I love going in cold.

I am a case worker for people with disabilities, including several people on my caseload with autism. It does depend where you are and how autism presents, even within my small caseload there is a lot of variation. Even people with “heavy degree” autism can have lot of variation. In general, my agency and jurisdiction take the person centered planning and self determination pathways; the person if able, communicates to us what they do and not want in their plan, who they do and not want caring for them, and what they want us to request (funding from Medicaid. US). In many cases, they are in command of themselves enough to have that much control.

I suppose the question you ask is; what happens to the people who are non verbal, perhaps even combative. The answer is a little sadder. The agency I work for specializes in IDD but also community mental health. Our system famously dismantled the asylums in the 90s under Reagan austerity (good) but I do think there is an infinitesimally small group of people for whom community mental health is not meeting their significant needs.

In many cases, like you said family has high needs people in their homes, until parents die. Many times, siblings become their primary guardians. Many of them are living their own lives. There exist group homes, with round the clock care. Some of them will apply for co - guardianship (that is to say, the agency running the place). It is this threshold that my agency will hand them off to another more specialized one. Medicaid will pay for staffing but not rent, so this is what occurs for families without much money.

If there is enough money, then the family might get the person their own space, so they can remain independent. In that case, my agency can petition funding for as much staffing as they need (although 24 hour staffing is pretty close to institutionalizing someone. There exist a lot of institutional barriers to funding 24 hour staffing.) Either of these combine with rights restrictions, which I have thankfully never had to institute. These are special provisions in their plans, which are reviewed by a jurisdictional authority board. Example, a lock on the knife drawer, or some kind of safety mechanism to prevent the stove from being turned on.

If they are lucky, their family has some money, they can set them up with a place. Their siblings take over as guardian and they can continue with the same support apparatus that their parents set up, with the staff handling the day to day. If they do not come from some means, then they will likely end up in a group home. They might also end up in a group home if they are too combative to live on their own.

Bless you sir

jfc OP. its not common, this is the second most abuse filled upbringing I have ever heard about. You desperately need therapy.

You’re right, that does seem very nice.

I work in social work; I would say about 60 percent of what I do is paperwork. My agency has told us not to use LLMs, as that would be a massive HIPPA nightmare. That being said, we use “secure” corporate emails. These use Microsoft 365 office suite, which are copilot enabled. These include TLDRs at the top, before you even look at the email, predictive texts… and not much else.

Would I love a bot who could spit out a Plan based on my notes or specifications? absolutely. Do I trust them not to make shit up. Absolutely not.

This man is a poet

My assumption is that friendship is a lot easier to initiate and maintain. Limmerence, especially, is a lot of anxiety about how the person feels and if I could only make them see the depth of my feelings and am I what they want. The kind of thing that a specific kind of person wishes for magic for.

This is interesting. Im not supremely well informed on these issues but I always assumed so called “AGI” would have emotions, or at least would be “Alive.” Is there a term for such a robot? Most fictional robots have intelligence and emotions to the point where we loop back around to it being unethical to exploit them.

Lol so I downloaded this and I LOVE it. I’m only on the second gym and I have been doing nothing except grabbing pokemon. Everything seems so well thought out and its beautiful.

There may be some plot elements that people are mad about, but really it just seems to me that people are mad because there is a rainbow flag and a trans flag in some homes. Its just really bland chud rage.

Why stop there? Why just banks and hiring firms? why not allow access to Law Enforcement and use the phrenology robot to screen for pre crime?

We do take energy from one place and put it in another. In the form of fossil fuels. And we ship it with what energy now?

Not even from an ethically standpoint. Color me shocked if these games are like, playable

I usually just have flings. But I’m still friends with some of them.

Anime OP dont usually get me- I kind of see them as their own genre. However Nostalgic Rainfall by Chic0 with Honeyworks is something I listen to every little while.

Also for the young me, growing up in an Modern Orthodox enclave, but completely immersed in NuMetal, Synergia’s Khum Uli August had my number. My friend brought back three whole albums from his birthright trip. I still listen to them when I work out. I miss that guy sometimes, too.

The rest of Troll Hunters

Patience. Im very stupid and I work a lot, so I dont always have time to spend with you.

That’s what people mean when they say ‘be yourself.’ It’s useful advice for someone in their late 20s or early 30s, when your frustrated by jerks and want to find the right person.

But it sounds useless to someone who is 16 and is trying to get the cheerleader to like him.

Absolutely. Even if it’s something they don’t understand. A lot of people just like this display of mastery; there is a domain at which you are at complete ease and confidence. I mentioned the hebrew class. I was running a study group. I learned it at a young age, and was mostly just taking it in university for language credits. Watching me take everyone’s questions, simply, and patiently answering them over the course of about ninety minutes was what did it. A similar thing happened when I guided six people in created DnD characters. Yapping about networks. Home repair. When people talk about confidence, its what they mean.

They absolutely do, maybe even more than men, because sexualization and body image issues are so reinforced among women to almost be completely normalized. The obvious differences are obviously due to the object-holder dynamic. Women are told they are pretty objects to be possessed, while men are told they are owed such objects.

lol I’m not even a philosopher I feel like Im talking out my ass. I hope I’m still making sense. I’m also preeminently unqualified to give advice about to anyone except strait guys.