Your personal experience with spergs and 'tismals

[Ravenor]

Kinda makes you think. Has any neurologist compared the brain of an autistic to a non-autistic?
Connorian Ranting"]So if autism is indeed as fake as a tranny's tits, that means it creates a threefold danger to human rights made of excuses on both ends:
1) It allows sociopaths to use it as an excuse for doing horrible things, leaving introverts who don't shoot schools and steal from mom and pop shops to stew in the filth that the evil autist made.
2) Parents who want absolute control of their children can take a mild case of Asperger's and turn it into a tightly controlled routine made against their will, even well into adulthood. This could also leak into society itself, where an autist can practically be thrown in jail just for resembling a wanted serial killer.
3) 2 provides an excuse for the autistic to do nothing productive all day, feeling like society will drag them through the mud just because they can. Because that person supposedly can't talk to someone about it without their head exploding, and because picking on the weak is humanity's primal instinct which they downplay to look good. (On a side note, I've supported the meek that society didn't want, just to see if it would piss people off. Maybe if I post on tumblr about how I gave $100 to a homeless guy and spread the word to all the assholes who think I don't owe some hobo shit then it'd work.)

So on the subject, I was thrown in sped classes for simple behavior problems when I was in middle school and surprisingly I only know of one person who explicitly says he's autistic. He was really into Saturday Night Live, 80's/90's pop culture, Dragon Ball Z, Star Trek, Star Wars, Mega Man, and Mario. We're still chums to this day, even as we drifted apart we maintain contact via the magic of the internet. He considers me to be the best friend he's had. Of course there's the obligatory "sperging because you don't know when to stop" and infrequent behavior lapses but he's still a good person.

I probably know of a few more who could have been autistic but I don't want to mindlessly tar people with the autism paint. Especially after I said that false-tism is a goddamn threat to the decency of society.

Sorry broke the spoiler tag to answer this.

Yes the brains have been compared but from my understanding not often or lately, an sadly there hasn't been a case of twins one with tisim, one without that can offer a near like for like comparison.

1) It's been tried, I have a little knowledge of this, but there was a case where a guy claimed he was into extreme BDSM an the partner died, he claimed because of Porn the partner would spring back to life because of his autism when the session ended (the case was far more complex than this) he was evaluated by multiple crown psychologists, an found to be a sociopath (an he had possibly killed before) as I said the trial was complex, so the defense was discounted.

2) That happens as well for a whole lot of problems, in schools it's a good way for parents to excuse bad results, there was a Lad I was in primary with a lad Terrance (odd names are always a sign, are they not) who was much like Chris but in a mirror, he was great at physical things an liked them but was dumb when it came to the fine detail (oddly enough he was a Lance Corporal in the Infantry last time I saw him), he loved drawing genuinely loved it an could describe really awesome bits of art verbally, but could not get fine detail when he really wanted, OK he was better than Chris on a good day at his worst, parents will always find a way to excuse there kids, but Chris is a extreem example (the last time I saw him he feel stripped a SA80A2 without thinking, cleaned an checked it over).

3) I would say provides some one with the tisim, AND bad parents a excuse to do fuck all. OK while I have a very mild case I am still on the spectrum, good parenting is the best thing you can do. Indulge it when right but cut it down when it's not.
I am lucky I get spergy over good packaging.

 

[Conrix]

Sorry broke the spoiler tag to answer this.

Yes the brains have been compared but from my understanding not often or lately, an sadly there hasn't been a case of twins one with tisim, one without that can offer a near like for like comparison.

1) It's been tried, I have a little knowledge of this, but there was a case where a guy claimed he was into extreme BDSM an the partner died, he claimed because of Porn the partner would spring back to life because of his autism when the session ended (the case was far more complex than this) he was evaluated by multiple crown psychologists, an found to be a sociopath (an he had possibly killed before) as I said the trial was complex, so the defense was discounted.

2) That happens as well for a whole lot of problems, in schools it's a good way for parents to excuse bad results, there was a Lad I was in primary with a lad Terrance (odd names are always a sign, are they not) who was much like Chris but in a mirror, he was great at physical things an liked them but was dumb when it came to the fine detail (oddly enough he was a Lance Corporal in the Infantry last time I saw him), he loved drawing genuinely loved it an could describe really awesome bits of art verbally, but could not get fine detail when he really wanted, OK he was better than Chris on a good day at his worst, parents will always find a way to excuse there kids, but Chris is a extreem example (the last time I saw him he feel stripped a SA80A2 without thinking, cleaned an checked it over).

3) I would say provides some one with the tisim, AND bad parents a excuse to do fuck all. OK while I have a very mild case I am still on the spectrum, good parenting is the best thing you can do. Indulge it when right but cut it down when it's not.
I am lucky I get spergy over good packading.
I am spergy over Gun's (I shoot but since my time in the TA I refuse to use a weapon on another person, ever ever again) I was a FO / DM put it this way the only time I will ever use a gun on another human being is to save some one else's life or my own an there is a non violent option), an have a encyclopedic knowledge of UK firearms law.

