Cracked article "The 5 Most ret*d Causes" AS aw

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I just read the article “The 5 Most ret*d Causes People are Actually Fighting for” on the satirical website Cracked.com and much to my chagrin Asperger’s Awareness was #1 on the list. I enjoy browsing their amusing articles in my spare time for a chuckle, but over the last couple days I have come across several articles that mention Asperger’s Syndrome in a similar light. It is very offensive to me that their writers spend more time researching the zombie apocalypse than legitimate medical conditions. At best, this article’s author is taking a jab at people that pretend to have AS without getting properly diagnosed. But more than likely he knows absolutely nothing about the disorder outside of the site’s other articles and the very poor choice of sources: Aspergia.com. What concerns me the most are the people who read these articles that know nothing about the disorder and leave the page thinking that the author’s words are exactly what people with AS are like. I couldn't help but leave a comment in hopes of informing anyone who might take Luke's words as the truth.

Here is a link to the article:
Cracked.com "The 5 Most ret*d Causes People are Actually Fighting for"

http://www.cracked.com/article_16779_th ... g-for.html

Your always going to find folks willing to say such things to get attention. I'd still impress the idea that online based advocacy and at times it's philosophies are not in the long-term beneficial to everyone. However at the same time online writers who are vastly less known then autism awareness which is successful will attempt to get attention by writing such things. The bottom line is your giving them the attention they want and your reaction is likely part of their design and is a kind of bullying but still yet a kind that is really not worthy of your time and concern.

Many forms of autism awareness do entice productive participations which are opposite of laziness. That article did not provide any solutions. What I always say to people that complain and don't offer solutions is don't bother complaining unless you have the solutions.

The artcle was mostly the fault of the militant neurodiversity types. Talking about evolutionary changes and genetic mutations like as if they have the real-life f*****g X-men is a sure fire way to draw ridicule from mainstream society, and it grossly complicates self-disclosue for people who have more to do with their life than b***h about NTs on ASD forums and download porn while they fantasize about being a f*****g autistic superhero!

The use of the R word is prohibited in social discourse in which an individuals desires to be respectfully received. Likewise even though I disagree with some of the methods and vindictiveness of neurodiversity advocates I cannot agree with put downs of any kind. Resolution will not happen in these ways. Solutions will happen when folks calm down some and truly desire resolution and must realize not everyone will get their way.

Um, you guys are aware that Cracked.com is a comedy website? That they feel about as much responsibility for thoroughly researching the topics of their articles as, say, David Letterman's writing staff feels for ensuring the accuracy of every joke in his monologue?

Yes, they get the facts wrong on occasion - sometimes horrifyingly wrong. That's because if the choice is between scientific accuracy and a cheap laugh, the cheap laugh wins every time. We're not talking about the Journal of Neuropsychiatry here...

Oh yes I know. Comedy is a way of getting peoples attention. Just the use of the R word even in comedy is a form of disrespect. Individuals with cognitive difference have and continue to advocate against it's usage. While no one can control people using the word others can choose to frown upon it and that means also in comedy.

Have they changed the article? I looked at it just now, and no sign of "Asperger's Awareness" on the list. Number one is, instead, "Asperger's Pride Movement", which is something quite different.

after being recognized, being used as a comedic trope is one of the steps to acceptance.
eventually, people don't find any novelty in the jokes & it's "so what?"
"so what?" is what we are aiming for.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56mjwycKuXA[/youtube]

That is a common formula but this is a unique circumstance. Not all of what pride desires is actually legal or ethical. Also it is possible the article creator was asked to do the article by an advocate for indirect causal reasons. Pride has belittled cure by calling it pity which is making fun of compassion. As I have stated before the right to treatment which includes cure supersedes the right to dignity (pride) in most contextual circumstances as what is argued.

The right to dignity and the right to treatment with a potential cure for adverse symptoms needs to coexist. Remember the love idea is compassion and to make love into pity is disgraceful and to me at least seems much like hate. Of what hinders is in need of cure but not for the sake of society but only for an individual and the pursuit of his or her dreams and happiness.

Balance.

They're not making fun of people with Asperger's. They're making fun of the dipshits who think that Asperger's is the next step in human evolution, that Asperger's gives them superpowers, and that every semi-notable person in history has Asperger's.

Lobsters should totally have rights!

The fixation on comics and fictional books I could never image for myself. Just not interesting to me. This is like the pok-e-man idea. The only superpower I have is after some beans and which is empowered by the presents of others in observation.

Asperger's is a real disorder for some, but has turned into a kind of "get out of self-improvement free" card for legions of socially awkward Pokemon fans. This latter group doesn't care about your "medical credentials," "basic common sense" or even "knowing people who actually do have Aspergers." This syndrome they read about on Wikipedia once is their winning lottery ticket to a life of never having to learn how to interact with other humans. Welcome to the Aspergian Pride movement.

I don't see what the issue is here. They're ragging on lazy asswipes that want to blame a disorder and feel superior in some way for having it.

Yes, Cracked.com is a satirical site but there's generally a lot of truth to what is said. I feel there is a lot of truth in what's been said here, too.

^^ That too.

You read something that isn't there, in no way does that article say anything to justify offense from us. It makes fun of deluded as*holes who use AS as a crutch, I say keep at it.