You’ll soon be in the top 5% if you have a keyboard app installed on your phone
...Those won't go away, right? People aren't going to start talking on the bus for their phones to auto-type the text messages they want to send through chat, right...?
SuddenDownpour
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Hamas' reason for their attack on October was very likely to blow up the negotiations between Israel and other Arab countries to normalize diplomatic relations. Even if they also wanted the conflict to legitimize themselves in front of Gazans, I doubt Gazans need any more bombs to fall upon their heads to get the message.
I don't think it's impossible for them to tense the cord and try and get more out of the negotiations, but they don't really have anything to gain from extending the hostilities.
I was just mostly addressing the fact that none of the reasons for which you claim one of your kids isn't neurodivergent is actually a valid refutation.
shows kindness and acceptance towards all people, and adults frequently comment to me how mature he is when interacting with them
None of this is rare for people on the spectrum.
Makes friends easily, is a natural leader
Contrary to popular belief, autistic people don't have trouble to make friends on a vacuum, they have communication problems with non-autistic people. If your kid is on the gifted program...
Don't take any of this as offense. I'm autistic and I'm finding my way to thrive in life. It just would have been easier if I had been given the appropriate resources instead of being discriminated against.
Humble autism.
Not really? Bruxism is heavily linked with stress and anxiety, which we have too much of in our contemporary society (meaning: a drop of water in our whole evolutionary history), and it's very rarely going to incapacitate anyone, so evolution doesn't care, and has cared even less before civilization.
And it pays for public pensions. I see that as an absolute win. If there's going to be exploitation of the working class, at least let it be to care for old bums.
Giftedness easily becomes a social disability if your environment isn't good for it. The education system isn't ready to handle you constantly being ahead of the class? Get ready to sleep in school as the best years to take advantage of it pass by. Your topics of interest are too complex for everyone else around? Have fun enjoying your friendships less than everyone else. You don't mask your intelligence? Here, have 10 lottery tickets to get bullied, no, you can't return them. Congratulations, you graduated from college. Do you have the money for a masters degree? Oops, guess you studied for nothing. Got into debt and got a masters, but the job market isn't booming? Do you have rich parents, or rich friends? Aw shucks, guess you couldn't network your way into the type of job you would have liked.
Being intelligent helps, if you're patient, hard-working, and have the means to look out for the less conventional options, but not so much as one would instinctively think.
On the other hand, he has to live for the rest of his life with sustained brain damage.
Don't most of them appear in TES Online?
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-attack-aimed-disrupt-saudi-israel-normalization-biden-2023-10-20/
https://www.dw.com/en/has-hamas-reset-the-israeli-arab-agenda/a-67042746
https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/saudi-israeli-normalization-and-the-hamas-attack/
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-arab-normalization-agreements-0c4707ff246c0c25d1ca001f8b1e734a