Autism

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What is it with some autistics/aspies and fedoras? I don't mean to sound rude, but do they think it makes them "classy" and "appealing to the ladies" or something? Because any class and appeal is usually undermined by poor hygene and self-care, from what I've seen (online anyway).
 

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ToroidalBoat said:
What is it with some autistics/aspies and fedoras? I don't mean to sound rude, but do they think it makes them "classy" and "appealing to the ladies" or something? Because any class and appeal is usually undermined by poor hygene and self-care, from what I've seen (online anyway).
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There also seems to be a pretty strong link between autism and wearing glasses that would be aviators if they were sunglasses. You know, rapist glasses.
 
I wonder if aspergians were not better off when there condition was not known about? Like you know, when our parents were young, from the 50s the 70s?

Back then it was impossible to be like Chrissy and you had to roll with the punchs as best you could, and there was no annoying autistic subcultue to belong to.

On the other hand, society was realy much harsher back then for everyone, aspies and neurotypicals alike. Parenting was stricter and much less sensitive, teachers in schools did not really help anyone, or give allowances or kids who really strugged. They say bullying and lack of acceptance are big problems now, but I think were much worse 30 + years ago. I think kids were beat up/ fought each other more back then and adults did not really care. If a kid complained bout being bullied or excluded I think adults would probaby tell him to "buck up" or "stop being crybaby." Female bullying idk if it was even acknwledged.

So aspergians better off before their issues were known abut? I kind of doubt it....
 
I've never seen an elderly person with autism. They always seem young - like in their 30s at the oldest.

FifthColumn said:
I wonder if aspergians were not better off when there condition was not known about? Like you know, when our parents were young, from the 50s the 70s?
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There's been a sharp increase in the diagnosis of autism since the condition was first named. Is it really just better detection?

hellbound said:
wearing glasses that would be aviators if they were sunglasses
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Do people with autism have any tendency to wear sunglasses? (because of sensory overload, etc) I don't mean to be offensive here - I'm genuinely curious.
 
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My mum's friends son died at the age of 30, he had a blood clot on the brain, he was severely autistic, but very loveable. We used to dance to Madness together, and Bob Marley.
 
Please do not start with that "oh this famous person may have had autism" speculation.
 
CätPärty said:
Please do not start with that "oh this famous person may have had autism" speculation.
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Agreed. It's pathetic and quite tasteless as well. Einstein was a total pimp anyway... changed everything we now know of the universe, and had plenty of girls on the side. Dude married twice, raised a family, and his adopted 'granddaughter' Evelyn Einstein may have been his out of wedlock daughter with a ballet dancer. That does not sound like an autistic dude to me... it sounds to me like a successful man who had no trouble forming relationships, befriending people or getting laid, combining a rich personal life with a very active scientific career.

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FifthColumn said:
Torodial Boat, how you explain Templ Grandin then?
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I wasn't thinking of her when I typed that. Still, among living people whom I know have it, they _seem_ to be all relatively young males. I don't mean to be rude here, that's just what I've observed.
 
CätPärty said:
Please do not start with that "oh this famous person may have had autism" speculation.
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CatParty, I think all theT-Rexs my have had autism. They had trouble with social skills, often resorting to biting/slashing other dinosaurs instead of having polite,pleasent conversations. They had troubes organizing and working in teams too as I recal... But they were their own free spirits and triumphed, despite their probale autism, (jk)
 
FifthColumn said:
CatParty, I think all theT-Rexs my have had autism. They had trouble with social skills, often resorting to biting/slashing other dinosaurs instead of having polite,pleasent conversations. They had troubes organizing and working in teams too as I recal... But they were their own free spirits and triumphed, despite their probale autism, (jk)
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They just had arm jealousy. :tomgirl:
 
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My 57-year-old dad has never been diagnosed with autism or Aspie's, but we think I get a lot of my Aspie's characteristics from him - including his utter obsession and willing to ramble for long periods of time, repetitively, about things no one cares about. He also absolutely never gets the importance of things (like why not to get separated when walking down the streets of NYC) even when others' distress is made clear. And he has low emotional affect a lot of the time.

He was, however, raised in the deep South - coastal Mississippi - with three older brothers and I'm sure that's part of why he's not diagnosed and doesn't care, 'cause they told him to just buck up when anything happened. (He's never once mentioned if he was a subject of bullying, though, so dunno.)
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Do people with autism have any tendency to wear sunglasses? (because of sensory overload, etc) I don't mean to be offensive here - I'm genuinely curious.
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Not that I hang around with a whole lot of autistic folk, but in my experience they don't wear sunglasses any more often than neurotypicals, possibly less.
 
Marvin and I and some other people recently watched an episode of Dr. Phil where a mom was accused of mistreating her autistic son. She never hit him or anything, she just lost her temper and yelled at him a bunch. Dr Phil layed into her for not appreciating her wonderful son, but really, this kid was 13 years old and already mom's size, he would flip out and start beating the walls and screaming and hitting other people for literally no reason, it was totally unpredictable. He could never be unsupervised, she had to drop what she was doing ten times a day to wrestle him to the ground and pin him on a pile of pillows (I guess this specific routine stood the greatest chance of soothing him). She and dad had another kid, a girl of about 7, who was neurotypical. They showed some footage of the girl curled up on a chair in her room hiding her eyes while her brother was having a screaming/wall-beating rampage downstairs. The girl looked like she had ptsd.

So Dr Phil is laying into mom for not having infinite patience, but some of us were thinking, who is Dr Phil to tell her how to feel or behave? No one signed up for this kind of life. Mom and dad are basically imprisoned for the rest of their natural lives taking care of a nonverbal violent person who will soon outweigh each of them. The little girl might fare better, if she isn't too traumatized to think clearly later on, but ten years in the future I could see Phil scolding her if she decided she didn't want to be on tap for guardianship when her parents died. Seriously, once Dr Phil gives up his career, gives up having friends, gives up being able to leave the house and go do things, gives up having a functioning marriage, gives up being able to close the bathroom door and take a piss without his charge having a freakout, and accepts that this is his life for the next 30 years til he dies, then I'll let him chastise parents for not being happy with being on the short end of genetic russian roulette.

Sorry if this seems insensitive, but if you have a child like that, what are you supposed to do?
 
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