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AmericanPie
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22 Jun 2009, 8:45 am

Merle, I forgot the [light-hearted-rejoinder] tags to take the heat out...

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i'm not a weirdo, i just look like one.

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and yes, i have been called worse, but not because i have aspergers
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22 Jun 2009, 2:22 pm

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Hello, yes am still here :D Never went anywhere!

Please don't DEMAND answers from anyone. I am merely observing that's all :roll:


LOL. YOU were the one "demanding answers", in emotional, hysterical capital letters no less, from anyone who dared to question your God Atwood. Yet no one has the right to question YOU, apparently. Nice little hypocrisy you got going there.


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22 Jun 2009, 8:08 pm

I think it's great that this issue is being argued so passionately - after all, it's quite an important situation, and one that has quite a lot of ramifications for the way autistic groups interact with professionals in the future.

That said, there's a line when passionate argument just becomes a flame war - trivializing the issue into nothing more than a series of personal grudges. This thread is starting to tread dangerously close to that line.

As passionate as I am about the issue, there are good arguments on both sides that need to be explored - if for no other reason than to address all doubt.

So if you're at all serious about this issue, then please - don't make it personal.



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22 Jun 2009, 8:20 pm

AmericanPie wrote:
Merle, I forgot the [light-hearted-rejoinder] tags to take the heat out...

:lol:

i'm not a weirdo, i just look like one.

:lol:

and yes, i have been called worse, but not because i have aspergers
:lol:



me neither! :D I have plenty more than my AS to keep people making fun of me :roll:

but now I am curious, what was the pic that now has the big red X on it?

Merle


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23 Jun 2009, 8:41 am

oh the pic...

it's from a sheriff's website in FL.

sheriff's website

probably the scariest guy I've ever seen...

but the pictures change everyday... and he's happily locked up for somekind of nasty-ness thank G-d.



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02 Jul 2009, 10:54 pm

Petitions are useless. I've seen all of them fail, and petitions are just the worst way to go about things. If you want to do something, CONFRONT.

Making an online petition will be scoffed at and just made fun of.



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02 Jul 2009, 11:28 pm

CrabRaptor wrote:
Petitions are useless. I've seen all of them fail, and petitions are just the worst way to go about things. If you want to do something, CONFRONT.

Making an online petition will be scoffed at and just made fun of.


I completely agree - the petition on its own wouldn't do very much, if anything.

Fortunately it's backed up by enough offline actions to make it effective - the direct approach is much more effective when you can prove you have the numbers to back it up...