And that’s the whole ideology of ABA, to get rid of certain behaviors as if the reason people were doing those behaviors was simply because they couldn’t understand that they shouldn’t do them. Stimming isn’t just pointless disruption, it’s an important tool for self-regulation. Limited speaking isn’t just a refusal to communicate, it’s an actual difficulty with the medium of spoken word. Beating these traits out of people, either figuratively or literally, doesn’t solve the underlying issues that affect their internal experience and their happiness.

Sorry for ranting at you, I just get so mad about this topic.

My mother was a special education teacher, and she saw my stimming and sensory issues and decreed them to be a problem because I’d never be “normal” (and I use the term loosely). “You’re so smart! You can’t have any issue with anxiety! Lights are that bright for everyone, and no one else complains! Figure it out!”

I was in special ed and the teachers were like that there too. It’s so frustrating how the people with the most power over autistic people’s lives are so often the people who understand us the least.

One downside of a formal diagnosis is that it might make it harder to move to some countries. But if you’re already in Canada then that shouldn’t be too much of a concern.

I don’t think it’s likely that there is a minimum volume, at least not a discrete quantized one. It would have to be a [regular honeycomb tessellation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycomb_(geometry\)) that shows no bias towards any particular direction (i.e. no corners). There are no shapes that fulfill both of those conditions in 3D space.

Electrolytes are chemicals that can ionize to carry current. Table salt is one electrolyte, but potassium and magnesium salts are also required by the human body. Nerves work by sending electrical signals, so they need these electrolytes in order for them to carry those signals throughout the body. The problem is, the amount of electrolytes available to nerves depends on the amount present in the bloodstream, and when sweat glands pull water out of the bloodstream, they also take some electrolytes with it. That’s why you need to replenish them after sweating. If you don’t, your nerves won’t work as well and your muscles will have a hard time coordinating. The specific ions you need to organize muscle contraction are sodium, potassium, and magnesium, so if you’re low in any of those, then you risk weakness and cramps. So it’s not quite as simple as just drinking table salt.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolyte)

Yeah, I’ve had my LG G8 for four years now and I’m just starting to look for replacements. Unfortunately the G8 is known for the battery being very hard to replace or I would be looking into a battery replacement service instead to get a couple more years of useful life.

I mean, I wouldn’t want to eat inorganic food. What would that even be, pure salt?

Let alone invent CSS.

Oh they are desperate for engagement.

I learned in SQL class that you never ever hard delete data when there is any alternative. On Facebook and Twitter you get a whole month to change your mind before your account can’t be recovered.

This was actually a major confounding factor in the original marshmallow experiment. They never thought that kids wouldn’t trust the promise of additional marshmallow later.

I guess we wouldn’t have LeopardsAteMyFace if it wasn’t :/

The culture war bullshit is doing significant harm to the red states. They’re alienating significant segments of the population that, you know, contribute to society, and the only benefit they get in exchange is approval from conservatives, but according to polls the transphobes are a minority even within the right wing.

It is weird, because the entire point of racist ideology in America has historically been for personal gain by slaveowners, but now it’s just objectively hurting their states’ economies. Are they really getting that much benefit from exploitation like prison labor and such, or are they just so stuck in their ways that they’d rather feel powerful over others at their own expense?

My parents have always been pretty conservative but it didn’t make too much difference until I came out as trans and then covid happened. I try not to stand up to them too much because I don’t want to be kicked out.

Their whole deal with masks and vaccines is that they should have the right to decide for themselves.

Yeah, and before the Civil War the South’s rhetoric was that they should have the right to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery, but if you look at the constitution of the confederacy it doesn’t exactly allow the member states to choose not to allow slavery. It’s all opportunistic.

I figured out what happened- I opened the site in a new browser container and that had the same effect as resetting cookies.

I can’t log in on my blahaj account. It gives me a little notification saying “Logged in” but then it doesn’t actually log me in. My lemmy.world account still works (thankfully, because it’s the only way I can figure out to report this issue) but I would like to have access to my local blahaj account as well.

edit: Either the devs fixed this extremely quickly or the problem went away on its own for some reason.

It’s happening!

What’s the difference?