dragonfucker

Crosswords suck. It's just trivia, and most trivia is middle aged neurotypicals shaming other people for not sharing the same interests.

Then how come all the toxic people on Lemmy are the sorts that have established reputations and an identity?

That's what they evolved into. Crab is happy staying a crab

Exactly. Citing a psychology paper from 1912 is risky business. Young people don't know precisely when each particular science caught up to the current paradigm.

Allism is a mental disorder characterised by lack of empathy and an irrational belief in the ability to read minds.

https://psychcentral.com/blog/aspie/2018/09/allism-spectrum-disorders-a-parody

Allism, also known as Allism Spectrum Disorder, is a pervasive developmental disorder which impairs a persons social, communicative, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral function. The symptoms of allism range from moderate to severe and are lifelong; however, with intensive treatment and early interventions, the presentation of symptoms can be less severe. Currently, there is no cure for allism; however, therapeutic and dietary interventions in the research stage of development are showing promise.

Persons with allism tend to suffer from a lack of empathy, or mind blindness, in that they have difficulty understanding or intuiting the needs and thoughts of others. They assume that the independent actions, facial expressions, voice inflections, and factual statements of others are intended to be hostile, argumentative, or condescending. May suffer from delusions of persecution and believe that others are judging them or attacking them; difficulty understanding the motives of others; believes the thoughts and opinions of people are related to their own participation and existence in the world.

When the cop brought the kid back to his house, he should have called a social worker and sent them down to connect the family with these services. The kind of parents who do this aren't often in the right state of mind to seek out support. They need to be helped as much as the kids.

Drag doesn't much care about your pronouns either, but drag doesn't complain when you use them in conversation like you did just now.

Drag can think of many things a government could do to a kid worse than being in an abusive household. Hypothetically: Killing, slave labour, chemical experiments, exposure to addictive drugs. Realistically: Surrounding him with a bunch of older criminals who will traumatise him just as bad as his parents and also teach him how to scale up his crimes to violent crimes against civilians. What if the older kids beat him up, or get him on alcohol or cigarettes?

Drag can also think of solutions that don't involve any violence. Like family therapy, a support pension, or rehabilitation programs for the parents.

Funny how the police can lock someone in jail, but they can't do anything to help a broken family. Drag thinks we could use some non-police solutions to the problem, because drag doesn't think putting 11 year olds in prison is a humane way of fixing anything.

A CYOA? Hmmm.... Worth a try.

Drag generally prefers CYOAs with custom character creation. Coteries of New York was okay, but it really struggled with the lack of relatability of the player character.

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