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WCDT Strips 3221 to 3225 (16 - 20 May 2016)
Case:
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--- Quote from: Morituri on 17 May 2016, 09:04 ---If everybody were normal,
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Perhaps "average" would be a fairer word to use.
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Perhaps it would. Maybe "normal" is too pejorative.
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Well ... they can't exactly help being normal, so maybe you have a point there. :mrgreen:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 17 May 2016, 11:17 ---I'm not just normal, I'm orthonormal. :claireface:
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I'm complete!
Are you observable, too? :laugh:
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--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 17 May 2016, 06:54 ---I had a friend in college named Victoria who went by Toria.
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I dated a Victoria for a little while who went by Tori.
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I like listening to Tori Amos.
--- Quote from: APersonAmI on 17 May 2016, 11:17 ---...
On the subject of "normal", I have distressingly often gotten the question "can people with autism spectrum disorders be normal?” My response has usually been "Wrong question. If you meant "can they be happy", then yes, absolutely."
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Threadwin ...
Morituri:
I regard much of the autism spectrum as completely sane. Differently sane, perhaps. But in many cases saner than I personally am.
We are normal (or average) to the extent that we are like others. To me that's not an important question.
We are sane to the extent that we can live functional lives, interact productively, love, respect, and earn the love and respect of others. That's by far more important, and there are a heck of a lot of different ways to be sane.
War Sparrow:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 17 May 2016, 04:31 --- and some Afrikaans from another whose parents were in Zuid Afrika.
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This is kind of off topic, but I think it's super cool you know a bit of Afrikaans. For some reason.
More on topic:
I took Psych in University. It was almost a career choice. But my Abnormal Psych prof tried to hammer in the idea that it really only counted as a disorder if it negatively impacted the person's life, or those around them. Made it hard to, or impossible to, function without medication or therapy. Perhaps both, preferably just therapy though. We were all told we would probably diagnose ourselves at least once, because everyone does in a class like that, but chances were we were fine. The DSM IV-TR is pretty strict on what constitutes a diagnosis. Some might think too strict, but there it is.
Kugai:
I think they just adopted another one.
Here's an interesting question, Emily and Brun in the same room.
Zebediah:
Emily and Brun are at opposite ends of the spectrum. I'm not sure what spectrum that is, though.
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