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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: "Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna" |
| Amaltheia |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018, 5:09 am
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| So people only deserve credit for their work if they have broad social approval. The autistic kid who does well in class shouldn't be allowed to have good marks because all the other kids in the class think they're weird and don't like them. That's pretty much the standard being advocated here. I wo... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: "Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna" |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018, 9:33 pm
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| Both the author of the paper and the author of the book did discuss the separating science from the person Does the man behind the name matter? To medical ethics, it does. Naming a disorder after someone is meant to credit and commend, and Asperger merited neither. His definition of “autistic psych... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: "Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna" |
| Amaltheia |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018, 7:42 pm
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| The title of the thread is a title of an upcoming book. I think the author knows autism was not a Nazi plot but felt like a title of "Asperger's Children: Some Of The Origins Of The Autism Diagnosis in Nazi Vienna" would have been unwieldy. I know it's the title of a book. And "Asper... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: "Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna" |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018, 6:39 pm
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| I'm not following the line of reasoning here. The link between lung cancer and smoking was established by German doctors in Nazi Germany and the Nazi government ran public campaigns to discourage smoking. Does that Nazi connection mean the tobacco companies are vindicated in their campaign to hide t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Questions For Occultists |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2018, 12:10 am
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| Continued. - How's the 8th grade going? I passed. Had an unrequited crush on one of my classmates, but I got over it. The follies of youth. - Is meme magic real? Does this mean that Satan and Kek are the same bloke? As far as I know, the only people who have allegedly managed to make meme magic work... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Questions For Occultists |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2018, 12:09 am
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| Continued. - When Kim Il-sung was born, did the birds really sing in Korean? Did you guys do that? What language do birds normally sing in? Or is it that people were temporarily granted the ability to understand the language of the birds and the ones in Korea heard that as Korean. - Do you seriously... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Questions For Occultists |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2018, 12:08 am
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| Well, since you laughed your ass off writing this, I figure I should play along and help keep you entertained. - When does a developing fetus gain the ability to use magic? Is it possible for a fetus to cast spells while still in the womb? Around the same time a fetus gains the ability to play a pia... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Question about the ending to Superman (1978) |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2018, 9:10 am
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| Oh okay, so how come my sister is under the impression that Superman only stopped one missile then? Because he did only stop one missile. He mitigated or undid the damage caused by the second missile — perhaps not as good as stopping it outright, but the best that could be managed in the circumstan... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Question about the ending to Superman (1978) |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2018, 5:40 am
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| I think the two missiles struck, more or less, simultaneously, so Superman could only stop one. As EzraS notes, he stopped the one headed towards Hackensack New Jersey because he promised Eve Teschmacher that he would, because her mother lived in Hackensack and Superman always keeps his promises. Th... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Whitehouse Interns all White under Trump |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2018, 4:19 am
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| The total lack of diversity For some very narrow definition of "diversity". Maybe some of them are right-handed and some left-handed. Maybe some are Catholics, some are Protestants, some are Jews, some are Agnostic, some are Atheist. Maybe some are of English ancestry, some of German, som... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Potential Problem With Stopping Time |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2018, 2:16 am
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| So long as you ignore a bunch of physics — which a lot of wish-fulfillment ideas do — lots of cool things can happen. And the point of most stories is exploring the implications and consequences of those cool things. I mean the comic Sex Criminals features a couple who discover they have the ability... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Potential Problem With Stopping Time |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2018, 2:02 am
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| Also: — you wouldn't be able to move as you'd be trapped in a you-shaped bubble of air; the air couldn't flow around you as you passed through it. — you wouldn't be able to hear, since sound waves couldn't propagate through frozen air. — you wouldn't be able to see as the photons would all be stoppe... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Professor fails US student over Australia being a Country |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 9:54 pm
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DarthMetaKnight wrote: #makePangaeagreatagain
Keep up the good fight! In about 250 million years, give or take, you should get there!
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Professor fails US student over Australia being a Country |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 9:26 pm
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| Using plate tectonics to define continents does have some interesting effects: India, the Arabian peninsula, The Caribbean, and the Philippines all become separate continents. We have a number of sunken or submerged continents (plates with no major land masses above water, only some islands): the Pa... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Professor fails US student over Australia being a Country |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 9:09 pm
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| The idea of continents predates the discovery of plate tectonics by a few millennia, so the criteria for what is and isn't a continent tends to be a bit loose, but generally comes down to a contiguous area of land where you can travel from any part to any other part without crossing the sea, separat... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 75% Asperger's don't qualify for ASD? |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2018, 4:54 am
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| Asperger is no longer a diagnosis in USA. True. The DSM-5 is only official in the United States, though a number of other countries, especially English-speaking ones, tend to also use it. Most of the rest of the world uses the ICD-10 (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related... |
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