So I posted in the infamous AS partners forum for NT's...

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I think the forum should be renamed to Ass Partners or Abuse/Neglect Partners. I am sure their men are truly horrible as they describe them to be.

You may be correct on this one. It doesn't mean that they're always peaches and roses though.

I am going to sit back and appreciate the irony of this post.

Me too - seems to be a bit of overblown sense of entitlement going on there. Not that that is inconsistent with the other hallmarks of that site, projection etc

http://forums.delphiforums.com/ASPartne ... es/13483/1

More Hasty Generalizations and Lumping a whole group together.

OMG the gross and ignorant generalisations - "they are all like this" - look at the demonization and how they reinforce this disordered thinking in each other. Sick, sick, sick...

People who are prejudiced against particular ethnic groups, or other cultural groups, might very well argue that being who they are does affect their social cognition and their ability to have relationships. In fact, that's usually the very foundation of prejudice against minority groups - that they are somehow inferior human beings, with an impaired ability to relate to other humans, and therefore shouldn't socialize or reproduce with other humans.

Yes, autism involves social impairments. But that does NOT justify provoking prejudice or hate against autistic people. And it does NOT justify portraying autistic people as incapable of having relationships. Having a disability does not equate to a complete lack of ability, or lack of worthiness or value in any context.

Many other disabilities and disorders also involve impairments that specifically impact relationships. Actually, think about it, pretty much ANY disability, disorder, disease, etc. is going to impact a relationship in some way. There are many good reasons why people in such relationships do need support groups and other resources to help them.

Some of the people who go to AS Partners, having no idea what it's really about, are not just looking for a place to vent. They are looking for genuine support and information to help strengthen the relationship, or get through a rough patch. Instead, from their first posts they are immediately confronted with a barrage of warnings that they should just end it now because things will only get worse. They say this knowing very little about the actual situation and never having met either partner. That is nothing but blatant prejudice.

Spot on Dianthus, thank you, especially that brilliant and concise first paragraph. These people are not just harmlessly venting - they are spewing up and spreading hate. HATE.

Yep.



Hey, you know what would be a riot...the crowd over at AS Partners should get together with the parents of some severely impaired autistic children...you know, the ones who dismiss the entire concept of high-functioning autism and believe the only people who have "real autism" are the ones who are impaired in exactly the same ways as their children.

This woman who keeps going on about her ex Ash, is annoying. But I think she shows herself for what she is - a woman involved in a bitter divorce. It will be interesting to see how her thread goes.


In that case it would be because of the prejudice rather then the symptoms of the condition.


No and comments like "they are all like this" are scary. But I still can‘t begrudge them their voice.

Being truly adult and mature means exercising "voice" in a responsible way (with rare exceptions when ranting is appropriate and relatively privately necessary, no-one is a saint). But hate speech especially the broken record type is an utter perversion of free speech, that dark underbelly where evil seeks to spread itself, and adds nothing at all that is of value to life, people, society and especially minorities.

Going by the majority of comments written there, either they don't actually understand the symptoms of the condition to begin with, and/or they don't understand that autistic impairments can vary widely from one person to another. They have formed opinions of autistic people on the whole, as a group, without considering individual variances and differences. That is in fact the very definition of prejudice.

And bigotry. Double whammy...

Alright, I'll have to review my calculus. Even my Mom agrees with you guys.

It even fits the criteria of a hate site. Disgusting.
http://www.report-it.org.uk/reporting_i ... hate_crime

Are younger members of wp more prone to making negative generalizations about nts?
I haven't felt that there is much difference in younger or older members having more of this tendency.