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   by 4ccc0f9200a7a 9y ago

   I'm autistic and this passage is disturbing to me: "It upended many of the ... sort of inherited pieces of wisdom that I thought I knew about autism. For example, that people with autism can't emote, or that they don't h
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   by 4ccc0f9200a7a 9y ago

   Comprehensive explanation of how fucked up this is, from an autistic person instead of a mental health professional making money off stigmatizing us: http://thesubjectsupposedtoknow.us/talking-back-about-my-def... http:&#x
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   by 4ccc0f9200a7a 12y ago

   Except that Zen is the school of "sudden enlightenment." Suzuki: "Enlightenment is not some good feeling or some particular state of mind. The state of mind that exists when you sit in the right posture is, itself, enlight
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   by 4ccc0f9200a7a 12y ago

   Buddhism stresses compassion and identifies desire and the ego as the causes of suffering. Steve Jobs was, you could say, "interpersonally abrasive" and made a fortune by encouraging people to want devices built using slave labor