Infected Wrong Planet

Meowthkip said:
NO.

Also the "pretending to be gay" thing as evidence confuses me. What does that have to do with being aspie? More than anything it's evidence that Kurt might have been bisexual and closeted, as Courtney Love was in denial that it was even a thing during the time he was alive but only later alluded to Kurt's crush on bassist Krist Novoselic.

Dude was bipolar as fuck and lacked any of the major ASD symptoms such as lacking a theory of mind, having sensory sensitivity or being unable to read people very well.

Goddammit.

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Also, dude was creative. No autist would be able to write a song as abstract as Heart Shaped Box
 
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CWCissey said:
Also, dude was creative. No autist would be able to write a song as abstract as Heart Shaped Box
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I know of plenty of actually creative and talented autistic people. We just don't talk about them very much here because they're not lolcows.

Almost every single one of them has been pretty awkward, though, even if they can do things like draw incredibly detailed representational art without drawing construction lines or play multiple instruments.
 
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Adamska said:
Yeah, a lot of sperglords are desperate to find dead people who did things to make it look like they have potential. Or alternatively they want to think they're superior to people who are normal, so they claim as many geniuses as they can.

My fav is always when they claim Einstein, since he never showed any signs of having the 'tism. If he was, it approaches certainty that he'd be far less of a player than he was in history.
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Well, getting laid and having autism aren't mutually exclusive, and you can't really say someone definitely did not have a disorder posthumously any more than you can diagnose them. I think the most telling part is that they feel the need to tell themselves these things in the first place to make these figures closer to them. It's like the urban legend that Einstein didn't do well at school (of course he fucking did). The average tistic child who obsesses over Sonic the Hedgehog all day and all night isn't going to grow up to be Einstein any more than the perpetually truant stoner is, but it's what makes the best story for the autists and the stoners, respectively.

If all autistic children were Einstein, then it wouldn't be a disorder. Whether he was or not doesn't matter because it clearly didn't really affect his life negatively in any meaningful way, and he managed to be higher functioning than 99.9% of all non-disabled people without support or therapy of any kind.
 
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I'm actually a bit shocked and pleased that they rejected several people listed by others as possibly having the 'tism. Still, I feel the need to comment on three of them, just because of the reactions:

Not a watcher of X-Files, but I could've sworn that the point of Mulder was he was supposed to come off as the paranoid obsessive person. Like he buys into conspiracies that others don't because even they think it's nutty, and then it turns out several of them are true. His obsessions and paranoia can easily be just traits, or other disorders. As for things like not having many friends and that only Scully and whoever that gunman is being them, I thought it was because he was part of the Men in Black basically so no real shot at making friends.

This one amused me quite a bit. I think it's because of how most of them balked at sharing a disease with a psychopath who aims to murder other people. So they only ever want to take people who do good, because they think they themselves can only ever achieve good things. Lovely.

My sides have officially lifted off and have left atmo. They are literally comparing different species of creatures from a science fiction series to humans. Doubly so since they missed the entire point of the Borg, which was basically the machine revolution concept given a new form. Also the blanket statements that all of the characters had 'tism without even trying to explain why was the maraschino cherry on this sundae of fail.

Philosophy Zombie said:
Well, getting laid and having autism aren't mutually exclusive, and you can't really say someone definitely did not have a disorder posthumously any more than you can diagnose them. I think the most telling part is that they feel the need to tell themselves these things in the first place to make these figures closer to them. It's like the urban legend that Einstein didn't do well at school (of course he fucking did). The average tistic child who obsesses over Sonic the Hedgehog all day and all night isn't going to grow up to be Einstein any more than the perpetually truant stoner is, but it's what makes the best story for the autists and the stoners, respectively.

