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sapir&worf said:
I have high- functioning autism, and it should never be a goddamned excuse for anything. I was diagnosed when I was 7 and I've spent the past 12 years after that learning how to function socially. A lot of it now is simply misinterpretation of body language, because there's some things you can't learn. But if you fucking work on your shit you can be a functioning adult. There's literally no other excuse for it than laziness.
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Lurkman said:
You said it brother, these people are the ones that REALLY make autistics look bad, not Christian Weston Chandler like alot of weens say (though, I believe he's used his autism as an excuse before but whatever im going off topic) but the people that look for something else to blame their problems on, especially when they have something so easy to use like autism.

There's alot of autistic success stories like Temple Grandin. So it's REALLY painful when I see someone say things like "I'm autistic so you should've expected me to do [bad thing]" or "I have autism so I can't help doing [bad thing]"

These people don't have an excuse and as you've said, as long as they just work on their shit, they can be a functioning adult. I wish I knew more people who felt this same mindset.
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The thing is, I can act like a regular productive member of society when it calls for it. But in the end, thats just what it is, its an act. It's quite exhausting for me trying to make small talk to people because you know its the standard procedure, trying to work out the right approach to question someone about issues when you have to take their emotional investment into each topic.

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Where I was from there is no "autism identifier" or anything like that. I was the "problem child" at school. I was caught drawing nude women in 1st grade. I was sent to child psychologists due to that, and later learning centers to figure out why I was acting out, had no friends, getting into fist fights, not doing my homework. I was a highschool outcast, I was asked to go out many times with girls, since apparently later I found out I was the "pretty boy" I turned them all down because I had no interest in those things, I thought girls were beautiful at the time, but no more than that, I had no allowance, I wasn't allowed to leave the house after 9pm, so it seemed pointless to me.

By the end of high school a rumor was going around I was a transexual or gay, since I never had a girlfriend the whole time, and I spent all my time indoors and never did drugs or go to parties, I had perfect white skin and perfect white teeth and long hair, since I didn't bother cutting it. Most of my time was spent drawing naked women, playing videogames, and reading books. So most of everything I learned about how to be a productive member of society happened years later, through observation, and trial and error.

I have no idea if this rings true for anyone else, but those are just my experiences.
 
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Brandobaris said:
The thing is, I can act like a regular productive member of society when it calls for it. But in the end, thats just what it is, its an act. It's quite exhausting for me trying to make small talk to people because you know its the standard procedure, trying to work out the right approach to question someone about issues when you have to take their emotional investment into each topic.
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I was referring more to the outlandish displays of dumbassery I've seen people pass off on their diagnoses, although I see where that could've come off as best social functioning or you're a lazy fucker. My bad on the wording.

I can function in conversation, but I personally hate doing it. I have this habit of making like a sort of mapped out conversation in my head which then sometimes backfires when I talk about the same thing more than once within the time span of a few days. To be honest I mostly talk to people on the internet because there's no body language to worry about.
 
sapir&worf said:
I was referring more to the outlandish displays of dumbassery I've seen people pass off on their diagnoses, although I see where that could've come off as best social functioning or you're a lazy fucker. My bad on the wording.
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With that stuff, I wonder how much of it is enabling by the people around them "oh give him space, he's alright because he's special" and how much of it is them just being complete stupid idiots. Y'know like the regular stupid idiot you see in dumb shit videos, except the autism is on top of being just a stupid idiot.

Sometimes I wish I could wipe my goddamn memory of the first 20 years of my life, its a fucking fail of massive proportions, like over simple things like how much eye-contact and how wide your eyes are open when you are talking to people, did I repeat myself, was that story or joke appropriate for the conversation/situation, watching just to see if what I was talking about was boring them, or how angry you should be at something that upset you. Thats the sort of shit I don't think anyone gave a second thought to, and its the sort of shit I was conciously monitoring in the back of my mind. I imagine its second nature for most people. Like thats embarassing as balls, like, if I had a gun, I would've shot myself in the face so many times over stuff like that.
 
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Heimdallr said:
I do wonder if autistics are coddled too much.

I mean they are "special" but if they are capable of speech and basic function, then I feel they should be if not criticized, at least "called out" for their stuff or asked why they do it.
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Of course, Autism isn't some get out of jail free card, just as any sort of mental illness shouldn't allow someone to shirk all responsibilities for their actions. The problem lies with the Parents and the Teachers and Doctors, who either have preconceived notions thanks to the media, or are too extreme one way or the other. Just because a kid is autistic, doesn't mean that they aren't going to become spoiled brats if you let them do whatever they want. They are still kids.
 
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Brandobaris said:
Like thats embarassing as balls, like, if I had a gun, I would've shot myself in the face so many times over stuff like that.
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If i had a gun with three bullets and hitler and stalin and mao and chris in the same room i would shoot chris in the head and both of his balls and then stick his medallion up my ass and fuck his corpse until i die. Die Chris.
 
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Ok.. little bro got through finals just fine. What should my parents do with him? What should I? Just park him in front of the xbox?
 
Brandobaris needs to be held down so we can hear his screams.

This was said probably about a hundred times over but IDGAF.
 
Ok one other thing.

When he was in high school he was desperate to be one of the "cool kids." Obviously they wanted nothing to do with him. To get back at them, he started crank calling their houseses saying "I believe you have my stapler" a la milton from office space.

He then talked to their mothers telling him about the "missing stapler" situation. They believed him and asked their sons about it. Gosh he's a barrel of monkeys
 
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Heimdallr said:
Ok.. little bro got through finals just fine. What should my parents do with him? What should I? Just park him in front of the xbox?
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Introduce him to that big arabian cock pornography. He'll get hooked, it's irresistible, and when he emerges from his bedroom he'll either have morphed into a dark ravishing prince ready to straddle you or you'll never have to worry about him having children because he used up all his semen
 
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^IDK if they believe it to be impossible. Simply not doing so is just the "path of least resistance."

IDK if they thought it was important, but my younger bro was not socially or even organizationally competent, and neither of them tried to help him.

For the record though..marbles are for babies lol
 
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Heimdallr said:
Ok.. little bro got through finals just fine. What should my parents do with him? What should I? Just park him in front of the xbox?
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Buy him a hammer, screwdrivers, and whatever else. He'll figure it out eventually, might even be the stereotypical IT geek with aspergers.

Or if they have to, just raise his ass like a child again, and ground him if he gets fired. I don't even know, man.
 
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