REP

Big pictures I put together and posted originally on Twitter, I think, or something like that. These information-dense scribbles are more about my own experiences with learning late in life about my intersex status. That said, my baseline research into this is seemingly only being elevated by concurrence between publications. More discussions about the future of human mating prospects in a pollution-wracked, post-industrialized, climate changing world are arriving to similar conclusions particularly as Microplastics are investigated.

That said, Coal and Famine both produce lots of Autistic Queers after a few generations of effects. You'll note that current arguments about transgender identity mirror claims startlingly familiar with the "vaccines cause autism" crowd, and yes, that crowd tends to assume all cases of Autism are equivalent to Severe Cognitive Impairment (or 'Mental Retardation'). It is for this reason that I personally do not reframe from saying 'Retarded'; the ceding of the term to Industrialists and Social Conservatives allows them to use it to reduce me and mine into a small category. Following the tradition of Queer Reclamation, I refuse to let them dictate the meaning of the word.

Just a little extra content from the stuff I've done, I'm feeling pressure to work on more of this but Narcolepsy is making my life hard.

I was recently asked by a friend for literature talking about the relationship between burning Coal and populations of children developing ASD. Naturally, I went to quickly to grab a few citations with a basic finger dip into Google Scholar and wow, I sure got quite a scatter of US studies from 2010 to 2023.

Also one from China.

Edit 11/28/23: I got a really good comment about the first two of these references not being so definitive, and I think it's worth stressing that this series of observations are an open question. While I highlight a lot of specific mechanisms of action, I should remind readers that I make use of if, might, and possibly a lot. While I think my use of these articles is defensible (it is a surface scatter of only five, after all), they like all pieces of scientific literature are only capable of demonstrating so much individually. I don't think any of these papers are Type 1 Error material, per-say.

2023: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-022-00500-2

2018: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/3046/

2014: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1538544214000741

2012: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/b12531-7/heavy-metal-overloads-autism-children-mainland-china-hong-kong-preliminary-study-lillian-ko-yan-yan-qin-ming-hung-wong

2010: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989602/ (specially, specific to West Virginia, my parents' geographical point of origin)

I'm absolutely going out of my squawking mind right now.

Confusingly, humans seem not record their own species' famous quotes very well. I'm presently in an argument with my roommate Ace, who is misremembering the literature lecture slides. I happen to have an exact copy of each in my integrated digital archive, and it clearly says the Germanic-origin of the phrase values blood over water, some sources will say the blood of the covenant, I think that's a bible-specific thing? One of those books. I know it's a rabbit's foot if you attribute the wrong myth to the wrong fairy-tale book. Humans take their personal metaphysics very seriously, they should focus on regular physics a little more. Ace does! That's why we get along so well, like Sodom and Gomorrah!

Ace has to go home to California for a few weeks, which will leave me all by myself with nothing but the ever-intrusive grad students from the paleontology program as company. I'm not even from this planet, I don't know what it is they think they'll learn about their homeworld's dinosaurids, we Cambrians clearly diverged from that timeline when we were sparred a direct collision with an Asteroid a few hundred million years ago. Oh right, Ace has turned around because I'm thinking about what I want to say too much. I clear my throat and poke my head over his shoulder. Kind of like one of the small birds they keep as pets.

"Ace, it's the blood of friendship is thicker than the water of the womb, were you raised in a barn!?"

"Don't you mean, do you live under a rock, or at least dropped on your head, REP? Being raised in a barn implies I have poor etiquette, and unlike you, I can sit up straight and know which fork is for the Salad, and which is for the Desert." Ace repudiates me, turning to fiddle with that confounded phonebook of theirs.

Big pictures I put together and posted originally on Twitter, I think, or something like that. These information-dense scribbles are more about my own experiences with learning late in life about my intersex status. That said, my baseline research into this is seemingly only being elevated by concurrence between publications. More discussions about the future of human mating prospects in a pollution-wracked, post-industrialized, climate changing world are arriving to similar conclusions particularly as Microplastics are investigated.

That said, Coal and Famine both produce lots of Autistic Queers after a few generations of effects. You'll note that current arguments about transgender identity mirror claims startlingly familiar with the "vaccines cause autism" crowd, and yes, that crowd tends to assume all cases of Autism are equivalent to Severe Cognitive Impairment (or 'Mental Retardation'). It is for this reason that I personally do not reframe from saying 'Retarded'; the ceding of the term to Industrialists and Social Conservatives allows them to use it to reduce me and mine into a small category. Following the tradition of Queer Reclamation, I refuse to let them dictate the meaning of the word.

Just a little extra content from the stuff I've done, I'm feeling pressure to work on more of this but Narcolepsy is making my life hard.