We don't make fun of people who are merely "different." We make fun of people who have a particular kind of difference: anti-social behaviors. Like Len Shaner. He is an exceptionally anti-social individual with no regard for the needs, feelings, or indeed legal rights of others.
So, the question remains: Why do you care enough to post in this particular thread when you clearly don't think highly of our site?
As I'm answering a lot of questions today, why not this one?
I'm studying sociology and am in the midst of writing a thesis paper.
I wonder if the subject of this thread was like one of those kids on the train on the Facebook page 40 years ago, an autistic downs syndrome kid, wouldn't he have been the subject of positive remarks for managing well with the help of the adults around? And then when that kid grows up and there are no services and no parents, as appears to be the case here, and obsessive and compulsive behaviors are not managed how does society deal with that? What help is received, what hurt is inflicted?
Why is it when the autistic kids like trains that's considered cute and ok but then there is an entire site is devoted to bashing autism and obsessions like with trains where you say stuff like:
"....there's a place where autism is rampant and that's trains. Rail fans, a.k.a. foamers, can be some of the most autistic and horrible people you can meet."
It's fascinating watching how various groups deal with adults who have special needs or have mental disabilities.
How about I get to ask a few questions?
Does this group assume that there's nothing that can be done to help mentally challenged people with anti-social behaviors?
Could they not be helped to have regard for the needs, feelings, or indeed legal rights of others?
Does this group believe that luring these adults into being Lolcows is helpful to them or hurtful to them?