u/Hunter654333

And that number is just the people classified as "obese". If you expand it to include any weight range deemed unhealthy by doctors, then 75% of Americans are classed as "overweight".

I'm sorry but I just can't get aroused by huge people. They hold zero sexual appeal for me. If I had to choose between a 220lb 5'3" person, and some sexy pictures + my hand, I'd choose the sexy pictures everyday. And I know I am not the only one who feels this way, and yet this is overwhelmingly the body type I am the most surrounded by, here in the Deep South.

You want to fix the "gen Z are not having sex" problem, a huge step in the right direction would be addressing the health crisis affecting the country right now. As much as we preach "you can look good and be healthy at any size!" it's just not true, and you can't magically change what people find attractive on a visceral level.

Also, I know the reasons are multifactorial and I know that it also involves a lack of financial independence, lack of social skills due to social media addiction, jobs being too unstable or demanding, etc. But a lot of these other reasons never actually come into play if the person you're looking at doesn't even appeal to you sexually. You would never flirt with them for that reason alone, the same way I wouldn't flirt with my male coworkers because I am straight.

1-- The Nurburgring distinguishes between lap times for production cars and non-production cars. The GTD Mustang is "impressive" when compared to lap times set by other production cars because the GTD is essentially a tuner track car straight from the factory. If we stopped caring about certain luxuries like softer valve body shift times, fuel-efficient final drive ratios, started using wide-ass tires for maximum grip but a bumpy ride, added very ugly aero all over the place for maximum downforce, fuel-inefficient and always-redlining camshafts, etc, then most of the traditional kings of production car Nurburgring lap times could beat this particular Mustang quite handily.

I fully expect at least of few of these car companies to produce their own "totally-not-a-racecar" trims for the sole purpose of one-upping Ford, since they've opened the door to this kind of behavior and having a muscle car beating supercars on a race track is a huge egg on the face of their established performance models.

2-- The example used to set the 6:40 time was a "pre-production" version of the GTD, and it's questionable whether or not Ford used the fact that it was "pre-production" as an excuse to make even further changes which might not be technically road-legal on the production model.

3-- Chevrolet claims their ZR1X time was not set by professional drivers, but by one of their engineers. If this is true then the ZR1X can probably beat this Mustang already.

From an engineer's perspective, I don't really see anything uniquely impressive about the frame these Mustangs are built on. They are, at their core, muscle cars: cruisers with high-displacement engines for making impressive noises on the street. Yes, you can twist and contort them into track weapons, but they're constrained by the design principles of a muscle car: long wheelbase, heavy front engine, large volume and tall chassis. Anyone willing to make the same radical adjustments this Mustang had done to it, on a car with better baseline proportions, should be able to to what the Mustang does, but better.

tl;dr: bloodlusted Mustang beat non-bloodlusted supercars.

Brace yourselves because this is going to be somewhat lengthy

Also I am sorry if these sorts of posts "stir the pot" as it were, but I feel compelled to provide this kind of information because getting the right diagnosis from a qualified provider is so essential to forming someone's identity and healing past trauma.

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A few months ago I made a post regarding Embrace-Autism.com, a well-known online diagnosis website's "reading the mind in the eyes" test, and how they mentioned an "unofficial" update to the test in 2021 made by a prolific autism researcher named Tony Attwood which added a "timed" element, whereby if you could not finish the test in 2-3 minutes, this pointed towards potential autism.

I contacted Dr. Attwood to ask if he had indeed made any update to the test, and he responded, I believe rather emphatically, that he did not and that he has never done research on the value of adding time constraints to the test.

This is important because the imposed limit Embrace-Autism were suggesting - 2-3 minutes, was quite absurd. It suggested, assuming a 2:30 minute average completion time, someone is spending 5 seconds on each image, which is very quick in my opinion, even for a neurotypical. It called into question, at least for me, whether there might be some sort of perverse incentive to make as many people think they could have autism as possible, in order to get them to contact the site for an evaluation.

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So, fast-forward to today, four months later, I received several comments on that original post from a user named Thick-Carrot-257. They seemed adamant that Tony Attwood was being dishonest and that they had video proof that Tony Attwood had suggested that timing should play a role in evaluations using the RMET.

I was curious why this user was such an ardent defender of the site on an old post from 4 months ago, so I checked their post history and found that they made a post claiming they were a patient of Embrace-Autism and how great and legitimate the services are. Alright, well that makes sense: they want to defend their diagnosis. However, I kept scrolling through the post history because I was bored, and what I found was rather frightening.

In another comment, this same user mentioned a Dr. (Natalie?) Englebrecht, the owner of the site I believe, in the third person.

However, when you continue to scroll all the way down to the bottom of their rather short account history, you will find this post regarding the fish in their aquariums dying. Okay so they're having issues with their pets, what's the big deal? Well, if you look further into the comments section on that post, you will see that there's a person giving detailed advice on what they should do, but the account responding to this post thanking them for the help is a completely different user named "Natalie1313131313". Remember, the owner of Embrace-Autism is one Dr. Natalie Englebrecht.

So I click on this user to see their history, and what I find is an absolute gold mine. They made several comments in a subreddit dedicated to a place called Oakville in Ontario, Canada. Why is this important? Because Embrace-Autism's own website (scroll to the bottom) mentions:

>Embrace Autism is located on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.

This region is bordered by Oakville, Canada.

They also made this post in Askreddit which states:

>"I have a much needed medical service which a Reddit group goes wild and makes up lies, which end up affecting people’s perception of me and my business. One person posted a thousand posts. What can I do?"

Huh, a medical service you say?

Now for reference, Thick-Carrot-257 made a similar complaint in which they mentioned a troublesome user posting 1000 comments about Embrace-Autism.

Weird, huh?

The Natalie account also mentions in another comment that they (2 years ago) are a 54 year old female, which also lines up.

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All of this is readable via the hypertext links I embedded, at least for now. I don't know how long these accounts are going to remain up and uncensored, but as of the time of this post, everything I am stating is out in the open for anyone to see for themselves.

I am going to say as little as possible for my own sake, but for now I leave my findings here so you can make your own judgements about this information.

Services like these are how people discover essential aspects of themselves and form their own identities and self-perceptions, and I believe anyone seeking a diagnosis should know as much as possible about their service providers, which is why I went through all of this effort to research the website that always appears at the top of my google search results when I type in "online autism diagnosis".

And for the record, I am not the guy making "1000 comments" a month. I'm just a dude who noticed an inconsistency on their website and somehow fell into this rabbit hole.