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WCDT Strips 3941-3945 (18-22 February 2019)

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Gyrre:

--- Quote from: alanari on 21 Feb 2019, 21:41 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 21 Feb 2019, 21:07 ---Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't clods only start using 'autistic' as an insult to replace 'retard' in the last 5 years or so? Or did it start being misused as such longer ago than that on the East Coast?

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Actually, I've never heard it being used as an insult outside the Internet. Doesn't seem to be that common where I live. Not usa though.
I'm having a weird kind of fun watching those people wiggle their way out of it when they do that in front of me. It helps that I am kind of the opposite of retarded. Still, it hurts. If I'm the one struggling with empathy, why are they the ones who don't care about my feelings at all?

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I've seen it used outside of the internet a few times now. Once was carved into a stall at a truck stop. Someone had carved; "Only autistic kids do this" with an indicator arrow pointing to a swastika someone had carved. I've also been asked and overheard someone asking someoneelse if they were autistic. Both times I asked the individual if they actually knew what the word meant.


Tangentially related, I have the opposite issue of over-empathy. It makes watching movies in public a bit trying as I'll get embarassed for the characters on screen.

dawolf:
I'm mixed race, UK. I get asked sometimes. I don't care, it isn't something I've ever found rude. Similarly, I ask people where they are from. No-one has ever said it's rude.

Tolerance isn't just being accepting of other people, but also other countries ways of behaving or thinking. Just because America is in large part becoming extra woke doesn't mean that other groups/cultures/people who have a different appreciation of some of these things are doing it wrong.

Comparable example: in some societies, it's common to ask openly how much you earn. Others avoid the question and consider it rude.

Cornelius:

--- Quote from: Sullivan on 21 Feb 2019, 10:51 ---Experience shows that within a short time, no two of them will read the same.

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Clearly, you haven't met my brother. But then most people don't resort to reseating the hands to read absolutely accurately.

Drunken Old Man:
Speaking as some one who has spent twenty years in the field, it irks me when people misuse perfectly valid medical terminology.  Mental retardation was fine as a term until asshats ruined it by using it as a pejorative, now they're destroying autism as well.  The result?  Professionals like Brun's doctor sound like insensitive jerks when they're just trying to deliver a diagnosis.

Don't even get me started on "aspies".   That phrase makes me want to shove someone's head in a propellor.

Eternal_Newbie:
Another misuse that drives me batty is all those asshat let's players on Youtube going "Oooh look how OCD I am! I bothered to do something properly instead of half-arsing it."

And autistic, aspergers  & the various staggeringly insulting veriations on it definitely have become an insult of choice, not just on the playground.

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