This makes two articles using the term "weaponized autism" I've read in reputable publications. The first may even have been linked to here. I think that one was in the WSJ. However, the focus of...
This makes two articles using the term "weaponized autism" I've read in reputable publications. The first may even have been linked to here. I think that one was in the WSJ. However, the focus of the articles is different. The WSJ(?) article was about how communities like 4chan and Kiwi Farms use the pedantic, obsessive, and detail-oriented nature of their users to stalk often equally neurodiverse victims.
The term itself is right in the sweet spot of internet vocabulary.
It's accessible to normies. There isn't two decades of netlore you need to fully comprehend it.
It's offensive enough to be memorable.
It's not so offensive to be quarantined (see also, bullet 1)
It has an emotional punch. It's not like "C-PTSD," which obscures real suffering under all the salience of an ICD-10 code. On the mirror of point 1, there's no medical background required for an outsider to get it.
Finally, I found the most interesting point in the article to be a one-off comment that Prevent has been noticing a shift away from traditional recruitment and grooming by "real" extremists to international friend circles of teens self-radicalizing each other. It's as if they're now building the very rabbit hole they're falling down instead of being led down a well-trodden recruitment funnel.
I would appreciate a follow up article that explores this point in depth. How does stochastic political radicalism nucleate and spread when none of the participants had direct contact with a real terrorist? However, I'd expect that such an article would require far more investigative resources than this one.
Oof. This leaves me with a lot of feelings. Preventing radicalization is good. Stigmatizing autism is bad. Protecting vulnerable people is good, but only getting services because of a referral for...
Oof. This leaves me with a lot of feelings. Preventing radicalization is good. Stigmatizing autism is bad. Protecting vulnerable people is good, but only getting services because of a referral for possible radicalization thus incentivizing the referral? Still sending those vulnerable people through the criminal justice system?
It's a lot and I will have to read up a lot more on the programs. I know there's not enough support for autistic kids in the UK. (Probably adults too) Just ugh.
right. 5 years ago I was put on a waiting list for mental health treatment which every expert I speak to tells me I desperately need. Earlier this year I was told that I somehow reached the end of...
right. 5 years ago I was put on a waiting list for mental health treatment which every expert I speak to tells me I desperately need. Earlier this year I was told that I somehow reached the end of the waiting list without going on to the 'getting treatment' bit, essentially because they are and have been under resourced for 15 years now, and because I'm not a danger to anyone else (besides being insufferable in online comment threads) they can't justify wasting their time on rehabilitating me ... tbf I probably have nothing left to offer society anyway
It just makes me mad, not least because I sympathise with the people who have to deliver the news that I have been lied to and abandoned - it really can't be easy to still be in the NHS at this point. But oh my would I give anything to speak to the decision makers for 5 minutes. (Given that I arbitrarily chose such a small number of minutes to make my point, I would just call them arseholes over and over again for 5 minutes - one for every year I tried to hold it together in the hopeful knowledge I would get the help I need)
Ugh I'm sorry. I've seen how much the NHS has been underfunded and undercut and I hate what it's all turned into. The US system is also fucked up in different ways and run by assholes too.
Ugh I'm sorry. I've seen how much the NHS has been underfunded and undercut and I hate what it's all turned into. The US system is also fucked up in different ways and run by assholes too.
The NHS has a lot of serious problems. It's easy to fall through the cracks of the UK's social safety nets, and even easier to spend months waiting for critical care...
The NHS has a lot of serious problems. It's easy to fall through the cracks of the UK's social safety nets, and even easier to spend months waiting for critical care...
I wonder if what this article describes is a sign that the NHS needs to provide more support for teen boys diagnosed with Autism. It really seems like they would benefit by being opted in to...
I wonder if what this article describes is a sign that the NHS needs to provide more support for teen boys diagnosed with Autism. It really seems like they would benefit by being opted in to either group therapy, or perhaps a mentorship program?
I can't imagine Prevent services and worsened outcomes via entanglement with law enforcement is much cheaper than actually providing the necessary prevention...
This makes two articles using the term "weaponized autism" I've read in reputable publications. The first may even have been linked to here. I think that one was in the WSJ. However, the focus of the articles is different. The WSJ(?) article was about how communities like 4chan and Kiwi Farms use the pedantic, obsessive, and detail-oriented nature of their users to stalk often equally neurodiverse victims.
The term itself is right in the sweet spot of internet vocabulary.
Finally, I found the most interesting point in the article to be a one-off comment that Prevent has been noticing a shift away from traditional recruitment and grooming by "real" extremists to international friend circles of teens self-radicalizing each other. It's as if they're now building the very rabbit hole they're falling down instead of being led down a well-trodden recruitment funnel.
I would appreciate a follow up article that explores this point in depth. How does stochastic political radicalism nucleate and spread when none of the participants had direct contact with a real terrorist? However, I'd expect that such an article would require far more investigative resources than this one.
Oof. This leaves me with a lot of feelings. Preventing radicalization is good. Stigmatizing autism is bad. Protecting vulnerable people is good, but only getting services because of a referral for possible radicalization thus incentivizing the referral? Still sending those vulnerable people through the criminal justice system?
It's a lot and I will have to read up a lot more on the programs. I know there's not enough support for autistic kids in the UK. (Probably adults too) Just ugh.
right. 5 years ago I was put on a waiting list for mental health treatment which every expert I speak to tells me I desperately need. Earlier this year I was told that I somehow reached the end of the waiting list without going on to the 'getting treatment' bit, essentially because they are and have been under resourced for 15 years now, and because I'm not a danger to anyone else (besides being insufferable in online comment threads) they can't justify wasting their time on rehabilitating me ... tbf I probably have nothing left to offer society anyway
It just makes me mad, not least because I sympathise with the people who have to deliver the news that I have been lied to and abandoned - it really can't be easy to still be in the NHS at this point. But oh my would I give anything to speak to the decision makers for 5 minutes. (Given that I arbitrarily chose such a small number of minutes to make my point, I would just call them arseholes over and over again for 5 minutes - one for every year I tried to hold it together in the hopeful knowledge I would get the help I need)
Ugh I'm sorry. I've seen how much the NHS has been underfunded and undercut and I hate what it's all turned into. The US system is also fucked up in different ways and run by assholes too.
The NHS has a lot of serious problems. It's easy to fall through the cracks of the UK's social safety nets, and even easier to spend months waiting for critical care...
Article is paywalled unfortunately. Is there a summary or mirror somewhere?
This is an archive link.
I wonder if what this article describes is a sign that the NHS needs to provide more support for teen boys diagnosed with Autism. It really seems like they would benefit by being opted in to either group therapy, or perhaps a mentorship program?
I can't imagine Prevent services and worsened outcomes via entanglement with law enforcement is much cheaper than actually providing the necessary prevention...