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Grimdalus
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25 May 2013, 3:53 pm

If I was in your place I would probably sue that scumbag. Anti-aspergers is like the anti-semitism of the 21st century. Aspergers people will eventually be demonised and scapegoated by idiots.



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25 May 2013, 4:28 pm

Realistically, I would say he was just ignorant.

The paranoid side of me would freak out if I heard that from a co-worker, though. I have always been afraid I was ret*d and didn't know it (was lied to about my IQ, maybe as an experiment...), and I'd also be worried that the co-worker guessed I was on the spectrum and the comment was meant for me to hear.

Don't listen to me, though. On that personality disorder test I score very high in Paranoid personality disorder. :lol:



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26 May 2013, 8:09 am

chlov wrote:
I don't get offended when people call me "ret*d".

Also, originally, the word "ret*d" meant "slow", not "mentally challenged".

I am not mentally challenged, but I do am slow, so I guess people are pointing out a fact...?
Whatever, I don't really care.


This is the attitude that I need.


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26 May 2013, 8:11 am

Nonperson wrote:
Realistically, I would say he was just ignorant.

The paranoid side of me would freak out if I heard that from a co-worker, though. I have always been afraid I was ret*d and didn't know it (was lied to about my IQ, maybe as an experiment...), and I'd also be worried that the co-worker guessed I was on the spectrum and the comment was meant for me to hear.

Don't listen to me, though. On that personality disorder test I score very high in Paranoid personality disorder. :lol:


Everybody in the group works a different shift than me so I have never met any of them. There is no way they know I am autistic. I can't say that to anybody that works with my shift.


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