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28 Sep 2019, 5:26 am

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Autism makes you even LESS dangerous than the average innocent NT person. Not more dangerous.


You forget the context...the girl was confronted by a masturbator (not a man with a knife/gun)....his sole weapon is his seed....in her mind playing an autistic having a meltdown was the most unsexy thing she could think off....


Oh....we autistics are "unsexy". Thanks a lot. ( and like that would even matter to a perv anyway). Lol!

And how does one even "fake autism" on the fly anyway?

You could (a) kidnap the guy, falsely imprison him, and then force him to listen to you talk obsessively about trains and Star Trek so after weeks of listening to you he gets the idea that you're like Sheldon Leonard. Or you could (b) show the guy your ability to do math in your head, and to figure out the day of the week he was born on...so he gets the idea that you're like Rain Man.

But besides that (imitating one or the other of the two best known cliché autism spectrum characters in media)how could you possibly "fake autism"? And do it with enough velocity to scare someone off? In real life you have to be a coworker, or school mate of an autistic for weeks before you get any sense of them being autistic.

Makes zero sense.

You could "fake being a psycho axe murderer". That I get. But I don't get how you could "fake autism".


I don't think she was thinking rationally anyway given she was confronted by a man holding his erect penis masturbating. The fact she disclosed she pretended she was autistic means that what came into her mind to turn this man off.



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28 Sep 2019, 4:28 pm

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I don't think she was thinking rationally anyway given she was confronted by a man holding his erect penis masturbating. The fact she disclosed she pretended she was autistic means that what came into her mind to turn this man off.

Why?

Autism = repulsive ??


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28 Sep 2019, 7:52 pm

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I don't think she was thinking rationally anyway given she was confronted by a man holding his erect penis masturbating. The fact she disclosed she pretended she was autistic means that what came into her mind to turn this man off.

Why?

Autism = repulsive ??


There's thousands of posts on WP asking this very question. What do NTs think of "us". This otherwise normal NT girl basically revealed her inner thoughts about autism; your interpretation here is as good as mine.



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30 Sep 2019, 6:30 pm

cyberdad wrote:
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I don't think she was thinking rationally anyway given she was confronted by a man holding his erect penis masturbating. The fact she disclosed she pretended she was autistic means that what came into her mind to turn this man off.

Why?

Autism = repulsive ??


There's thousands of posts on WP asking this very question. What do NTs think of "us". This otherwise normal NT girl basically revealed her inner thoughts about autism; your interpretation here is as good as mine.

Not sure what your point is.

Okay...so you cant accuse her of being derogatory or un pc toward autistics because the thought just came into her head while she was in distress. And she was honest to admit that that was the thought that came into her head.

But it still doesn't make sense.

Saying "I pretended to be an insurance salesman", or "I pretended to be a Jehovah's Witness", and "launched into a sales pitch to scare him off" makes more sense to me than "I pretended to be autistic" because real autism, though it maybe off-putting in some cases, is off putting in a very subtle way that takes accumulation of time to become offputting. Not something that would save your life from an attacker in a matter of seconds.



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30 Sep 2019, 7:04 pm

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Saying "I pretended to be an insurance salesman", or "I pretended to be a Jehovah's Witness", and "launched into a sales pitch to scare him off" makes more sense to me than "I pretended to be autistic" because real autism, though it maybe off-putting in some cases, is off putting in a very subtle way that takes accumulation of time to become offputting. Not something that would save your life from an attacker in a matter of seconds.


You are missing the point in this case. The man was masturbating. This type of threat is different to a man with a weapon or a man threatening to physically assault her.

Her mind was probably not prepared to meet such an individual.

In her panic she drew quickly on what (she thought) were characteristics would scare this man away. Do you really think if she turned into a smiling jehovahs witness or salesgirl the man would stop masturbating? more likely it would escalate into something worse like the girl was inviting him to engage?



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30 Sep 2019, 7:40 pm

I was being a bit tongue in cheek.

But..the question remains: why "autistic"?

Why would THAT come into her mind as something to scare someone off?



