You look average, autistic people look ugly or ret*d...

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This is what someone said to me after I told them about my condition. I wish I'd never told them. They claim that all autists are ugly or look like ret*ds... That's ridiculous, it's a mental condition not a genetic one. The fact that most autists are ugly to that person has nothing to do with them being autistic, it's just because the majority of humans are ugly or average. What do you think?

I think that handsome, cute and ugly are all a matter of opinion.

I think that person needs a punch in the eye.

I think you should eat his brain.

sMeow.

It's not an opinion, it's a prejudice. A stupid, awful and ridiculous prejudice.

sMeow.

I suspect it's the vacant or blank expression of really severe autistics, the kind who don't even notice that there's another human in the room, much less focus on them or smile, that he's maybe seen in photographs and perceived as ugly.

An opinion is something that is based on a certain knowledge...
If I say "programmers are all geeks with no life", and if I never encounter some programmers before, it's not an opinion, it's a prejudice. And I don't think he ever encounter an autistic before. Anyway, it's my opinion (hum...) : an "opinion" is something we can have when we know, it's something of... developped ; with an opinion, we can argue etc...
But if you don't know, and if you... critical ?, it's just a prejudice, not a complete opinion, because you never read etc... about what you're talking... You see ?

It's about 2:00 AM here, I'm too tired to write more, hope it's understandable and that you see what I wanna say... I'll write more after I slept a few hours, if it's necessary...

sMeow.

And we're the ones with the social maturity of 11 year olds...hmmm.

Kids and teenagers are often idiots.

i'd punch him.