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Figured I may as well discuss this matter since I see it come up a lot - high support needs autistics often say that the talk of lower support needs is framed in such a way as to invalidate them.

Firstly, before I get into this, I think what I've heard is reasonably true, and a conversation around it is needed. I feel that I need to declare this, because I feel these groups aren't communicating (much at all), and while I'm trying my best, its likely that how I'll say things is still bad, and everyone's constantly up in arms about the due and proper virtue signalling.

To be clear, we're considered "Mid support needs". It seems to be the category of folk who are actually clashing with high support needs autistics the most, although we are wondering if the diagnosis may be in error, likely with the original diagnosis that was 'upgraded' to autism and then mid support needs autism being correct instead.

The primary purpose of this post is to bring clarity to what others are trying to go on about, as communication errors are entirely too easy, especially as so many people are using slogans rather than more words, and for many of those cases forgetting and not forgetting is distinguished by at most three words in a larger sentence.

The most commonly upsetting topic, about support levels in the autism diagnosis, has two reasons behind it, which combining frustrates understanding.

The one I suspect will be more relevant to most high-support needs folk is that by placing support needs in the autism diagnosis, one sometimes avoids labeling the overall person's support needs, and sometimes rolls other conditions, deserving of their own labels to target treatment, into the autism diagnosis.

As a consequence of these two factors, many folk at all official autism levels fail to receive the supports that they need.

The other one is - the official boundaries of "Mid support needs" Just Sucks. Its being visibly autistic and sufficiently accommodated.

As a consequence, firstly, it ranges from 'stims with chair texture and otherwise just quirky' all the way to 'significant support needs being handled by family'.

And secondly, its possible to fall below it onto low support needs through a wide variety of measures that have nothing to do with support needs at all, such as having of been traumatized out of displaying overt symptoms, or, if the doctor isn't paying enough attention, or isn't asking the right questions and you stim less than displaying other symptoms, having of developed social skills due to an applicable special interest, such as psychology, or a major aspect of society.

This is getting a little long (and I don't recall how to do read mores), so I'll end it here for now, although I expect to come back to these matters.

I don't know if 'demon from fiction where demons aren't contrasted to angels' should count given the nature of this poll, and we don't know what the heck our spiritual introject is, really, so...

(Oldest meaning how long they've been a system member. Best estimates are fine if you aren't sure.)

The fact that you get different information based on your model of phone is an actual feature - you get reviews based on models that are similar to yours, because many applications work better (or even just flat out work) on higher end models. Hence, it's a 'reviews relevant to you' sort of thing, just being done less obviously than normal.

hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

play.google.com

Android System SafetyCore - Apps on Google Play

Provides safety features for Android devices.

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

I'm pretty sure the Elder Scrolls one is the reason sunlight harms vampires... But that's also just normal.

>fantasy universes where celestial bodies look normal but the lore says they're actually just illusions / magic / otherwise not real

"Well, if you lot adopt me, you'll have to adopt my sister too," Danny says.

"Obviously happening. Good children of an Evil Bat is 100% a situation B would want in on." Tim replies, since Danny has implied he knows about the Bat-Wayne situation - having of mentally noted to look into that.

"My clone too, I'm too young to be legally her dad even if we wind up agreeing that way, probably one of my friends since Pamela isn't up to adopting, and also, please set up my other friends' families - one's been working for one of Hood's charities and the other's supposedly working for his gang, though I suspect he and my friend are actually being called security for the charities - and maybe push enough money in the direction of my former nemesis and redeemed evil alternate self that my former nemesis stops overshadowing rouges and gang leaders to steal all of their stuff? He's more of an issue when he's got something that he feels needs doing, rather than just trying to buy the Green Bay Packers." Danny continues rapidly.

Quite rapidly - "O, did you get all of that? Especially the last bit - we might just be able to wrap up a number of our recent cases." Tim asks.

As Oracle affirms is when Dick arrives, proclaiming "Of course! B has plenty of money, and Gotham is Gotham.", coming in fast for a hug, which surprises Danny, disappointing Dick by going intangible.

*Danny and a Batfam member having a friendly chat at a cafe. They've known each other for a few months now*

Batfam member: "You know, you actually kinda look like B with a few minor differences. Prime adoption bait. Hope you're not another secret love child of his." *laughs*

Danny: *Starts sweating bullets because he is in fact, Bruce's kid but from a different dimension where instead of being a himbo billionaire, he's a himbo ghost hunter named Jack who almost killed him before he got here .* "Haha, you don't say?"

Batfam member: *Clocks in on sudden shift in mood* "Please tell me you're not."

Danny: "So do you want the short and funny story, or the long and sad one? Yes, there's a right answer."

Batfam member: *crying because they can never have a normal sibling*

Danny: Also, do you believe in ghosts?

Batfam member: *cries even more*

tumblr removed my header which was literally just this image

Finding the ghosts Very wouldn't help! TBF, from the wiki, it seems the canon ghosts are at least partially being agitated by having of been buried in each other's graves, but I suspect he'd have to spend most of his time preventing them from doing things like killing entire bloodlines. Especially since many of them have stopped the sort of activity that got that to be what's going down in the past two generations or so...

Gotham Academy is super old and like any other prestigious private boarding school, it hosts a lot of skeletons in the closet.

For Danny Fenton, godson of Vlad Masters, who just transferred to the academy after the tragic death of his family, it meant the place had quite some ghosts that were lost or unable to move on. Some reminded him of Pointdexter and Jazz even.

He decided to fight for them, to find justice for their injustice dues, if nothing else.

Now if only a certain Wayne didn't butt his nose into Danny's business, it would be great.

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