The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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This is a massive variation on rates, from basically "eh, it's a risk we're willing to take" to "sorry, but I don't to play 2x russian roulette with my mode of life every time we have a child". One would think we would have a more precise handle on this probability, because it's an important factor to look at when choosing your life partner.
I'll worry about the DSM-5 and the upcoming 6 when I'm a bonafide shrink instead of a LARPing one, ASD can be tricky to diagnose, and there has been sufficiently recent and sweeping changes to the criteria that barring flagrant cases, I don't aspire to more than "I know it when I see it".
I will point out that these are stupid figures derived from a few minutes of fucking about, season with salt appropriately, and environmental factors play a massive part. Further, that's about ~all reasonably diagnosable as ASD, covering high functioning and greentext material alike. Being a high functioning autistic isn't all that bad, especially if they have a knack for programming 🙏. Low functioning? Both they and their families are better off with them dead, I'm sorry to say.
If he's dating an aspie woman in their late 30s, well better keep a very close eye on the pediatric milestones. Either way, there's not much you can do about it when it comes to treatment or screening.
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