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10 Mar 2010, 11:17 am

LOL! Someone ought to send this to Autism Speaks, who in return would probably take it seriously and offer "support" judging by how they think :lol:



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10 Mar 2010, 11:20 am

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In 2006, before giving birth to Evan, the awful couple attempted to salvage their relationship by purchasing an American pit bull terrier puppy.
Oh boy, I love the Onion when they get things right.

Sadly the world is full of these awful people. I can think of several people this describes.



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10 Mar 2010, 3:19 pm

LostAlien wrote:
Is this a joke site?

Personally I think having a baby only makes relationship problems more visible and is damaging for the child and it's development.


That was the whole point of the article.


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10 Mar 2010, 4:45 pm

Someone knows their stuff, and it's a good one. They could have a lot of fun with the, "mother had to kill autistic toddler [for some reason]", one.

(Not as good as the Lovecraft one though. But that's subjective.)



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10 Mar 2010, 6:09 pm

LostAlien wrote:
Is this a joke site?

Personally I think having a baby only makes relationship problems more visible and is damaging for the child and it's development.

That was kind of the point, yes. It's satire - the Onion clearly bills itself as such. (I love their horoscope column! The "Man on the Street" bit isn't bad, either...)


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11 Mar 2010, 10:48 am

Danielismyname wrote:
Someone knows their stuff, and it's a good one. They could have a lot of fun with the, "mother had to kill autistic toddler [for some reason]", one.

Wasn't that already done IRL?



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11 Mar 2010, 12:02 pm

LK wrote:
That was very amusing.

For people who don't find it funny, perhaps you are missing the point? It is not to say autistic children ruin their parents lives or autistic children are terrible. It is making fun of how people decide having a baby (or getting a pet for that matter) will solve their marital problems.

If this was completely understood and it was not taken as amusing for some other reason, I apologize. :P

I didnt find it funny, I thought it was implying that autism is a made up excuse for poor parenting.



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11 Mar 2010, 12:17 pm

lotusblossom wrote:
LK wrote:
That was very amusing.

For people who don't find it funny, perhaps you are missing the point? It is not to say autistic children ruin their parents lives or autistic children are terrible. It is making fun of how people decide having a baby (or getting a pet for that matter) will solve their marital problems.

If this was completely understood and it was not taken as amusing for some other reason, I apologize. :P

I didnt find it funny, I thought it was implying that autism is a made up excuse for poor parenting.

Understandable - Aspies often take sarcasm literally until they get used to it. And it was a very sarcastic article. Or do I mean satire or irony? Anyway, I mean that upside down stuff that says the opposite of the truth and everybody laughs.



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11 Mar 2010, 1:34 pm

The Onion is a troll site, nothing new.......


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11 Mar 2010, 1:56 pm

Warsie wrote:
The Onion is a troll site, nothing new.......


No, The Onion is satire. This is making fun of Autism Speaks' ad style.


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11 Mar 2010, 2:00 pm

Oh I didn't know it was a joke site, but I'm happy to hear that... it was like I thought, "this is morbid, really Autism Speaks-like" 8O , and had a bad felling reading it.
But now it's better. :D



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12 Mar 2010, 8:18 am

KJC wrote:
In my life my father hit the bottle as I was going through adolescence. He was very stressed about how I did in an school and socially. Alcoholism eventually took his life and I do occasionally feel guilty about it.
Of course, I don't always find the Onion humorous whether it involves the autism spectrum or not.


I sometimes think my father got sick and eventually died partly because of his being worried about me. But I also think two other things; one, he decided how to deal with his illness and there was nothing I could do to make him better, and two, he would much rather he be the one to get sick and die than that it be me. I know this for a fact and I'm sure it would have been the same for your father. There's no reason to feel guilty about it. Grief, yes but guilt, no.



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12 Mar 2010, 1:56 pm

pat2rome wrote:
No, The Onion is satire. This is making fun of Autism Speaks' ad style.


Trollign incorporates sardonic and satire in its' style. See some of EncyclopediaDramatica's articles. Well some of the articles not advocating cyberterrorism.


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12 Mar 2010, 1:58 pm

I didn't understand the article. How did the kid save the marriage?



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12 Mar 2010, 3:14 pm

League_Girl wrote:
I didn't understand the article. How did the kid save the marriage?
He did not.
That was the point.
The article was poking fun of the couple stupid enough to get a child to solve their marital problems, only to have it backfire immensely.



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12 Mar 2010, 3:32 pm

Evan isn't autistic- he fakes it to get back at those a**holes. I would ignore them too. I had no idea The Onion was so entertaining.