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Corneliusthecamel · 2025-05-01T21:54:09+00:00

So after seeing some threads on here today about men being allowed to a breastfeeding group, someone getting in trouble at work because they were a woman wanting to be addressed as a woman, and who knows what else… I’m curious what has happened lately that makes people think ‘WTF! The world has gone totally mad!’

BottleBlondeMachiavelli · 02/05/2025 07:31

Perzival · 02/05/2025 07:24

Having a one diagnosis to catch all in autism. Ds has severe autism so when I see the videos or hear people they have self diagnosed autism but have a job, family, friends etc it just seems crazy that my son has that as severe disability. Likewise when people refer to it as a superpower.

Yes, the gender bollocks as referred to up thread.

People needing to be special all the time.

Normal emotions being labelled and diagnosed as anxiety, depression etc

You do know that some of us have actual real diagnosed-by-doctors autism but also family, friends jobs and so on?

Tue self diagnosed people drive me bonkers too, but that’s a (huge) separate issue to higher functioning autists sharing a label with lower functioning autists.

Aspergers was a very helpful diagnostic term, though, and I wished they’d bring it back.

Sandylittleknees · 02/05/2025 07:31

Choising to have children that you can’t afford despite available contraception and being fully aware of how to use it.

NameChangedOfc · 02/05/2025 07:31

BlueEyedBogWitch · 02/05/2025 05:10

A drag queen telling stories to confused-looking children and smug-looking parents in the foyer of The British Museum.

A billionaire throws a hen party in space while people are literally starving and going without healthcare.

Kids I work with having ‘please don’t remove his/her phone’ on their EHCP, because they are basically so addicted to dopamine that they get distressed and anxious if they can’t check their socials every five minutes. Young people’s brains have literally been hijacked by big tech, and we stand by and allow it.

I’d switch the goddamn internet off in a heartbeat. It’ll be the end of us. Misogyny, stifling of creativity, theft of our time, the acceleration of social contagion and the normalisation of what used to be fairly isolated human depravity, and the environmental impact of it completely outweigh any perceived gains. Look what it’s done to us in twenty odd years. I genuinely think that people believe The Cloud is an actual cloud, not giant aircraft hangers full of carbon-producing machines.

And then the gender bollocks. Give me strength.

Yes, this is it for me.

GreenFressia · 02/05/2025 07:46

At the risk of sounding like the older generation, I think we are too present focused. There was a Jimmy Carr interview and he talked about how we should do things that will benefit us in the future. What would 30 year future us be glad that we did today. Or we can just carry on and squander...

Perzival · 02/05/2025 07:48

BottleBlondeMachiavelli · 02/05/2025 07:31

You do know that some of us have actual real diagnosed-by-doctors autism but also family, friends jobs and so on?

Tue self diagnosed people drive me bonkers too, but that’s a (huge) separate issue to higher functioning autists sharing a label with lower functioning autists.

Aspergers was a very helpful diagnostic term, though, and I wished they’d bring it back.

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Yes I'm fully aware many people have a dx that's my point. The presentations all differ so much that if you tell somebody that x person has autism it doesn't really convey how that person presents. They could be very communicative, intelligent with friends and a career or have very limited communication, non verbal, need round the clock care, head bang, vocalise etc.

The self dx, autism is a super powers brigade drive me round the bend and help nobody.

SmegmaCausesBV · 02/05/2025 07:52

Perzival · 02/05/2025 07:48

Yes I'm fully aware many people have a dx that's my point. The presentations all differ so much that if you tell somebody that x person has autism it doesn't really convey how that person presents. They could be very communicative, intelligent with friends and a career or have very limited communication, non verbal, need round the clock care, head bang, vocalise etc.

The self dx, autism is a super powers brigade drive me round the bend and help nobody.

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Agree and it does make the diagnosis seem less severe when you have such varying needs under one blanket term. I think it makes people less likely to take it seriously when everyone they know has it and they lose sight of the people who really can't function and need very physical and specialist help.

