To-day in class, we (and a co-present M.D., who was half-paying attention) watched a rather depressing film about the international impact of HIV infection. Actually, 'rather depressing' sounds a bit dismissive of it; it was more...moving, really, than just 'depressing ...Read More
Apparently a lot of the anti-psychiatry movement is epically transphobic--instead of saying being trans is a psychiatric disorder, they just claim that it doesn't exist, and is a form of body mutilation. This is just as bad as the psychiatric ...Read More
I seriously cannot stand the us-and-them mindset that some members of minority groups have. While there's room for delineating different members of a certain group, it's really unproductive to make those differences a cause for animosity BETWEEN those people. I've ...Read More
This system's social abilities are paradoxical. That is, we can pick up on nuances fairly well in some circumstances, but there are social areas in which we are just plain stupid. That's part and parcel of being on the autistic ...Read More