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am I missing something or is he not allowed to have opinions
Like, just at the top of the spine and a little bit around the top of the jaw-line?
I know I've spoken to other people about this thing who've had it too.
Before there was YouTube I experienced this by watching a comic book guy on public access talk about his collection. I think it must have something to do with hearing the naked enthusiasm coming from a person without focusing at all on the actual subject-matter, but it only works if their voice is kinda flat.
it was an autism joke
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I've been topical, and following the direction of the conversation. If you have a problem with my observations then you better cough something up because I'll have you in front of the DA before-
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too much LA Noire
top of the spine is where it's really strong, sometimes it is top of the jaw-line but usually, if it goes out of the top of the spine, it moves towards the front of my head along the top
"autism joke"
"transsexual joke"
Yeah I don't think he is being a goose at all. He is stating the things he believes. I don't see him being a dick to anybody for believing differently.
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A Gang of Reiki Heroes.
though my joke was tasteless they aren't comparable even on a diagnostic level
autism is a disability
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Thanks.
Austism isn't a choice, Koshian. Stop contributing to a culture where autistic children are beaten and bullied everyday.
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categorizing the enormously broad spectrum of autism as a "disability" is a pretty damn normative and restrictive way of looking at things
and it almost seems like you're suggesting that it's somehow more acceptable to disparage sections of the population if you, personally, believe that their unifying feature is firmly established as a negative, which is horrifying
is it only okay to make fun of something if it is an intrinsically negative aspect of their life?
somebody quote me
Man, while I thought an autism joke uncalled for, this is really just a road you don't want to go down. You are better than this.
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I'm gonna go schrodinger's cry now
still mostly offended that you're conflating autism and gender incongruence tho
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you're free to be offended
they're both things that people make entirely inappropriate jokes about, I don't think it's a very controversial stance to equate them in that regard and that regard alone
implying that people with autism are somehow lesser than "regular" people is a privileged and normative standpoint, the exact same sort that begets racism, sexism, genderism, etc.
and I have spent an awful lot of time with a wide range of people that qualify as autistic as a result of school & life
and I know a whole lot of people that don't suffer from any "mental disability" that are a hell of a lot more disabled than folks that qualify for this term or that term
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He threatened a girl with a pizza cutter a few years ago. Now he mostly just picks fights with his little sister and refuses to bathe.
He's sixteen. His parents still expect him to be able to function well enough to go away to college and not die.
Sorry dude but you just keep bringing out thing after thing that you half-remember from Sunday School and it's kind of annoying to me!
don't let Pip and CD get you down
I don't think you understand how this works
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it is okay for me to make insensitive jokes about things you find offensive, because it's funny
it is not okay for you to make insensitive jokes about things I find offensive, because that's hate speech, and you're a bigot
t CD I never said half remember or barely remember. I spent roughly two years reading up on histories and doing my own introspective shit before dropping faith, and if I bring fuzzy child-hood stuff into things I'll label it fuzzy. Feels like you're trying to read something into to what I was saying that I wasn't saying. Which is ok. It's the internet. It's what tends to happen.
edit: I totally typed that in my head with a crap Irish accent
Every time I tell him that knowing all of the Naruto hand gestures isn't something to go around bragging about, or flipping out because a song he doesn't like came on, or that it's best to just shut up when you don't know what's going on, he has the rest of society telling him to just go with what feels right and everything will be a bunch of fluffy, giggly puppies.
Not being able to relate to society is a disorder, a thing to be overcome. It's not "just different", and it's certainly not something to be proud of.
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see, autism being or not being a disorder in no way relates to how appropriate those things are. It relates to how appropriate he believes those things are, but it doesn't bear on how socially acceptable they actually are, or the extent to which he should be accepted to doing them.
It is just different, but people take a very poor approach to that, and they think that "just different" means that absolutely all behavior gets a pass. Everything that anyone does is the result of being different--whether or not that has a label affixed to it is totally irrelevant in determining how one should react to it. This shit exists on a greyscale.
My brother, for instance, is much worse off than most people in a lot of ways, but in some ways he is measurably better than almost everyone, so it's not fair to say that he shouldn't be proud of what he is and is just "worse."
we should form gangs.
What about dissociatives?
Lots of much smaller gangs?
what about transgenders with autistic brothers?
One man sitting alone in an alley.
Totally experiencing the full mental anguish of a gang fight.
Then he kinda wakes up and buys groceries.