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Nellers 9:47am 9:47am, 10 Jan 2025 44,485 posts	0 Nellers Was that while she was surfing Dio?
Diogenes 9:48am 9:48am, 10 Jan 2025 90,194 posts	0 Diogenes After, usually.
Nellers 9:52am 9:52am, 10 Jan 2025 44,487 posts	0 Nellers The 30s version of a recovery shake perhaps?
ChrisHB 11:14am 11:14am, 10 Jan 2025 23,356 posts	0 ChrisHB Another one to provoke discussion if you want. Again I AM NOT THE EXPERT HERE. To talk about the autistic spectrum is misleading because the basic meaning of 'spectrum' is one-dimensional but the variations on autism are countless-dimensional.
Raetomic Kitten 11:33am 11:33am, 10 Jan 2025 12,423 posts	0 Raetomic Kitten I think the major misunderstanding is that people think 'the autistic spectrum' is a linear thing light light wavelengths, which goes from 'not at all autistic'/infrared at one end to 'very autistic'/ultraviolet at the other, and thus everyone falls on it somewhere and we've (arbitrarily) put a line at one point and said 'beyond here it counts as a disability'. In reality it's more like 'a spectrum of autism' with different wavelengths corresponding to different traits, and each autistic person has a different combination of those traits.
Heinzster 12:14pm 12:14pm, 10 Jan 2025 2,429 posts	0 Heinzster I imagine very few people are at the 'absolutely no autistic traits whatsoever' end of the spectrum.
ChrisHB 12:16pm 12:16pm, 10 Jan 2025 23,359 posts	0 ChrisHB Indeed. I have a grandson who does not perceive hunger or enjoy food and eats because he has been taught he has to. Stick that on a "spectrum".
Cerrertonia 3:31pm 3:31pm, 10 Jan 2025 22,617 posts	0 Cerrertonia The Spanish village of Trasmoz was (and still is) collectively excommunicated by the Catholic Church. It elects a "Witch of the Year", has a statue of Manuel Jalón Corominas' who was awarded a patent for the mop and bucket, and has a street named after Nayim's goal in the 1995 Cup-Winners' Cup Final. Julio Iglesias' father was kept there in 1982 after being kidnapped by Basque separatists. It is one of very few Spanish villages to not be on Google Street View, although the road which bypasses it is.