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 eat, the scale won’t budge,” or, “I eat so little but the fat stays on.” (more…)
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 set as a child is probably autistic. (more…)
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 no scientific papers supporting this myth. (more…)
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 than not liking a particular style of shoes or handbags has anything to do with “beauty standards.” (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 cash flow.
And they are as follows: (more…)
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? (more…)
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 person really works, this means that God will more likely grant a miracle to the most popular Instagram stars rather than to those with only 40 followers. (more…)