It's almost funny how the headlines have to describe a person as autistic regardless of what the person does. I've seen reports that said, "Autistic kid climbs mountain." Oh goody. But then I've also seen, "Autistic teen kills many." So which do they want us to be? Idiocy...It's like saying we should congradulate potential murderers for overcoming homocidal tendencies to do amazing feats.
Yeah. I hate when a person is defined by something biological. For instance, when you read about a women attaining high office in politics, she's always referred to as : "mother of three", as if her only worth as a human being is the fact that she can/has bred.
Alison
We live in a borg sociëty nowadays. What's next? A collective mind? I mean, we have the cyber implants, the cubes (buildings) and the absolute rule, all we need is to put our mind as one collective thingy and grow some cybernetic fidgets for infecting other worlds, since we're stamping people more and more, for all we know our names will be determined by what we have done as humans. Like mother-of-three, army unit #13245635. Or american-president # 315.*
*= Borg: Startrek reference.
"I hate when a person is defined by something biological."
me, too. Or when people are defined by their race or religion.
I do not mind if they say the murder victim was a father of four. It makes me feel all the more worse for his family.