The Vindictiveness and Mean Spirit of AS

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Someone having a public interweb meltdown?

This is a brilliant rant... or something!

It is just the right length. It's not so long as to be rambling yet not a one liner either (ala "you suck"). Complete sentences are used. Look at use of punctuation. We get it all; asterisks, hyphens, proper all caps, even paragraph separation. Not the work of someone who's melting down.

I have a completely different take on this post. I get that some parts of it may come across as mean spirited. I'm not happy about the meds comment as that's a matter to be taken up with a doctor. However, the bulk of the message seems to be closer to tough love to me. Also, look at the last sentence. "You're as clear as the morning sky." I take that to be a genuine complement.

I got tired of JJs condescending hippie s**t a while back. I hope she finds an appropriate group cos this aint her people here.

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I don't like it when people use the concept of karma to blame other people for their misfortune. I've seen it all too often. Someone gets beat up and loses their job and their home, so everyone just shrugs and says, "Karma! Must've had it coming!" I disagree. Life is not fair. Bad things do happen to good people, and vice versa.

The particular Aspies jjstar’s describing do exist –let’s be honest.

In essence, AS is no excuse for being a blind fool who takes things out on other people and generalises all NTs. Not that I'm attacking anyone in particular. Gives the aspies who actually try to get along a bad name.

Well the part I find particularly annoying is the implication that I'm defective because I'm an Aspie, and because I had vaccinations to keep me from getting smallpox, and polio, because I live in a technological heaven with computers and palmpilots and video entertainment. I LOVE to read, but I also LOVE to play videogames for the same reason. Or do people assume you ONLY do it to "killkillkillkillkillkill"????? A good RPG has a STORY. And you get to be the hero... hello?? Anybody ever read a book and imagine themself as the friggin HERO?? That makes me "defective"?? People who want to walk away from what we've made in this world to a nonexistent dreamland where they live as one with nature make me want to puke.... Hunter/gatherers STARVED. They died young and VERY badly. Subsistence farmers are the same.... one bad winter, ONE bad rainstorm at the wrong time and you BURY YOUR CHILDREN BECAUSE THEY STARVED. I'm NOT sorry I live where my children have a GREAT chance of surviving to maturity, rather than a 40% chance of dying before age 5.... EMF?? WTF?? Don't live under a high tension line, any IDIOT knows better than that. Radiation?? Radiation saved my f***ing LIFE a couple of months ago finding a tumor in my kidney before it grew big enough to spread.... give me a break. "Natural" foods... well botulism is natural too. I want preservatives in my foods unless I pick 'em out of my own garden. Hell I'd prefer it if they IRRADIATED the foods so they could last longer. Cloned animals?? Bring 'em on, I'll eat it. Yes I eat MEAT too... <gasp> I'm an omnivore, and everybody on the PLANET is evolved from omnivores. Eating meat gives enough energy to grow a BRAIN.



there.... hows that for a rant???

Personally, I think jjstar is full of crap most of the time. She rants on and on trying to find someone to blame for the cause of autism. Why does she have to have a culprit and why does she need to a victim? What does she think. Some random guy from some random government think tank is going to confess on his deathbed that he actually contaminated all the water at some random preschool and caused everyone that has autism to be autistic? What warped reality is that?

Why does there have to be a cause? Why can't it be some random genetic twist of fate? Get over it. I often wonder if she's not one of those psycho NTs that pretend to be AS. I concur....she needs help with her issues and she's on more of a roll than usual.

Sounded like a long, angry rant of "Don't do this" and "Don't do that." Unfortunately, she didn't even tell us what it was that she didn't want us to do.

Is there someone in particular that you're mad at, jjstar?

Just a personal observation but, most of the people I've run into who are looking desperately for a reason to "blame" something for autism seem to be religious.... as in the "believes the universe or 'GOD' takes a personal interest in things and 'creates' us all." Maybe they actually believe that, and can't accept that they were "created" this way. To do so would be to accept that "GOD" is fallible and makes mistakes, obviously something that their worldview couldn't accept. On the other hand, most of the people who seem to accept the way we are, either believe in a more remote "GOD" who doesn't intervene in each individual birth, or they aren't religious at all. The ones upset with their diagnosis usually seem to feel that we are "broken" or "defective". Those who accept it feel this is the way we're supposed to be.

Just a thought.