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18 Dec 2012, 10:53 am

JohnConnor wrote:

I know I'm not the first one on this website who has thought of this. All of us on here who are no longer children and 'on our own'......so to speak went through alot of pain and misery that was not of our own making............I think I speak for everybody when I say that every last adult ois entitled to some form of compensation......naturally what I would like is to take everybody who ever tormented me as a child.....make them bite down on a sidewalk while I bash their head in wearing a jackboot like in that movie American History X. Sadly the country I live in will not let me get away with that. So in compensation I want a check once every month for the next 26 years of my life compensating me for what I lost as a child.

What about the rest of you what do you want?

I am no longer that intimidated little kid. I am in my 20s, 6 foot and built like a tank. I try my best to prevent bullying and stick up for little people. I do feel upset when I think about how I was beaten up and ridiculed. But being bitter will only hurt me.

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18 Dec 2012, 11:31 am

I'm entitled to forty acres and a mule... because my classmates in middleschool all called me a "ret*d".

Right!

Tell me another one.

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18 Dec 2012, 11:44 am

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I would ask for an apology then have a beer with them. Kids grow up and change. Like we change. We learn to understand our emotions and control them. We learn empathy and how to care for others. We learn how to be more responsible.

Violent thoughts about those who wronged us many years ago are not good for our emotional well being.

But you would make them pay for that beer, right?

You would, wouldn't you? Right? Right?! Right?! !! :bounce:

(You know you would.

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18 Dec 2012, 1:13 pm

nessa238 wrote:

I just know how NTs think

And I know for a fact that an NT reading about people with Aspergers/Autism talking about wanting to get violent revenge on those who have bullied them, especially where guns are also mentioned, is not going to form a good opinion.

I'm not talking about fact; I'm talking about the inevitable conclusions people form when they are already ignorant/ill-informed and prejudiced

I would also add though that I hate guns and would never have one or condone the use of them so from that point of view I'm prejudiced myself.

So what do you advise, that we constantly focus on what others might think...and avoid doing or saying anything at all that someone might disapprove of out of fear of persecution. Sounds like a terrible way to live, and for what to prove ourselves to people who refuse to pull their heads out of their asses.

I worry enough about what people think, but its a bad habit not something I should go out of my way to do even more. Its is good to consider the feelings and wellbeing of others or how something might effect them but not to obsess over it.

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18 Dec 2012, 1:15 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:

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So what do you advise we constantly focus on what others might think...and avoid doing or saying anything at all that someone might disapprove of out of fear of persecution. Sounds like a terrible way to live, and for what to prove ourselves to people who refuse to pull their heads out of their asses.

No, I just think at this moment in time a little more tact and diplomacy is required in terms of how we talk about things.

That's just my opinion - it's up to you want you do.

I was going to post a rant about stuff but then remembered the shootings and felt it would look bad.

I'm not obsessing over anything either.

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18 Dec 2012, 1:22 pm

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Well I do understand your point, however I guess I see no reason to cater to ignorant, prejudiced people with a bad habit of jumping on the witch-hunt bandwagon. Why should it be ok for them to be ignorant and even hateful towards those with autism or any mental difference over one person that may or may not have had autism or other mental disorders committing a crime but we should be super, extra careful what we even discuss because it might offend those prejudiced, ignorant people. It just doesn't make sense to me.

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18 Dec 2012, 1:29 pm

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Well from my point of view I'm pretty prejudiced against them but it just felt like bad taste.
People would be shocked if I posted my thoughts about it all on here full stop!

It's not that I don't have the same sentiment as others, I suppose I want my cake and eat it ie to be thought well of and to be able to say exactly what I like but usually in life you can't do both and certainly not if I posted my feelings!

While I feel in the Asperger camp, I spent up until age 37 thinking I was in the NT/not autistic camp so I'm like half and half in terms of how I feel towards society. My feelings vary a lot in fact.

I was going to say I'd settle for being able to execute the people who've really hurt and angered me but how does that play out in the wake of these shootings?? Doesn't look too good does it?

Also I wouldn't really do it so it's just talk

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18 Dec 2012, 1:38 pm

nessa238 wrote:

I agree it would be bad taste, but saying something that is in bad taste is hardly the same thing as threatening to kill anyone or taking a gun and going on a shooting spree.......so people shouldn't treat it as such.

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18 Dec 2012, 1:49 pm

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NTs would equate it as not too far removed imo

They would say 'Look! this is how they get when they get annoyed!

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18 Dec 2012, 1:53 pm

nessa238 wrote:

NTs would equate it as not too far removed imo

They would say 'Look! this is how they get when they get annoyed!

Yes the ignorant ones, but I don't think all neurotypicals are so stupid they would assume anyone with AS will kill or hurt people if they get 'annoyed.'

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18 Dec 2012, 1:58 pm

testing...just signed up and learning how to post.

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18 Dec 2012, 2:31 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:

nessa238 wrote:

NTs would equate it as not too far removed imo

They would say 'Look! this is how they get when they get annoyed!

Yes the ignorant ones, but I don't think all neurotypicals are so stupid they would assume anyone with AS will kill or hurt people if they get 'annoyed.'

Well try telling that to my current employer!

After losing my temper and swearing at a bullying cover manager on 14th Nov, after she provoked me I've been suspended ever since and informed yesterday they cant make the adjustments needed for me to work there any more so prob going to dismiss me so want me to come to a meeting on 3rd Jan

I said you can come to my house to do it I'm ill! (I sent in Drs note due to the mental stress, returning depression and have become agoraphobic again)

They dont want to hold the meeting at my house

I wonder why?!

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18 Dec 2012, 3:16 pm

nessa238 wrote:

Well he is one neurotypical so probably does not represent them all. But yeah that sounds like a terrible situation...if I was in that situation I probably would have either lost my temper, simply walked off the job for good or depending on the nature of the bullying might have gotten suicidal over it.

But yes it does seem society encourages ignorance so it would make sense that many neurotypicals who better fit in with society are ignorant.

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18 Dec 2012, 3:22 pm

I think autistics are entitled to reparations.

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18 Dec 2012, 3:40 pm

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I think autistics are entitled to reparations.

What is the basis for your thinking this? Who from? How much? Who do you want to pay the reparations?

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18 Dec 2012, 3:51 pm

androbot2084 wrote:

I think autistics are entitled to reparations.

Please elaborate on your thoughts. Are they derived from careful reasoning that would stand up in court? Would it be upheld on appeal all the way to the Supreme Court?

Or do you just like the idea of getting a handout?

Until such time as the courts determine that you deserve "reparations", you deserve nothing at all.

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