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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Excellent interview with @angierasmussen.bsky.social on CNN about the reported case of plague in Russia It’s good to hear from an actual expert like Dr Rasmussen (there are plenty of “armchair” commentators who don’t really know what they’re talking about!) www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/w...
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Virologist tells CNN about infection at Russian plague lab | CNN
Angela Rasmussen, a virologist and Science Chair for Save America Movement, joins Omar Jimenez to discuss what we know about the worker at the Russian plague lab who is dead of an “unknown” infection....
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Kate in Pittsburgh ⚾️ @katechase.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Outside of my usual, but we’re seeing a lot of plague fear posts so I’m linking this interview with @angierasmussen.bsky.social where she explains how not freaked out almost everyone on the planet needs to be over what’s happening with the Russia lab situation. www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/e...
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Dozens quarantined after researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection | CNN
Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness.
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Google bowing to Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario illustrates the dangers of the U.S. tech companies Morning File by me
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Google bowing to Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario illustrates the dangers of the U.S. tech companies - Halifax Examiner
No one on the planet is safe from the wanton and capricious power grab of Trump and the aligned U.S.-based tech companies.
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 31/08/2026
Is it possible we could watching the end of an empire… the birth of something new… or BOTH? 🤔
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Did a newborn in PA die FROM measles or WITH measles? There’s a lot of confusion, because RFK, Jr. & the GOP are creating it. Why lie to the public that measles is no big deal? Because it is a big deal & it's their fault @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/who-is-mak...
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Who Is Making Measles Political Here?
The Grand Old Paramyxoviridae
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Truly hoping Alina Chan’s second series of NY Times op/ed-based job talks at the think tanks & policy orgs goes better than the first. Good news is that business is booming for self-promoting liars who make things up about viruses because they are totally unqualified. Exhibit A
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
They're not just venting, or trolling us, or being assholes, or repeating slogans to prove their group loyalty. They really believe what they're saying, and they would (and in some cases do) gladly act on those horrific beliefs: www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...
I postulate seven key neofascist narratives. These are:
1. Only white people can produce and sustain the highest culture (“Western Civilization").
2. The different racial-cultural nations are necessarily in zero-sum, violent conflict.
3. Violent masculinity is needed to save white nations (and hence civilization).
4. Women are not capable of this. Their role is to breed the race, not lead it
5. Because our leadership has become feminised and corrupted, white nations have been contaminated by contact with inferior races.
6. A political purge is required, followed by a society-wide purge of the  ontaminating elements
7. This will restore the white racial-cultural nations to their previous (mythic) glory.There is no ulterior motive in doubling down on death and deportations. They sincerely believe that the white race, the bearers of civilization, are under existential threat and must defend themselves. That all of our existing social and political institutions must be destroyed or remade. And they are bringing a large chunk of the electorate with them, with “mass deportation now” going from fringe rhetoric to a rallying cry for the base.Imagine you think—as Elon Musk clearly does—that all of human civilization is dependent on maintaining pure-blooded white people as a significant portion of the world's population, and keeping them in charge of, and the overwhelming majority within, its most powerful states. What political agenda would follow from that? Well if that were true, then a demographic purge of those states would be desirable. Ethnic cleansing of that scale is not possible with our existing political systems, so those systems would need to be done away with.And this is happening. People are being rounded up on the basis of race in America right now. People are dying in ICE detention centers right now, or being disappeared into foreign prisons. Stephen Miller is a crank intemet fascist, and he's also one of the most powerful men in the country. “Miller's obsession with sheer numbers..borders on pathological; Greg Sagent wrote. “Miller has repeatedly raged at Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials for arrest numbers he deems too low.”
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
As the always-quotable Debbie Meier once put it, “If we deliberately tried to come up with a way to widen the achievement gap, we might just invent homework.” (Never mind its lack of academic benefit and its adverse effects on curiosity: www.alfiekohn.org/homework-myth/)
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The Homework Myth – (Book)
The Work Of Alfie Kohn
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Qualitative study on how homework perpetuates inequities: Richer kids' advantages help them succeed w/ assignments and are then "seen by tchrs as responsible, motivated, & capable." Conversely, kids who struggle w/HW b/c of fewer resources are blamed for lacking responsibility or motiv: is.gd/1KwIgY
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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
CBC Investigates identified the location of a Second Sons Canada white supremacist training event in rural Alberta after the group booked a community hall under false pretences. Residents were shocked. How should communities prevent extremist groups from exploiting public spaces?
