lostonearth35 wrote:
The increasing autismaphobic paranoia that's happening in this world.
Today I heard a Facebook story where someone had just sold a couple of customized hand-decorated mugs, but now the buyer wanted to cancel the order. When the seller said they couldn't for a good reason, the buyer said had had seen the seller's profile and discovered they were autistic. The buyer said that their neighbor had a son who was autistic and from what they've seen they didn't want to buy something from someone with such a "disease". Excuse me one moment...
Okay. The seller tried to explain that autism is a spectrum disorder, every autistic person is different, it comes in many different levels, and they were very "high-functioning". The would-be buyer said "r****ds only come on one level".
I'm seriou
sly thinking I should quit Facebook for good. I just hope the seller didn't take what that gremlin (not a troll, a gremlin, because the gremlins of WW2 folklore sabotaged machines, while human gremlins sabotage lives), wasn't too horribly affected by what that idiot had said. And *we're* the ones who have no empathy?
I really hope they were on a site that had polices about people being able to cancel orders or not or that the seller said on his/her listing page/site their policies on being able to cancel orders & provide refunds or not. The seller really should of saved the communication messages too. It would help protect the seller incase the buyer were to file a dispute. Most experienced sellers know how to protect themselves but I hope the seller will be OK. There is very little autism awareness where I'm from & even the so-called experts think of it as something like Rain Man or someone who is completely mute.
IF the only autistic awareness that buyer got was from a low functioning autistic, it's understandable to me why he would have a low opinion of autistics. However I'd bet the seller put up pix up on their site/page of some of the mugs he/she had decorated so that really should of gave the buyer some idea of the seller's work & the seller tried to explain that autism is a spectrum. That really should of gave the buyer an idea that the seller's work might be good. The buyer must of thought the work shown was good before ordering & the buyer didn't even bother to check the seller's profile till after the buyer had bought it. I believe the buyer is the one who was being ret*d & was projecting his/her stupidity onto the seller. I'm getting sick & tired of the way soooooooooooooo many people are projecting their own problems & issues onto others who are completely innocent nowadays. The world getting stupider. We NEED to start focusing on making smarter people instead of smarter phones.
What made me unhappy is that me & my girlfriend ordered Domino's for our lunch & the person f#cked up making the pizzas. The pizzas were burned & there were onions on Cass's pizza when she had selected no onions. We double checked the email to make sure it was ordered with no onions. I was going to call Domino's up to try & get new pizzas. Domino's offers carryout insurance where they'll replace the pizzas if anything happens to them after the buyer gets them so Domnino's really should remake pizzas for deliveries if Domino's screwed up making them. Cass said for me not to call thou cuz we had ordered late & we didn't want to bother with the hassle that time of night. I left them a BAD review instead. Domnino's pizzas are pretty good when they're made rite but they've been screwing little things up the last few times we ordered. Domino's really should NOT of raised their prices within the last couple years cuz their pizzas are expensive now. I'm gonna order from Papa John's if I'm going to get a pizza that isn't made well cuz Papa John's is aLOT cheaper. The price Domino's charges now for pizza is insane considering the sh!tty care that goes into making them.