwork Reduction Act.

2025-02-01 04:31:05 UTC

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Ironically I just got back from doing that.

2025-01-11 18:45:19 UTC

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I'm sure it was fun. I tried it again today and it's still fun. I just wonder if fun was the only reason I did it.

2025-01-11 04:40:19 UTC

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I toe-walked occasionally, but only because it was fun... I think.

2025-01-01 06:31:33 UTC

New Year's report:
Things started on an excellent note with a flawless performance of our New Year's routine with two hours to spare. We decided to watch a movie and the kids got overstimulated. The New Year itself was marked by complaints that we were measuring time way too fast and screens that it's horrible that the year ever changes. We were able to get the kids calmed down and even laughing a bit again before getting them to sleep. #ActuallyAutistic

2024-12-20 04:57:54 UTC

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🫂

2024-12-19 15:42:37 UTC

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Ooh, sign me up for that!

2024-12-19 05:58:27 UTC

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By the way, if you ever want parenting advice from an autistic parent of autistic children, I'd be happy to help. If it's something that I don't know the answer to I can pass it on to some of the other similarly situated parents here.
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2024-12-18 02:44:46 UTC

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Exxon is pretty evil. The gun industry is pretty evil. And there are and were some pretty evil governments, of course. But they don't have a lot of competition in the evil department.

2024-12-16 21:34:59 UTC

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Everyone my family goes to has been bought up by one of the two megaconglomerates in the area in the last two years.

2024-12-16 21:19:11 UTC

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Oh, that's terrible. I always pick the plan with the biggest network that my employer offers, but I know not everyone has that privilege.

2024-12-16 17:04:09 UTC

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I really can't put into words how wonderful it was when I finally got ADHD meds that worked. But that makes it really ridiculous that they won't pay for executive function therapy because that's a major part of ADHD.

2024-12-16 16:10:22 UTC

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I think that's great! Executive functioning is second only to social interactions in things I've struggled with in life.
It might be worthwhile to get your kid assessed for ADHD if executive functioning is an issue. Two thirds of us have it and until fairly recently they weren't supposed to diagnose us with both. That said, autism by itself is certainly enough to cause executive functioning issues.

2024-12-16 15:31:22 UTC

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I'm sorry to hear that. I feel like therapy really did help one of my children be more comfortable around neurotypicals, but it's impossible to know if that would have happened anyway. Thinking about my own life and that of my kids I think the most important things are to let autistic kids know that there's a reason they feel like they're different from the other kids (and that's ok!) and to treat them like they are human beings capable of making their own decisions.

2024-12-15 19:11:47 UTC

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I was reprocessing this article a few minutes ago as we autistics are wont to do, and I realized in addition to being demanded to do something he can't, he's also probably frustrated they're treating him like he isn't very intelligent, because studies say that most nonspeaking autistics are of normal intelligence, they just can't speak.

2024-12-15 05:23:24 UTC

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Benji desperately needs someone who understands what it's like to be autistic in his life to work with him and find what's needed to bring him peace. Speech is obviously not easy for him and he should be taught how to use an AAC device to communicate more easily.
The problem with ABA is that it's not focused on what the person being treated needs or wants at all but on what other people want to make them do. That's very evident in that article.

2024-12-15 05:13:57 UTC

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It's wonderful that you respect your daughter's autonomy. Too few parents do that, especially for their autistic children. It's what I've always tried to do with mine.
I'm not sure that ABA is helping Benji. I feel really bad for him after reading that article. He's ten and his mother still doesn't know what triggers his meltdowns&treats them like they're aggressive tantrums. He doesn't have his basic needs met and they're trying to make him work longer than a full-time job.

2024-12-12 02:19:33 UTC

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Is it PDA that makes my first reaction to any post that says "Please don't X" is to really want to do X? Yeah, it's probably the PDA.
(I never go through with it, of course. I'm not a jerk.)

2024-12-10 21:56:26 UTC

My youngest is 5 and has #adhd, and when they're happy they say "This is the best day ever," and when they aren't having a good time they say "This is the worst day ever," and I really think that's a perfect expression of what emotions are like when you have ADHD.
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2024-12-01 04:45:10 UTC

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Oh, I know this one! Canonically, he's still orange, he just has mold growing on him a lot because he lives in a garbage can and never bathes.

2024-11-30 21:45:59 UTC

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But how do you teach them to hate learning that way? /s

2024-11-30 19:57:57 UTC

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That's horrible, though it's an excellent demonstration of how schools are for teaching you to conform much more than teaching you anything useful or interesting.

2024-11-30 17:10:23 UTC

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I feel like I understand NTs better than most autistics, but don't feel qualified to write that book.

2024-11-30 03:44:23 UTC

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I wasn't heading in that direction, but I have to admit I'm curious what it would say.

2024-11-30 01:50:39 UTC

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I guess I should be more careful about saying there should be a book about something in the presence of authors because they think books can be written by humans.

2024-11-29 12:03:06 UTC

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But that is a book that should be written!

2024-11-28 21:44:43 UTC

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Sadly that knowledge comes mostly from asking my neurotypical parent why people do things a lot.

2024-11-27 22:11:05 UTC

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I do suspect that thinking differently has a lot to do with it. As I learned how NTs think better I started understanding them a lot better.

2024-11-27 20:12:52 UTC

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I feel like this is a really good start, but I don't know that I'd be able to reason my way from that point to the difficulties in communication that we have with neurotypicals.

2024-08-31 14:33:49 UTC

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What a gloomy candidate!

2024-05-24 21:14:16 UTC

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Relevant: https://thedailytism.com/autistic-kids-tricked-into-going-trans-claims-woman-whos-never-tried-to-make-an-autistic-child-do-anything-they-dont-want-to-do/ (This is the best Daily Tism headline yet!)

2022-12-16 03:55:42 UTC

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