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Alex Kronstein @alexkronstein.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Parker Wells deserved better than the language used to describe him. My new piece calls out mental age framing, introduces the ASAN safety toolkit most people have never heard of, and proposes the reframe we desperately need - grounded in Shanker Self-Reg. open.substack.com/pub/alexkron...
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He Wasn't Wandering. He Was Going Somewhere.
Autistic advocates laid the groundwork nine years ago. It's time to build on it.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 30/07/2026
"Someone who suspects they are autistic but does not want the risks associated with having the diagnosis in their record still deserves community support." From @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com: www.verywellmind.com/self-diagnos... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity
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As an Autistic Psychologist, Here Are My Thoughts on Self-Diagnosed Autism
Self-diagnosis is an often-discussed topic in the autistic community. Learn what it means to self-diagnose and how self-diagnosis impacts the autistic community.
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Iris Smooches @iris-smooches.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This quote is catchy but do yourself a favor and read the whole interview.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 04/06/2026
Esther Warwick and "many other disability rights activists have condemned Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) project as harmful, and it has concerning resonances with past policies in American history." threewayfight.org/disability-a... #disability #autism #neurodiversity
Graphic with a light green background.   "Text reads, "We talk about how, for many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, your life is that you go from your “special school” to your “special home” to your “special job,” and your whole life is “special,” but what’s really special about it is how you are treated especially badly. -Esther Warwick"  In the lower left corner, smaller text reads, "@ThinkingAutism tinyurl.com/EstherWarwick"  The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism logo is in the lower right corner.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 03/06/2026
"Research shows that kids who get more ABA in a week don’t do better than kids who get less ABA in a week. But many ABA businesses make children go through 40 hours of ABA in a week. That is the same amount of time as a full-time job." TY @autisticadvocacy.org: autisticadvocacy.org/2026/05/aba-...
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ABA Hurts Autistic People
The New York Times found many problems at a large chain providing Applied Behavioral Analysis to autistic kids. ABA does not help autistic people, it hurts us.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 01/06/2026
Once-respected autism researcher Uta Frith keeps wanting to "dismantle the autism spectrum," which is absurd—and also harms already-undersupported autistic people with less obvious autism traits. Anne Borden recently detailed just how wrong Frith is, at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2026/03/resp...
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Responding to Psychologist Uta Frith: Autism Can’t Be Quantified
Autism will never fit in the disease model because it is not a disease; it is part of the human condition. That is the beauty of the spectrum.
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Shannon Rosa @shannonrosa.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Regarding ABA therapy in the recent Bloomberg article: “Autistic kids, they need more time to just be kids,” [yours truly] says. “They shouldn’t have a full-time job on top of school.” [Ido] Kedar puts it bluntly: “How many toddlers like toiling at bullshit 40 hours a week?” #BetterWaysThanABA
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Alex Kronstein @alexkronstein.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
It's wonderful that ABA survivors are featured in the Bloomberg piece! But please, please take a look at Anne Borden King's response to the Bloomberg article, if you haven't already. childrensrights.substack.com/p/bloomberg-...
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Bloomberg decided to cover the ABA controversy--but a good story was ruined by clickbait
I was interviewed by Bloomberg about ABA autism therapy controversies. The final version "main charactered" the story, diminishing the facts & losing the plot
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Elizabeth Heyes 🍉🎲🌈❤️ @mollywilcoxvo.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I hadn't thought what I went through growing up was ABA therapy - but honestly, when you look at child-rearing in the 70s and 80s, much of it revolves around carrot and stick situations. As a late-life diagnosed audhd person, I can say that it led to fear/fawn response, as well as...
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morninggloryvt.bsky.social @morninggloryvt.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I'm an autistic parent whose autistic kid was harmed in ABA. We were told it was "good" ABA and then my kid was forced to stay in overwhelming environments and have meltdowns in front of his peers (extinction), with no concern for whether the "coping skills" he was taught to use helped him feel safe
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
ABA “therapy” treats autistic people like dogs, and I’m not even remotely exaggerating.
