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18 Sep 2011, 7:32 pm

Socializing isn't what makes us human, that's just a ridiculous soundbite irresponsible professionals like to use when they want to tokenize autistic people for some kind of terrible example that doesn't have any bearing on reality.



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18 Sep 2011, 8:07 pm

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The OP is a troll.


Is he really? It seems to me that he's actually really depressed, from the posts he's been making over a period of months.



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18 Sep 2011, 8:24 pm

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Socializing is what makes humans human, since we dont, does that make us non human?


Nope, just weirdos.



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18 Sep 2011, 8:34 pm

swbluto wrote:
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Socializing is what makes humans human, since we dont, does that make us non human?


Nope, just weirdos.


Actually, what are we doing right here but socializing, Aspie style?



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18 Sep 2011, 8:38 pm

Sibyl wrote:
swbluto wrote:
Panic wrote:
Socializing is what makes humans human, since we dont, does that make us non human?


Nope, just weirdos.


Actually, what are we doing right here but socializing, Aspie style?


T'is true that birds of a feather flock together (Or, should I say, socialize together?), but NT birds unfortunately happen to outnumber the AS birds.



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18 Sep 2011, 8:44 pm

Verdandi wrote:
CaptainTrips222 wrote:
The OP is a troll.


Is he really? It seems to me that he's actually really depressed, from the posts he's been making over a period of months.


Yep, I'd infer he's depressed and he's deploring his own kind out of self-hatred.



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18 Sep 2011, 9:03 pm

We're just as human as the rest of the human population.


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18 Sep 2011, 9:35 pm

We are the next evolved example of humanoid

The world we be full of us in the future



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18 Sep 2011, 10:44 pm

Surfman wrote:
We are the next evolved example of humanoid

Evidence, please?

Surfman wrote:
The world we be full of us in the future

Evidence, please?



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18 Sep 2011, 10:55 pm

Fnord wrote:
Surfman wrote:
We are the next evolved example of humanoid

Evidence, please?

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The world we be full of us in the future

Evidence, please?


It's true.

Trust me, I be a doctor.

But nah I'll save my own explanation of this for when I'm done writing a billion words on it.



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18 Sep 2011, 10:58 pm

The last person to say to me, "Trust me, I'm a doctor" nearly cost me the use of my legs.

You'll have to do better than that.



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18 Sep 2011, 11:05 pm

Fnord wrote:
The last person to say to me, "Trust me, I'm a doctor" nearly cost me the use of my legs.

You'll have to do better than that.


Don't worry I'll get to work on that just as soon as I decide to stop being too lazy to do so. Or, if this thread turns into a heated aspie evolution debate, which I would be very happy to see :o



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18 Sep 2011, 11:08 pm

I'm a genetically, neurochemically-enhanced supersoldier. Which makes me better than any social human. 8)



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18 Sep 2011, 11:08 pm

Fnord wrote:
The last person to say to me, "Trust me, I'm a doctor" nearly cost me the use of my legs.

You'll have to do better than that.


I don't believe it, either, to be honest. However, I guess the claim has some veracity if there's shown to be an increasing frequency of autistic genotypes in the general population and, actually, seeing the recent mating success of geeks and the associated proliferation of those with "the geek syndrome", that might actually be the case. Though, I'd imagine the evolutionary pressure would be more on "intelligence" than "autism", per se, with the geeks winning the reproduction game lately and neurotypical geeks seem to have higher mating success than autistic geeks.



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18 Sep 2011, 11:11 pm

Unfortunately, there still has not been found a specific genome variance that would explain or indicate the predisposition for Autism, much less for Asperger's Syndrome.