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The U.S. Department of Justice filed just before midnight Monday an 88-page brief in Wall v. CDC arguing the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate and International Traveler Testing Requirement should be upheld because Congress authorized the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention to adopt regulations that are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into United States or from one state to another – an argument already rejected by five federal courts plus the U.S. Supreme Court in other pandemic cases.

Mr. Wall assert the government’s arguments trying to save the mask mandate and testing requirement are feeble given the huge number of constitutional provisions, federal laws, and regulations these rules flout.

“President Biden said in September that the federal government has no constitutional authority to require face coverings. Yet just like with CDC’s Eviction Moratorium last week, he did it anyway – and is now trying to defend his illegal orders in court. Biden’s constant actions in violation of his oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution must be restrained by the judiciary.”

Read more and view the government’s brief on Lucas Wall’s blog at https://bit.ly/2VGXx4j. Lucas Wall will file counter-arguments later this week and hope oral argument will be set for later this month or in early September.

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First off, it’s exactly who I am. You can’t have me without my autism, so part of accepting the fact I’m autistic was just accepting myself for who I was. It was a process, a difficult process, but worth it. 

I love that it, among other things, gave me a different point of view. I love that loneliness isn’t really a thing that gets me a lot, if ever, and rather I enjoy just being alone. I love that it made me thoroughly appreciate my neurodivergent friends and what makes them unique - the things that make interaction difficult with neurotypicals, makes me laugh and enjoy about my neurodivergent friends, especially my fellow autistics and my ADHD cousins.

I love my special interests. And every though hyperfocusing can make live difficult sometimes, forgetting biological functions, I still love getting entirely absorbed into this thing I love for hours and hours, or the way organising information can calm me down and distract me away from bad things. My autism and my special interest is more or less an upward spiral, as my special interest is psychology, and autism is part of that, so I rabidly want to know more about it, and in doing so, learn to appreciate and accept myself and other neurodivergent people more. It’s helped me be more open-minded, patient, and caring, and allowed me to be self-aware as an adult, while also shedding the need to care about strangers’ opinions and stim whenever I need to, and self-care how I need to.

Hello, I'm Ghost, I'm 28, NB transmasc from Europe, and about seven years ago I was diagnosed as autistic. Like with a lot of autistics, probably, it wasn't the diagnosis (whether professional- or self-dx) that changed much, rather than the period of self-acceptance that followed. I never understood why I was the way I was growing up, why I never fit in, why I felt out of place, and why trying to mimic my peers felt like putting on an ill-fitting costume.

Autism Acceptance Month, to me, isn't just for allistics to accept us for who we are, but also for us, as we grow more self-aware, of our needs, our stims, our traits, our differences and difficulties, to accept ourselves and each other. Autism Acceptance Month is for us, all of us, to accept autism as it comes.