Magazine making fun of Bill Gates

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I don't want this to be taken the wrong way, but I think you should have a sense of humour about AS, EvilWalks. The magazine wasn't ridiculing of AS, they are making fun (not in a mean way) of Bill Gates. My friends and family will laugh and tease me (just a little bit) when I do something particularly Aspie-ish. When I say make fun of or laugh at, I don't mean bully. I mean playfully tease. But out of all the people I know, I make fun of AS and my AS qualities the most. It's healthy to be able to laugh about it.

I think a lot of people (at least my age and younger) have that gut impulse anytime they see someone who's neurologically different to guess they're ret*d. I don't think that'll change untill something like AS is so deeply embedded into common-knowledge pop psychology that even the most sheltered yuppy bubble-kid can hear about it between trips to Pacific Sunwear or Abercrombie and episodes of the latest pop star reality TV dramas. They can't get it right and untill and understanding is straight up spoon-fed to em I doubt they'll ever care enough about it.

This is why I don't waste my time trying to explin AS to my family. "Retarted" is the only think they'll ever think of.