Is Autism Speaks really as bad as people say it is?
Having been forced to deal with them and organizations like them, I can safely say âNo.â
It is obscenely worse.
You see, any idiot can look at things like âwe need a cureâ and their anti-vaccination advocacy and realize how ridiculously stupid that it.Â
But thatâs not what they sell to childrenâs hospitals. Instead, they push extremely unconventional medications to âhelpâ autistic children (usually by sedating them into a catatonic state). I mentioned earlier that Risperidol eases overstimulation, but Autism Speaks doesnât like Risperidol because itâs not controlling enough.
Autism Speaks absolutely loves âtreatmentsâ and âcounsellingâ based around controlling everything autistic children do. Stimming, self-coping mechanisms, even strange and oddball quirks like kids who wear gloves everywhere, all of these are taken from them and doled out as privileges. Itâs all about turning anything an autistic child likes into something they can control.
They treat these children like fucking animals and really enjoy forced isolation as a punishment. The IWK has several âSecure Isolation Roomsâ that they will place autistic children in their care into for hours at a time unsupervised when they start acting out. And not âhaving a meltdown and might accidentally hurt someoneâ kind of acting out, even just mouthing off or getting lippy with a nurse.
I am personally convinced that the whole âcureâ motto is a sham, because studies into Autism long ago disproved the theory that it was something that needed curing. Autism Speaks behaves more like a eugenics organization. And they are slippery bastards about it too.Â
Iâve had the displeasure of having to interact with them directly because they have such a stranglehold on Nova Scotiaâs youth mental health that any counseling group inevitably gets calls from them. Speaking to them and hearing the tone with which they spoke about these poor kids made my fucking skin crawl.
If youâre an autistic child and theyâre talking to your parents or counselor about you, they wonât even use your name. The Child, The Patient, and The Boy/Girl are all common ways to refer to these kids. On several occasions theyâve referred to some kid as âit.â
Iâve said before that Tumblr especially doesnât quit know what Autism Speaks is, and thatâs because their public persona is very carefully crafted. Their reputation is so cartoonish that doctors who donât know better wonât believe it, and so they swoop in with a lot of pretty language and faux-politeness. The skeezy, contemptuous way they behave when they think theyâre doing business is enough to make you fucking vomit.
You quickly learn why so many hospitals willingly work with them. They are very good at getting their claws into health care organizations because they have this almost sinister âFriendlinessâ to them, and when you combine this with the fact that a lot of child psychologists have absolutely no concern for the actual well-being of children (just making the parents happy so they continue footing the bill) you have a recipe for a truly horrifying experience.
I canât fully articulate just how sickening they are. Take however bad you THINK they are, multiply it by a hundred, and then think about how Quentin Tarantino would inflate that to make a movie out of it.
Thatâs how fucking gross and vile they really are when they think nobody is watching.
~Lily
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What exactly is going on with Taylor swift? Did she do something wacky or just release a shit album that's so bad it's funny?
okay i have done time as a swiftie and i now watch over those weirdos like im david attenborough so youâve come to the right place.
ur correct about it being an album so bad its funny. but theres more. im very sorry but this will be long.
so basically since like 2016 she was in an apparently steady and normal long term relationship with a blond man called joe alwyn whose only character trait is knowing how to shut the fuck up (and i love him for that)
then in april 2023 it was announced that they broke up while she was on tour but bc the relationship had been uneventful and boring this whole time, the general vibe from everyone was âhuh thats kinda sad, oh wellâ
i might be mixing up the timeline a little here but a couple weeks later there were some articles about how sheâs now dating matty healy from the 1975. people were mostly just like âpfft its just tabloid shit it cant be trueâ and then at the next 1975 gig, marty pointed into the camera and said âthis is for you, you know who you are, i love youâ before playing a love song. THEN at the next taylor gig she did the exact same damn thing and the swifties hit the fan.
to make a very long fuckin story short, they dug up a bunch of dirt about how this dude is a nasty little racist misogynist rat and he needs to get away from their poor little innocent billionaire princess. some people get kinda heated about whether these accusations are true and tbh id rather eat glass than get into that shit myself
SO, swifties outnumber us all and raised absolute hell online while taylor brought this guy to all her concerts and let him perform with the opening acts. her publicist released some statements saying taylor knows what her fans are saying and she doesnt give a fuck. but also said theyâre not super serious and are just having fun together.
during all this, theres a small group of swifties that have decided to break away and become very pro-marty and essentially pit him against aforementioned blond man joe alwyn. their general narrative is that because joe loves being quiet and doesnt really do Celebrity Things, that must mean he was ashamed of his relationship with taylor. this is where we get the beloved He Lets Her Bejeweled meme
this fannade narrative becomes more relevant in a bit
at some point during this relationship she releases the joe alwyn breakup song Youâre Losing Me, which just describes some very standard long term relationship breakdown stuff. they have different life goals and theyâre drifting apart and the communication is breaking down. she kinda wants him to do something to save it at the eleventh hour but that wouldnt be realistic. very sad oh well.
theres a small amount of kicking off from the fandom about heâs awful for this but only bc theyâre addicted to the idea that their favourite billionaire is the worlds most tragic victim and honestly whats new
and here starts the very fucking weird trend of her publicist releasing statements that are very clearly deliberately backing up the weirdo fan theories. a lot of âtaylor and matty are showing up for each other UNLIKE HER LAST RELATIONSHIP and he is proud of her UNLIKE JOE ALWYNâ like..alright.
anyway ratty and taylor break up after about a month of publicly dating and she sings some sad songs and cries at her concerts but everyone mostly forgets about the whole thing.
