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[niko_cee]

My friend has an autistic nephew that sits just the wrong side of the sweet spot where he apparently knows absolutely everything there is to know about dinosaurs, but, at the same time, if he gets driven home from school the 'wrong' way he throws a wobbler and tries to smash the car windows. Did they just slap that sort of thing out of them back in the olden days?

Yes, pretty much.

A friend I went to school with from an early age would be 100% autistic nowadays. No such thing existed then so he just had to get on, which he did well enough [went to a grammar school, got a degree and now has a decent civil service job]. His kid, who is officially autistic is probably going to end up on the educational/life scrapheap. I guess it's progress.

And yes also to 'inclusivity' [ie having all sorts of SEN folk in the classroom] just serving to fuck things up for everyone else.

[Giggles]

It’s never anyone’s fault for anything it’s the system. Good lad Boydy, you’ll go far.

[Boydy]

You're such a tart.

It’s never anyone’s fault for anything it’s the system. Good lad Boydy, you’ll go far.

God forbid we try to understand the reasons for things, you thick cunts. Suck my Oxford dick.

[Kikó]

Gwarn boydy

[Giggles]

Gen-soft.

[Lewis]

Boyd is autistic.

[Spikey M]

Pitying Mert because his parents paid his way through Uni but expected him to pass his course is possibly the peak of Mount Softshite. It generated a legitimate, real world lol.

[Lewis]

I bet Mert earns mega money now the fat prick.

[Boydy]

Boyd is autistic.

It's glasshouses all round on here for accusations like that.

[Lewis]

No 'accusations' here friend.

[Spikey M]

It's alright Lewis, they often struggle to discern intent and meaning apparently.

[Pepe]

I bet Mert earns mega money now the fat prick.

He was in some finance shit, wasn't he?

[Bernanke]

He was in some finance shit, wasn't he?

Law studies no?

[Pepe]

Yes, it was law.

[Kikó]

Luca met him recently and not only is Mert apparently normal but also doing well in some law firm.

[Ian]

So he's just a professional cunt now, hiding the worst excesses of his personal cuntiness.

[Giggles]

A thumbs up from Luca probably isn’t the best seal of approval anyway.

[Shindig]

Bergstein, Goldberg & Arkan.

[Spikey M]

So he's just a professional cunt now, hiding the worst excesses of his personal cuntiness.

Yeah, but aren't we all really?

[Ian]

There are levels to these things.

[randomlegend]

Maybe working in the care industry has given me more insight than most, but you lot are on one with these mental health/disorder takes.

Yeah it's pretty lol. Engaging on it is pointless though.

[randomlegend]

To clarify my point, I'm not saying Autism isn't a thing, just that I think it's a non-diagnosis alot of the time. A bit like my IBS diagnosis, which is essentially doctors saying "well it's not Chrones and it's not Coeliacs so fuck knows what's wrong with you m8".

My Nephew has "autism" and also had to have heart surgery at the age of 18 months, something that is apparently common in people that have Down Syndrome relatives (which he does) according to his doctor at Brompton. Which just makes "oh it's autism" feel like a bit of a "fuck knows tbh". I just wonder how much of that is going on along a "spectrum" that manages to inclulde the hyper-social, the hyper-unsocial, Einstein and non-vernal people that can't cope with a coaster being out of place. I think there are alot of Syndromes and disorders that are just "Autism" because they just don't know what it actually is.

A lot of people who have a diagnosis of autism have one because their parents have paid a dodgy private company to give them what they want.

[randomlegend]

There was one proper autistic at my primary school, and he used to run around putting people in wrestling holds whilst his pensioner carer tried to talk him out of it. He disappeared to a 'special school' before secondary, so maybe they just buried them in those back then instead of being soft and letting them ruin lessons for everybody else.

There are not enough special school places.

My wife is about to start working at one (having been a special educational needs co-ordinator for the last few years) and they get >90 applications for every space they have come available, and they are all kids who need the space.

[Lofty]

ADHD/Autism also a staple of online grifter bingo.

[Spikey M]

ADHD/Autism also a staple of online grifter bingo.

Does 'she who must not be named' claim to have it?

[Spikey M]

There are not enough special school places.

