Sent to
The Scotsman:
Greetings. I am autistic. I am in fact an Aspie who was diagnosed earlier this year after no less than twenty years of ignorance, abuse, and assault. Your comment to the effect that Brown is "socially autistic" is utterly offensive. After having normies ignore my real issue until it pretty much took away twenty years of my life, this description basically means that I would prefer Brown in office to your Cameron, your oh-so-warm golden boy. Exactly what is "socially autistic" meant to mean, anyway? A social worker, sociologist, or welfare minister with Asperger's Syndrome would do a better job simply because a) he would be dedicated on a level other than being in it to rip off the taxpayer and b) he would personally know the kind of injustices he is needed to fix.
I sincerely hope you one day display the courage every Aspie or autie needs to merely survive, and apologise for the insult.
After basically having to explain to morons all day why an Aspie is automatically more hardcore than they (just look at the news about the violence against us for crying out loud!), I have had enough. The Scotsman makes the best argument I have heard in a long time against a free press.
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Thank you. Now, if you'll all excuse me, I am going to go and bawl into a glass of diet Coke for a few hours. Or something.
Well, I recommend that others write The Scotsman and express their resentment of the usage. One man who is constantly on the verge of reenacting a Star Wars moment, they can ignore. Dozens of Aspies or auties from all manners of background, they cannot.
I think it is important, when anyone uses autism in an insulting manner, to point out that the autistic people in this world who have been put into important positions have generally done a much better job. How much do you want to bet that the CEOs of early 1980s computer companies such as Commodore weren't autistic? Myself, given their product's lack of expandability, or even attempts to update with the times, I would be willing to bet that you could tattoo the word "normie" into their heads. We simply have to stop letting things go, or the next generation will be sitting here, in many cases as upset as I am, wondering why we did not do anything.[/list]
I actually sent it via their comments page, but I will redo it and send it again at some point.
Has it occurred to anyone that Gordon Brown could well be an Aspie ? He wouldn't be the first politican to be an Aspie.
More on this in the Daily Mail today...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ar..._id=404531
If he's AS then I say, let's have more of them in government. Some of his political biases may be dubious (preferential treatment for Scotland, massive expansion of useless public-sector jobs, and general support for New Labour's intervention in personal freedoms) but he's been the best and most steadfast Chancellor of the Economy we've had in decades.
Well, I put a comment onto the end of the Daily mail article and I am trying to email the Times about it too (though my computer seems to be having some problems with this!).
I don't think the media should be perpetuating the use of the terms Autism and Asperger's Syndrome as insults! :evil:
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