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30 Sep 2019, 9:30 pm

My thoughts:
* on the premise she's NT: because Autism scared *her*
* or back to my original suggestion: *she* is Autistic (and doesn't know it, as I didn't at her age)



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01 Oct 2019, 10:14 am

SharonB wrote:
My thoughts:
* on the premise she's NT: because Autism scared *her*
* or back to my original suggestion: *she* is Autistic (and doesn't know it, as I didn't at her age)


Or option 3
* *she* is autistic and knows she had an autistic meltdown but is deceiving everyone by saying she was pretending



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07 Oct 2019, 7:44 pm

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Add that to the list of autism's advantages


You mean acting advantages.


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07 Oct 2019, 7:51 pm

I'm not trying to be disrespectful to the young woman, to victims of assault or to any autistic people anywhere ... but I've yet to understand how she faked "being autistic". What does that mean? I'm not trying to be funny but honestly, what does "acting autistic" during an emergency look like? Did she start stimming, proclaiming sensory issues, pursuing a special interest, not making eye contact, or using big words? I'm not trying to be sarcastic but how do you pretend to be autistic during an emergency? Do they mean she was acting weirdly? Why are they using the word autistic when they mean "weird"?


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07 Oct 2019, 8:01 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
LoveNotHate wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
I don't think she was thinking rationally anyway given she was confronted by a man holding his erect penis masturbating. The fact she disclosed she pretended she was autistic means that what came into her mind to turn this man off.

Why?

Autism = repulsive ??


There's thousands of posts on WP asking this very question. What do NTs think of "us". This otherwise normal NT girl basically revealed her inner thoughts about autism; your interpretation here is as good as mine.

Not sure what your point is.

Okay...so you cant accuse her of being derogatory or un pc toward autistics because the thought just came into her head while she was in distress. And she was honest to admit that that was the thought that came into her head.

But it still doesn't make sense.

Saying "I pretended to be an insurance salesman", or "I pretended to be a Jehovah's Witness", and "launched into a sales pitch to scare him off" makes more sense to me than "I pretended to be autistic" because real autism, though it maybe off-putting in some cases, is off putting in a very subtle way that takes accumulation of time to become offputting. Not something that would save your life from an attacker in a matter of seconds.


Perhaps she was trying to pretend it was an autistic meltdown those aren't exactly subtle. That said I don't find it offensive, just glad she was able to scare him off and nothing worse happened.


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07 Oct 2019, 8:04 pm

LoveNotHate wrote:
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I don't think she was thinking rationally anyway given she was confronted by a man holding his erect penis masturbating. The fact she disclosed she pretended she was autistic means that what came into her mind to turn this man off.

Why?

Autism = repulsive ??


To a huge amount of people, unfortunately.


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08 Oct 2019, 12:31 am

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I'm not trying to be sarcastic but how do you pretend to be autistic during an emergency?


I recall watching a Mel Gibson movie back in the 1990s (Lethal weapon?) where he got out of a deadly situation by acting crazy having a meltdown that could easily be misconstrued as an autistic meltdown.

Since then I have seen this plenty of times in Hollywood where a character acts "crazy" to get out of a dangerous situation. It's possible this girl was tuning into one of these memes.



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08 Oct 2019, 7:45 am

I wonder if I can get college students to hire me to scare off potential attackers.



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08 Oct 2019, 7:53 am

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I wonder if I can get college students to hire me to scare off potential attackers.



Probably could if you found a good lawyer first. Judging from other news, if you didn't sign a contract exempting you from certain liabilities first, you might make a fortune at first then lose it to allegations that you could make eye contact with the woman hiring you, and you just didn't want to take your eyes off of her chest.



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08 Oct 2019, 7:54 am

cyberdad wrote:
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I'm not trying to be sarcastic but how do you pretend to be autistic during an emergency?


I recall watching a Mel Gibson movie back in the 1990s (Lethal weapon?) where he got out of a deadly situation by acting crazy having a meltdown that could easily be misconstrued as an autistic meltdown.

Since then I have seen this plenty of times in Hollywood where a character acts "crazy" to get out of a dangerous situation. It's possible this girl was tuning into one of these memes.


I have heard in the frontier days of the US the way travelers would get Indians to leave them alone was to act crazy. Because the Indians considered it bad medicine to harm a person who was touched. Idk if that's true or just flummery.