Hard News: About Arie
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want to stop me from using a term that also includes myself?
Obviously that would be an unrealistic expectation Matthew, I was just venting that I don't care for the term, as to my ears it sounds like a name of one of the Tellytubbies, you can do what you like, I simply felt compelled to share my thoughts on the matter.
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Sacha, in reply to
I will not adjust my set, it is the studio that is at fault.
applause
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Sacha, in reply to
I simply felt compelled to share my thoughts on the matter
I for one have appreciated them.
Right, off to buy some chips/fries/chippies -
disabled by terminal frivolity
I think I've finally found what should be on my tombstone.
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Kracklite, in reply to
Very well, I will indulge you.
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Steve Parks, in reply to
Any failure to resolve a crime? Really? That's a bit naive.
Its called "high expectations", and I have them when it comes to public servants. You should too.
I do. We seem to disagree on what counts as a high expectation, and what counts as an unreasonable expectation.
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Kracklite, in reply to
Come to think of it, there’s a good William S. Burroughs quote: “Storm the reality studio, take control of the universe.” I’ll have to fight off the waves of Swiftian ickiness to find out where he wrote that and it’s all a bit megalomaniacal for me anyway.
… ah, thank you-know-it-hates-to-be-called-that for secondary sources: Nova Express.
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
My tongue it is sticking out. At you.
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Sacha, in reply to
naughty corner
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nzlemming, in reply to
Only if they have cellphones
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
We don't do Naughty Corners anymore, or Time Out. I stand there, with a very severe look on my face. Usually scares the shit out of them.
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81stcolumn, in reply to
See your look and raise you a stare. Can make this work on students.
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Jeremy Andrew, in reply to
As they say, I married my wife for her looks, and boy does she give me some...
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
We seem to disagree on what counts as a high expectation, and what counts as an unreasonable expectation.
When one is perfect, no level of expectation is unreasonable.
Except, of course, that the failure to recognise and allow for the fact that ordinary mortals are fallible would be an imperfection. -
Matthew Poole, in reply to
I stand there, with a very severe look on my face
Is that even legal? I thought there were international conventions on that kind of weaponry!
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nzlemming, in reply to
Are you serious? You'd have no mothers left in society.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Asperger’s sufferers
Chris, I've lived with autism in the family for 20 years, and you will never convince me to use that as a default term.
To take up Sacha's point, I also suspect the de-medicalising of "Aspie" will be a good thing, if it frees up the word for cultural purposes.
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I have a grand nephew* who reads atlases for fun*. Yes, he is on the autism scale, and receives much gratefully accepted help for some of his needs/behaviours. His immediate family say he is autistic. Benny says he is him.
I also say I am me (and I have some quirks that arnt everyone’s quirks. But – isnt that true of a lot of us?)I dont see autistic as a medical term – I see it in the same way that I called ‘extremely myopic’ (optometrically-speaking – because I am.)
I would hope – with all the proper flags that have been raised here- that Arie’s knocking-around is investigated very soon. If it isnt – not good for the rule of law (which is actually the only rule I espouse in our nation.)
*He is now 6 - he's been doing it for 2 years. -
Approx 31,000 of one of our autistic on-line communities seem not unhappy to be members of Aspies for Freedom. For me that indicates at least some momentum towards general (but not total) acceptance of that cultural/community term. Anything that demedicalizes what is after all a non-medical issue has got to be a step in the right direction.
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From Wikipedia’s article on “Asperger syndrome":
People identifying with Asperger syndrome may refer to themselves in casual conversation as aspies, coined by Liane Holliday Willey in 1999
[Willey is herself diagnosed; thus Sacha’s impression that the term originates from within the group is correct.]
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Chris, I’ve lived with autism in the family for 20 years, and you will never convince me to use that as a default term.
Fair dos, that wasn’t really my motivation, essentially I’m simply more with Benny and Islander. If pressed, something more formal such as “the young Asperger man” as used in your initial post, seems appropriately descriptive. Tangentially, Russell, did you happen to get that note I sent? I hope it reached you in the spirit in which it was intended.
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Che Tibby, in reply to
I have a grand nephew* who reads atlases for fun*.
i used to do that as a tacker! even thought seriously about becoming a cartographer.
you should introduce him to dymaxion mapping. first encountered it through scifi and instantly considered it more awesome than... the transformers even
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Andre Alessi, in reply to
He is now 6 – he’s been doing it for 2 years.
He's been six for two years? That sort of behaviour doesn't normally start until one's early thirties. I'd have him checked out for "brassy Parnell blonde marketing manager" syndrome.
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Äsperger's Sufferers - Mmmm yeah I suppose the world does have to put up with me....
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