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Alex Kronstein @alexkronstein.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Well after four months, I have completed the Heart-Strong Changemakers for Children course from Heart-Strong International! Thanks to @sandilerman.bsky.social for the excellent course! And thanks to Chantelle Hyde for inspiring me to take it.
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Adding: I think the reason this angers me so much is because it reduces all the things we do to a financial calculation. "People having fun" or "People benefiting culturally" is not given financial value, so isn't considered at all. Our lives are not just a financial ledger.
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I had an editor's note. These "economic impact" claims drive me nuts. We should have the Metro Centre so people can watch sportsball and go to concerts, both perfectly good reasons to have an arena. We don't have to make up bullshit economic claims for it.
Editor’s note:

“Economic impact” is calculated by multiplying the amount of money the average event attendee spends by the number of total attendees, then multiplying again by a “multiplier” provided by Statistics Canada.

This can be a valuable tool, especially when considering tourists or other people coming to HRM specifically for that event, as they would not have been spending that money in HRM otherwise.

However, local people spending money at the events muddies the calculation, as were they not going to the event, they’d likely be spending the same amount of money elsewhere in the community, creating a different economic impact.

Consider a couple spending $200 on tickets and overpriced beer while attending a concert at the Metro Centre, versus the same couple instead spending $200 on dinner and drinks at the Wooden Monkey before a show at the Neptune Theatre. The money would be spent locally regardless, so the Metro Centre event provides no additional economic impact.

As Fougere provided no breakdown of how many event attendees were visitors and how many were local, the economic impact numbers she provided are close to meaningless.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
RFK Jr’s ideas are more in line with the Klan than the Kennedy family. He pushed reparenting on a 2nd podcast called “Latino Town Hall” & said that COVID-19 is an ethnic bioweapon designed to spare Chinese & Jewish people. When someone keeps telling you who they are, believe them.
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Alex Kronstein @alexkronstein.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Well after eight months, I have completed the Self-Reg Foundations Level 1 Certificate from @selfreg.bsky.social!! Thanks to Susan Hopkins for for making sure I got in the program even with my zero-budget. And thanks to @stuartshanker.bsky.social for the four excellent courses!
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Alex Kronstein @alexkronstein.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Also an urgent webinar. Watch it now. youtube.com/watch?v=rBR9...
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The Right to Grow Up: Mental Age Theory | AutCom Webinar, February 28, 2026
YouTube video by Autism National Committee AutCom
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Alex Kronstein @alexkronstein.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
An extremely important webinar. Please watch it. youtube.com/watch?v=dfE7...
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Challenging the ‘Profound Autism’ Label: A 2025 AutCom Webinar, Featuring Dr. Steven Kapp
YouTube video by Autism National Committee AutCom
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 02/04/2026
"Autism is a normal part of life. There have always been autistic people, and autistic people are part of every community. Autism is not caused by any vaccine or medicine. Autism is genetic. That means people are born autistic." TY @autisticadvocacy.org: autisticadvocacy.org/2026/04/the-... #autism
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The Truth About Autism - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Over the last year, many powerful people have been telling lies about autism. People in the government have told lies about autism and vaccines. They have told lies about autism and medicines. They ha...
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Philip Moscovitch @philmoscovitch.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Today, I look at attacks on publisher funding & use the phrase "make-work project for blowhards." Also, the second installment of Canadian Book of the Week is a trifecta, with books by @tiffmorris.bsky.social & @elliottgish.bsky.social, plus 70s classic Bear. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
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Funding small publishers isn't 'waste' - Halifax Examiner
"Critical ideas and culture are not frivolous indulgences. They are essential to imagining and enacting a more just world"
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Alex Kronstein @alexkronstein.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
An important post for Autism Acceptance Day. #AutismAcceptanceDay #RedInstead #toneitdowntaupe #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs open.substack.com/pub/alexkron...
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A Hypothetical Situation.....Or Maybe Not?
