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The solution is for people who are not themselves autistic, and who evidently don’t understand what autism even means, to stop proposing “solutions”. I am autistic, and I am not a problem that needs to be solved.

An explosion has different dynamics that are measurable. You can easily confirm the difference yourself. Take a ruler from a central point at various different angles measure off 1 cm then 3 cm then 6 cm etc. Now think of the ratio of change the result of radiating outward from the central point and measure the angles. You should notice angle changes as well as a preferred direction and location. Now place dots on a balloon measure the angles prior to inflating (inflate just enough to get a sphere. Then inflate the balloon further. The angles do not change and the ratio of change in distance is identical between any two points.

uBlock Origin is available for most platforms. Look in settings as well for more blocks. Ive used it for years.

I have now experimented with AdBlock Plus, which is free on the App Store, for my iPad. At first it did not do much, but a few days ago I found the app contains an option to permit what it calls non-intrusive ads, which is by default enabled on the grounds that the AdBlock people recognise websites need to make some money. My experience however is that that still permits most of the annoying, moving ads that are so distracting to the reader, e.g. on newspaper websites, to get through. I have now found that by turning that off I can suppress these and my reading experience is now vastly improved. I have the feeling it may also stop the ads coming up in the middle of YouTube videos, though it still allows the ones at the start. I'll give it a few more weeks and if no snags emerge I'll install it on the laptop as well.

For the most part, yes. During the course of medication the sperm density increased and malformation of sperm was observed. There is some evidence of dysregulation which does not immediately went back once the treatment stopped. The results are not totally surprising. Terminal elimination of amoxicillin can take days (only the initial elimination follows first order kinetics, then slows down, IIRC). And after that, tissue regeneration will take a while. I am also fairly sure that regardless of which antibiotics you take, liver values will look fairly bad. You will likely find similar effects with many harsher drug treatments (including other antibiotics) but sperm reduction have also been shown e.g. for aspirin. common painkillers and so on. In animal models, in utero exposure to e.g. acetaminophen and ibuprofen occasionally have been associated with reproductive issues in the newborns. I think there might be a misconception that drugs are precision instruments that fulfil only a highly specific target. In truth, a treatment involves flooding our bodies with a bioactive component in very high doses that will take care of the acute problem, but will also interact in undesired ways. The term side-effect is a bit of a misnomer as some think it is a minor effect. Rather, every (bio)chemical interaction is an effect, only many are undesired. This is one of the reasons, why it baffles me why folks panic around vaccination, a short-term treatment with typical long-term benefits, but have no issues of taking drugs, even in the long-term, which is just likely to have health burden. Of course, if there are indications it is necessary to take, them especially as other health effects are more pressing (if you have an ongoing infection, sperm count is likely your least worry). Just to make it clear- there are no safe drugs that you can eat like candy (and thinking of it, candy has also pretty bad effects on health, including sperm quality and sperm count). We can basically take any drug your are interested in, and if someone looks at it, we will see molecular aberrations that can translate into a variety of phenotypes. Everything has an effect and the baseline of looking at it (as I have said many times) is not whether it is detrimental (because to various degree, virtually everything is, including breathing), but which is less bad.

It's going to spoil Christmas...

Ahhh perfect timing, I needed a new snake oil supplier. How much ya got? Yup. I'm all for hijacking this weird af thread for as long as it lasts to talk about autism. Just so people are aware of what is meant by spectrum, it is a collection of symptoms and behaviours of which many conditions, neurological and psychological states share a lot of overlap. Because of this, many react to words like "cure" or "low functioning" negatively due to a misconception amongst autistic individuals and their advocates to be expert authorities on the "condition" because they or someone they know doesn't fit into certain boxes. The two divergent models of disability also plays a significant role in this. Those who's issues lie within the medical model of disability absolutely need effective treatments and cures. Those who's issues lie within the social model of disability require their environments to be treated or cured. To make this more confusing, most of the conditions still have overlap. Hypersensitivity to light is an example often associated with AS conditions. The medical fix may be via optometry and the social fix is accomodating lighting installations. I do get what Dim is getting at though and agree with the sentiment. The generalised psychiactric labelling of what is clearly many different conditions, for the purpose of simplified medical signposting is confusing enough for medical experts and downright dangerous in it's invitation to invite public misunderstanding and stereotyping of austism spectrum conditions to the degree where even the sufferers and their advocates just don't get it. It's similar to but obviously not as bad as if they decided that instead of specific cancer diagnoses, all medical signposting would say is "Cancer spectrum disorder" and just hope the person on the treatment end knows what to do. Because cancer spectrum disorder could be anything from a small mole to stage 4 stomach cancer or an inoperable brain tumour. What many psychiatrists fail to grasp is that the act and implications of psychiactric labelling have broader ramifications than just how they as individual doctors treat them, but how everything outside of the doctors control is going to treat them. Just so we are clear, cancer most certainly is a disease and I don't believe autism is anywhere near cancer nor do I believe people with autism are a disease. My criticisms revolve around medical signposting and careless, thoughtless, lazy labels. A cry for more precise terminology is a standard that most scientific fields adhere to. Exhibit A, pluto is no longer thought of as a planet.

Revenge is a dish best served cold... like that.

Wait until you hear the joke about how many meals a day a mathematician eats. The answer is 9. They eat 32 meals a day. This was fun, and before anyone says "Off-topic!" Humour is clearly part of the nature of human existence and Wittgenstein literally said a serious philosophical work could be comprised entirely of jokes sooooo shhh.

I'm sitting here watching Ninotchka and heard this joke: A man enters a restaurant and asks the waiter to bring him a cup of coffee without cream. The waiter walks off then comes back a few minutes later and says "I'm sorry sir but we are out of cream. Can I bring you a cup of coffee without milk?"

It's a shame you chose to ignore everything that everyone had to say.