I see where you're coming from here, but my spoiler wasn't indicative of my views of autism. That was speculating if autism wasn't real and was made up as an excuse for bad behavior or mania as Hyperion said. In which case even talking about it is dangerous because in the case that said disability is fake, then it just serves as an excuse for medicating people just because Big Pharma wants their dollar, and for potentially bright candles to be snuffed before they can set the world on fire because they're "disabled" or "disorderly". Whether fake or not, the "neurotypical" world sadly doesn't understand enough about autism to cater to all cases.

And at 3, that's one thing if you strike a balance between indulging productive behavior and denying destructive behavior, which is actually the best thing to do if you're rearing a sperg imo. But cutting down the sperg's interests, whether productive or destructive, will either make another Connor. Or they could be like my girlfriend and hide every scrap of their hard work that's humanly possible to hide from their parents, which makes the ploy for control over what they work on useless.

Autism as a diagnosis can help these people, but when used by some dumbass/ween/special-snowflake from tumblr as an excuse to be an asshole, it's dangerous to people who have autism but don't act like fucking shitheads 75% of the time because the non-autistic world is struggling to understand autism and these assholes make people think that we're all spastics who tard rage over Sonic's arms, or Pikachu's weight, or getting a Forest mixed into your uber blue/black control deck or whatever. Especially because these kinds of people are so vocal about their 0.1th world problems (because "first world problems" isn't enough to do justice to tard rage over shit that's even more minor than your favorite brand of soda being too expensive or whatever). Not to mention that it's just flat out insulting to those autistics who are actually thick skinned and don't need their own little world for peace of mind.

Also "Neurotypical" in quotes because I hate that term with a passion. It's basically just saying that autistics are the only ones who are different from everyone else and paints an image of arrogance for the spectrum.

ETA: Fixing a bunch of run-on sentences.

 

[Android raptor]

>>TFW when you don't really have any stories because you're the mentally ill, emotionally damaged autist in your peer group

That said I have some stories about people who ended up being douchy, including one who sexually assaulted someone put of the blue.

 

[Bamboo Claw]

I'm autistic myself, specifically I have PDD-NOS so it's quite mild. I had a rough time in social situations in elementary school which got me bullied, but with a bit of social therapy in 5th grade I got better and I act totally normally in social situations, although my bullies still refused to forget what I was like in elementary school. In my mind though I'm a total sperg about my interests. I had a really good experience meeting autistic girls at the social therapy thing, they were all very calm, nice girls and I wish I kept in touch with them.

I've gotten to know a lot of other autistics in my life. In my first post to the personal lolcows thread I talked about this one guy who was always really hyper and did spergy things like shout random access humor in public. Once he saw a cat being rescued at Hurricane Katrina in the yearbook, and because it looked like his cat, he believed that his cat ran away from home, traveled from Michigan to New Orleans, was in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit, then traveled back home all in a span of 3 weeks. Me and others thought there were a lot of things wrong with him that his parents enabled, like Asperger's and ADHD, and I recall him saying he had Tourette's.

I was friends with a boy with Asperger's who was obsessed with Mario games and the I Love Lucy Show. Not much else remarkable about him other than one time when I was at his house he got naked and offered to cuddle me. It was definitely not sexual since we were elementary school age, it's just that he was really naïve.

I got to make friends with another girl with Asperger's almost a year ago. She's, obsessed with Fire Emblem, though she's also really creative and draws and is working on writing an original story. She told me when she was in social therapy all the other autistic kids in it were boys and they bullied her and nearly killed her because they were playing too rough. She's a recovering SJW and had been suckered into their fucked up ideology because of being naïve, but she started changing because a guy friend of hers said he was really hurt by SJWs and because she wanted to impress me.

I have an older friend in college who is also a girl with Asperger's who also like Pokémon and she's thoroughly an SJW. She says misandry doesn't exist and stuff similar to that. I don't know if I can reach out to her though.

 

[Jomadre]

Being a gamer and an outcast has put me in contact with a great many spergs and tismals. I won't go into too much as this is a lolcow forum (like the time three guys bribed the special ed aide to leave the room for 15 minutes so they could break in and beat one of my friends nearly to death), so I'll stick to the more lolworthy cows.

I had a guy in my game group (D&D 3.5 for the nerds here) who was never diagnosed but obviously so autistic that was borderline unable to care for himself. He would argue constantly about game stuff. He would refuse to name his characters. He was obsessed with using oversized weapons (which in 3.5 is stupid, you take huge penalties). We had a very long argument about how he didn't understand why Dragons weren't considered a type of Giant... The only things I couldn't get were the fact he was obsessed with right-wing conspiracies, and he told me that marital rape doesn't exist because a woman has no right to say no. "A marriage is a contract to have sex".

Yeah...