Predators and Parasites
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 02/04/2026
As an Autistic Person, I personally, feel very strongly that: Autism is NOT a tragedy. However, people’s opinions about Autistic People’s existence IS extremely tragic. #ActuallyAutistic #AutismMonth
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 02/04/2026
Just one Autistic person asking the world: Why do I need to "pick up on social cues"? Couldn't people just come out and say what they mean directly, instead of dancing around the point? #ActuallyAutistic #AutismMonth
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 02/04/2026
#ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics: What is one Autism myth, you wish would die forever???
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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · 02/04/2026
Someone asked me “what I think autistic kids need”: I think they need loving, supportive, mentors, who want to help bring out the best in them. I think they need to be treated with love and respect, instead of treated like they're broken. #ActuallyAutistic #AutismMonth
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Alex Kronstein @alexkronstein.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I can't seem to recall any advance notice of this, guys! So if this is a joke, you better admit it and SOON!!! This is incredibly tasteless!
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 29/03/2026
Yes, autistic aides can and do work with autistic clients. AND ALSO "Autistic support workers’ ability to think outside the ABA box is helpful to clients, but is too often discouraged or even penalized when they try to make change." Anne Borden King, at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2023/11/auti...
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Autistic Care Workers: Burned Out By an Ableist System
When ableism forces autistic care workers out of the system, clients lose crucial autistic mentors, and autistic workers can be traumatized.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I think it says something that Alison Singer nor Autism Science Foundation's comms person have ever reached out to me directly, as they're not interested in engaging with media that centers neurodiversity and disability justice.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Because the way disability "support" works in the US is by trying to give you as little as possible. That's how the system works and is designed. So "low support" quickly becomes "no support" and stuff like "more time on tests" as a band aid on dealing with the actual issues in ed for instance.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A lot of "grievance" parents would probably view my child as low support needs but that's simply not how it works. And we should ALL be getting the support we need and the only way that'll happen is if we work together.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
We were lucky because, since I work from home and homeschool her in a way that absolutely no one would recognize as homeschooling, she was able to get the rest & processing she needed to avoid a longer burn out. Because we recognized that the demands are causing severe distress.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
But it terms of emotional regulation, there was a time when her support needs were much higher than they are now. When she needed weekly occupational therapy, speech, behavioral support, and educational support. Which ended up being too much and she was burnt out for a few months.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
But like, my daughter is AuDHD and in terms of verbal communication she's fairly low support needs. She's able to communicate clearly what she needs/wants, people understand her, and she also happens to love talking and conversations.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I completely understand what the point of the levels, qualifiers, and concepts are supposed to be and there's no question that parents of Autistic kids are being put in impossible positions. Most people have to claw out the most meager support no matter what their childs actual needs are.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
THIS. This is why I don't really like any of the Autism qualifiers such as "low" or "high" support needs, or the "profound" label, or levels 1, 2, 3. Because 1. it's very individual and subjective 2. changes as kids develop 3. changes by the day! Some days my kiddo is low support, others higher.
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Aerinea @aerinea.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This thread is important. "Profound Autism" is something used to invalidate the struggles of autistics that are less apparent. For example, me. I do most of the neurotypical stuff. I also stop being able to talk when emotionally overwhelmed & can't make sense of my environment when its too loud
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 30/03/2026
Green: In two other studies [the Lancet commission] looked at, the ["profound autism" rate] was 18 and 23%. I read the study [Singer] cited here, citation seven, and it doesn’t show that 48% of autistic people would fall under what the commission is deciding is "profound autism." 29/
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 29/03/2026
Green: [Singer's] saying that 50% of autistic people, half, could not even grasp the concept of what Microsoft is or does. I think that’s wrong. I don’t think that’s right. I don’t think that that’s what the Lancet report said. And the way she came to that number is frankly unbelievable. 28/
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 29/03/2026
Singer: "The Lancet Commission estimated that close to 50% of the autism population falls into the category of profound autism. This means that for every autistic person trying to get a job at Microsoft—there’s also one who cannot grasp the abstract concept of what Microsoft even is or does.” >:( 27
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 29/03/2026
Singer: “The term profound autism is critical to distinguish people who have high dependency needs from the more verbally and intellectually able population of people with autism.” Green: Why does “ASD3” not do that? You know that 1 is a different number to 2 and that’s a different number to 3? 26/
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