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27 Nov 2007, 2:53 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhcZRFcjbhw&eurl=[/youtube]



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27 Nov 2007, 5:05 am

How do you know he is autistic?



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27 Nov 2007, 5:52 am

Uh, maybe he watched the news, or read the youtube video description.


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27 Nov 2007, 7:06 am

Spokane_Girl wrote:
How do you know he is autistic?

Gosh, you're right: I haven't seen his medical records. Should I delete my post? :roll:



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28 Nov 2007, 2:38 pm

TheZach wrote:
Uh, maybe he watched the news, or read the youtube video description.



There was no 'autism' typed anywhere in the video or in the description.
I don't go around labeling people assuming what they have.



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28 Nov 2007, 2:40 pm

This fellow "seems" handicapped. I don't like my condition being lumped in the same category.... :?



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28 Nov 2007, 2:45 pm

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This fellow "seems" handicapped. I don't like my condition being lumped in the same category.... :?


So your trying to say your better the he is?


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28 Nov 2007, 2:50 pm

TheZach wrote:
BlueMax wrote:
This fellow "seems" handicapped. I don't like my condition being lumped in the same category.... :?


So your trying to say your better the he is?


I don't think that's what he's trying to say even though it sounded a little offensive.

I relate to the feeling of being sad when I see lower functioning people. I feel that if he seems so disabled to me--(another aspie)--I might seem the same way to NTs. Of course it's an irrational and bad way to think so I try not to get caught in believing my irrational thoughts.


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28 Nov 2007, 2:53 pm

All this catogerizing and labeling just pisses me off

Hes a person. There Done.


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28 Nov 2007, 3:19 pm

UncleBeer wrote:
Spokane_Girl wrote:
How do you know he is autistic?

Gosh, you're right: I haven't seen his medical records. Should I delete my post? :roll:

Yeah, that sarcasm was really justified. I mean, it says autistic right there in the thread title! What more proof could you need?

Anyway, the video was awesome. Made my chest all warm and such. :)



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28 Nov 2007, 3:26 pm

TheZach wrote:
All this catogerizing and labeling just pisses me off

Hes a person. There Done.


Go ahead and be pissed off, but it doesn't change the world we live in, or the reactions different people get from the social normies.

This fellow is labeled "autistic" by the media and is performing on Special Needs Awareness-Type Day. AS is a radically different type of condition, but too many people simply retort against AS with, "...but YOU don't have autism!"

That's what concerns me... "The Autism Spectrum" how AS falls into it, and the stigma attached to it.
It's the new Leprosy! :D

You can go ahead and say, "he's just a person like you or me," but sadly, we live on Earth and not Utopia. (This was a hard-learned lesson for me.) We are the outsiders - the aliens. Until Earth becomes a Utopia (HA!) this will not change. We must adapt to live in it - and make some bold moves to carve ourselves a place in the stone wall built to keep us out.


That said - this fella' is almost treated BETTER than aspies, because (my original point) his condition is serious enough to be obvious. Glad the crowd was in a good mood. :)



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28 Nov 2007, 3:29 pm

Well because other people are an as*hole about not accepting others doesent mean you can be an as*hole.


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28 Nov 2007, 3:30 pm

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Well because other people are an as*hole about not accepting others doesent mean you can be an as*hole.


you've already been warned to lay off the personal attacks.


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28 Nov 2007, 3:32 pm

TheZach wrote:
Well because other people are an as*hole about not accepting others doesent mean you can be an as*hole.


Just because you percieve that I am, doesn't make it true. I see you as being far too touchy on the subject, and automatically hostile to anyone who says anything opposite of you.



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28 Nov 2007, 3:36 pm

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Well because other people are an as*hole about not accepting others doesent mean you can be an as*hole.


you've already been warned to lay off the personal attacks.


Well I dont appciate this individual being on hi high horse claming hes better then everyone else because AS is better then this or not. If people with AS struggle to be accepted by others why are we then pointing out that were better then someone whos blind, cognitvley impaired, deeper into the autisitic spectrucm, etc.


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28 Nov 2007, 3:41 pm

TheZach wrote:
Well I dont appciate this individual being on hi high horse claming hes better then everyone else because AS is better then this or not. If people with AS struggle to be accepted by others why are we then pointing out that were better then someone whos blind, cognitvley impaired, deeper into the autisitic spectrucm, etc.


I never said I was any better than someone with autism. Again, that's purely your overly-touchy perception.

So - what makes you this sensitive to the subject? Have autism yourself? A friend or family member who's suffered from it? Years of abuse or accusations? Something's making you act with this amount of hostility to an indirect statement....