Selbst der frühere Co-Bundesvorsitzende der IB, Daniel Fiß, sitzt mittlerweile im Landesvorstand der "Generation Deutschland":

Auch die Generation Deutschland scheint sich der IB anzunähern. "Denn die IB steht auf der Unvereinbarkeitsliste der AfD. Eigentlich darf nicht Parteimitglied werden, wer bei der IB war. In der GD scheint eine Vergangenheit in der IB eher eine Auszeichnung als eine Bürde zu sein.

And with a diagnosis, you know that you don't need to keep searching for a diagnosis (of something curable). You can then spend your time on other things, such as improving your quality of life, instead of visiting doctors for second, third, or fourth opinions.

ironically and awfully, a lot of doctors think this way too

i have been denied testing or diagnosis when i met the criteria MULTIPLE TIMES bc “it’s not like there’s a cure”

They'll tolerate things that have existed for centuries like needing glasses (because "glasses cure bad eyesight"), but all sickness needs to be "cured" to them. That's why they get so mad at diabetes and cancer research; they think that if it hasn't been "cured" the research has "failed".

I keep noticing anti-medicine folks always ask for "cures".

As in, that's their idea of medicine: "cures", like playing a game and you get poisoned you so you chug an antidote and the poison goes away, that's how they think medicine works. They genuinely don't understand the concept of "treatment".

If a successful gene therapy comes out that does what they’re asking for, they’d be emphatically against it and tell people that gene therapy will turn you into a monkey or something.

Habe gerade @ronzheimer.bsky.social dazu gehört und da ist m.E. wieder sehr deutlich geworden, dass er und sein Team zwar die geopolitischen Veränderungen auf dem Schirm haben, aber sehr wenig Sensibilität für Semantik besitzen und die ideologische Dimension der Rede nicht adäquat einordnen können.

“Columbus was good, actually, and we should emulate his values“ is just a wild thing to say

It’s just an unapologetic defense of colonialism and ethnoreligious supremacy and a rejection of liberal democracy

Gar nicht.

"When Prophecy Fails" sollte zur Pflichtlektüre werden.

Depending on (our) their #environment foremost and how WE are treated by others, as well as many other factors including #sensory perception differences.
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It also completely ignores the #Fact that someone #Autistic can be what is considered “low functioning” and “high functioning “ in a single week, day, HOUR, even.
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