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Don’t You Know Who I Am?

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[–] kinsnik@lemmy.world 210 points 1 year ago (3 children)

they said to "educate yourself", not "get education from experts and professors"

checkmate

[–] xman664@lemmy.world 95 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I did my residency for 3 years on TikTok and I have a PHD from YouTube.

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mommy blogger of the lake, what is your wisdom?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dip your taint in water that touched ginseng.

[–] Beelzebob@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did that once and my erection lasted for more than 4 hours.

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You joke, but I have watched so many YouTube tutorials on unreal engine, Godot, and Blender to learn game development stuff. I wouldn't say I'm an expert. But I definitely know a lot more than I did a few years ago.

[–] lingh0e@lemmy.film 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Does Blender cause autism?

[–] WolfyGamer29@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Well, I'm autistic, and I've used blender a lot...

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[–] IndefiniteBen@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm going to guess you did more than just watch videos... If you also applied that knowledge in practical work, you did educate yourself on how to use those tools.

Whatever you made is the validation/grading of your education. IMO that's a perfectly valid way to get an education, for those kinds of topics. It's much more risky to grade yourself on abstract knowledge where you can't directly make something and see if it works or not.

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[–] FReddit@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see nothing about her googling experience!

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

How many hours has she logged on Facebook?

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[–] MarkC568@kbin.social 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Anyone who tells you to “educate yourself” probably barely made it out of high school.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 45 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The only person who ever basically said that vaccines cause autism was Andrew Wakefield and he was a con artist who was trying to sell his special magic don't give you autism vaccine, which turned out to be the same stuff as the "autism vaccine" or in some cases saline.

He had his medical licence revoked. He should have gone to prison.

Only morons believed him, and only morons continue to believe him.

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[–] tlingitsoldier@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Educate yourself" means to look up a few random Facebook posts that agree with your viewpoint and tell others that they are stupid for being brainwashed sheeple.

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[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, to have the unearned confidence of the mediocre idiot telling the doctor to get educated

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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Not gonna vaccinate my kids, but I'll be sure to smoke and drink plenty of alcohol while pregnant." - These people

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[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Vaccines cause... kids to grow up and become adults. Autism? It means I have limited social energy and I'm so good at seeing patterns I keep getting told they aren't there and I need to be reasonable🤣

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[–] Transcriptionist@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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X/Twitter post by user Nicole Baldwin, MD, FAAP @NicoleB_MD reading: Tried my hand at #Tiktok - this one struck a nerve. #VaccinateYourKids #VaccinesWork #somedocs Attached is a screenshot from a Tiktok video showing a woman with a stethoscope around her neck, leaning slightly forward and pointing at on-screen text reading: Vaccines DON'T CAUSE AUTISM A user with their username redacted has replied to the post with the text: Educate yourself woman Below that is a reply from Dr Nicole Baldwin to the unknown user reading: I did. Thanks. 4 years of college. 4 years of medical school. 3 years of pediatric residency. 13 years of clinical practice. 👌

[I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hold up. Whenever I see this stuff the disclaimer at the end is almost always "I'm a bot..." Yadda yadda yadda....

I just noticed that's NOT what it says. So... Umm.... Hi.

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[–] PatFussy@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

But how many years of youtube study? How long has she been writing papers for anonymous society? I think all her medical practice and education shows how really uneducated she is.

[–] Ryan213@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder what that dummy thought "MD" stood for. Mommy Daddy?

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I started at a point of "vaccines obviously don't cause autism, that's absurd."

I transitioned through "even if they did, there's nothing wrong with being autistic"

These days I'm at "autistic people are way better than NT people and I wish vaccines caused autism"

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (16 children)

No. I've come to terms with who I am and even like some aspects of it that I would miss so I wouldn't give it up if I had the choice, but it's a disability for me, has been a very hard struggle, and I don't even have it as severe as some. I wouldn't wish this on more people. (Unless it was 100% of people because most of the struggles I have with the tism come from trying to live in a world designed by NTs that probably wouldn't exist in a world where everyone had tism)

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[–] sphericalkat@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Me and my girlfriend are both autistic and we would never wish this on anyone. Our child will most likely be autistic, and while we're more than fine with that, we'd love if the kid didn't have to go through the same shit as us

Make no mistake, I love who I am, but being ND is a disability and struggle for the rest of your life

[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

If you said that NT were way better, you'd be called an asshole and bigot. How's the reverse any different?

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[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This comment stinks of someone without a disability having wishful thinking.

Yes, it’s true my daughter is the sweetest, most loving, perfect child on the planet. But she also didn’t get potty trained until age 6. She will never be able to drive. She’s only going to be able to hold the most basic jobs. She’ll likely never be able to live independently.

There is definitely nothing wrong with autism and she is easily way better than any other person I’ve ever met. But she also faces some real challenges in life, and I don’t wish that everyone in the world had that.

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[–] xman664@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just find it funny they blanked out his name, but not the replied to.

You been put on blast ————. Hah.

Edit: I don’t see the issue with naming them as he posted it in a public forum, but I shall also redact.

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[–] PBCrisps@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah? Well, how many Youtube videos has this elitist "scientist" published? How many suppliment pills has she sold online? Why should I trust her?

[–] Stanwich@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

She's in her 40s? I need to start using moisturizer.

[–] Durotar@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just use a little JPEG to get rid of details that give up your age.

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