What's all this stuff I keep hearing about "masking" then?Originally Posted by Magic
What's all this stuff I keep hearing about "masking" then?
Last edited by Spikey M; 09-06-2024 at 05:04 PM.
How does this even work in that narrow field? I know people who are very clearly autistic in the modern sense [most also now have autistic children], but because autism simply didn't exist 30 years ago they weren't and have somehow been able to function and behave in society. Most were just statto types, but have adjusted into reasonably 'normal' people. How did they learn those 'skills'? Doesn't your theory necessitate thinking that no one can be taught to behave, either you innately know how to do it, or you don't? Seems like the number of people who can be categorically not taught communication or social interaction skills, to some extent, must be vanishingly small and not at all congruent with the group 'people who have autism'.
There's three categorisations. Go educate yourself.
Bit of a mong
Mong
Massive mong
Effectively. The point is you can't level up or gain xp.
Three categoristaions of what?
4. Magic Mong.
Do you have some references he can check out?
I feel like the fact that we’ve all hung around here so long puts every single one of us somewhere on the spectrum.
Do we need noise cancelling headphones at the cinema, a blanket to fidget with on plane journeys, and special seating arrangements in restaurants? Of course not.
Could we socialise with a stranger if stuck in a lift for an hour? I reckon so.
If you get your mega drive taken off you for drawing on the wall, would we destroy the house? Doubtful.
I'm a twit
This is one of those things where I don't know how to explain it, but you do just know when you have a reasonable amount of experience interacting with lots of non-autistic and lots of autistic kids.
What Magic says it true, it is the fact they have very limited ability to learn or improve in these regards. Non-autistic children will pick much of this stuff up just by virtue of interacting with other people, even with useless parenting.
Yeah but you only think that because you have a poor understanding of what autism actually is.
Some relatively able children with autism (usually girls for whatever reason) essentially learn to mimic the behaviour of others to fit in, but they don't really understand the behaviour.
Last edited by randomlegend; 09-06-2024 at 07:06 PM.
From the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria:
I.e. if the limitations are not significant enough to cause functional impairment in life, then it doesn't meet the bar for an autism diagnosis.Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of current functioning.
I'm not sure what I think about the pros and cons of smacking, but I was absolutely fucked up by overly permissive parenting. Ten years ago I would have written angry essays on here explaining why you should treat kids like adults, give them plenty of freedom and just try to teach them fairly loose, abstract notions of right and wrong. Absolutely fucking not. It might work for some, but I'm pretty sure it was an absolutely disastrous decision by my rents, and didn't play an insignificant role in me being a total fuck up. Obviously it's mostly on me and my terrible decision making, but I do think structure and discipline is very important.
I would say that smacking is completely dying out, which is no bad thing, but then I probably have less insight into the matter now as a parent than I did as a kid, where you get to see/know if your mates got a hiding off their dad, which they often did. I would say that that rarely happens now.
I had loads of structure and discipline and now think I possibly should have had a bit more freedom. So it works both ways.
I got lightly smacked, only by my mum. I presume some dads were giving it the belt and so on in the same era.
My mates were right little shits, probably ADHD by today's standards, and their dad used to give them the belt and the slipper. They used to coat their hands in vaseline to negate the impact
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ggww342w8o
I don't understand how you would make this error. Surely you're checking the board and whatnot to get the right flight?!
Couple of fantastic examples of "compo face" too. He couldn't even be bothered to pull his top down to hide his gut.
Staff not paying attention properly because their job is dull and they don't want to be there, understandably.
On the other hand, you have these divs, who are there by choice and have one job - to get on the right plane. If you manage to get on the wrong one, you are at fault.
During one of my many airport runs in the last year or so I was thinking about this - what would it take for one to actually get on the wrong plane. I thought of all the ways you could get confused and it could go to shit, but then I thought surely even then it's impossible because you have to scan your boarding card at the point when you actually go through the departure gate, and you would be picked up then.
Clearly I was wrong.
Yeah that’s slipped through a lot of nets somehow. I can’t imagine anyone arguing the airport/staff were more at fault than the idiots who ended up in Lithuania by accident, mind.
I'm a twit
It seems more like it was the special assistance folks' mistake than theirs, tbf. If you've got special assistance and they take you right to the plane, you'd expect them to take you to the right plane and probably not pay that much attention to it yourself.
They should really have noticed when the captain makes an announcement before departure though.
Ooooh, my names Boydy and I read further than the title of the article.
Some of us are pretending to work here mate
It's still mad to see that go through at least three points of failure.
Airports are the single reason I hate going anywhere.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz448dj4x8xo
The Oracle.
Natural selection.
Never again will TTH doubt my secret contacts, located at the very heart of the British health world.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjll01220yeo
Baz in the mud.
That wouldn’t fly here.
I’m a spreadsheet macro up a cell down a cell pro, thank you very much.
I'm a twit
Giggles has been suspiciously quiet since his WFH announcement.
Wanking himself into oblivion like the rest of us did during the novelty stage, I imagine.
I regret to report that we are back into animal news silly season.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11p105wv4o
It's a fucking cow. It doesn't have a name. Grow up.
Can tell you’ve not watched Clarkson’s Farm.
I'm a twit
That was always going to happen. It was demonic behaviour
I have and all the times he runs into sticky situations are when he's stupidly given names and personalities to animals that don't possess human qualities.
Such a weird take. In what world is it appropriate for a police officer to needlessly run over an animal?
Even in you ignore how despicable it is to do that to an animal, they also showed no regard for damaging the car.
Some farmer bod came out today and said it was probably the best thing to do, although I have no idea if he was some weird, reform candidate, anti-woke fascist farmer bod. Knowing farmers he probably was.
I'm from a farming background, the pigs used to get out now and again and I can guarantee you that ramming them with a vehicle is not an appropriate response.
It isn't appropriate but it's something we should all get over in 10 minutes and he should have a talking to from his sergeant, not be a major news story.
Actually, you've convinced me, I think on packets of supermarket mince they should write the name of the cow it came from.
A bit daft not to realise it was going to cause a shit storm with all the plebs filming it out of their window though.
Putin rocks up in Hanoi in a few days... Right in the middle of the massive purge of leadership and a military takeover of the government, also with rumours that the big boss is on his deathbed.
Should be fun.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm55gzvv1dro
You have to wonder why this isn't bigger news.
I suspect it would be if it had been Richard Branson.
Honestly, there's something almost impressively evil about having servants on like 50p/hour when you're worth literally tens of billions. I mean it's one thing when mega corporations do it to thousands of employees, but when it's literally the people doing your cleaning and stuff, awesome. Legends.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm55gzvv1dro
You have to wonder why this isn't bigger news.
I suspect it would be if it had been Richard Branson.
The only awesome thing about it is the guillotine they should be executed in.
There must be some mistake, only the white man indulges in slavery.
It just goes to show you really do need to be an absolute cunt to be successful with capitalism.
Don't worry, it'll be the fault of British India colonialism. Like how we made all the previously super gay Polynesians massive homophobes.
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