On a side note, I've known quite a few autists, and the ones that were mentally aware enough to be politically aware were always to one extreme or the other. Either ultra left SJW or ultra right conspiracy theorist. Is extreme political opinions just common with autists or is it just me?

 

[AnOminous]

On a side note, I've known quite a few autists, and the ones that were mentally aware enough to be politically aware were always to one extreme or the other. Either ultra left SJW or ultra right conspiracy theorist. Is extreme political opinions just common with autists or is it just me?

People who have difficulties with complexities like to reduce everything to simple black or white struggles between absolute good and pure evil. The "smarter" ones resort to conspiracy theories to explain away all the flaws of these defective models of society.

 

[The Phantom on the Hill]

I've had to experiences with major spergs/autists

First one was with this kid named Max. I knew him in middle school, and he was obsessed with Sonic, Power Rangers, and video games (granted, I'm interested in all three, but this guy took his obsession to a whole new level). He also wanted to be a game designer (he actually posted his MegaMan Battle Network fan game online, but I can't remember where for the life of me). His gait was like that of a horse's trot, and when he got excited or angry, is eyes would get large and he stuck his finger in his mouth sideways. Also, he was massive. My worst memory with him was wrestling in gym class since: a. He was large and b. He smelled horrible. Sadly, he passed away in the summer of 2012 from a stroke.

There's this other kid I met at District Chorus named Ahrib. He was autistic but mainly obsessed with opera. For some reason, he mentioned being a good boy a lot and getting hot with a cookie, but I don't know what that was about

 

[Magpie]

Resident sperg is fucking up his classes because he doesn't do his work. Acts as if doing nothing but playing video games all day and putting off/straight up not doing one's coursework should get him to pass because he's an Aspie or something. Also has similar whining about his fucked up teeth when he spent all of last week sat at home (half-term break) and didn't shower and maybe brushed his teeth once.

Also apparently allergies (as in the ones that trigger anaphylactic shock, not just itchy eyes and a leaky nose) are fake now too, but O's Asperger's is the realest thing to ever exist. Incredible.

That whole higher intelligence symptom seems to reek of bullshit in this case. This kid is ludicrously dense.

 

[The Phantom on the Hill]

Resident sperg is fucking up his classes because he doesn't do his work. Acts as if doing nothing but playing video games all day and putting off/straight up not doing one's coursework should get him to pass because he's an Aspie or something. Also has similar whining about his fucked up teeth when he spent all of last week sat at home (half-term break) and didn't shower and maybe brushed his teeth once.

Also apparently allergies (as in the ones that trigger anaphylactic shock, not just itchy eyes and a leaky nose) are fake now too, but O's Asperger's is the realest thing to ever exist. Incredible.

That whole higher intelligence symptom seems to reek of bullshit in this case. This kid is ludicrously dense.

That's not an aspie. That kid's just a brat.

 

[RobeeSonee]

This was about 2006-7. At a weekly Magic draft, I sat down across from a boy with something on the spectrum, coupled with ADD and parents who were the type to treat any public space as a day care. I did not know then (how could I?) that I was dealing with a CWC scenario. After doing all the nerd rituals magic players must do (shuffle, cut, randomization, drawing, mulligan'ing), I win the coin flip and play first. Then his turn begins and he just sits there. After a minute I assume he's a complete beginning and go into tutorial mode.

"Oh yeah, I can't read."

So I look over to his older brother, who looks like what you would expect Cole Smithee to have turned out if he had stayed with Borb instead of severing ties. Downtrodden, disdainful of his brother, and just wanting to play children's card games on a Friday night, and not intent on babysitting his bother another night.

"Your brother can't read?"

"Nope," he says, not even looking up from his game.

I shout to the judge. "Game, two-oh, me!"

(and no, that's not a good thing or taking advantage. by simple virtue of pairing off against him round one, I was locked out of first place for the night's event. there was no point to playing and it was slightly worse than getting a bye)

I looked into the kid's deck. He had simply taken everything that was blue. For the rest of the night, the kid ran around the store, trashing stuff and annoying the hell out of the staff downstairs. This happened for the rest of that year, until the whole family was banned when the parents objected to not being able to use the comic book store as a daycare. Yes, this sounds familiar, doesn't it?

Years later, when he was old enough to work and the incident forgotten (we had all started smoking weed, heh), his parents brought him back to work at the comic store thinking he might be hired. Through some bewildering turn of events, he got hired. He worked for exactly an hour before the owner and the staff realized he wasn't going to work out.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

I work in the civil service and there is a huge thing about equality and diversity. On my old department there was a girl I'll call K. I could tell you all sorts from skin eating, picking at her belly button or ears and always looking at baby clothes online but one thing in particular has stuck with me.
One weekend she was allowed to work over time and the floor manager was at the top of the room then out of nowhere she shouted "I'm going to the toilet" all the while she was waving a tampon in the air! I didn't know if I should be laughing or be horrified at what just happened. I've also been told of previous incidents where she has hit other members of staff but because of "equality and diversity" she is damn near bullet proof.