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  • clara@feddit.uktoScience Memes@mander.xyzSoup
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    6 months ago

    why would future humans bother bringing all these people back

    i think it’s worth reminding why doctors treat people now, in this time and space. they do it mostly because they want to save people. maybe a few do it for money, but past a certain point, the money isn’t why you do it. i think it’s a safe bet that doctors of a future would see these corpses as patients, and act accordingly. an analogy - think how we see heart attack victims as patients, and not how our medieval ancestors would have seen them (as corpses)

    …literally nothing positive to contribute to the utopian future…

    true, but, a good chunk of patients in hopsital today have nothing to contribute to society, and cannot contribute any more, whatsoever. we treat them anyway, because that’s what we do. humans have consistently cared for others that are sick and have “nothing to contribute” throughout history, and that shows no sign of going away anytime soon



  • yeah it’s pretty messy

    there was an original condition called “autism” which referred to the stereotypical, ““low functioning”” case where someone has intellectual disabilities and the rest

    then a ““high functioning”” variant was labelled, where the intellectual disability was missing, called “asperger’s syndrome”

    then more and more inbetween cases started being labelled like rett syndrome, CDD, PDD-NOS, and so they had to say “fuck it, it’s all “autism spectrum disorder” now”

    over time, “autism” has become shorthand for ASD. to avoid confusion, the OG autism sometimes gets described as “classic autism”

    honestly it’s all a big mess




  • clara@feddit.ukOPtoTHE_PACK@lemmy.worldOH, DID I OFFEND YOU??
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    1 year ago

    POST ARCHIVED TO PREVENT LINK ROT MFERS, FUTURE HOG CRANKERS MIGHT WANNA KNOW

    FOR SCREEN READERS, THIS POST IS OF A COOL SKELETON HOLDING A BONE SCYTHE ON A BACKGROUND OF LIGHTNING AND THUNDER. THE SKELETON SAYS:

    OH, DID MY POST OFFEND YOU? if so, then I am genuinely sorry, and would be happy to take any suggestions as to how I can be more sensitive in the future. That is, if you want to impart any. I know I’m not a great person, but I’m trying to be better.