I’m a nonverbal autistic.

I mean, go off with your conspiracy theory that’s not supported by your link, I guess.

My dad was born in the 30s, and was just as autistic as me. His mother (born 1910) died when I was little, but I remember her being eccentric, and my mother called her “difficult”. They both lived perfectly normal lives, they were just very different from the others around them. I’m autistic and so is my nephew; that’s four generations, spanning a century.

We have always been here.

Or people could have been autistic all along, and just not diagnosed?

Israeli Arabs are Israeli citizens, they aren’t usually considered Palestinian.

Kindles are great devices and they’re subsidised, so they’re cheap. It’s perfectly possible to use them on e.g. permanent airplane mode. You don’t even have to buy books from Amazon, if you use Calibre.

That said I’ll be going Kobo next time because I love buttons.

Goddamn, Harry Kim just can’t catch a break.

The proof will be in what your child tells you, when they feel able to do so.

Let me put it in words of one syllable for you, since you’re desperately reaching for any goalpost you can find to shift: I don’t know who you think you’re talking to, but it isn’t anyone who’s replied to you on this thread.

Heavens, it’s lucky we have people as smart as you to put the rest of us in our place. That guy has told you repeatedly, for instance, that he’s not American and views “Trump voter” as an insult. And yet you persist in accusing him of being an American Trump voter, while jerking it to the sound of your own voice - surely the act of someone a cut above the common herd, who’s not a self-important asswipe at all.

It’s not a stretch, it’s literally what that phrase means in context.

Representing here for the very confused contingent of Persona 5 players in this thread.

She has accused him both of rape and of grooming her. What on earth do you think her punching him in the stomach while he forcibly deep throated her was supposed to be?

This has been highlighted in the news coverage.

Both child grooming and emotional and sexual assault are illegal in the UK, bizarre as this may seem to you.

Absolutely chilling if you watched the show.

But this… this is just one of those phalloplasties they give to trans guys. I thought the Fail considered them to be the ninth ring of hell, not “bionic penises”.

Disconcertingly close to the truth tbh.

Yes, it was a chest freezer with one of those little filing cabinet locks. It genuinely never occurred to mum that her eight year old could pick it with her hairpin.

… Have you honestly, genuinely never heard of test tube babies? Do you not realise we’ve had them since the 70s?

Think about that, then realise we had all this shit about “but the poor children” back then, for that, and none of it ever materialised because nobody gives a shit or ever knows the difference or cares at all.

It’s no different than giving birth by c-section, or indeed vaginally. There is no difference.

Who the hell is getting bullied for being a test-tube baby?

We had all this shit in the 70s before the first IVF baby, and to the best of my knowledge, bullying over it has simply never been a thing.