I hope all my allistic followers are aware that books like To Siri With Love are the sort of thing that get autistic people killed. We die in real life because we’re seen as creepy, unsettling, yet still somehow laughable caricatures of humanity, and we are medicated to death, driven to death by family members and medical professionals who treat us worse than how they’d treat animals, and there are people who advocate to stop us from being born if there are “signs of autism” in an otherwise perfectly healthy (and wanted) fetus, because they think our lives are a fate worse than death.
This book is like a cross-section of that culture.
The person who wrote this book is actively and knowingly – I don’t believe for a second that she’s just a well-meaning but misguided parent – contributing to a culture that wants her son dead. I hope he gets away from her quickly and never has to see her again. I hope he meets people who treat him like the worthy individual he is and help him heal from the trauma she’s caused. I’m so fucking sorry he has to cope with this book being out.
I don’t usually say things like “please unfollow me if”, but if you believe that autistic people should be medicated and sterilized against their will, or that cruelly and invasively mocking an already vulnerable 13-year-old in a bestselling book is acceptable, unfollow me.
(Actually, you know what, edit: allistic people are encouraged to reblog this.)
^ Super disturbing source for the whole ‘I want to sterilise my child against his will’ thing. She talks about eugenics and, again, wanting to sterilise her son against his will, so if you don’t want to read about that don’t click the link. Click on the pics to enlarge them (or am I the only idiot who didn’t know to do that?)
Also, the author’s response to the criticism: http://observer.com/2017/12/autism-to-siri-with-love-book-criticism/. Spoiler: it’s not a good response. If anyone’s going to write a book ‘not intended for an autistic audience’ but about autism, it should be an autistic person, not one’s mother. It does elaborate that she isn’t planning on sterilising her child, but does want ‘medical power of attorney for her son’. To be honest, though, deciding not to forcefully sterilise your child is the the bare minimum of human decency, so I’m not exactly enthusiastically celebrating her.
I’m at the point now where I’m just telling every allistic who reads To Siri With Love that they’re now also obligated to read Justice for Laughing Boy.
If you must listen to parents over us, fine, listen to this one and listen to what the views perpetuated by books like To Siri With Love actually do.
If you read the whole article, you’ll learn why human efforts to cause these little squirrels to reproduce have failed……they are territorial, they hate high temperatures (so when the AC breaks, the fetus dies) and they hate noise (can’t be pregnant with noise).
Excerpt:
It began with a bolt of lightning on June 7 and ended with a fire that eventually encompassed a staggering 48,000 acres of southeastern Arizona. By the time the blaze had been extinguished this past July, thousands of trees had been lost or damaged, impacting the already degraded habitat for the critically endangered Mount Graham squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis). Surveys conducted this past September in the high-elevation forests of the Pinaleño Mountains, about three hours east of Phoenix, revealed that the squirrels’ population had fallen to an estimated 35 animals and that at least 80 percent of their habitat had been damaged by the fires.
Could this be the end of the Mount Graham squirrel, which was already once thought to be extinct and has been protected by the Endangered Species Act since 1987?
The answer to that question may lie not on the mountain itself but in the halls of Phoenix Zoo’s Arizona Center for Nature Conservation, where five Mount Graham squirrels form the core of a captive-assurance program that could help save the species from extinction.
There’s just one catch: We need to figure out how to get them to breed first.
That hasn’t been easy, says Stuart Wells, the zoo’s former director of conservation and science, who was in charge of the program until last month. The squirrels, it turns out, are extremely territorial, aggressive loners who attack and even kill other squirrels, including potential mates, that invade their home turf. That makes it impossible to keep the captive animals together in the same enclosure — or even within sight of each other. On top of that minor complication, the animals are also incredibly sensitive to environmental changes like temperature and sound. And until recently we simply didn’t know how to keep the species healthy in captivity, let alone get it to breed.
Apparently this is a running gag in math textbooks
Oh, no, my friend, @aceyuurikatsuki . It’s not just that. It is so much more. Settle down and let your friendly neighborhood x-ray tech explain you a thing.
Throckmorton’s Sign, otherwise known as Throckmorton’s Principle, does in fact have to do with dicks. Because it is fairly normal for a dick to show up on a hip or pelvis x-ray. But the thing about Throckmorton’s Sign is, it’s not just that the dick is visible. It is a legitimate diagnostic tool.
