League_Girl wrote:
LoveNotHate wrote:
This is scary. No free speech laws in the UK? In the US, we welcome free speech. Especially, when it offends people.
Just tell any staff about your disorder and if they call you dumb or stupid, etc. you can sue them but it took this guy two years to do it because he spent that time researching laws to see if he can sue and he was his own lawyer. He won a lawsuit due to discrimination and he had to prove it was discrimination and this was based on his disability. In the US the same rules apply too when suing. You have to prove.
do consider amending its joining application form so non-physical conditions are included
"; so, that tells me that it wasn't on there, before). I read-back through it, to look for that (if he had told someone), because, IMO, that would've, then, justified his lawsuit (with only the information provided in the article, I don't feel it was justified). One can't always just look at someone, and tell they're Autistic----that's, usually, decided by speaking with them or their actions.
Also----and nobody likes when someone says this----IMO, too many Autistics think they should be given special treatment, because of their oh-so-terrible disorder, and I feel that should ONLY be reserved for those more impaired (the article said he worked as an Administrator; so, I'm thinking he's NOT THAT impaired).
When someone wants to be socially acceptable, they must do socially acceptable things----if they REFUSE to conform, then they have no one to blame, but themselves (besides, how do we know he wasn't the type that complained, often, about things----again, cuz he thought he should get special treatment).
I don't feel he won his lawsuit "due to discrimination", because, IMO, one has to KNOW what they're speaking against, for it to be considered discrimination (and, as I said, it doesn't say in the article that he told anyone he was Autistic). Since we only have the article to go-on, I feel he won his lawsuit because-of what I call "The Awww Factor"----people said "Awww, look----he's an Autistic person, we should feel sorry for him"----and, that's TOTAL HORSE-HOCKEY, IMO!!
Bottom Line, for ME, is: They BOTH acted overly-defensively----like the instructor saying: "Don’t tell me how to do my job
"----and, the complainant bringing the lawsuit (the article said he was gonna prove that he wasn't stupid by representing himself, and IME, people who do that, are hoping that, by proving to others that they're not stupid, they'll believe it, themselves [very common amongst us, ASDers----and, understandable, as we often feel "stupid", and we wanna quit feeling that way (I've done it myself, back when I was a kid)]). IMO, there's sooooo many more, possible variables----like, what if the instructor just didn't like the guy cuz he felt the guy was better looking, or something (it said the instructor was male), so he was being defensive, because of that; and, what if the guy brought a lawsuit, cuz he was sick-and-tired of people not treating him special, like Mommy and Daddy do (and, if THAT'S the reason----and, because the article said he was 30----then, IMO, that's PATHETIC!!).
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29 Mar 2017, 10:27 am