BottleBlondeMachiavelli · 02/05/2025 07:52

Perzival · 02/05/2025 07:48

Yes I'm fully aware many people have a dx that's my point. The presentations all differ so much that if you tell somebody that x person has autism it doesn't really convey how that person presents. They could be very communicative, intelligent with friends and a career or have very limited communication, non verbal, need round the clock care, head bang, vocalise etc.

The self dx, autism is a super powers brigade drive me round the bend and help nobody.

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Just checking because it sounded very much like you were conflating the two.

I actually also think people have the right to think their (real, diagnosed) autism or ADHD etc is a strength or a superpower, but I do see it being the same term might be a bit triggering for parents like you.

Riverswimmers · 02/05/2025 07:59

The decline in social norms is depressing, particularly the lack of regard for others spaces and peace. My dc are older and I can't help think that there is much more entitlement in both parents and kids and much less telling off of dc now. I'm not sure that there is a society norm of what behaving in public is anymore.

Do not get me started on dogs being treated as children and taken everywhere and other people having to just accept it as okay.

Noseyoldcow · 02/05/2025 08:00

I’ve come across today’s WTF moment on mumsnet already. The thread about a trans/bloke whatever joining a breastfeeding group.

Noluthando · 02/05/2025 08:00

Yes to all this.

Vinorosso74 · 02/05/2025 08:11

So many things.
This morning, how well Reform have done in local elections. People really need to look properly at all their policies rather than just the populist headlines.
Trump and his followers/cronies.
How selfish/self-centred people have become. Not everyone, there are still a lot of decent people out there.
Relating to selfish. Idiots still buying animals online with no idea how to care for them or they get bored. They then abandon them for someone else to pick up the pieces. People then slate the charities for not doing enough, it's a case of physical space of where to put the animals. I volunteer for Cats Protection, so a cat gets dumped outside the centre, that means a space needs to be found either in the centre or foster which takes the space of the next cat who was waiting to come in. It's horrendous for rescues at the moment and and a lot of the cats are needing quite a bit of vet treatment. Cost of living has had an impact but a lot is down to people not giving a fuck.

Perzival · 02/05/2025 08:14

BottleBlondeMachiavelli · 02/05/2025 07:52

Just checking because it sounded very much like you were conflating the two.

I actually also think people have the right to think their (real, diagnosed) autism or ADHD etc is a strength or a superpower, but I do see it being the same term might be a bit triggering for parents like you.

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I can understand it and if you or your child/ loved one is able to function putting that sort of spin on a dx might help them come to terms with it/see their strengths but it's very far removed from what some people experience. You'd never say any other disability is a superpower and to have a dx by definition the autism has to impede the person or give them a defecit in assessed areas.

Saying autism is a superpower does diminish what is by definition a disability.

CharlotteStreetW1 · 02/05/2025 08:17

Agree with Vinorosso74.

Last night's election results 🤦‍♀️

dogcatkitten · 02/05/2025 08:18

SmegmaCausesBV · 01/05/2025 23:14

Every day I wonder if I am in a simulation. I think it has been that way since about 2016 - the whole Brexit debacle.

This is something from this week that possibly irrationally scared me. I don't really understand the need, when so many other things really need attention, to make a robotic horse that looks like a wasp hybrid from a dystopian sci-fi film - just missing lasers IMO https://theconversation.com/a-robot-that-you-ride-like-a-horse-is-being-developed-it-will-stretch-current-limits-of-engineering-254483

Wouldn't mind one of them to go to the shops. I quite fancy a house robot to do housework and fetch and carry, hope that happens soon, I'm getting older!

CountryShepherd · 02/05/2025 08:25

At our local hospital recently, an officially sanctioned drag nurse appeared in the canteen, with 60's style uniform, blond curly wig, seamed stockings and huge Barbara Windsor style breasts - to celebrate LBQT history month or similar

In a work environment probably dominated by professional women.

Kxidwn · 02/05/2025 08:27

People voting for Reform

Clearinguptheclutter · 02/05/2025 08:34

Kxidwn · 02/05/2025 08:27

People voting for Reform

More specifically, people voting for Andrea Jenkins as reform mayor!

