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23 Jan 2013, 4:39 pm

Those of us on the spectrum may or may not find this funny:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Neur ... l_syndrome



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23 Jan 2013, 5:09 pm

Wonderful!
(Please no one take it too seriously.)



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23 Jan 2013, 8:42 pm

I realize that this is meant to be a joke, but it's a very harmful joke. The last thing aspies should be doing is widening the "us vs. them" rift, which is exactly what this link is doing.


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24 Jan 2013, 2:21 pm

One of my classes had an assigned reading about using "White" methods to research. It was basically about a researcher questioning the covert racism in social research. White sociologists became very upset by this questioning, because they weren't used to looking at themselves or their own behaviors critically as a dominant racial majority.

I think the same kind of thing happens with NTs, where it OFFENDS them to be looked at critically and joked about. I've seen that article before and I think it's funny, but I'm used to looking at my own NT behavior critically because of my research and aspie family members

But I agree, if more people on the spectrum openly criticized NT behavior it would just end up with the NTs becoming more hostile toward the idea of neurodiversity.



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25 Jan 2013, 2:24 am

I wonder how many NTs would actually meet the criteria lol.

It was just stereotypical stuff about NTs. I know not all NTs are like that so I wonder how many of them would actually have the condition lmao.


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