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Barry Humphries views on ‘benevolent pedophilia’

June12

Barry Humphries on Pedophilia

Barry Humphries on Pedophilia

From 1969-1979 a famous Australian artist, Donald Friend, had a house in Bali where he had up to 20 Balinese ‘houseboys’ who stayed at his home.
Donald Friend

Donald Friend

Donald Friend kept diaries detailing his pedophilia there with boys aged 9-12 years old. He finally bequeathed these diaries to the National Library on the condition they publish them. Read the rest of this entry »

Who said life is fair?

April20

Hope by Donna Williams

Hope by Donna Williams

Guess what… life’s tough, most people won’t understand you… mostly nobody will care about your ‘shit’… and generally that’s a symptom of a serious social disability called OVER POPULATION… it can probably be cured by condoms… if we cure it enough we’ll all most probably stop taking each other for granted – guaranteed. Fact is Dr Phil and Oprah may well have lied… the world was probably never designed to be kind and equal to all… its overpopulated, has generally bred greed and competition, heirachy and hypocrisy.. its time we faced up to the fact most of us are generally too selfish to care about the planet and too selfish to care about any children but our own ones, and too selfish to care about any groups but our own homies and essentially if we had to walk 5 miles to the next human most of us would really appreciate them whoever they were. Read the rest of this entry »

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Is Asperger’s real? The case for subclinical Aspergers.

April20

Cozy by Donna Williams

Cozy by Donna Williams

OK, so whilst there’s a war about who is autistic, who has Aspergers, whether someone with AS can once have been more autistic, whether someone autism can become someone with Aspergers or outgrow degrees of their autism, the group people most don’t ‘get’ are those slightly outside of the bell curve who nevertheless have the type of personality traits that mean they experience their oddity profoundly or move in circles which are so normality monging that they can smell a weirdo at 500 paces. Who are these people who feel they have no disability but identify as having AS, even identify as ‘Autistics’? Often they are people with subclinical Aspergers Syndrome. Read the rest of this entry »

Aspergers diagnosis versus identification

April19

Circus Tightrope by Donna Williams If you identified with AS, wanted to confirm your own identification with the label, but had no significant disabilities why would you seek a medical diagnosis? Read the rest of this entry »

What is Neurodiversity?

April16

Donna Williams aged 4

Donna Williams aged 4

According to Wikipedia, Neurodiversity is about the acceptance of relative equality, acceptance and respect of diverse forms of neurological difference. Read the rest of this entry »

Autism and Equality

April8

Autism and Equality

Autism and Equality

If only all on the autism spectrum who seek equality know with their entire soul that non-autistic people are as diverse as they are, and deserve more than reverse prejudice Read the rest of this entry »

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Autistics, X-Men, Indigos and Diversity

March28

There’s vast online gatherings of enthused, sometimes fervent, even openly militant, self identified ‘Autistics’ who feel that Autism is a new ‘race’. Read the rest of this entry »

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Think you can’t help the homeless…

February20

I just watched on Australian TV how horrendous the unemployment and homelessness is in America right now. Sure, maybe you’re afraid of needy people. They may seem like drowning people and you don’t want to be pulled under just because you reached out a hand. But many people who’ve fallen on hard times are not necessarily opportunists and give them an inch and that is in fact all they’ll take and look forward to being able to give something back. How do I know? I was homeless in my teens and intermittently through my 20s. So I pondered what each of us can do to get to know or constructively help those in these positions. Here’s some ideas : Read the rest of this entry »

Autism and B12

February14

I was asked re methylated B12 shots. Read the rest of this entry »

Co-morbids: How dare you have more than one condition!

January18

There are bigots and purists who can’t cope someone having autism and co-occurring mental health issues. I am diagnosed with autism AND Dissociative Identity Disorder. Anyone who lives with someone with autism will know that most people with autism dissociate (cut off, shutdown) more commonly than most, yet somehow tell people you have a dissociative disorder along the spectrum of dissociative disorders AND that you are a person diagnosed with autism, well, seems for some people, their head falls off. Read the rest of this entry »

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