autistic pride is so important because autistic children like myself are constantly treated as and made to feel like burdens to their loved ones, their family, and even society as a whole.
we literally get people saying things like “if i was autistic, i would kill myself” and caretakers who get sympathy for wanting to kill autistic kids. people will justify our existence only by how productive we are and how neurotypical we can appear. when parents find out their kid
Heheh. Um. There are times when the species are very vastly different that understanding and communication are virtually impossible.
The jury is very much out on the Hyperspace-native species known through onomatopoeic nomenclature as the Xyrak’l. Nobody knows if they’re cogniscent, cusp-cogniscent, or non-cogniscent.
But they are big enough to crush a standard passenger liner, so the general consensus is to leave them to their own business.
TBH, that is something I am going to explore as I go on in the Amalgam Universe series.
Most cogniscent life would depend on an extended childhood for learning. This leads to a need for nurturing, which means more effort spent on fewer young.
Cogniscents who have litters would be rare. And possibly level 5 Deathworlders.
Civilisation also, to some degree, requires an element of co-operation to progress. You need a certain amount of trade and specialisation to get into space. Naturally
Species-tailoring is usually a gradual process because the next generation cannot, by existing, harm the prior one. For all intents and purposes, its more bother than selective exposure and equally selective breeding.
Gengineering is generally approved in all quality-of-life improvements. Tukkatukka, being a foodstuff designed to aid terraforming, is in the definitive green tick zone.
Augments are definite grey areas. They fall loosely under the category of service animals and the CRC keeps a rigid check on their welfare.
Engineered Life Forms, or ELFs, who exhibit cogniscence are the ones who cause trouble. Companies who make them are considered responsible for their welfare and upkeep.
Huge amounts of paperwork are required. The CRC has
The Cogniscents’ Rights Committee has the relatively simple stance that if an intelligence can seem like an intelligence to another known intelligence, then the original intelligence deserves all rights and freedoms afforded to cogniscent life.
Signs of intelligence include:
arguing
making wishes known
attempts at communication
attempts at trade
mimicry with the goal of attempted communication
attempts at understanding
Of course, there are cusp-cogniscent creatures like the Grey Parrot, the pig, and some species of ape. The CRC prefers to err on
This was where JOATs came into the fore. Electronic translators had
their limits, and one of the most prevalent of those limits was
breaching the Understanding Barrier.
Grammar is important. Especially in a panic situation.
Thus, in an emergency, the most level heads of the JOAT community come to the fore.
Shayde
stood on one of the plinths, using her own passive magic to make
herself understood to all listeners. “Please proceed in an orderly
fashion
Well, yes. They’re called Galactic Citizens. Most Galactics come neither from Havenworlds nor Deathworlds. You get an astonishing number of Saurians, Avians, and Lizards.
It’s just that humans tip the scales towards mammals(and Deathworlders) because we just… expand to fill whatever space we can make habitable.
Oh most definitely. Earth itself rates a 4.5 on the Deathworld scale, and most of that is because of the weird, nasty, and unusually venomous stuff that lives in Australia.
There are level 5 Deathworlders, and humans are about the only ones who can deal with them… one way or another.
And there’s all kinds of Deathworlders from 0.5 to 5 and How The Flakk Did They Evolve?
Interestingly, low-grav species like the Huf’nuf’ruf and the
The Girl Scouts are not only good role models for young girls, but for all of us, deciding the dignity of trans girls is more important than money. That should be rewarded, I think.
THEY DID IT IN ONE DAY. SUCK IT, TRANSMISOGYNISTS.
They've nearly doubled the goal in one day. DOUBLED. This is the best thing, the
