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Bingowings said:

Dek Rollins said:

Asperger’s? So, not autism, or is that your other daughter?

It’s a spectrum disorder. Autism can have many causes but there is no credible evidence for links to any current vaccine.

I didn’t think there was any cause identified.

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So are we SURE that Attack of the Clones was a real film and not just a collective hallucination we all share?

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Nah I’ve had bad trips, even Aotc is preferable.

But AOTC on a good trip isn’t bad.

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TV’s Frink said:

Bingowings said:

Dek Rollins said:

Asperger’s? So, not autism, or is that your other daughter?

It’s a spectrum disorder. Autism can have many causes but there is no credible evidence for links to any current vaccine.

I didn’t think there was any cause identified.

No single cause.
Like many other health and personality conditions there are genetic vectors but there seems to be a large chunk of environmental ones too (before birth and in early development) but nothing reliable to link it to vaccines.
Even if there were (and there AREN’T) the risk to a child (and children in general) from the diseases vaccines protect them from is much higher than a possible environmental vector for autism. While it can be very challenging raising a child with a disorder on the autism spectrum the same is true of many more common situations. It can be rewarding too.
It’s certainly not something that can switch on in later life like schizophrenia or epilepsy so all the significant causal influences come into play in the first couple of years of life.
In the past because of the age of presentation, associated behaviors would have been written off as naughtiness or daydreaming or childhood obsessions or depending on the manifestation of the disorder brightness or slowness. It still is with some.
Autistic adults like most adults are people with some aspect of their functioning less than optimised. It’s normal to be different.

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Bingowings said:

It’s normal to be different.

This is true. Our daughter is a different kind of normal, one that leads to different challenges but also different joys.

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Possessed said:

So are we SURE that Attack of the Clones was a real film and not just a collective hallucination we all share?

You know, thinking back on it, I’m pretty sure AOTC was the first film I saw that disappointed me.

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It was the first film that made me question why I even bother leaving the house.

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Germany was having trouble
what a sad, sad story
needed a new leader to restore
Its former glory
Where, oh where was he?
Where could that man be?
We looked around and then we found
the man for you and me
And now its
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay!
We’re marching to a faster pace
look out here comes the master race!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
winter for Poland and France
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
come on Germans,
go into your dance!
I was born in Dusseldorf
and that is why they call me Rolf
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty,
come and join the Nazi party!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany!
Goose step’s the step today
Bombs falling from the skies again
Deutschland is on the rise again
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
U-boats are sailing once more
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
means that soon we’ll be going
We’ve got to be going
You know we’ll be going to war!

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TV’s Frink said:

Maybe I do hate kids after all.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11428186/amc-ceo-says-let-millennials-text-in-cinemas

Dear Adam Aron,

" ’ When you tell a 22-year-old to turn off the phone, don’t ruin the movie, they hear ‘please cut off your left arm above the elbow,’’ Aron tells Variety. ‘You can’t tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone. That’s not how they live their life.’". Seriously?!? “Please cut off your left arm above the elbow”?!?!?!?! Please go fuck yourself and your stupid asinine idea. I will not be going to your theaters. Even if that means having to wait for the movie to come out on blu ray/DVD/UHD Blu ray. No way in hell I pay the fortune it costs for a movie ticket only to have to put up with the distraction of idiots texting during the moving. This is about the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

Sincerely,

The Warbler

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Taking a small nuclear family to a film (if you buy concessions) is now almost as expensive as a concert ticket. It’s sickening, and I won’t go to a theatre unless it is at an hour in which no one will be there.

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And this is one main reason why I no longer have any desire to ever seen a movie in the theatres. If I want to watch dreck surrounded by noisy distractions, I can easily do that at home for free.

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As a millenial, I have to say that that is one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard. Unless they segregate showings for texters and decent human beings, then I’m afraid I’ll be going to theaters much less often. “Cut off your left arm at the elbow”? What?

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Ditto…to the above 4 posts…

I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton

“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”

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Frink, that was made the same year the Cubs last won the World Series. Maybe Chicago should remake it and the Cubs will win again!