The Existing Social Patterns of Domination that Trump used to Gaslight the Nation
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Using recent sociological research into gaslighting, we gain insights into how Trump gaslit MAGA Nation, the Republican Party, and the nation.
The Existing Social Patterns of Domination allow Gaslighting to Persist
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Gaslighting is now the subject of sociological research. Several key ingredients have been established that allow gaslighting to occur. Yes, they are what you think they would be. In part 2, we apply them to Trump!
Autism Celebration Month: The Great Big Smoking Hole Where Social Perception Should Be
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There is a truism in neurological functioning: use it or lose it! Hubel and Wiesel demonstrated this when they sewed the eyes of kittens shut; autistic people when they don’t learn social perceptions.
The Moral Injury of Anti-Maskers, Anti-Vaxxers, and #COVID19
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It is worse than we had imagined! We knew that the RWNJ and their crazy anti-mask, vax, and outrage du jour rhetoric was causing real harm, we just didn’t know how real or how much harm. Now we do. Now we know that it is A LOT. And Judge Mizelle just added to the misery!
Autism Month: Inside the Mind of a High Functioning Autistic Person
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One of the fundamental differences between a person with autism and a neurotypical person is that the autie has a rich inner world that is much preferred to the drab and dreary outer one. It makes the world of the neurotypical barely tolerable.
Kicking off Autism Month for 2022!
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Ye Olde Blogge has big plans for celebrating #AutismAcceptanceMonth! Join us for our weekly autism blog post exploring people with autism and accommodations that we can all understand and embrace. #Autism #AutismApril
Grieving Elections Results: MAGA Nation and Prolonged Grief Disorder
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MAGA Nation seems to be stuck relitigating the 2020 election hoping for a different outcome. They have all of the symptoms of prolonged grief disorder, but instead of wrecking their own lives, they are destroying our democracy.
MAGA Nation Traumatized and Why You Should Care
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When you compare the behavior of the rank and vile to the symptoms of trauma survivors, they look pretty much the same. Suffering from mass psychosis has traumatized MAGA Nation. Their anger and outrage will only get worse.
Coping with your MAGA Relatives during the Festivus Season
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Festivus is fast approaching and we’ve all got to get through the Airing of Grievances and the Feats of Strength without actually coming to blows with our MAGA relatives. Luckily, Ye Olde Blogge is here with some timely advice on how to cope with your favorite drunk rage uncle.
The Coming Psychopathocracy: How the Dark Tetrad has taken over the Republican Party
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The Republican Party has been acting with greater callousness towards the American public. None of their politicians seem to feel guilt, empathy, or remorse for the pain, suffering, or death they cause from the pandemic, the Big Lie, or abortion laws. They are obviously psychopaths.
Autism AWARENESS Month: Easing the Guilty-Conscious of Schools, Administrators, and Teachers
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My PDA daughter did a thing. She made a podcast on being a PDA’er in school for a school assignment. As it turns out most of the accommodations that schools make are more for their sake than the PDA’er.
Autism ACCEPTANCE Month: How is Reforming the Police like Managing PDA?
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Are you ready for some anecdotes about my hard-assed mother? This post has ’em! Are you ready for some child-rearing words of wisdom? This post has ’em! Are you ready for some solid info on qualified immunity? This post has it! Are you ready for some hard truths about policing in America? This post has ’em! Are you ready to call YOUR senators about the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act? This post is!
Autism ACCEPTANCE Month: The Confusion of Emotions
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Part of the issue of autism is the use of interpersonal emotions. Autistic people don’t use them well. They have emotions, but understand their role in communication. But, there is a role of intrapersonal emotions in the meltdowns that autistic people and people with pathological demand avoidance have because we rely on our emotional reactions to make decisions.
A Quickie: Autism ACCEPTANCE Month, 2021
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April is Autism Awareness Month in the US. Here at Ye Olde Blogge, we do our part by posting what it is like being autistic and other insights that we have gathered over the years. Here’s an introduction and advice on how to handle friends, neighbors, and co-workers who are autistic or those who are having trouble accepting people with autism.
A Quickie: The Image of Officer Derek Chauvin on George Floyd’s Neck Haunts Me
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I find it too upsetting to think about the murder of George Floyd for too long. It was just horrifically brutal. There was a casual deliberate depravity displayed by Chauvin over those nine minutes. But, at the same time, discussing it helps exorcise those ghosts.
This Week in Mental Illness: The Matt Gaetz Sex Imbroglio
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I know TL;DR, but there’s always a lot of symptoms and evidence to discuss when you’re talking diagnosing someone’s mental illness. So, I’ve put in lots of headings to help you skip around to the juicier bits.
Mass Shootings: Mental Illness is One of the Tragedies of the Boulder Shooting
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Not all mass shootings are caused by people with screaming mental health issues, but the one at King Sooper in Boulder sure was. We have to recognize mental illness and know how to help our friends, relatives, and acquaintances.
Laura Ingraham’s Trump Interview Showcases Trump’s Symptoms of Mental Illness
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Ever wonder what all the crazy crap that Trump says means? Here’s your guide to interpretting the full on bizarre cray-cray that Trump dumped on us this week during Laura Ingraham’s interview
Trump’s Ascent to Authoritarianism and Crash in the Presidential Polls are both due to his Mental Illness
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The most salient feature of Trump is his mental illness, specifically, his narcissism. It explains his authoritarian urges, attempts, and aspirations as well as his plunge in the presidential polls and his approval ratings.
Socially Awkward Social Distancing: Autism in the Era of #COVID19
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Happy end of Autism Awareness Month! It looks like Zoom meetings are the great equalizer for us socially awkward autistics! With all the clumsy talking over one another, uncertainty about what to say when, doubt about what to do with your hands, questioning whether you’re lack of grooming will be noticed are all part of the everyday existence of many high-functioning autistic people. Now, we can all enjoy them!
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