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Let’s take a tally.Loki - Dead, killed trying to help defeat Thanos.Hela - Dead, killed not that long ago by Surtur when Thor and Loki unleashed him upon Asgard. It was quite the spectacle!Surtur - Whereabouts unknown, unlikely to be in the loop, unlikely to want to be in the loop.Malekith - Dead, killed during his showdown with Thor and the Foster Bunch.Mordo - A bit busy trying to rid the world of sorcerers, is unaware that Thanos exists, would likely side with him if it meant more sorcerers dying.Dormammu - Banished outside of reality by Dr. Strange and the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj. Unlikely to be helpful.Kaecilius - Taken by Dormammu to the Dark Dimension, in no condition or disposition to help. Presumed to be effectively dead.The Vulture - In prison thanks to Spider-Man.Venom - Residing in an adjacent cinematic universe.The Sovereign - Military resources depleted hunting the Guardians of the Galaxy. Unlikely to be interested in anything other than their own stuck-up solid gold butts. Adam Warlock’s status is unknown.Ego - Dead, killed by Quill and the Guardians of the Galaxy a year or two prior.Ronan the Accuser - Dead, killed by Quill and the Guardians of the Galaxy using the Power Stone.Zemo - Imprisoned, presumably by the CIA. Mostly not cooperative, extremely gratified to watch the heroes suffer, values no life in the world anymore due to the death of his family.All the Hydra Guys from Winter Soldier - Dead, in a variety of different ways.Strucker and his Goons from Age of Ultron - Variously dead or taken prisoner.Red Skull - Helplessly bound to Vormir, where he guides others to the Soul Stone. Has no will of his own left anymore.Ulysses Klau - Dead, killed by Killmonger. Imagine that!Killmonger - Dead, refused healing after his battle with T’challa and allowed himself to die rather than become a prisonerDarren Cross - Dead, killed during his showdown with Ant-Man. Not that he’d be very helpful.Ghost - Not dead, but not exactly looped in with this Thanos business either. A bit preoccupied with her quantum contagion as it were.Ultron - Dead, killed by Vision after the Avengers dealt with all his copies.Justin Hammer - In prison. Also, his assistance would probably constitute sabotage.Whiplash - Dead, self-destructed during his showdown with Iron Man and War Machine.Aldrich Killian - Dead, burnt to a crispy cinder during the events of Iron Man 3.Trevor Slattery - Is an actor, not actually a supervillain. Also, probably dead due to the intervention of the real Mandarin, who was a bit miffed that someone started making a mockery of his name and organization.The Real Mandarin - Not dead, but decidedly preoccupied with his terrorist network. Likely uninterested in preserving anything resembling a status quo.Obadiah Stane - Dead, killed during his showdown with Tony Stark in Iron Man.Thanos - Psssst! I think he’s playing for the other team!The Winter Soldier - Oh, hey, Bucky was there! He totally helped during the battle of Wakanda! See? You got one.Edit: And Nebula - Her too! Hey, you got two!… Well, there you have it. Most of them are dead, the rest are either in prison, preoccupied, or uninterested.Villains don’t tend to be, er, helpful. That’s why they’re villains.

The first point of contact is your medical physician.Ask them to refer you to the care of a Psychiatrist.The Psychiatrist is your anchor point in the Mental Healthcare system.The Psychiatrist can refer you to other mental health specialists like occupational therapists, Social Workers and psychologists.That is what I did when I was I was in a similar situation.You are not broken, and you are not alone.I want to take a moment to tell you something important.You have achieved incredible successes.If you survived this long undiagnosed, you have overcome challenges daily that most do not face in their lifetime.The world is designed opposite of what you need, and yet you still have made it.You have a core of strength you do not recognize yet.None of us do when we are first reborn as normal Autistic humans.Whenever you feel lost or out of control remember that fact.You made it this far in a hostile world, there must be a reason because luck only allows for so much.Family Md-> Psychiatrist-> Care TeamCare team = Support, learning, skill sets, assistance with self care.A Social Worker is also an asset I recommend.They understand how to apply for governmental assistance and know how to navigate the mental healthcare system, and social assistance networks.Anchor yourself to your people.We know Autistic life, we know what challenges you face.Some of us have solved many of the challenges you face, and will face as you go through your diagnostic rebirth.It almost always destroys our world context, and we need to find who we really are, and where we fit in.It can take away our confidence, our dignity, and it destroys our Ego.This is good.You regain your confidence as you relearn or remember who you are as a human, without the false belief you are wrong or broken.You learn a different type of dignity, one that comes from our challenges and from overcoming them every day.The ego is gone for good. You don’t need it or want it.Ego is the weakness that prevents you from asking for help.It subdues your personal power and holds you back.It feels like you are lost and don’t know what to do, but you have proven you are not as lost as you think.You knew that your first point of contact for help was the Autistic community, your people.Ask more questions, lurk and read our stories.There are solutions to many of your problems in our words, and we want to give them to you.There is nothing wrong with you.You are Autistic in a world that is hostile towards you by design.I hope my words have helped.If not, ask again, as many times as you need until we have helped you feel safe and in control again.You belong, you always have, you just didn’t know it.Be well kin,James.

Russian Orthodoxy wasn’t considerably more corrupt under the Soviet rule than normally. The main problem with our church is not its venal servants, but the central concept of subjugation of Orthodoxy to anyone who currently holds power in the Kremlin.Our church had a historic chance of breaking its subjugation to the Russian state when atheists came to power in 1917. Patriarchy was restored, but the new Patriarch Tikhon Belavin failed to give spiritual guidance to anti-revolutionary forces in the Civil war, did not organize resistance to the destruction of Orthodoxy started by Lenin and Trotsky in 1922, and de-facto collaborated with the Communist rulers before his death in 1925.The ghost existence of Orthodoxy was given a new lease of life by Stalin who decided to make it a religious arm of his secret services. Giving in to the pressure of the Americans who predicated their continuing assistance in WW2 on a greater religious freedom in the USSR, Stalin in 1943 appointed a new Patriarch and ordered not to close the churches and congregations that the Germans re-opened in the occupied territories in 1941–1943.After WW2, Orthodox priests joined the vast network of informers under the tutelage of MGB and KGB. Their HR management was subjected to the guidelines from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Patriarch, bishops, and the non-bishop positions in the Synod were nomenklatúrnye dólzhnosti, i.e. new appointments had to be vetted by the Central Committee.This entanglement with the government has never been considered controversial by the mainstream Russian Orthodoxy. It views the Russian state as the core of our national identity and the supreme guardian of the Orthodox faith.Photo below: faithful to the view that every power in Russia is an emanation of God’s will, our priests see as unproblematic giving blessings to dictators, their henchmen, their weapons and their wealth. Here, a priest gives his blessing to a navy vessel in the Black Sea: the deadly weapons it is carrying are there to please God in its mission to protect Russian people and our Orthodox faith.