Rid Belly Fat with Once Weekly Interval Walking: How To
Once a week interval walking may be all you need to finally see stubborn belly fat disappearing. Interval walking is more effective than fixed pace walking for burning fat. [...]
Bad Combination for Later Life Brain Health: TV + Sitting
The TV has long been known as the “idiot box.” Now there’s research that shows it really can negatively affect brain health later in life. […]
Scared How Your Brain will Age? Start Exercising, Stop Worrying
Many people worry more about brain health than heart health as they get older. And that makes a lot of sense, since age related mental decline is common. But do [...]
Add More Stairs to Your Life for Heart Health and Living Longer
You’ve heard of “take the stairs instead of the elevator” many times, but you’re going to hear it again: It could add years to your heart and life, so ditch the elevator and get on [...]
Fat Influencer Posts Harmful Misinformation Re: Diabetes
A morbidly obese diabetic influencer is announcing you can’t give yourself diabetes. But if someone can reverse type 2 diabetes, this means you CAN give yourself this metabolic disease. Amanda [...]
Whom You Owe Thinness To: Surprising Answer
“You owe thinness to nobody” is a mantra sung by many fat activists on social media. They keep saying “thinness” as though fat and skinny are the only two ways to exist. [...]
Steps an Autistic Can Take Now to Be Fit & Healthy at 60
Autistic and terrified of aging? There’s ways to combat the fear of aging even if money is limited; here’s what to start doing NOW. Autism doesn’t mean you must age [...]
How Influencers with Cringe Content Get a Million Followers
Ever wonder how an influencer with cringe or boring content can amass a million followers? Is it mostly luck? One post that went viral? Like, HOW? So there’s an influencer – I won’t identify her [...]
Are Big Thighs Necessarily More Muscular?
Do you have thigh abundance and are convinced this is due to muscle even though you don’t or hardly work out with weights? Size can mean fat, muscle or both. I was inspired to cover [...]
Why Aren’t Nonspeaking Autistic Spellers Employed?
It’s suspicious for facilitator bias when a nonspeaking autistic who spells elaborate paragraphs is somehow not able to hold down a simple job. […]
Why Are Brilliant Nonspeaking Spellers in Day Programs?
If nonspeaking autistic spellers are the actual composers of their advanced narrative via letter boards held by parents, why are they in day programs? This is a very fair question. For example, the alleged author [...]
Anorexia Nervosa Gets Sympathy but Bigorexia Doesn’t?
Why is it that a woman who’s starved herself to the bone gets sympathy for her eating disorder, but men with bigorexia are seen as narcissistic and arrogant? Along those same lines, a morbidly obese [...]
Would You Take a Pill to Wipe Your Autism? Drug Study
Seems that researchers are closing in on a drug that can reduce or even eliminate autism traits. UCLA scientists have come upon a drug that did this for mice that had autistic traits. [...]
My Autism Doesn’t Mean I Should Like All Disabled People
To expect autistic people to automatically like anyone with a disability is to be judgmental and condescending. I have this feeling that non-disabled neurotypical people expect Autistics to embrace every single disabled individual. [...]
Sleep Less, Gain Unwanted Weight
Losing a little sleep each night may not seem like a major health concern, but over time it could make you gain fat. […]
Flaws in Human Body Support Evolution Theory
The human body is full of flaws — and this points to evolution more than any other explanation for “how we got here.” The body may seem magnificent. Various processes may seem wondrous, even miraculous. [...]
How an Autism Evaluation Begins: LONG Questionnaire!
I spent over three hours answering the questions, but… …that doesn’t mean YOU will. […]
Can Cartilage in Osteoarthritis Ever Grow Back?
Scientists are working on a new approach to osteoarthritis that goes far beyond managing pain. Instead of simply slowing symptoms, the goal is to help damaged joints regenerate and repair themselves. […]
Can the Brain Think While You’re Under General Anesthesia?
Scientists have long assumed that complex thinking largely shuts down when a person is unconscious under general anesthesia. […]
How to Lose Fat in Older Age Without Losing Muscle
Older age often comes with weight gain. Dieting can cause fat loss, but also muscle loss. But there’s a way to lose fat while keeping muscle. [...]
