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Ancient Greek guy talking to Ancient Greek artist: so what kind of art do you do? Ancient Greek artist: handsome muscle boys Ancient Greek guy: nice, love that

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sternyboi

If this kid comes back in like 20 years dressed as a massive buff gyarados I’ll eat my shirt

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where to cop

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why are people so afraid to google things? why come to someone’s inbox and ask a researchable question where you may have to wait hours, days, even weeks for a response when you can google it in less than 3 seconds? what are you afraid of? results?

dustbluecloud

i’m sick of seeing this goddamn post everywhere because the answer is that people want attention from the blog owner. mystery solved. bye.

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never miss an opportunity to tell someone something u like about them

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Feed them

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gifsboom

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

These cats look so puzzled oh my gosh :D

unconstrainedme

This is the sort of quality content I expect from my dash :D

Bless the confused little murder machines

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

“WHAT ARE THESE ORBS

Why they stick to us”

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sandandglass

Full Frontal s01e25

Samantha Bee reminds us that a Trump-like politician has been elected twice before thanks to vote splitting

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lonestray

The brothers, Hota (right) and Romeo (left), playing with their miniature pumpkins

Happy October!

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mooniicorn

“If autism isn’t caused by environmental factors and is natural why didn’t we ever see it in the past?”

We did, except it wasn’t called autism it was called “Little Jonathan is a r*tarded halfwit who bangs his head on things and can’t speak so we’re taking him into the middle of the cold dark forest and leaving him there to die.”

iamthethunder

Or “little Jonathan doesn’t talk but does a good job herding the sheep, contributes to the community in his own way, and is, all around, a decent guy.” That happened a lot, too, especially before the 19th century.

rosslynpaladin

Or, backing up FURTHER

and lots of people think this very likely,

“Oh little Sionnat has obviously been taken by the fairies and they’ve left us a Changeling Child who knows too much, and asks strange questions, and uses words she shouldn’t know, and watches everything with her big dark eyes, clearly a Fairy Child and not a Human Like Us.”

The Myth of the Changeling child, a human baby apparently replaced at a young age by a toddler who “suddenly” acts “strange and fey” is an almost textbook depiction of autistic children.

To this day, “autism warrior mommies” talk about autism “stealing” their “sweet normal child” and have this idea of “getting their real baby back” which (in the face of modern science) indicates how the human psyche actually does deal with finding out their kid acts unlike what they expected.

Given this evidence, and how common we now know autism actually is, the Changeling myth is almost definitely the result of people’s confusion at the development of autistic children.

vicecommanderhijikata

Weirdly enough, that legend is now comforting to me.

jenniferrpovey

Yeah. The autism epidemic is a myth.

The only geographical pattern for autism is that it clusters in wealthy areas with highly educated parents - who are more likely to hire a good pediatrician, so they’re not clusters of autism, they’re clusters of autism diagnosis.

The term “autism” was not actually coined until 1911, and then it was used in Switzerland to talk about a subset of schizophrenics. It wasn’t used in its current sense until the 1940s, and until the 1960s it was still thought autism and schizophrenia were connected.

So, obviously, there’s no chance of people who lived before that being diagnosed. Analysis of people’s lives has sometimes indicated the possibility - it’s pretty commonly believed that Einstein was on the spectrum from the way he dealt with/didn’t deal with other people.

Now, here’s a big part of it.

The two major researchers who established autism were Hans Asperger in Germany and Leo Kanner in the United States.

Asperger’s view of autism was much like how we see it now - a spectrum, with some people only showing a few traits and some showing more of them.

Kanner thought it was a rare condition AND he thought it was caused by bad parenting. And THAT is the view of autism and autistics and parents of autistics that dominated in the US for a long term. He framed it as psychosis, favored institutionalization (because they needed to be rescued from the bad parents who caused it). And because he said it was a rare and severe psychosis only the most severe cases were counted.

What’s actually happening now is that people are acknowledging that Asperger was right and Kanner was wrong and counting the people Asperger would have counted all along.

Hence, sudden autism epidemic.

That doesn’t exist.

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