we need an anger smiley...

I've basically read every Cracked article since 2008. I liked most of them, some of them felt a little holier-than-though, but I still liked most of the articles. The humor is a mix between crude and intelligent. The regular columnists (except for Puke Mckinney) have never mentioned Asperger's, and the website does not target aspies as part of it's schtick. But I found this rancid excuse for an article the other day and let's just say that if this was a new article I wouldn't be reading anything of theirs again.

WARNING: If you don't want to get majorly incensed, do not read this article.

http://www.cracked.com/article_17522_6-n...ernet.html

I'm not going on a rant as I would probably violate the anti-bigotry rule if I started.

This post was last modified: 09-12-2012 05:06 AM by Xaisede.

Um that article hits a little more closer than home and I agree that's just utter BS! I'm now depressed cause of #5 By-The-way....

Did Scarborough write that article or something ?

I'm now depressed cause of #5 By-The-way....

I'm sorry... most people don't have that attitude about us though.

That was funny well thought out

Havent you met people like that online

From the way I read it, it wasnt about us

But everyone interprets things differently

Actually I meant that part about "Low frustration tolerance" from the article made me uncomfortable and ashamed and I'm angered at the false assumption that all internet trolls must be Aspies...  

Low Frustration tolerance probably explains why I'm procrastinating and reading those pdf's I found on the internet about computer related things.

It makes sense cause I want to skip all the d*** introductions and get right into the good stuff....

-edit- forgot to close the url tags....

What was offensive to me was the implication that we act like internet trolls in real life and have no regard for the feelings of others.

It looked to me like they were just poking at us. It's best to ignore things like that. Responding would give them credence.

So whoever wrote that article thinks we act like evil trolls in RL just because we have trouble with feeling empathy ?  I think that's more than offensive and is a slap to the face for anyone who has Autism in any form...

I'm sick of everyone who bash Aspies acting like were the trolls when we nearly ever bash them!

From what I've seen, it seems like Cracked.com is mostly populated by bored adolescents who don't have anything better to do than making fun of things they don't know anything about. If you just ignore them, they'll eventually move on to a more entertaining target.

That's why I didn't comment on the article. But it did offend me, and it is best for me to discuss things that offend me instead of letting it grow.

The article was written in 2009, by the way... it has improved a lot, although the comments seem to be a well-written version of YouTube comments with less repeated junk and more amateur comedians.

There's another article on cracked called "most retarded causes people are actually fighting for" which mentions AFF directly. Personally I just ignore it.

Cracked has quite a lot of good stuff on it, and a few bad things such as this, ignore the bad stuff.

Stupid article with ignorance dressed up as fact

Kiked this one better http://www.cracked.com/article_16871_6-i...=yesincite

This post was last modified: 09-12-2012 12:12 PM by Bloke.

I'm quite fond of cracked.com myself, it has the odd dodgy article but overall it's brilliant.

...Except I actually agreed with part of what they said. A lot of people on the internet read the wikipedia article, decide it's just quirky and awkward enough to be interesting and go with it.

I hate those guys.