i have only seen #III but i think it would be fun to be one with wings. i would not have had the guts to take a scraper to them, either.
but i might be as klutzy (dyspraxic) flying as driving...
psychic would be too much responsability. ditto for fire or ice. or weather. or that freaky jeanne woman that moved everything.
Wow, I should as a half euro back now I know I've been scammed.
lol, in UK all the people are still trying to keep toy town money away from us lol :p
All of you who've seen the movie, DID YOU STAY until the very end, after the credits? There was a sneaky little bit right after they'd finished rolling, which is pretty cool.
I found the video at:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...22x-men%22
but I don't understand what they are saying.
it occurs to me that even if the moviemakers weren't thinking of AS as mutants, this whole dilemma has been around for a long time.
look at the original HansCristianAndersen (spelling?) story of the little mermaid, where she has to lose her voice to get legs, and it ends in tragedy.
(i don't remember the rest, but she's still out there on a rock somewhere close to a Scandinavian coast. I mean, literally, there's a statue of her)
and a few years ago, maybe 10 by now, when some famous book or movie about VanGogh came out, I remember hearing on the radio the (presumably not new) question:
"Would you choose to be a genius, if it came at the price of also being insane?"
I said, "well, YEAH. It beats being crazy and mediocre." But that is maybe not the usual answer...
Is there much to be gained from even worrying about this kind of thing. We're here, we're different, and that is that.
How do we know Mrgrosser is "normal". He seems to have a severe case of recto-cranial inversion and so is talking out of something other than his mouth.
mgrosser - "grosser" by name and "grosser" by nature.
I think you are the one with the disease - hatred and intolerance. You need to be careful who you pick on. Kids might not be able to fight back but most Asperger's people have exceptional memories and this AS boy you've hit might come after you in 10 years or so and give you a hiding.
There is already conclusive scientific proof that the brains of Autistic people are "wired up" differently to most.
I agree in part with your idea that having a syndrome doesn't excuse all kinds of bad behaviour and that people still have to learn to live in the wider society. That does NOT mean that abusing your child or somebody else's child is right though.
You're also doing your own kind a big disservice. Most NTs are decent people but you sure don't appear to be.
Iron Man, I think he's so dense that hitting him would only break your fist.
Well maybe. People like that are usually quite recalcitrant and unreasonable.
And I've come across some Aspies who aren't very nice too.
Yes, just about anybody else would do a better job of raising this poor child.
Caning has been banned in Australian schools since the 1980's but unfortunately, there has been no ban on sarcasm and humiliation in the classroom.
Heheh. What is so familior about it is the fact that mutants in the stories often pretended they weren't mutants, to hide their differences and abilities. Then when most of them were found out, they were looked on as some wierdo, problem or threat to some humans. So, there were human characters that wanted to cure and change the mutants and treat the mutations like they were a disease, others didn't want to think about it.
The big thing about the Xmen series is more how they treated each other. The powers would have meant nothing without the proper conflicts, so it could be entertaining it the right way. So, maybe he thought that mutants being disliked for their mutations, and vice versa. would make it fun for readers and audience. Familior... of course.. I think the similarity people think of is not fitting in, or experianceing that difference being hated or disliked.
aspie, ADD, etc. real.../..mutant fiction...
"Your'e a freak!"
"Have you considered being more.. you know.. normal?"
"I don't fit in because I'm not one of them."
"No daughter/son of mine is a (any here)!"
"Why can't you just be like everyone else?"
"you are a danger to yourself and to others."
"This dissorder/mutation must be brought under control for the sake of humanity."
"I don't feel like I'm human because, well... "
etc.
Lienda's skill
The phsyco stare. I like to use a certain emotionless, plain stare to drive the person who got on my nerves nuts sometimes. It makes people feel unconfortable and makes them start wandering "why does she look like that? Why is she staring at me?!" I call it the phsyco stare because I look like a phsycopath when I do it sometimes. I'm not a phsyco, by the way.