And vaccines turn you gay.

It's a bit more complicated than that. Current society is flawed as it requires conformity in individuals to serve it when instead it should serve the individual.

The base flaw is authority. It requires the individual to act in a specific way that is consistent with its needs and that will suppress other inclinations. Added to that is nature itself, which doesn't give a shit about anyone and cares not if any needs are met in any way, at all. Which is further compounded by the simple fact that not every divergence plays well with all the others. So conflict will eventually become unavoidable regardless of the development path.

A complicated part is that not every divergence is good for the individual's development or survival. So it then becomes a matter of balance in regards to personal freedom in acting as such even though it might be harmful to oneself or others, having the necessary support that allows an individual to make an informed choice on whether to maintain that freedom or suppress it and living with the consequences of the choice and finally, whether to fight against nature's own form of ruthless culling in order to preserve and develop all the variances that might emerge or allow it to run wild.

It can get very sketchy once you dive into the gritty details and every aspect of the possible ramifications when trying to find a reasonable approach that takes everyone into account.

Radio telescopes are notorious for that because they're on the far end of the spectrum.

So...what I'm getting is

we need to make space illegal?

No no, you've got it the wrong way round: autism causes telescopes

Please don’t give ‘em ideas…

I wonder what happened in the 1890s to scare that many left-handed people back into hiding..

Aha! So it was Pluto causing autism and the push to reclass it as a dwarf planet was an attempt to reduce its power!

improved how we recognize and diagnose it.

Well, we at least have changed how we recognize and diagnose it, I'm not totally convinced it's 100% an "improvement". We've kind of jumbled up a whole bunch of people under a common umbrella and diluted the implications of the term, to the point where it tells you negligible practical information when someone is described as "autistic" or "on the spectrum".

Did he not ever read about the Romans or any other country with a monarchy

https://lemmy.nz/comment/16190113

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