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Definitely looking for the same.

I’ve seen some metal communities (mostly death- and black metal), but generally it’s mostly just people posting links to songs, so not much discussion going on.

Do it, if you like sludgey riffing.

Dark Castle - Surrender to All Life Beyond Form

Female-fronted stoner/sludge doom.

Saw them open for the almighty YOB back in 2011. Stevie Floyd is a badass.

There are a couple of studies on this, and the findings are admittedly kind of scattered, but here are some key points.

One study suggests as much as 50% of people on the spectrum have at least four (or more) comorbid conditions (a vast variety of things, e.g. ADD, intellectual disabilities etc).

Another study found that 95% of children with ASD had comorbidities. Again, the rain man trope is rather strongly rooted in our sociocultural reality tunnel.

I’ve met a lot of people on the spectrum in my life (about 1% of the population are diagnosed, after all), and almost all of them have also had either ADD, intellectual disabilities, medical disabilities like Crohn’s disease, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, PCOS, hormonal or chromosomal disorders and/or other psychological conditions like schizophrenia or other schizotypal disorders BPD, bipolar disorder etc.

The fact is that a Sheldon Cooper is kind of a unicorn among autistics.

But truthfully, my observation that most autistics are below average intelligence is almost entirely anecdotal (yet with a rather sizeable sample pool), because admittedly I’m struggling to find any hard data on it.

Some figures I’ve seen say 32% have below 70, 25% have 70-84, 40% have 85-115, with only about 3% being above 115.

But here’s at least one study finding that 55% of autistic kids have an intellectual disability (below 70 IQ).

People still think of autism in like… Rain Man-terms.

As much as people like to think popular depictions (The Big Bang Theory, Abed in Community, etc) of autistic behavioral patterns are somehow furthering “the cause” (whatever that is) - ultimately, they amount to little more than vaudeville and can be incredibly damaging to people who don’t “seem autistic”.

It’s very tiring to assure people that yes, you are indeed autistic, when all they know is Sheldon Cooper and Raymond Babbitt.

Especially annoying if they think you’re some sort of genius, when the average autistic’s intelligence generally is lower than average.

Especially now that so many fucking lunatic autistics are committing atrocities.

If you’re obviously greatly disabled autistic=not threatening High functioning autistic=liability

I was diagnosed 20 years ago, and even I had a very hard time recognizing and accepting that my own partner is also autistic (now diagnosed as an adult).

But then again, it seems to manifest dramatically different in men v.s. women, as well as there not really being any depictions of autistic women in media for the longest time.

And a gigantic part of autistic women no doubt went undiagnosed for a long time (and still are).

But… How is that racist?

It might be stupid, but racist? That’s a stretch.

Just curious, how exactly is that comment racist?

The Swedish mid-right also ruled out working with the far-right. Until they had to to gain government control.

Too young for how old the game is?

Even before Trump is in office, his cabinet picks don’t exactly inspire confidence in his reign to be any better than Harris’ likely would’ve been.

Curious.

Pretty sure it was a bald eagle.

This reads like an almost unhinged copypasta.

But you ain’t wrong…

I love it.

Definitely seems like a global trend.

Ah, genocide at home, in Gaza AND possibly in Ukraine instead.

Genius!

I think this perspective might be a part of the puzzle as to why this happened.

A lot of people seem to think Trump voters don’t know or understand what their vote goes towards, but I think that they not only do, but want that.

That, and almost half of voting eligible just didn’t show up, for many different reasons.

Although, I’m just some random Swedish dude, so what the hell do I know…

Except the same thing happened/is happening here.

And everywhere else…

Yeah, it definitely seems like change is in order, regardless of what one thinks of the result.

Yeah, it’s not really a secret that things are bad (or at least not good) everywhere, but at least most other countries’ voting doesn’t really directly affect the whole world, in contrast to the American elections.

Well, it averages out with the bigots on top, apparently. Sadly.

Did you ever consider that the American public might just be a bunch of spiteful, narcissistic, racist, misogynistic people?

Not “corrupted” by propaganda or a lack of education, but that you, collectively, made this choice - because you understand the consequences and what’s at stake, and you still made this choice?

It is.