everything you say is true. but: one can scarcely go thru a day in this country without feeling the negative consequences of broad sensitization. more people feel entitled to special treatment rather than simply accepting good-faith efforts. more people who don't give good-faith efforts feel entitled to treat objections with derision and penalties. enlightenment is awesome, but hopefully the toxic aspects of the present atmosphere will start to fade.

Sensitivity is a good thing. Insensitivity is a handicap.

the right amount of sensitivity is good; i'm seeing overdrive

But now the reaction is overdrive in itself. From what I've seen, in order to enact immediate societal change, you need fanatics, and lots of them. You need radicals to pull the rope hard and bring it heavy into the side of the desired result. The main issue with "wokism" is the collective Right Wing politicians who frame it as "Hating America by teaching us about our dark past" and "98 genders." and "Affirmative action." and trusting the Medical Sciences. Yeah, things are accelerating, but that's how technology and culture go hand in hand. As we learn more about how the world works, we learn about ourselves. Mental Health in the 90s is nothing compared to what it is now. Funding for mental health really didn't kick in until the 80s when people could start doing studies. For years, we didn't reap those benefits because we had to keep repeating results through the years to make sure we were sure of what we were seeing. That's why autism seems to have come on so suddenly. We've been tracking it, for years and we're finding more consistencies between cases and find that autism registers on five different scales. Yeah, 5 different bell curves, each that focus on a different level of cognitive function and ability. In this, you need to be at least two standard deviations in any one given field to be considered "Disabled by autism." You then, have those who are called "High functioning." Those are people who still exhibit a lot of the characteristics, but not to a degree that visibly impairs them or sets them apart, yet they face similar challenges - achieving empathy, communication, etc, sensitivities to stimulation, extreme moments of intense focus, etc.

In the 90s, we (collectively as a culture) didn't see this in autism. We saw it as "retarded" in the clinical term which is now largely outdated as we understand autism so much more.

To make matters even worse regarding autism.... (more)

The Lancet MMR autism fraud centered on the publication in February 1998 of a fraudulent research paper titled "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children" (to think that he calls autism a pervasive development disorder) in The Lancet. The paper, authored by now discredited and deregistered Andrew Wakefield, and listing twelve coauthors, falsely claimed non-existent, causative links between the MMR vaccine, colitis, and autism. The fraud was exposed in a lengthy Sunday Times investigation by reporter Brian Deer, resulting in the paper's retraction in February 2010 and Wakefield being struck off the UK medical register three months later. Wakefield reportedly stood to earn up to $43 million per year selling diagnostic kits for a non-existent syndrome he claimed to have discovered. He also held a patent to a rival vaccine at the time, and he had been employed by a lawyer representing parents in lawsuits against vaccine producers.

The scientific consensus on vaccines and autism is that there is no causal connection between MMR, or any other vaccine, and autism.

Oh I got off track.

Yeah. Being woke... It really makes one look dumb when they scoff at "being informed" er, I mean "woke."

80s bullying is what MAGA and the alt-right are all about. 80s bullying is the one commandment of their god.

What bathroom does a neutered male use?

The verb "Neutered" does not denote his sex or gender. Since we're referring to him as "male" it would still be as the designation "male" suggests.

one who lacks balls.