If all autistic children were Einstein, then it wouldn't be a disorder. Whether he was or not doesn't matter because it clearly didn't really affect his life negatively in any meaningful way, and he managed to be higher functioning than 99.9% of all non-disabled people without support or therapy of any kind.
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Autism by its very nature fucks with a person's ability to become intimate with others due to completely fucking a person's ability to easily connect with and understand others as well as appropriately dealing with them. An autist can mitigate a good chunk of these factors with the right mindset and support, but its still a good sized barrier to intimacy.

And if these kids want an inspiration for a person who didn't do well in school, try Edison. Edison dropped out of school and still became a master inventor and businessman.
 
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Adamska said:
I'm actually a bit shocked and pleased that they rejected several people listed by others as possibly having the 'tism. Still, I feel the need to comment on three of them, just because of the reactions:

Not a watcher of X-Files, but I could've sworn that the point of Mulder was he was supposed to come off as the paranoid obsessive person. Like he buys into conspiracies that others don't because even they think it's nutty, and then it turns out several of them are true. His obsessions and paranoia can easily be just traits, or other disorders. As for things like not having many friends and that only Scully and whoever that gunman is being them, I thought it was because he was part of the Men in Black basically so no real shot at making friends.
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The thing with Mulder and his obsession with the paranormal/supernatural is that he learned, from a very early age, that those things are real. Hell, when he was 12 he saw his sister get abducted by aliens. Considering he routinely uncovers dark conspiraces and encounters inexplicable phenomena, I think it's safe to say his behavior is entirely a product of his environment. Maybe those spergs should try actually watching the show before dx-ing a fictional character, thyer're starting to sound like every Tumblr blog ever.
 
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Adamska said:
And if these kids want an inspiration for a person who didn't do well in school, try Edison. Edison dropped out of school and still became a master inventor and businessman.
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FTFY. ;) Not sure that Edison would be a good candidate for a Wrong Planet role model, since he was aggressively outgoing and an expert at reading and manipulating people, as befits a successful entrepreneur. To be fair, "success" by any metric involves a fuckton of hard work to achieve, so I'm not sure that there are any successful people to serve as role models for the hugbox crowd. (Won't keep them from pretending there are, though.)
 
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BriarHeart said:
FTFY. ;) Not sure that Edison would be a good candidate for a Wrong Planet role model, since he was aggressively outgoing and an expert at reading and manipulating people, as befits a successful entrepreneur. To be fair, "success" by any metric involves a fuckton of hard work to achieve, so I'm not sure that there are any successful people to serve as role models for the hugbox crowd. (Won't keep them from pretending there are, though.)
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Could've sworn that he actually did invent some stuff without stealing it from others. I thought that he had the phonograph and an early movie camera as his own for instance.

You do hit the nail on the head though in that these guys make it really hard to find an actual role model that works for them, primarily because they shun work so badly in the first place.
 
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I know I shouldn't be surprised there is enough material to do a Part 2 of "Who Might Be Autistic". Today it's video game edition!

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And one huge thread I'm not going to bother wasting your bandwidth with. Here are some highlights!

http://dev.wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19300
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Ike.

Pfft.

AHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Well, first off, he's a mercenary at heart. He's not a politician, and so he doesn't exactly know how to deal with the political ramblings that go on between the nobility of PoR and RD. Anyone would be intimidated in his position.

Second off, "naïveté" is not an indicator of autism. Everyone has been naive at some point in time. That doesn't mean everyone's autistic. Ike has little memory of his childhood and, at the beginning of the series, doesn't know about the Laguz. "Sheltered" would be a more appropriate (although technically still inaccurate) term. The guy doesn't show any indication of being autistic. He's just one of the many archetypes of the typical FE "purehearted" character.

I'd also comment on Squall being mentioned, but even Wrong Planet shoots that one down (albeit for the wrong reasons).
 
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They still think Sheldon Cooper is autistic?

I thought it was confirmed that he isn't autistic, he's just so far up his own arse he feels he shouldn't interact with others unless they offer something meaningful to him.
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Why would they even want Sheldon?

Abed Nadir is better in every way and all but explicitly stated as on being the spectrum.
 
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