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23 Apr 2011, 6:58 pm

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Yes. No matter what quality the joke, what degree of wit is displayed, whatever subject is chosen, however it gets disseminated, whatever its accuracy - someone, somewhere will always take offence.


Of course. I wasn't personally offended but many others might have been, even if it was completely for satirical purposes.
Do we need to toughen up? If many people are genuinely offended by this evidently humorous article, then yes. But there is sometimes a line in humour and making fun of other people that crosses over from funny to offensive, and these thresholds vary from person to person. Where do we draw the line?

The only thing I don't like about things like these, is that there's not much truth in them. Hopefully most decent people can see that.


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23 Apr 2011, 7:08 pm

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I did agree with the contributor who said something about AS being "so overdiagnosed that those who really have it aren't being taken seriously." That, unfortunately, is a problem.


I suspect that AS isn't taken seriously because people tend to minimize disability as invalid. It doesn't matter how many people are diagnosed with it. The attitude toward AS is not unique, and I have heard a similar lack of "taking it seriously" expressed about numerous conditions, such as depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia, diabetes, allergies, ADHD, migraines, dyslexia, Tourette's, and the list can go on and on.

It seems to me that a lot of people have difficulty empathizing with people over things they don't relate to. To them it's just, "walk it off" or "shake it off" and "just do it" whatever "it" happens to be, whatever limitations make doing "it" difficult.


Too bad this site doesn't have a "Like" button. :)



It did for a little while but too many members complained so the site admin (alex) removed it.



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23 Apr 2011, 7:13 pm

I do not take urban dictionary seriosuly. I only take it seriously when I decide to look up a slang. Are people really that stupid to take that article seriously?



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23 Apr 2011, 7:22 pm

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But there is sometimes a line in humour and making fun of other people that crosses over from funny to offensive, and these thresholds vary from person to person. Where do we draw the line?
It's impossible, and that was my point.
We either draw one line and suppress humorous comment in any form on the basis that someone will be offended, or realise that it's just some nameless asshat on a website and let it go.

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The only thing I don't like about things like these, is that there's not much truth in them.
Some humour relies on being truthful to work, other relies on a deliberate distortion of truth.
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Hopefully most decent people can see that.
I should think the majority already has, and simply made no comment on the article.
I wouldn't have thought it even worthy of having a thread dedicated to it, personally. It's neither vicious enough to be called misinformation, nor inventive enough to laugh at.
In short; it's a waste of our time and their web space.


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23 Apr 2011, 7:40 pm

I don't see humor in it. As someone else mentioned, it is full of self-loathing. He doesn't want to accept Aspergers and therefore questions the entire concept of Aspergers. While doing this, he directs hatred towards himself and all of his own issues. In his own mind, if he rejects the autistic part of himself, he then becomes more normal. Sad, but not surpirsing on a psychological level.