It’s worse than you think.

The miasma part is pre-germ. The worst part is what’s following. The immune system and healthy living part is an ideology that is popular in the New Age beliefs. It was very popular in some communities in the 60s and 70s. But, it’s an older ideology about health. The Nazi themselves used this and believed (at least partially) in the immune system bullshit. They all base their beliefs on a German umbrella term and movement, the Lebensreform (German Wikipedia for a longer article )

It was promoted by wealthy bourgeois that lived in urban and industrialized areas of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. The intent was a natural and healthy lifestyle to counter the detrimental effects of industrialization, urban living, and “modernity” on health and overall well-being. It included for example organic food, alternative medicine but also spiritual and religious beliefs.

I highly recommend reading some lines about it. It helps to understand RFK Jr. and where his bullshit comes from.

If the UK wants to defy Trump, they have to become a member of the EU and the Euro zone.

This GIF is great!

No problem. If you deep dive the rabbit hole, you may be interested in this (Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches)

communication with others is usually fraught for autistic people.

You should read about the double empathy problem. It has empirical proofs and explain well the issue.

RFK Jr. is a puppet and serves the interest of Trump Elmo.

People don’t understand that a state isn’t a private company, and you can’t manage the state like in the private sector.

Trump is a personality cult. It’s not rational and whatever. It’s about him and always has been.

Oh, of course, my intent was more “quit the US”.

They could just become a European company. I’m just saying.

I’m not even sorry to laugh out loud at the title.

Email won’t disappear sooner or later. It’s a huge part of communication between companies, nonprofit, state, etc. It may be less between people or with consumers. But, it still is widely use otherwise.

You don’t negotiate and speak with a kid in a sandbox having a tantrum. You educate.

I’m waiting to see the bubble poping out.

Orthovox is missing as well. They are German.

I can only recommend La Sportiva hiking, trekking and mountains shoes. Great quality.

It’s really a 4D chess period.

Yes.

I’m not doing diagnosis. But, a psychologist that use “mildly autistic” should not be taken seriously on the topic. There is no level. The DSM 5 TR has level of support. It’s very different and these levels can vary from one moment to an other (even in the same day).

More about this in this journal article by Steven Kapp which is an autistic researcher.

Profound Concerns about “Profound Autism”: Dangers of Severity Scales and Functioning Labels for Support Needs

You show “little empathy” in comparaison with what? The neuronormativity? This is already an issue. We don’t have to compare to neurotypical. We have to validate how autistics shows empathy, emotions, etc. Often, it’s by resolving problems. E.g.: This is making you sad so we resolve the problem and you will be better. Advocating for someone is another. Sounds similar to what you wrote about your wife. It’s often called “cognitive empathy”. This is entirely valid!

First, I didn’t write all of them.

Now on the subject of autism and empathy, empathy is widely misinterpreted and misunderstood in autistics. The lack of empathy stereotype is based on the deficit model of autism and therefore on the lack of theory of mind. This model has roots in eugenic and neocolonialism (also known as neurocolonialism) and is deeply ableist.

We have great research with good methodology and ethics (the opposite is true for the deficit model) about autistics not lacking theory of mind and being empathetic (often hyper empathetic). They just show empathy differently than the neurotypical. This is in fact true for many stereotypes about autism. Autism is a different cognitive style to process information, communicate (including emotions) and learn.

It’s where the Double Empathy Problem of Dr. Damian Milton comes in. It’s the difference and not the lack between two or more individuals/group of individuals that makes the understanding issue.

We are plenty of autistics on Lemmy.

I guess it closes the debate about Musk being autistic. Autistics are more likely to be hyper empathetic.