"Dancers Stand in Turnout"

So there's this tumblr post getting batted around the internet that uses permanent changes doing ballet makes on your body and no one batting an eye at "permanently changing your body is why you're supposed to start young" as metaphors for people kicking up a fuss about trans kids wanting to make permanent alterations to their body. Which is all very important trans messaging, but I am distracted by the idea that dancers stand in turnout naturally explicitly because dance makes permanent changes to their body.

I did not particularly like dance but I did start young-- I took ballet once a week from the earliest child classes (I do not actually remember beginning) to the year before I would have been old enough for the pointe classes, whereupon I stopped because tights were a sensory nightmare. But I only did it once a week and I stopped in middle school....

But do people who haven't danced really stand with their feet parallel to one another with their knees facing straight ahead of them? Because I find that position exceedingly uncomfortable, and I wouldn't have thought I'd done enough dance to actually affect my skeleton.

Diagnosis Collapse

So there are very good reasons to collapse the Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis into the autism spectrum as a whole-- but the "Asperger was a Nazi!" thing tends to ignore that the word "autism" was coined by someone who totally would have been a Nazi if he'd lived a bit longer: Eugen Bleuler.

Really everyone involved with early autism research was varying degrees of terrible. So the people suggesting that the history of the word autism is so much better than the history of Asperger's come across as a little disingenuous, because it's not like Bleuler was any better than Asperger; he just didn't have the opportunity to participate in a genocide.

But Bleuler died in 1939 and his Wikipedia page's sole of mention any of this is in a single-sentence aside which compares his attitude towards his patients to Freud's (Bleuler, as far as I can tell, was significantly more active about his eugenicism than Freud was), so everyone's just like "Yup, autism! Not coined by Nazis as at all, not like Asperger Syndrome!"