Famous YouTuber mocks autistic people

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Ok whilst I still more or less stand by what I said of the youtuber who made the video being a loser, it doesn't mean I am offended by any misuse of the word autistic. But I can live with some humour and jokes pointed our way, even if they aren't 100% accurate...I saw use on t.v mentioned, well any funny t.v show should be making fun of everything and I typically take that as being more in good humour than meant to oppress autistics or something.

And as for the term ret*d, people said that a lot when I was a kid a lot of times to be mean...but I imagine a good bit to was that I didn't know what it meant to them. I always took it 100% literally, never occurred to me that it was just a go-to word kids used to tease each other...you'd think a teacher or someone could have pointed that out to me to soften the blow of getting called that all the time. But anymore I am well aware the term doesn't even mean anything demeaning...basically a fancy word for slow or slowed, funny how it came to be what it was based on that.

If autistic people make it an issue with their group victim mentality, people will only want to mock us more.

Those guys are trolls. They know that what they're posting is inflammatory and they enjoy every angry reaction. Don't feed the troll = don't give him new viewers = don't link his videos.

The fact YouTube hasnt banned that jerk makes me a bit upset. As others posted- austism is like the new ret*d (when it comes to insults). It's horrible how people have to resort to that garbage just to belittle others.

In my view- online bullying and insulting in general needs to be dealt with better. Posts and videos on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit and so on need to be moderated more. I know people love to cry "free speech" at most things these days, but that doesn't justify rude behavior/bullying. You know what makes this worse? People with power and/or fame get away with this crap all the time. Politicians insult each other all the time. Nonsense celebrity insults and "feuds" happen all the time too.

I strongly feel bullying in general needs to be dealt with a lot better. So many news stories that I read where people get bullied and nothing happens, even when there is proof! It's frustrating to live in a world full of so much hate

Don't feed the troll, Youtubers quite literally make money on this garbage clickbait. Very liberal use of the word famous here.

There is risk with starting to ban stuff instead of countering stuff. What if a cure is found, the act of refusing a cure is believed to be an indicator of mental illness thus advocating a cure is dangerous. Or saying there are more good sides to Autism then bad is offensive to parents of severly autistic children and should be banned.

If you are going to advocate doing it at all at least do it with some person other then some dude on Youtube. Examples of people whose articles have been forced to be taken down was a popular employment coach who in Psychology Today wrote that hiring people on the spectrum is risky because amoung other reasons they might scavage through the company garbage, a "therapist" who said there are 10 good things that can come from bullying.

I supported the effort to take the article by the employment coach down at the time because a popular person writing in a magazine that has some popularity and respect could do real damage to autistic hiring prospects. I would be very reluctent to do that today because of the anti free speech movement and fierce backlash against it that has emerged since. People today are increasingly seeing any attempt to ban stuff as spoiled fragile people gaining too much influence because in some instances that is what it is. The merits of the case against whatever is is bieng banned is getting lost or associated with anti free spech facism.

I tend to use Youtube on a very selective basis, mostly to learn about topics that interest me. Sometimes funny stuff, but only now and then. Maybe I'm too old to be part of this person's target audience, but I've never heard of him, either. I certainly couldn't be bothered to go looking for him. What is there to gain from the experience?

There will always be attention seekers, and there will always be people sitting on the edge of their seat waiting to express outrage about whatever those people say. It's true in politics, entertainment and any other sphere of life you can name. The older I get, the less I care about people like that. Let him have his fun if that's what he does to feel better about his sad existence. Don't watch his videos and you'll never be offended.

I've never heard of this guy, but what he's saying doesn't surprise me. There are some nasty people out there who hate us and stereotype is without even knowing us.

I have heard of a different YouTuber called Onision who did a video about autism and it turned pretty much into a hating a stereotyping thing. Since he's a bigger name, he's definitely sending more people the wrong message.

(BTW I found out what his name NFKRZ means. It's quite rude so I will block out bits of the bad word. It means 'no F@#kers'. Seems like a stupid name to me.)

I was on the Flat Earth Society forum (saying that Earth is not flat) and a lot of people thought I was a "government shill" because I know more about science and math then most people my age and I sometimes talk a bit weird (or so I'm told). I mentioned that it was because I have aspergers, and now flat earthers dismiss most everything I say by calling me a ret*d (an ad homenim fallacy if I've ever seen one). I also accidentally got a lot of people to believe that aspies are in on the "great conspiracy". The conspiracy nuts are definitely an interesting bunch of people.