AS Bob and Equity

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25 Sep 2005, 3:32 pm

Some people have found my stereotyping of NTs in NT Joe: O Catharsis! to be an unreasonable critique of NTs based on how a minority of NTs act. Bec wanted us to think about how we aspies would feel if some cardboard AS Bob stereotype were made.

Bec's response to NT Joe:

Bec wrote:

Let me flip it around... If someone created a character called 'AS Bob' who was a nerd with no friends and no social skills, how would the other people here react to that?

That description of AS Bob hits kind of close to home. I'm a (self-admitted) nerd with no friends (offline) and (almost) no social skills. In the interest of restoring equity, though, I will portray AS Bob, exhibiting his most maladroit idiosyncrisies.

AS Bob wrote:

Felicitations, WrongPlanet.net,

My name is AS Bob, and I have the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, text revision, (DSM-IV-TR) diagnosis of Asperger's Disorder. My diagnosis was established last year, December 13, 2004; but I have suspected I have an autistic condition for almost three years now. I feel comfortable finally acknowledging my condition to other people aside from my close family and the diagnostician.

I am greatly interested in mathematics and physics. Every day, after coming home from school, I sit down at my desk and begin working on physics problems that I have created myself or found on the Internet. Sir Isaac Newton does not get the respect he deserves for devising classical mechanics. Quantum mechanics has its place, but classical mechanics describes everyday events quite well. Sir Isaac Newton also invented calculus at approximately the same time as German mathematician Wilhelm Leibniz. I find many analogies between integrals and observable situations. I like to imagine the volume of the space above my desk, in front of my wall, and in front of my eyes as the integration of a function I am still trying to discover.

I also like Spam.

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25 Sep 2005, 3:37 pm

get a life, AS bob. Just go watch some porn or something!

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25 Sep 2005, 3:53 pm

I'm not even certain what calculus is :oops:

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25 Sep 2005, 4:08 pm

hello AS bob, i bet you love trainspotting, don't you?

oh, and on which day of the week was i born?

(this is getting weird now!)

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25 Sep 2005, 4:41 pm

AS Bob wrote:

I also like Spam.

IT'S BEATING TIME!! !! !!

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25 Sep 2005, 6:12 pm

TheBladeRoden wrote:

I'm not even certain what calculus is :oops:

Good!

All you need to know about calculus is that it is an evil, the likes of which you will never meet elsewhere.

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25 Sep 2005, 6:22 pm

Where does AS Bob live?

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25 Sep 2005, 6:50 pm

fahreeq wrote:

Where does AS Bob live?

Just down the street.

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25 Sep 2005, 7:00 pm

NeantHumain wrote:

fahreeq wrote:

Where does AS Bob live?

Just down the street.

And here I thought you were going to say "in his mother's basement" or something like that.

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25 Sep 2005, 7:23 pm

I wish I knew you in high school. Physics class was a nightmare. By the way, what's a felicitation?

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25 Sep 2005, 7:38 pm

What, no mention of star trek and being bullied and teased? I am indeed dissapointed in the lack of generalisations of this stereotype but recognise that he is convincingly boring.

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25 Sep 2005, 7:59 pm

eamonn wrote:

What, no mention of star trek and being bullied and teased? I am indeed dissapointed in the lack of generalisations of this stereotype but recognise that he is convincingly boring.

Speaking of Star Trek,

I wonder....

if....

AS Bob.....

talks.....

like William Shatner

because Aspies sometimes exhibit atypical speech pacing/inflection/etc.

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25 Sep 2005, 8:24 pm

Im definately a good driver.

Im definately a good driver.

I get my boxershorts out of primark.

Yeah.

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25 Sep 2005, 10:36 pm

Well, Neant's doing a bad portryal of AS Bob, so I think I'll steal the title from him.

AS Bob wrote:

OMG STAR TREK OWNZORZ!!!1!!!ll1!! !! !

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25 Sep 2005, 10:40 pm

fahreeq wrote:

Where does AS Bob live?

AS Bob wrote:

I live in my meansion with 5 computers, which I use for nothing but programming Linux and chatting on IRC (where all t3h sexy ladies are) because Miscro$oft is evil and Bill Gates gets none of my money. If you can't see the logic in that, than you're not really an Aspie because everyone thinks just like me.

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25 Sep 2005, 10:48 pm

What do you think of enterprise Bob, do you think they ruined it? Has Trekky been the same since that baldy guy left? Do you build model aeroplanes and replace a lack of a sex life with the use of internet dialouge and codes?

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