Listen to Your Doctor, Not Fat Acceptance, for Weight Loss
Confused by the TikTok and Instagram talk by women of all sizes shaming overweight women who want to lose weight? It’s time to listen to your doctor. […]
Should Influencers Discourage GLP-1s or Is This Harmful?
We need to stop the trend of influencers begging people not to use a GLP-1. Such influencers are spreading medical misinformation and harmful rhetoric. […]
Walking’s Effect on the Development of Alzheimer’s Disease
A study suggests that even modest physical activity — like adding a few thousand steps to your day — could make a real difference in how quickly Alzheimer’s disease develops. […]
Will Using Walker for Dizziness Eventually Impair Mobility?
If a young able-bodied adult uses a walker out of fear of falling from dizzy spells, will this over time compromise her mobility and joint integrity? […]
If Eye Contact Is So Important, How Do Blind People Get By?
Supposedly for neurotypicals, eye contact is crucial in social settings. But if this is so, how do blind people navigate social interaction? […]
Why Do So Many Autistic Women Have EDS?
It happened again: I met a new autistic woman; she spoke of her hypermobility; I asked if she had EDS; she said yes. […]
Why It’s Awkward when Someone Keeps Saying “I’m Sorry”
Do you know someone who at every turn says “I’m sorry”? […]
Weight Loss DOES Solve Problems if Caused By Obesity
Those in the fat acceptance community insist that weight loss doesn’t solve one’s problems. […]
Influencers Manipulate Their Instagram Shots?! Who Knew?
Why is there still so much shock that Instagram influencers manipulate their pictures to look thinner, smoother or in some other way flawless? […]
Do We Have Limited Lifetime Heartbeats that Exercise Uses Up?
Someone once said, “We have limited lifetime heartbeats; I’ll be damned I’m going to use them up running down a street.” […]
Why 10 Minute Walks Beat Five Regardless of Step Total
Walking in nonstop segments of 10 to 15 minutes in daily life is much better for your heart than the same number of steps with only five minute walks. […]
Telling Which Breast Cancer Survivors Will Have Recurrence
A groundbreaking new clinical trial, the first of its kind, has found a way to identify breast cancer survivors most at risk of having a recurrence. […]
Can’t Hear Well in Noisy Places? Could Be Your IQ, Not Ears
A study says how well you “hear” in a noisy environment could be more about your level of intelligence rather than your sense of hearing. […]
Can You Out-Train Social Isolation’s Bad Effect on Health?
Social isolation can harm your health. But what if you train like a warrior? […]
Services for Special Needs Adults Often Practice Ageism
So many activities for special needs adults give an age range of 18-25, 18-30 or state “young adults.” This is blatant ageism. […]
5 Tips for Calorie Banking Before and On Thanksgiving Day
You can feel free to overindulge on Thanksgiving with these 5 strategies for banking calories ahead of time and on that very day! […]
No Time for Cardio? How to Do Interval Seconds of Running
Interval running might just be the ultimate workout hack, mixing short bursts of your fastest or almost fastest running with recovery periods, giving major fitness results in way less time than traditional cardio. Almost a [...]
Even Neurotypicals Are Still Learning About Eye Contact
Researchers looked into the timing of eye contact, not just how it’s done. The study, led by cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Nathan Caruana and his team at Flinders University’s HAVIC Lab, asked 137 typical participants to [...]
Longest Known Survivor of Breast Cancer Bone Mets
Once breast cancer spreads to the bones, the prognosis for long-term survival is poor. But there are exceptions. […]
Autistic Skeptic Requests Video of Typing Nonverbal Autistic
Why don’t articles about nonverbal autistics include videos showing them composing the eloquent commentaries they claim to create via letter boards or typing — with the camera aimed on the letters they’re selecting? [...]
Restless Leg Syndrome vs. Autistic Leg Stimming
Are you autistic and at times find you can’t keep your legs still while seated or in bed? […]
Why So Many Body Image Mental Health Influencers in Therapy?
Scroll through Instagram or TikTok and you’ll find many body image and mental health influencers sharing stories of “healing journeys.” […]
Unconvinced Autistic’s 6 Questions About Rapid Prompt Method
I’m autistic and am disbelieving of the “rapid prompting method,” which is just another name for facilitated communication (long disproven by science). […]
Why Don’t People Want to Live Past 100?
When there’s news about someone dying at 112 or having a 108th birthday party, the comments roll in about the misery of living that long. […]
ADHD: Impulsivity, Distraction AND Innovative Thinking!
Ever notice how people with ADHD often come up with the wildest, most original ideas? Scientists are starting to confirm what many already suspected — that ADHD’s “wandering mind” might actually be fueling creativity. Before [...]
Slim Influencer Triggered by Other Thin Ones Getting Smaller
What is this world coming to when a successful lean influencer gripes that seeing other influencers shrinking in size is unbearable? […]
Must AI Image Creators Censor Requests About Bodies?
AI Image creation censor bots often generate the NSFW response when my requests pertain to the human body, particularly size. The world we live in has become softer than Charmin. The AI threshold bar for [...]
What NOT to Do After Heart Treatment: Sit Around All Day
Recently had a heart problem? The last thing you’ll want to do is be inactive most of the day once out of the hospital. […]
You May Have a “Covid Nose” Smell Impairment and Not Know It
You might think your sense of smell bounced back after COVID-19 — but according to new research, it probably didn’t. […]
Adults with Intellectual Disability Attending College?
More and more adults with intellectual disability such as with Down syndrome are attending mainstream colleges. […]
Rapid Prompting Method: New Name for FC; Just As Unproven
Don’t let the funky name, “rapid prompting method,” fool you: This is facilitated communication in disguise with just some minor procedural differences. […]
Influencer Calls Gyms “Churches,” Never Went to One
Fat activism influencer Amanda Martinez Beck condemns exercise; she compares gyms to churches; she believes the fitness community is a cult. […]
Autism Doesn’t Shorten Lifespan; Obesity, Inactivity Do
If data on life expectancy for autistic adults has you alarmed, remind yourself that obesity and inactivity are the biggest influencers, along with smoking, when it comes to how long one will live. [...]
Autism As an Evolutionary Advantage to Human Survival?
If autism is an evolutionary trait only in humans, then wouldn’t this point to some sort of survival advantage? […]
Thin Arms & Legs in Autistic Young Men But Big Belly: Reasons
Many severely autistic young men have a belly that’s disproportionately large when compared to their arms and legs. […]
Can a 4 Year Old Run Faster than an Able Bodied Adult?
With the way some parents talk about how their child “got away” from them or how preschoolers “are so fast,” one must ask: Can a 4 year old outrun a typical adult? [...]
Is an Autistic Interest Obsessive if No Money Can Be Made?
Have you noticed that when money can be made off an intense interest, it's usually not considered an obsession, but in autism, when money can't be made, it's an "obsession"? Neurotypicals (NTs) study sharks for [...]
A Sheldon & Amy Research Collab Is a Special Interest of Mine!
Amy and Sheldon on “The Big Bang Theory” had a research collab that’s been a special interest of mine for years! […]
Turning Head to Look at Backseat Passenger When Driving
It’s very unsafe driving while turning your head to look at a backseat passenger you’re talking to. Why do people do this? […]
Don’t Tell Me “You Can’t Even Taste the (Blank)”!
Someone promotes a treat that combines two flavors; you say you don’t like one of the flavors; they invariably say, “You can’t even taste (the flavor you don’t like).” […]