Let me explain: let’s say a person equipped with a penis is in a car accident and has right leg and right side hip/pelvic pain. Their doctor will order x-rays. Unfortunately, sometimes fractures are so small that they can be missed, or, because the patient is in such bad shape and the images obtained aren’t the best quality, the radiologist can’t be sure for one reason or another if what they’re seeing is actually a fracture.
So what do they do? They look for the dick.
You heard me correctly. The dick.
Throckmorton’s Sign is when “the penis points to the area of pain.” So if the above-mentioned AMAB patient’s xray aren’t displaying a clear, obvious fracture, but their dick is pointing to the right side, 9 times out of 10, the injury or fracture is on the right hip or leg area, so then the radiologist will focus on that side while reading.
Now I know what my non-radiology followers are thinking. “Ace, this sounds like bullshit. This can’t be true. You’re lying through your teeth.” But I swear to you, it is 100% accurate. I have seen a positive Throckmorton’s Sign multiple times with my own eyes over the course of the past 7 years. Ask any x-ray tech, and they will probably agree with me.
Your dick is good for at least one thing, and that thing is helping a radiologist diagnose your upper femur, hip, or pelvic fracture.
Don’t worry, it’s not really true. The Throckmorton, or more commonly, the John Thomas Sign, is a joke. There is a large amount of literature pretending it’s serious for the purpose of disproving it (I know because a friend wrote a metanalysis for a journal’s Christmas joke, and you’d be surprised how many references you can scrape together of everyone else doing the same thing).
There is such a thing as comedy scientific papers, which are published for the sole purpose of everyone amusing each other. Like how the BMJ has just published a paper questioning whether Peppa Pig, a children’s cartoon, promotes “unrealistic healthcare expectations” in children (because the doctor character does house visits, and gives children liquid medicine that apparently cures the common cold.) this paper is clearly written to amuse the specific audience of the journal, not to actually drag Peppa Pig. Occasionally these papers get noticed outside of that specific audience, and then the public laughs because “lol scientists and doctors are being so stupid, looking at ghost dicks and criticising the societal implications of Peppa Pig.” But these things are meant to be professional jokes, really. There are some famous and good comedy papers in the literature. John Thomas papers are just further examples because dick jokes presented in academic jargon and published in journals are funny.
There is no particular correlation between the direction of the penis on an x-ray and the side of the fracture. There is no mechanism by which this could operate, apart from (possibly) the fact that penis-owners tend to “dress” on one side or another, which often relates to their dominant hand. The dominant side of the body may or may not be the side that is struck in falls or accidents. But considering that’s a mechanism I am proposing at random, it’s not the most helpful.
Spreading the word and making it clear how serious the net neutrality issue is is one thing, but yall really for actual have to stop with that fear mongering bullshit. Like a good chunk of people don’t even understand that even if it does get passed in congress, it still has to go through the courts, and even after that, there’s already been talk of counter measures from a ton of different states.
People are in a panic and thinking that if it doesn’t fail today than tomorrow the internet is just going to be fucking gone because thats the narrative being pushed, and I don’t think that kind of message is good for anyone, especially the people with high anxiety, who have a hard problem speaking out on these things, which is the exact audience these kind of scare posts are aimed towards.
You know whats the easiest way to get people with anxiety to do something that would otherwise set off their anxiety hardmode like? Fucking tell them the entire truth of the situation, and reassure them that their part in it matters, without saying “If you don’t fucking do this, your life is goddamn over idiot.”
The FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality, but I would like to reiterate to all of you that now is not the time to panic. It’s time to get angry and active, but not time to panic.
Clickbait sites are painting today as the definitive “end” of it all, but it’s not. This shit’s still got to go through the courts.
The FCC has tried to repeal net neutrality twice before, and both times it got repealed by the courts.
The voting public’s support for Net Neutrality is overwhelming. Last I checked, 83% of polled voters nationwide are in support of Net Neutrality staying.
Republican politicians and lawmakers are aware of this overwhelming support and have been voicing their support as well.
Doug Jones victory in Alabama was a wake-up call for Republican politicians, letting them know they are not invincible.
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