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You're a cheeky bar steward you are

I think I might hoard stuffed cats, I have a whole horde of them.

I can't get in my daughter's bedroom for bloody cookie monsters and jellycat toys

It's like a flipping shop in there

I had to look that up.

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There is nothing wrong with being a mature student. At least you gave it a go!

Yeah I did didn't I

Kids of today and their prefabricated plastic toys. When I was a lad we made our own out of Oxo tins and old razor blades and we still had change from a farthing.

Oh you poor thing
Did you not get a lump of coal to play with on Christmas

Wouldn't have wanted it. We had a coalhouse so I'd already got all the coal I could eat.

I used to love playing with coal me

Aren't you a bit too young to remember coal?

I'm old me (as I keep having to explain to telephone customer service agents)

My next-door neighbour had a coal shed when we were kids

Last night I found an article about the common traits of misanthropy, and I fit pretty much most of them:

Low tolerance for stupidity. Yeah, well DUH! Although there's so much of it now you'd think I'd be used to it.

Chronic pessimism. Maybe that's because I just see things the way they truly are. Yesterday on Facebook I posted that no matter what we do, there will always be humans who are anti-autistic and will see us as nothing but freaks of nature. That's just reality.

Need for solitude.

Desire for social change. Oh my, gee, gosharootie why in the world would I think society needs to change??? Maybe because of something known as politics?

Generalized distrust. Yes, if there's anything that proves most humans can't be trusted, it's the internet. And politics.

Extreme individualism. So true, not being able to make decisions or live a lifestyle based on my own choices is pretty much what caused me to have severe meltdowns that put me in the hospital before I was finally diagnosed.

Sensitivity to criticism. I hate to say it, but it's true. And that's why I'll never be a real writer or a cartoonist, because the inevitable criticism will make my head burst into flames from embarrassment.

Constant criticism. Of course I'm critical of others, including myself. Because I know that in this society it is NOT okay to make mistakes, just ask any doctor or teacher or even a hair dresser.

Excessive caution. If something sounds too good to be true, that's because it is. Oh, they found a new planet that humans might be able to live on? Sure okay, even if that was true, have fun getting over eight billion people to this miracle world, especially people who won't murder each other due to political and cultural belief, and space madness. And I know they'll be totally Darwinist and only take take healthy, young, breedable, non disabled people and people they think will be important, like doctors, and...politicians.

And besides, they haven't even sent anyone to Mars yet mainly because it would take six months just to reach the planet. The space madness would get really bad by that time. And then it'll take another six months just to get back to Earth. So if a habitable planet is discovered it won't like taking a drive down the street to get to it, that's for sure.

Oh, and there was every person with ASD's most favorite phrase, "Lack of empathy". But I think I do have empathy. In fact I was sure I couldn't really be a misanthrope because I care about the rights of minorities and autistic people because they deserve to have the same rights as "normal" people because we're human too. But then I realized that the reason such people get treated by garbage is because of humans thinking anyone who doesn't seem normal is a freak or a tragedy and therefor NOT a human, with basic human rights, needs and feelings. And it's not like I didn't get this from personal experience.

Another trait was a sense of superiority. But I don't know about that since it's usually the NTs that think they're superior.
And if they had their way, people who are ND, non-white, non-hetero and women who refuse to be slaves would all be sent to the sun. Right now the USA has a madman for president who thinks allowing women, LGBT, NDs and minorities to have a decent life is sending the world to a hot place in a hand basket, but it's the people like HIM that are doing that. And even if that does give me a sense of superiority, well that's just another sad trait nearly all humans have whether they admit it or not. Some humans do think they are inferior, but that's the exception and not the rule.

Anyway, I really don't get why people think misanthropy is a really bad thing. It's not like I'm out killing people or trying to make them miserable because I hate humanity. That would only make me like the very same things I hate about it. Although I do wish I could use my mind to set certain world "leaders" on fire.

That's not pessimism, that's depressive realism. Apparently most people prop themselves up by pretending everything is better than it is, which makes us look like the nutcases. But the reality is, they're the maniacs.