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21 Mar 2015, 10:27 am

Jaden wrote:
"Why are so many people making fun of autism/ASD?"

Because people are f'ing stupid, and 90% of the people that do this are pathetic pieces of crap who have little else to do aside from j*rk off while making fun of people who are better than them. The other 10% are just flat out a**holes who think it's ok to demean people who aren't just like them.


^This.

Anytime I come across comments from bullies demeaning people with autism or anything of the sort I don't reply, just report the comment and move on.



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21 Mar 2015, 12:43 pm

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the only unfortunate part is gullible people who don't know much about aspergers might see such pages and think that provides an accurate picture of autism.


This is my main problem with ED. I know that they just make s**t up and that they're going out of their way to be obnoxious, but then you have people who actually believe the stuff they put up. SMH.

Agreed, and honestly that's one of the reasons such sites should be taken down.


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21 Mar 2015, 12:56 pm

There's a good difference between satire and hysteria.



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21 Mar 2015, 1:07 pm

Don't respond to trolls. You can't win.



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21 Mar 2015, 3:58 pm

The media has a part in this too. In the media, most people with Autism/ASD are portrayed as people who are nothing more than walking, talking stereotypes ever since Newtown.


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21 Mar 2015, 5:09 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
The media has a part in this too. In the media, most people with Autism/ASD are portrayed as people who are nothing more than walking, talking stereotypes ever since Newtown.


Yeah. It's one thing when a horribly written satire site is taking shots against an entire demographic, but it's another when media sources do.



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22 Mar 2015, 7:19 am

betruetoyourself wrote:
Don't respond to trolls. You can't win.

Are you telling us we just have to put up with those stupid scumbags?!



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22 Mar 2015, 8:34 am

UncannyDanny wrote:
betruetoyourself wrote:
Don't respond to trolls. You can't win.

Are you telling us we just have to put up with those stupid scumbags?!


Unfortunately, yes. Trolls feed on people's reactions, they purposefully try to piss people off so that they can laugh at how they respond. By responding to them, you're giving them what they want.



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22 Mar 2015, 11:18 am

I'm gonna leave this here....



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22 Mar 2015, 11:49 am

UncannyDanny wrote:
betruetoyourself wrote:
Don't respond to trolls. You can't win.

Are you telling us we just have to put up with those stupid scumbags?!


No, you can let them stagnate in their own filth and pay them no mind...much of the time. For instance not going to a website with such stuff again the more people who don't view it the more the scumbags lose at their game. If you get worked up and try and b*tch them out they'll just keep on it till you know in your mind its bothering you a lot. And this comes from experience dealing with those types.


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23 Mar 2015, 12:28 am

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It's the internet. Bastion of insanity and jackassery. Yes, there are sites that SHOULD be banned. I could probably come up with a list of at LEAST 50 that have literally nothing but negatives about them (really *bad* negatives, in most cases). There are many, many places that literally exist ONLY to do some sort of damage or cause some sort of havoc. Those sorts, frankly, should be destroyed.

Now, I personally have not seen ED, but everything I hear about it... here and otherwise... seems to suggest that it's pretty nasty. So there might be some merit in what he says.


Chans are worse. There are many things on the darknet worse than ED. It's extremely difficult to kill the spirit of a website. Take Silk Road for example. Drug trade galore. Drugs are horrible, but seizing the silk road domain and servers only prompted the spawning of five more Silk Road clones. You cannot 'ban' the concept behind a website. You can kill a website, sure... but anyone can create more of them. You can literally download not only the source code, but all of the content behind a website and put it up again on a different domain and server. Double points for sticking it on the Tor network (10x harder to take down). 'Banning' or 'removing' websites is as useless as the war on drugs, banning guns, and peace rallies. There is no utopia and there never will be. Trying to create a utopia creates more problems than it solves. Maybe these sites should be 'banned', but it doesn't matter at all because the only way to censor the internet is to restrict freedom of speech. The only thing on the internet that should be 'banned' is CP.


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09 Apr 2016, 10:48 pm

*reads the first post*

My exact same feeling.

Even though I'm quite high functioning though (aspergers) and do have social trouble.

Hell, I've been through this around myanimelist lately where they really try to hurt my feelings.



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10 Apr 2016, 4:11 pm

Some people just see us as easy targets, I Have seen Autism be used as an insult countless times. Usually by people who have no understanding of what Autism even is! They just think it's a go-to insult, and it sickens me. I am so fed up with NTs picking on us for no good reason.


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10 Apr 2016, 7:57 pm

A quite many times I've made various ignorant people on various sites, learn from their mistakes, and learn quite a lot. Infact most of it is monologuing and some just don't listen.


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11 Apr 2016, 3:22 am

A good amount of people are idiots and like to use autism as an insult, as well as the "r" word and a bunch of other things.

I just block those people out of memory nowadays, they're lower than dirt to me and I wouldn't save them in any instance of danger.



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11 Apr 2016, 9:01 am

andrethemoogle wrote:
A good amount of people are idiots and like to use autism as an insult, as well as the "r" word and a bunch of other things.

I just block those people out of memory nowadays, they're lower than dirt to me and I wouldn't save them in any instance of danger.


r word? you mean the word 'rtard'? Some others thought that aspergers is 'a** burgers' which it sounds insulting & really hurt my feelings. God, what is wrong with these people. even though I explain properly, they won't learn, obviously & it's really concern me somehow...