My dad likely had Asperger's. (Undiagnosed, but pretty much 100% he did). I have close friends with children who are very autistic. (Not completely non-verbel, but they say very few words and are still more likely to have a screeching meltdown than talk.)
My dad was highly successful; a leader in his industry and did a great job supporting us. His life was relatively easy (as easy as life can be in general) and he was a contributing member of society.
We love my friends kids to death and they do have many positive things going for them, but they will likely never be able to live on their own. Even if they do, they are in for a very hard life. They will likely always need to be supported by family and will likely never be contributing members of society.
To lump both those together is insane. It drives me crazy when people who are functional members of society run around laughing about how they are "autistic". I can't think of anything more disrespectful to those who can never have a "normal" life.
With that being said, I do recognize that medically there is a spectrum. I, as someone with ADHD am likely on that spectrum somewhere as well, from how the science is sounding these days. We need to make this spectrum obvious and respectful though. Why can't we classify a level or something? For example "Autistic level 1" for Asperger's, "Autistic level 2" for barely verbal, "Autistic level 3" for non-verbel... Something like that, so we can unite the cause, but still differentiate the effects and potential outcomes.
> It drives me crazy when people who are functional members of society run around laughing about how they are "autistic".
A lot of us low-support-needs autistic people are functional members of society right up until we aren't (i.e., until we've been masking for too long while dealing with sensory stressors and One More Little Thing pushes us into the "screeching meltdown" or renders us temporarily nonverbal). And a lot of us have "normal" lives only in as much as you only see the normal parts.
It's kind of fair to divide things up by support level, but you then also have to understand that there are a lot of different support needs people have and they can look very different at the same "level".
These levels exist since the DSM-5, which is not yet in use everywhere:
The DSM-5 introduced three ASD levels of severity: level 1 (“requiring support”), level 2 (“requiring substantial support”), and level 3 (“requiring very substantial support”).
> Why can't we classify a level or something? For example "Autistic level 1" for Asperger's, "Autistic level 2" for barely verbal, "Autistic level 3" for non-verbel... Something like that
Congratulations, the DSM-5 must have heard you talking :) It does have levels for autism, and classifies the levels in terms of support required:
- Level 1: Requiring support
- Level 2: Requiring substantial support
- Level 3: Requiring very substantial support
> To lump both those together is insane.
I'm diagnosed with ADHD and also clearly on the spectrum. This life has been decades of confusion and--finally--answers & discovery. My time with my son--diagnosed as Level 1 autistic--and my time observing people in Level 2 and level 3 makes me realize that what you say about lumping everything together is spot on. I always feel like our diagnoses make life oh so difficult, but then I see what parents and guardians of Level 3 autistic people go through and have nothing but endless empathy.
Not sure why this is a headline; ChatGPT served me ads a few weeks ago.
I was asking it what type of Teflon tape to use for a project, and it "helpfully" gave me sponsored links to purchase the Teflon tape. (I never asked for links, I strictly asked it which to use)
I've only used CrapGPT a few times but if it starts working advertising into its responses (no ad blocking possible I'll assume), then that will be all I ever used it.
At least this guy got the option to know what was happening. A few years ago I randomly got a letter from the IRS (or some other 3-letter agency - I can't recall which) demanding I pay thousands of dollars because I imported "industrial equipment". I found this odd as I'm just a normal consumer who buys crap of Amazon and whatnot - I'm not importing tens of thousands of dollars worth of industrial equipment.
I verified everything and it wasn't a scam; the government was legitimately about to take me to court or start garnishing my wages or something like that. They said that UPS or FedEx had told them I imported the equipment but never paid import duties.
I got ahold of the case worker for my case and told them it must be some error. After a week or two of back and forth, we finally figured out that it was for a laptop that a user in Canada had shipped back to me when they left the company, and it had been mis-categorized and valued on the import documents. Since we had purchased the laptop in the US in the first place and shipped it to the user, the case was dismissed and I didn't have to pay anything, but it's always a mini heart attack when you get a letter from Uncle Sam saying you owe thousands.
My question is what happened between when they went in the water and when they got off-site medical treatment. 7 hours seems like a long time. Is there on-site medical that would be doing something during that time?
Anecdote: My house mate in grad school was working in a national lab when an experiment caught fire and the fire consumed a certain amount of radioactive material. (Tiny little buttons used for calibrating detectors). He was on shift and was the person who discovered the fire and pulled the alarm.
Among other things, he had to sit inside an enclosure made of scintillator material for a period of time, to make sure he wasn't contaminated. Then he also got blood tests for heavy metals etc. They pretty much went by the book for all of these tests.
Also, the facility is the only place that's equipped for this kind of situation.
It’s a process to come into a high radiation area, as well as, a process to come out; I’m sure the worker was not injured so they processed he/she out and decontaminated the individual and did a whole body count. Then release him to medical for evaluation…which in itself is a process.
Like what is a reactor cavity? HN title makes it sound like they fell into the reactor but maybe this is some sort of moat or something? what did they fall into and why?
I still have my MS Force Feedback 2, and it still works great!
I heard that some patent troll got a hold of the patent for force feedback joysticks, and all manufacturers just gave up on them because of the troll. The patent expired recently IIRC, so hopefully people will start making them again soon.
I can tear real cloth if I try, but I need to try. A flick of the finger has never once in my life torn cloth.
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