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CityAsylum
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14 Mar 2008, 2:47 pm

David Brooks, in today's New York Times, wrote:
"These Type A men are just not equipped to have normal relationships. All their lives they’ve been a walking Asperger’s Convention, the kings of the emotionally avoidant. Because of disuse, their sensitivity synapses are still performing at preschool levels."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/opini ... ef=opinion


What??? Does anybody else feel super-insulted?

If this makes you furious, here's a chance to let the NYTimes know about it!
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14 Mar 2008, 3:15 pm

Yeah, ill write a letter... with paper from my Death Note...


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14 Mar 2008, 3:16 pm

Nope. Nothing could offend me.

And to be honest.... the Aspie community merits harsh criticism. I belong to my own community. Not yours. I'm an Aspie, but I'm not on the wrong planet. I landed on MY planet and stayed. I'm a maverick.

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14 Mar 2008, 3:22 pm

I will be sending them a letter. I actually look up to people with aspergers. You guys deal with a lot of stuff that I don't have to deal with. My favorite Aspie suffers a lot because of sensory overload. I admire him for the way he deals with it. The paper should be ashamed to print something like that. People do the best that they can and comments like that just make it worse. I hope a million fleas infest the guy's crotch that wrote that stupid piece and his arms are to short to reach them!


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14 Mar 2008, 5:59 pm

It doesn`t bother me too much,I`m glad I`m not a feminine brained NT pseudo male.



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14 Mar 2008, 6:05 pm

mindless blather from a talking head, this is coming from a guy wearing a pink shirt. He is beneath my notice.



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14 Mar 2008, 6:53 pm

CityAsylum wrote:
David Brooks, in today's New York Times, wrote:
"These Type A men are just not equipped to have normal relationships. All their lives they’ve been a walking Asperger’s Convention, the kings of the emotionally avoidant. Because of disuse, their sensitivity synapses are still performing at preschool levels."


What??? Does anybody else feel super-insulted?
[email protected]


Oh boy. A: That couldn't be farther from the trueth B: He's the one whoes a 'preschool level" person.. obviously.

:P David Brooks, AKA 'sissy face', falls under the catagory of Grade A idiot. Like a grade A idiot he acts as if he were an expert in something that, by his writing, clearly is not understanding. Idiots are commonly proud hypocrates, who point the finger and say "you're dumb" without further thought. What egsactly do idiots proove to society? They prove that they do not listen to the people that they blame, distaste, or fasly accuse or put down. They put down as a means to 'build up' what their brain believes as a possitive image role. At the same time, the people they do it infront of, don't always feel it's so 'wanderful'.

An idiot's method of learning is by the means of agreements. Meaning, they go to learn something that they believe they already know, and agree with it if it agree with them. The possition of the photo suggests that Subject Brooks feels a need to be precieved as 'intellectual'. While at the same time, he may carry with him personal doubts about some of his own abilities, because a person in his world has, like us, told him what he cannot do.

Or, is it the more common cause amung humanity? Being let down, dissapointed by someone they trusted or looked up to? Who can say for sure at this point where the ignorance comes from? Being told what you cannot do, does not cause pride, it causes depression and the need to build one's self up at another's expence, if they themselves are too stuborn. Most "grade A" fools fall under such a catagory when they have their 'head in the mud', so to speak.



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14 Mar 2008, 6:54 pm

Ah well, I thought it was worth a quick shot:

to [email protected], lau wrote:
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Quite incoherent. I am offended by his utter lack of knowledge in his reference to Asperger's (which I have).

What will his next rant be about? - Maybe it will include a phrase like "The pathetic nature of paraplegics who are just closet polio victims." or "These ankylosing spondylitis people should stand up straight!"


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15 Mar 2008, 6:38 pm

This article, though it does use ASD terminology at one point (as a slur meaning 'emotionless', unfortunately), is not a criticism of aspies. It's a criticism of overachievers, or bootlicking NTs who succeed despite never connecting to their environment, their learning material, or the people around them. The type A personalities churned out by the college prep factory. Social-climbing zombies only in it to win it.

David Brooks is smart enough to know that most aspies aren't like that.


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15 Mar 2008, 8:30 pm

I'm not offended by it. I don't think it's supposed to be taken too seriously. When people know something exists, they occasionally make these pseudo-insulting jokes about it.

I'm more concerned by the overwhelmingly negative portrayal of ASDs by most of the supposedly authoritative sources on the subject.



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22 Mar 2008, 3:30 pm

lau wrote:
Ah well, I thought it was worth a quick shot:
to [email protected], lau wrote:
Rank-Link Imbalance

Quite incoherent. I am offended by his utter lack of knowledge in his reference to Asperger's (which I have).

What will his next rant be about? - Maybe it will include a phrase like "The pathetic nature of paraplegics who are just closet polio victims." or "These ankylosing spondylitis people should stand up straight!"


It was incoherent. Why do this guy write for a living?



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22 Mar 2008, 4:21 pm

NO LET'S SUE DAVID BROOKS!! !! !! !! !


I'm writing a letter AND calling my lawyer.



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22 Mar 2008, 5:55 pm

I am sure this man is as smart as he looks
(and every night says to his wife UUUMMM, I likes musturd on my french fried potaters.)



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22 Mar 2008, 6:07 pm

David Brooks, in today's New York Times, wrote:
"These Type A men are just not equipped to have normal relationships. All their lives they’ve been a walking Asperger’s Convention, the kings of the emotionally avoidant. Because of disuse, their sensitivity synapses are still performing at preschool levels."



Kings? What about the queens? 8)



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22 Mar 2008, 6:11 pm

It took a moment to sink in, but this is the guy who does political commentary for public television news. He's rather geeky and awkward himself, maybe he's in denial about his own aspieness!

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22 Mar 2008, 6:52 pm

Image
it's all so clear!!



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