You Could Have Weak Bones and Not Know It
It’s not osteoporosis; it’s another condition, affecting 40% of adults worldwide, more common in older adults and postmenopausal women. This condition is also a high risk factor for bone fractures. […]
Will Scientists Ever Know How Humans Learn to Talk?
Scientists have traditionally believed that learning to speak depends mainly on the brain’s motor regions, which control the movements of the lips, tongue, jaw and vocal cords. […]
New Knee Pain Procedure Offers Relief Without Joint Replacement
A diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis often sounds like “You’ll eventually need knee replacement surgery no matter what you do.” The pain can be managed only so much in this progressive disease. But as the condition [...]
Is Aging Always an Irreversible Downward Slope?
Many people assume that getting older means a steady loss of physical strength and mental sharpness. Researchers found that a surprisingly large number of older adults actually improved their physical abilities, cognitive performance or both [...]
Does Living Long Always Mean More Healthy Years?
People today live much longer than their ancestors did with the help of modern medicine. But there’s a difference between dragging out a sick life via medicine vs. genetic mutations over the past few generations [...]
What Makes an Influencer Obsessed Over GLP-1 Drugs?
Getting triggered on other peoples’ use of GLP-1 drugs means poor mental health and other unresolved psych issues. […]
Where’s the Set Point for the World’s Starving Adults?
Hundreds of millions of adults are severely underweight due to food shortage; why doesn’t the set point theory apply to THEM? Many people on Instagram and TikTok post the following: “No matter how little I [...]
Gearing up for My ASD Assessment with Special Interests List
The list is extensive. I’m also making sure not to include “normal” interests. Many neurotypicals have what seem like “special interests.” We can’t assume that everyone who collected coins or rocks or had a chemistry [...]
Name ONE Person Who Told You to Shrink Your Arms
It keeps happening: Influencers blaming society for programming them to think they MUST have skinny arms or their life will be doomed. […]
Does Laughing Loud and Often Mean You’re Happy?
It’s a myth that people with loud, raucous laughter — the type that everyone in a large room can hear or that can be heard from relatively far away — are extra-happy people. There are [...]
Social Media Questionnaire Screens for Hypersocial Disorder
If autistics outnumbered neurotypicals would there exist screening questionnaires to test them for “hypersocial disorder?” In screening for hypersocial traits, social media can be used as a preliminary detection tool. […]
Mom Suggests Nose Job, Offers to Pay: Body Shaming?
I never liked my nose. This wasn’t because of what anyone ever said. It was because of what I had always seen in the mirror. My perception had nothing to do with “beauty standards” any more [...]
No, You Probably CAN’T Monetize Your Hobby: Luck Counts
Entrepreneurs like to proclaim that you can turn your passions into money. There are two things they’re not telling you. What they don’t tell you is that it requires two factors to transform a hobby into a [...]
Deaths Do NOT Come in Threes and Here’s Why
Deaths do NOT come in threes. Yet educated adults still believe this. Around the world, about 106 people die per minute. This means over 153,000 per day. Therefore, how on earth do deaths come in threes? [...]
If Prayer Works Then It’s a Popularity Contest
Why should Taylor Swift get well and not homeless Joe just because 10M people would pray for HER and only three for Joe? Is popularity how prayer works? If prayer by the numbers for one [...]
Why It’s Unrealistic to Find a Full Time Paying Job You Love
The people who say you should be able to find a job you enjoy usually have glamour jobs. What’s with all these entrepreneurs saying that you should find a job you enjoy? What’s worse is [...]
Why Don’t People Ask OLD Retirees What They Do All Day?
Why is it that young retirees get asked, "What do you DO all day" but those over 60 never get this oddball question? Let's make it make sense. Yes, it's a peculiar phenomenon: If someone [...]
Greeting Hikers on a Trail: an Autistic’s Guide
Are you autistic and enjoy hiking, but find it difficult to navigate whether or not you should greet fellow hikers? Even some neurotypical people don’t care to do this. I never initiate a greeting on a hiking [...]
Are You Making These Common Tire Flip Mistakes?
Of all the strength exercises that gym-goers think about form, the tire flip isn’t at the top of the list. But it should be. While it may look simple, poor technique can increase injury risk [...]
Common Upright Dumbbell Skull Crusher Mistakes
Because the movement of an upright dumbbell skull crusher is performed in a more vertical position than traditional lying skull crushers, proper technique is very important — nothing to sniff at. Avoiding a few common [...]