about a month later travis kelce asks her out and they end up dating and the white women of america collectively cream. personally i dont get it because i dont know what sports are and the only travis im familiar with is the tractor from bob the builder but i digress. the 35 year old deadbedroom swifties are going CRAZY. theyâre saying these two are gonna get married and have ten kids and global superstar taylor swift can finally achieve the only real success for a woman: marriage and motherhood. because football man is the only Real Man she has been with due to the fact that he is tall and wide and bearded.
its severely tragic and vicarious
once again the focus does not remain on the couple. theyâre turning on poor puppydog joe alwyn again. this time heâs evil not only for being âashamedâ of her but also for wasting her time by not marrying and impregnating her, because as we have established, thats the only point to life as a woman. how dare he waste all that time locking her away in the six mansions that she owns.
and her publicist does the same shit as before with the âhe supports her and shows up for her UNLIKE JOEâ bullshit. all of these people are over 30 and have never experienced a real problem.
this creates a cycle that is honestly kind of concerning, where the fans invent a strange theory, the publicist backs it up, the swifties add to the theory, the publicist back up the new additions, and so on. taylor continues dating travis and they go to each others concerts/games and act like a relatively normal honeymoon phase couple. the narrative has massively broken away from the reality.
so this continues, people hyping up travis and hating joe. at this point i want to note that taylor and her team have spent a lot of years crying about how the nasty misogynistic media only ever cares about her relationship drama and ignores her art because they hate powerful women or something. the irony is that just about every bit of publicity sheâs done over the last year+ has been directly linked to whatever breakup or boyfriend sheâs going through currently. theyâre definitely not hiding that this is the PR direction theyâre going with.
so, with the weird fan rumours continuing to reinforce themselves, the swifties become very confident that their imaginations are telling the truth. they stalk joe alwyns social media presence, of which there is very little. but if you go out looking for mess you never come back empty handed. they find that he has been around women. because he is an actor. and some other actors are women. anyway they fully believe this is proof that he cheated, and they launch harassment campaigns against these relatively small actors, who end up having to private their accounts. then the swifties find another woman to harass for being âthe other womanâ. it goes on.
then the abuse and domestic violence accusations against joe alwyn are created. not from taylor or anyone close to the situation. only from the fans. her PR team have at least stopped reinforcing the fan theories at this point, but the ball is already rolling.
when she announces her new album, the swifties ERUPT with joy that finally she is going to end joe alwyn, the man who im pretty sure has just been chilling in his house this whole time. the harassment of anyone and everyone deemed in any way guilty continues tenfold. they are openly tweeting about finding him in london and physically attacking and/or killing him (heâs not a huge celebrity and is often just hanging around alone with no security team or anything. im sure these threats arent serious but they feel kinda more dangerous when the target essentially just hangs around as a private citizen)
the album promo is pretty much just.. âhey i dated this dude and he made me sooooo sad isnt that interesting, swifties?â over and over again. each new post brings a bigger wave of joe harassment. theyâre champing at the bit for taylor to tell them all the many ways he hurt her so dreadfully.
then the album leaks and its all about matty healy, which is very funny on the dismayed swiftie-violence front but also just..terrible in that she used the harassment of joe as an album promo tactic when the album barely mentions him. the only thing she really says about him is that he suffers from depression and it made their relationship difficult.
..and yeah, the album is about how sheâs been obsessed with marty for over ten years and she fantasised about him while in her long term relationship, and theres maybe some overlap of the two relationships. the irony. all the âthis man hurt me so much!!!â-type lyrics that were released to promote the album were actually about matty, not joe. a lot of the swifties are continuing to double down on hating joe bc they cant accept that the matty relationship even happened. theres a song about how much she hates her fans for hating her relationship with rarty. its called but daddy i love him. its a whole embarrassing mess for everyone involved, including me for typing all this out.
and after all that most of the songs fuckin suck
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one of these days Iâm going to go completely off the rails and write a doctor who fic from the pov of jackie tyler. Iâm absolutely insane about her you see. yes the doctor and rose rose and the doctor but jackie loses her husband and she loses her daughter and she loses mickey and she loses elton and she loses the doctor and she loses everyone sheâs ever known and any time they come back to her they are different. she gets a husband from another timeline and a mickey from another life and a doctor from a lost hand and rose is the same! but maybe she isnât, maybe jackie never even had rose to begin with, because when push came to shove rose said she would stay with the doctor forever rose started to become something unrecognizable rose looked into the time vortex and became unknowable and jackie has never changed. jackie has always stayed the same. jackie is an anchor jackie is a harbor jackie is home and so she is always, always, the woman left behind.
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Technophobes need to apologise for "just put it in plain English you stupid machine!" because, well for one the decline in accurate error messages in favour of simplicity has contributed to the rise of tech illiteracy, but also because now whenever an "app" has a net connection error it will pop up a box saying something like "oo ooopsie! Your super duper feed went poo poo. We'll try again soon!" which having said to me by a corporation is about 8 million times worse than having to hear the word "network".
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An anon's 2 cents: I genuinely think that the first 5 seasons of supernatural are good and enjoyable seasons of television, albeit with some glaring flaws at parts. Some parts of it are really fresh and compelling (especially for the year 2005, when being gritty and having dark color grading was less mainstream), and watching seasons 1-5 evoke this feeling of... oh, no wonder this show captured so much attention and so many dedicated fans. It's a good time, just please don't force yourself to keep watching the show (or even watch all 15 seasons) once it stops being fun. When it starts to suck you gotta hit da bricks and ignore the sunk cost fallacy for your own sanity. But if any part of the early seasons appeal to you, I do think it's worth giving a chance đ¸
:3 yeah! exactly!
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