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On December 7, 2020, Yale released a research article, where they detailed a study done on autistic 2-year-olds. I don't even think they had actually turned two yet. They did this study to find out if autistics feel fear, and how they express it. That already sounds ridiculous, right? Of course autistic people feel fear. We are human beings. In fact, we often feel fear even more intensely than neurotypical people. Why did they need this study? It's already known that autistics feel fear, and often express it differently. Any autistic person can tell you that.

But wait - that's not all. In this study, they took these autistic toddlers and put them in a room with someone who was not allowed to speak to them. They repeatedly terrified these babies with mechanical spiders, robots, and grotesque masks, giving them between 30 and 70 seconds to respond. Autistic people do not process emotional information this quickly, so they absolutely were not given adequate time to recover.

They scared them over and over, to the point that parents were begging to have their children taken out. This part I can't verify for sure, as it is something I heard from multiple other people and haven't read elsewhere, so take that with a grain of salt.

What the hell? How is this okay? How did this study even happen? Things like this have long been considered unethical. It's 2020. Not 1820. This is abuse. It is so wrong on so many levels.

Even that isn't all. Yale University has social media pages, of course. And, of course, autistic people are understandably angry at them. Many people have been asking them to speak on this. To explain why they did this. To admit they were wrong to do this. Yale has been blocking these people. I've seen multiple screenshots proving this.

As of today, I saw their Instagram has been replying to comments, giving them a link to a statement they finally made, after being battered by comments that I guess they couldn't keep up with. In this response, which I read, they reiterate the study and what was done in it, and say that the children were only experiencing mild distress. But, with breaks that short in-between scares, and the nature of the study in the first place, this still seems wrong to me. It sounds like an excuse.

Just because children would "encounter these in everyday life" doesn't mean they should have those things repeatedly thrown in their faces in the name of "science". They didn't have to use babies, who don't have any understanding of what's happening to them. And why block so many people, who are all asking valid questions? Why ignore them, only until you can't handle the criticism anymore? There are much better ways to study fear in autistic people. Especially when this information is already known.

Here is the link to the study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aur.2448

Here is the link to their statement: https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/29344/

Unfortunately, you have to pay to read the study. But you can read the description, and if you are in a college or university that has it in their databases, you can read it for free.

If you have Instagram, @actuallyautistictiktoks has a story highlight with videos from different people in the autistic community talking about this. At least one video shows screenshots of the paper.

As you can probably tell, I and many others are very upset about this whole situation. I don't think their response way okay or enough. They shouldn't have started with blocking people. They should have been upfront. Everything they say about it sounds like excuses to me.

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Copic markers have their own ink refills to go with each marker,

They look like this and cost around the same price as a Copic Sketch maybe slightly more however they can be used to refill a marker several times

By using isopropyl alcohol what you’re doing, in fact, is diluting what little ink you have left in your make, therefore changing the shade of it.

Of course the one exception to this rule is the colourless blender 0 which is a marker that is full of regular isopropyl alcohol.

As a side note, DON’T throw away your marker if one/both of the is damaged

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Right before quarantine started, I have been having the worst months of my life because someone I cared about broke my heart, and I didn't think she meant to. She was forced to, and she felt bad. I also have a neurological disease known as MS that worsens my nerves, so when this went down my anxiety attack was so much worsened that I was sitting/couldn't walk on my own, struggling to breathe, hands gone numb and teeth chattering. I have thought about it everyday since then. I feel guilty about her, and I can't even imagine how bad she feels about me. She really does care about me, and I need to find her. I remember her telling me she has Tumblr so here goes.

L is a closeted transgender woman in her 20s. The name she's gonna go by starts with L. I'm not gonna say her current name in this post but if it is necessary in this situation let me know. She is a musician, she's wlw, her favorite band is My Chemical Romance and she likes videogames. She's also into witchy things. Like tarot cards and such.

Nothing I've tried is helping. I need closure in order to get over this trauma. I need to find her. The littlest reminder breaks my heart. No therapist or friend can tell me how to move on, so the next best thing is to just try and find her and get my closure.

IF YOU HAVE SEEN THIS WOMAN ON TUMBLR OR ANY OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA OR HAVE ANY CONTACT WITH HER, PLEASE, LET ME KNOW.

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Jennifer is alive & asking for help. We need eyes on her case as things progress. This shit doesn't accidentally continue for 2+ yrs. Cops claim they can do nothing, which is directly a lie.

#standwithjennifer

She has video recordings & pictures evidence on her instagram, she has even won a court case against her neighbor (due to Jennifer getting tickets from the dog shit the neighbor threw into her yard) yet the neighbor remains & continues to harass. This same neighbor pulled similar tactics to push the previous owner, another woman of color, out as well.

I lived at a place once with toxic neighbors. They too left dogshit at my door a few times. Idk what beef they had with me personally since we both were white & hardly exchanged any words. But i know it's not ok to not feel welcome at your own home. Jennifer not only feels unwelcomed, she doesn't even feel SAFE at her property that she OWNS.

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