My wife is about to start working at one (having been a special educational needs co-ordinator for the last few years) and they get >90 applications for every space they have come available, and they are all kids who need the space.

My Nephew will be starting in one next September. It's a tough one as he is borderline. For the last few years he has had a one on one "teacher" to help him in class each day, but she has moved up north and the school apparently can't find a replacement (even though they're still getting the funding). So he's going to a school that he is probably too high functioning for as a result. And there ends today's episode of "yes, absolutely everything is shit at the moment".

[Kikó]

Does 'she who must not be named' claim to have it?

Of course.

[Lofty]

Indeed and it is both her superpower and her excuse for all failings.

[Magic]

I'd rather be autistic, seems to be revered these days.

[randomlegend]

I'd rather be autistic, seems to be revered these days.

Good news!

[Giggles]

Prime example of someone that’s not autistic and just a cunt.

[Magic]

Good news!

Another incorrect diagnosis.

[Boydy]

Good news!

Lol

[Lewis]

There was one proper autistic at my primary school, and he used to run around putting people in wrestling holds whilst his pensioner carer tried to talk him out of it. He disappeared to a 'special school' before secondary, so maybe they just buried them in those back then instead of being soft and letting them ruin lessons for everybody else.

My mother informs me that this lad was actually a Downy. He was definitely the only one of those I ever saw at any level of education.

[Dquincy]

A lot of people who have a diagnosis of autism have one because their parents have paid a dodgy private company to give them what they want.

There is also the fact that a diagnosis through the NHS/school system can take over a year, which is ridiculous. So understandably parents who can afford it will try to speed up the assessment. But yeah, fair point that the paying of an assessment may impair the assessor if pressure is applied.

99% sure my eldest is ASD and it is so fucking challenging, for him and us.

[Baz]

My mother informs me that this lad was actually a Downy. He was definitely the only one of those I ever saw at any level of education.

I love the idea of you discussing recent TTH topics with your mum.

Did she rate you more as a centrehalf or fullback for my FM team?

[Lewis]

We got onto it because she was talking about somebody she knows whose shithead kid has just been diagnosed with something excusing poor parenting, and that there wasn't as much of this about when I was at school. I mentioned the aforementioned autistic, and she said, well, actually, he had Down's syndrome, so that's why he used to slap people in Sharpshooters every playtime. It also turns out that his ineffectual zookeeper was a friend of my nan's, so I'll have to ask her whether she's still knocking about.

[Magic]

I love the idea of you discussing recent TTH topics with your mum.

Did she rate you more as a centrehalf or fullback for my FM team?

She's 100% a skeleton on a chair. He's a lunatic.

[Waffdon]

https://t.co/RDHeS7quDs

30 second walk from me and I slept through it. Took 25 mins for the bastards to let the car out of the crime scene tape. Now I’m running late for Edinburgh smh

[Gray Fox]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64143964

So has he rolled it or crashed into another plough?

[Giggles]

More fuel

The government have so badly judged this.

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[Disco]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64143964

So has he rolled it or crashed into another plough?

Almost certainly rolled it, the winter version of the deadly celeb piloted quad.

[niko_cee]

Direct Provision Centre sounds very dystopian.

[Giggles]

Direct Provision Centre sounds very dystopian.

Doesn't read much better, especially when you consider the figures here too https://homelessnessinireland.ie/

But, so long as Leo gets his nice cushy EU job for his retirement that's all that matters.

[SvN]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-64151441

What a psycho. She won't get more than 6 months though, if there's any custodial sentence at all.

[SincereTheRebel]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-64151441

What a psycho. She won't get more than 6 months though, if there's any custodial sentence at all.

Wild. That really is hideous. Lying on her pussy like that.

[Shindig]

Breaking out the claw hammer just to cement it is batshit.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63736944

Fuck me. What a grim state of affairs. The worrying thing is that the extremification (is that a word?) of teenagers appears to be fairly normal these days. Everyone has to be ALL IN on every position they have. No nuance allowed. This is the inevitable end point.

We're just America now, aren't we?

[niko_cee]

What an awful story.

[Lewis]

Besides the classic bureaucratic fuck ups, the rest of that is mongs all the way down, and the mother wants locking up. I'm not sure it's particularly representative of anything normal.