I didn't see a through line by the writers. Framing autism as a 'new' 'epidemic' 'problem', by the folks who want both autistic self-advocates and trans people to be quiet while they figure out how to erase everyone in both categories from public life, is similar, of course. But that's their goal.

my point is: that subset was "autistic people" as recently as 2013, in terms of DXes & resources

Yes,.the vast majority of 2025's "autistic people" indeed object to a vision for America that eradicates them from society by making it impossible for them to work & live independently, as a policy goal

I know someone whose job offer included 'we will buy your Boulder home so you can buy here' in 2014 and reality is they are raising their only child to understand that she likely won't be able to live in her own place in San Diego until she also has a tenure track offer w/trailing spouse

it's the Best Place to Be A Retired State Employee/Boomer With Pension

yes, if you used your salary to buy in 1980s or 1990s California, it's a GREAT place to be retired, otherwise you best hope your Slient or elder Boomer parents die in a timely manner to transfer liquidity so you can have housing

this isn't even close, though

parents struggling to fund/plan lifelong care for their adult children & self-advocates who can fight for the supports they need are being pitted against each other by the policy failure of resource restriction

just...not at all like the problems trans kids face

Picking a fight with Mark Kelly is...a decision no one smarter than Trump would make!

band name: Bondi & the Ultra Vires

(fans will dispute the pronunciation)

I’m pretty sure “a bear, a frog and whatever it is you are” was descriptive of species, but maybe was also gender?

Head of security for the court Dana did their job: Confronting these lawless thugs and making them go away using the awesome power of Fuck You Make Me.

(This is an argument that not all cops are, because Head of Security is a cop. We need more cops who believe laws apply to cops.)

Or, wait a minute, is this the work of speech therapists who long for more young children who need both ASL and oral language after losing hearing in a measles infection?

Anytime something bonkers happens in politics I ask myself, who benefits from this?

As an American I heartily agree

I just walked through the Truman Library and honest to Dog there’s a whole exhibit on how a President directed the rehabilitation of a crumbling White House during my parents’ lifetime. He went on live tv, because that was all TV in 1952, to show off the remodel. Don’t know why I was surprised.

That would be an improvement to validity but I don’t have TAs to grade. I have shifted the points to online discussion, to weigh that participation excessively, I think. But it’s clearly their ideas & their writing when they’re arguing with one another and developing citations to prove who’s right.

And to the OP: I last gathered survey data by setting up a survey on a temp server accessible to people on the network, with a unique password issued by a human for that day’s participants. If you’re trying to get saturation on a population that can’t be sampled from the inside, bless you all.

I’ve shifted to asking them to frame the essay around a story from their lives. If I didn’t teach social policy, I don’t know what I would do. Probably drink more.

I’ve since changed all my assignments using human experience as the required content, and if they’re cheating that, I just don’t want to know.

Do not recommend prompt injection. It caught my least capable cheaters while causing a wave of “late” papers from students who had previously turned in suspiciously perfect work at 11:54pm. So I don’t know if they ever wrote or read or learned anything.