MissyB1 · 02/05/2025 08:55

YourOnMute · 02/05/2025 00:27

Climate change.
Belief in science just disappearing.
Violence against women and the increasing viciousness in discourse about women.
Facism and far-right politics making a reappearance.
Trump.
Palestine. Ukraine.

All of this 👆

Gnomegarden32 · 02/05/2025 09:04

Chiseltip · 02/05/2025 07:02

No, we are not.

The hysteria is just a control measure used by governments to generate revenue through environmental taxes.

Don't believe me?

Ever wondered why the solution to all serious "environmental issues" is a tax?

Petrol cars are bad! Unless you pay a tax.

Flying is bad! Unless you pay a tax.

Pollution is bad! Unless you pay a tax.

They don't ban anything they say is "bad for the environment" they just tax it.

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We'd better tell 97% of the world's scientists that they're wrong then!

Gnomegarden32 · 02/05/2025 09:08

Genuinely fascinated by people who are still denying climate change at this point.

Sassysoonwins · 02/05/2025 09:09

Agree with pp that said I feel like I'm living in a simulation since brexit. The rise of the far right accross the world, transwomen denying real women exist, Trump in power for a second time and possibly more if he gets his way. The rich are so rich they can't possibly spend it all and families can't afford the weekly shop and the solution is to tax middle earners more and leave the rich alone. Energy companies charging more and more and nothing apparently can stop them. Schools just becoming holding pens as they lose more and more funding and the teachers barely having time to teach ( that school scene in Adolescence stayed in my head).

Feelingstrange2 · 02/05/2025 09:09

Gnomegarden32 · 01/05/2025 23:35

It feels like this all day every day. The biggest thing is probably the fact we are heading towards catastrophic irreversible climate disaster and yet govts/media organisations etc are seemingly carrying on as normal.

We have to give up on the idea anything will be done.

An opportunity was offered on a plate to the international community when the pandemic hit. Some sort of international bailout or support would have been necessary for some of the industries but no one even considered it. They just pushed until everything was back to the way it was.

What does my head in is the red flags similarities to Germany just before the war and people are voting for it.....and in another breath saying we must never forget.

Pricelessadvice · 02/05/2025 09:12

StevesLavaChicken · 02/05/2025 00:59

The balaclava’d young kids committing arson, attacking kids younger than themselves in parks (a 7 year old was recently dragged by the hair off a swing and had her head stamped on with her grandma there) or attacking fully grown adults. Stabbings. Intimidation because they’re carrying knives. The police can’t do anything. These are kids in big groups aged 7-16 or older. Reporting gets you nowhere. They parade about in balaclavas or with their hoods pulled tight around their faces. And I’m only on the edge of this estate that they’re spilling down from. The nearest town centre isn’t worth going to for fear of a huge gang of these kids on bikes ready to assault anyone they feel like. It’s a known issue but nothing being done about it. They’re not scared because they know they’re untouchable. One of their own died via e-scooter recently after a collision, his mates left him dying in the road while they hid the scooter because it was stolen. It became this big thing of a memorial for him with his mates firing firework rockets at police and passing cars. Seems to have died down now but the rest of the balaclava gang are back on form.
A couple of weeks ago I had to call 999 because from my front room I could hear a little boy screaming for help. The balaclavas had him. He couldn’t have been older than 7. The teenage lads picked him up and ran with him with two teenage girls running along behind. They took him onto the roundabout and this poor little boy kept screaming “Stop!” “Help me”. I gave all details and two police cars did actually turn up within 7 minutes. But by that time the kids had taken the little boy into a house (which I gave full details of) and they all ran back and forth away from the police cars. The police didn’t even stop outside the house and knock. Just drove around for a bit and then left.

You must live near me. It’s getting worse isn’t it?

stringsoup · 02/05/2025 09:13

TRUMP
Why are we lettting it happen?

Feelingstrange2 · 02/05/2025 09:19

I'm not sure we have any power over Trump as we don't get a USA vote. But if the UK is voting reform then we are going the same way.

They may see him for what he is when their inflation rate takes off and they can't buy anything from Temu without huge additional tariffs being added. I don't know how well off the average US citizen is to be able to suck up increases.