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What struck me about Augustus’ comments was that it is completely normal to start dating in your early twenties. I started dating in my early twenties, for one, and so have many of my friends, both disabled and temporarily non-disabled.

  1. What are their sources? (Other than anecdotal evidence.)
  2. "Normal" is an alienating term; not everyone will receive an average expectation.
  3. Most incels have not gotten a relationship or had sex. That is the definition of involuntary celibate.
  4. Who are the author's friends and what are their material conditions? There could be different material conditions that separate Augustus from them.
  • They could be female (teens can get dates too) humans who are more likely to get dates.
  • The author could have lived in a place accepting of neurodiversity.

What is clear is that the fight against incels and their ideology must include a fight for comprehensive sex education for all students

Improper sex education is part of the problem; but it should be important to look at the economic system of the place an autistic person lives at.

The U.S is an example. They discriminate for romantic partnerships and against celibate people:

  • Taxes are reduced for married partners
  • The inability to pay for necessities forces celibates to get partnerships
  • Bonuses are exclusively given to parents.
  • Societal programming to inculcate the unconditional worship of parents.
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Unlike in the old Soviet Union…

The Soviet Union had discovered autism (although as a different term) in 1926;^[Sukhareva-Prior to Asperger and Kanner] the Soviet Union also cared for autistic people.

Because of the lack of state resources going into treating autistic people, many parents of autistic children have to rely on “NGO’s” (they are unable to register as such, but are NGO’s according to the international interpretation of such a term). [5] These NGO’s are often rather inadequate: although many claim that they use ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis), very few professionals working for these organizations have received formal training in ‘‘real’’ ABA principles and techniques. [6] Those organisations that do, such as the Stars and Rain institute in Beijing, are costly. Stars and Rain offers a 10-week programme in ABA, but the cost of the treatment is 3000 yuan (about $361.) with families being responsible for travel and accommodations on top of this. For most families in China, this is too much. [7]

Sigh... Looks like it's those ABA worshipers again.

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I haven't been able to figure how sensory traits (like hypersensitivities, hyposensitivity, and sensory triggers) are formed or if they change. I tried searching online; but I keep coming up empty.

I guess science hasn't been able to figure that out yet.

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Wait, I already posted about this topic... Oh well, this post is much more elaborate on my opinion anyway.


Deepfakes can generally be detected by analyzing the movement of the deepfake,^[Deepfake Detection Techniques: A Review]^[Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI] or general sensory details.

However, some traits of autism conflict, while others align, with those methods. I think it should be important to have a discussion about autistic people and deepfakes.

Sensory overload

Sensory overload could be a problem when analyzing a Deepfake; it could result in a potentially large delay in deepfake verification.

  • If an autistic person were to get sensory overload from the facial movement of a deepfake, it could be difficult to discern multiple deepfakes from facial movement.

  • If an autistic person were to get sensory overload from sunlight, then the autistic person would not be able to discern fake sunlight in deepfake videos well.

Also the autistic person could only be able to verify few videos during recovery or burnout (if it occurs).

Nonverbal communication deficits.

The inability to perceive nonverbal cues means that relying on the deepfaked person's body cues to detect deepfakes becomes less reliable. (e.g Using real videos of Zelenskky or Tom Cruise to detect deepfakes of them.)

Hypersensitivities

Hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli could be an advantage or disadvantage in detecting deepfakes; hypersensitivities include an increased sensitivity sensory stimuli, which can be helpful in determining if the medium is believable enough to be verified as a real video. Deepfakes rely on creating believable media to trick the viewers.

  • A hypersensitivity to light could result in an ability to easier detect unnatural light simulations.
  • A hypersensitivity to movements can result in the autistic person detecting unrealistic body movements easier.
  • A hypersensitivity to sight (or seeing textures) can result in the autistic person detecting unrealistic textures easier.

However, these hypersensitivities could also result in an increased probability of receiving sensory overload, which could reduce the ability to discern deepfakes for a time period.

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I've been thinking about banning those "aww" posts for some time. You know those posts flared with "aww" on r/autism? I like those posts, but they unnecessarily clutter up the subreddit; and I think I would prefer this community to be a more serious discussion platform.


Also I'm going to change a term in rule 1: 'related' to 'relevant'. Relevancy is a more definition to my idea of rule 1.

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I should really make a bot account that automatically posts news articles from this website.

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What about the other autistic people?

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Uh, yeah. That's why I got socialist ideas.

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Does that study that claims autistic people are "too moral" actually exist? I can't find what study it is. I'm skeptical that it actually exists, since I can't locate the specific study.

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Executive dysfunction and burnout.

Executive function is used in a lot of scenarios; I feel like shit when I can't use executive function to accomplish a goal I have; and when I do complete a goal; I feel like I never actually enjoyed it.

  • I can't find much advantages to executive function; I can only think of UX design; where executive function can make one blind to some issues.
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Disappointment 100.

This always annoyed me. Why do so many studies have issues with setting up fair and balanced tests? Why are the sample sizes too low?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/228760

Now excuse me, I have to post this on reddit to piss people off. /s

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/159584

I usually just ignore societal rules and only do activities that I want or need to do.

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Sample sizes seem too small.

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All my life I've been been slim/athletic, but it's had far little to do with any kind of discipline and far more to do with me constantly forgetting to eat/drink regularly, plus sports. I'm tall too so that's always helped a lot.

It's starting to annoy me though because I know eating/drinking regularly is generally healthier than eating/drinking sporadically, and I'd like to figure out a method of fixing this that fits well with how my mind works.

In the past, I've manged to fix a number of lifelong issues I've struggled with by using resources geared towards people with autism and ADHD. I used to be fairly unorganized until I found these resources and now my stuff in general is very organized in a way that I actually enjoy maintaining.

I'd like to find a similar way to fix this issue I have with not eating/drinking regularly-- basically a way to structure things so that I eat/drink regularly in a way that I can really get into a repetitive groove.

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View this post (https://lemmy.ml/post/220075) instead, it's much more refined than this one.

A common trait of autism is the struggle with nonverbal communication.

Deepfakes could be difficult to discern as a result; since identifying them involves scanning body movement for "unnatural" characteristics.

Example: I see a deepfake of an actor; but the deepfake has a discoloration, so it is "obvious" to most people. However I wouldn't be able to initially identify the discoloration because I wouldn't think that it's unnatural.

Example 2: The eye movement of a deepfake is "off", which is "obvious" to most people; but I don't notice because my body can't perceive the eye movement.

Now I wonder if deepfakes could be used to imitate medical conditions (like cancer, sclerosis, acne).

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