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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • It’s literally in the clinical name.

    https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/autism-spectrum-disorders-asd

    Broadly there’s two important reasons for why it’s called this, when it used to be either Asperger’s or autism.

    1. Asperger was a Nazi and actively involved in the state sanctioned murder of autistic children.
    2. Medically it’s a bit dumb. There’s no neat dividing line between people with Asperger’s and people with autism, and giving people that could be diagnosed either way as autistic or having Asperger’s, different diagnoses changed their access to support.

    So it’s called a spectrum to recognize that there’s a wide range of symptoms and not everyone presents in the same way or requires the same support.



  • Because if a website doesn’t work in your browser, but it works in everyone else’s, no one will say “oh that website’s badly written”, instead they say “what a shitty browser”.

    So you have a huge web standard you have to respect, and then all the websites with non standard code you have to make work anyway.








  • I think the easiest way to describe how it feels is it is like having a tooth taken out.

    You’ve had it removed because the pain is too much, and now finally that pain is gone, but instead you’re sat there feeling puffy and swollen from the recent trauma, and you’re just constantly aware of this gap where there used to be something present.

    Just like going to the dentist, it gets better though. And I’d do it again in a heart beat if I had to make the same decision.