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[–]-Sai- [スコア非表示]  (42子コメント)

I'm on the spectrum (they used to call it "aspergers syndrome" but it's all been reclassified as types of autism now) and I've worked damn hard to become as functional as I am. I was much more severe as a kid and even in my early 20's.

I get so frustrated with people who are as high or higher functioning than me acting like having autism is an excuse for any bad behavior they want to get away with or to get out of shit they just don't want to do.

[–]NomsheepNazi Sheepkin[S] [スコア非表示]  (15子コメント)

Me too, Nothing is more annoying than some cunt saying "I have Aspergers" to justify his being a cunt.

[–]ABrokenOven [スコア非表示]  (9子コメント)

It's not even just mental disorders, I got in trouble with some people because a guy was acting like a complete dickhead and I called him out on it. Someone said "He has cancer though", and no one was happy when I said "Then he's just a dickhead that has cancer".

[–]FlameSpartan [スコア非表示]  (5子コメント)

But you were right. Cancer isn't even a death sentence anymore, often enough it's a temporary condition with treatments that have shitty side effects.

He was definitely a dickhead with cancer.

[–]ABrokenOven [スコア非表示]  (3子コメント)

Everyone else was just looking at it like "Oh he's having a hard time you can't blame him.", nah mate I know people that have had cancer and weren't cunts. This fellas just a cunt that happens to have cancer while he's currently being a cunt.

[–]ironminer888Yian Kut-kin (Pronouns: SC-RE-EE) [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

I found GradeAUnderA!

[–]veggiezombie1Triggered when downvoted [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I can forgive being short or grumpy if you're dealing with something like cancer. You don't need to be a ray of sunshine, but you can't use it as an excuse to be a rude jerk either.

Cancer sucks. So do the treatments. But if you can't at least be civil to people, don't go outside.

[–]BoopysRevengeRacistkin [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Depends on the type of cancer and whether or not it's metastatic. Cancer is certainly a death sentence for a large portion of the people afflicted with it.

The treatments themselves are grueling and borderline inhumane. People with leukemia literally have the marrow scraped from their bones in an attempt to rid themselves of the disease (which is metal as fuck, but no doubt agonizing.)

The thing with cancer is that once you have developed it, even if it goes away, it's still there. It will inevitably come back at some point.

That being said, it's no excuse for the guy to be total dickhead.

[–]Vitaebat [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Yeah, though sometimes cancer can bring out the dickishness in people. My step-father has brain cancer, and while he was a dick before he's even more of a dick now. I'm not sure if it's the cancer fucking with his brain (since it's in his brain) or if he just stopped giving a shit about any one anymore.

[–]BoopysRevengeRacistkin [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

The tumors put pressure on the brain and cause changes in behavior.

[–]Tachycardiologist [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

There was a guy in my 10th grade year that missed like 3 months of classes for bone cancer treatment. When he came back, he was walking with crutches and apparently thought it meant he could be as much of an asshole as he wanted. He actually took a swing at a friend of mine WITH HIS FUCKING CRUTCH. To be fair, my friend is the accidentally offensive kind of autistic, but he generally doesn't make crutch-beating worthy remarks.

[–]Megamean09/r/foxyfoxes [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Did so as a kid, later learned to simply never bring it up ever. I've learned how to appear normal and I'm not going to be telling people my head's not screwed on right.

[–]RedRiverValleyFee-Fi-Fo-Fum Self - Respect them or be eaten (◡‿◡✿) [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

to quote Tumblr

SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!

[–]TheFacelessObserver [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I have ASPD and we never get to use that as an excuse. That would go something like:

"You fucking cunt!"

"But I have ASPD!"

"You fucking Psychopath!"

[–]r0tekatze [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

This one kinda pisses me off. I'm on the "spectrum" myself (jesus that word annoys me) and one of the things I have a big problem with is empathy. To put it bluntly, you might describe me as being somewhere in between Joe Average, and someone one might describe as a sociopath.

That doesn't mean to say I don't always recognise when someone is having an emotional response to something - but there are times when I simply cannot wrap my head around why someone else's emotions are my problem. Sometimes, it just clicks - and I become much more agreeable - but sometimes it doesn't.

Some things are problematic for me - for example, a time and place for emotions to take a precedent, and a time for them to be controlled and ignored. I can control my emotions very well, to the extent where some people are very concerned about me, but this is what I consider appropriate at, for example, places of work. When you're at work, you have a job to do. You're not there to laugh and cry at things, and I have a hard time understanding why others do.

I try very hard to minimise the effects of this - given what I understand about emotions in others, I don't imagine I'm always a brilliant person to be around. I suppose one of the ways you might describe me is "very German". But it isn't me being a cunt - I'm not deliberately out to make life hard for anyone else. But this is Aspergers, and because it's so very varied, there are probably thousands who use it as an excuse for everything and anything.

[–]lkuecrarwhackadoo-kin [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Yeah there was a guy at my high school that has MS and was a total dick but no one ever said anything to him about it because "he has MS"

[–]CosmicVomit [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

Same. Worked my ass off to fit into neurotypical environments. Now people have no idea unless I mention it.

[–]CheeseofBorgLard-kin [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

One of my best friends told me he has it, and was shocked to learn I do too. NORMAL.EXE is a mask i wear every day.

[–]RedRiverValleyFee-Fi-Fo-Fum Self - Respect them or be eaten (◡‿◡✿) [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Yah me too, though I notice that when I am at a social event where my parents are present, I instinctivly turn around to them and ask them did I do everythign right it is a reflex left over from when I was a teenager and young adult.

[–]trombonesandpunsTrombone-kin, pronouns: slide/slides/slideself [スコア非表示]  (13子コメント)

Thank you. Being a psychology person, I absolutely detest people who say it shouldn't have a cure or stuff like that. It's called a disorder for a REASON, it makes the lives of the sufferers and the people around them much harder. But no, it's "diversity" and "ableist" to not want people in the future to suffer.

[–]ragemothafunka [スコア非表示]  (12子コメント)

Being a psychology person

what the fuq is a psychology person?

[–]ask_me_if_im_vargasImmunoglobukin; Pronouns: Gamma, Gammas, Gammaself [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

I think you mean person of psychology

[–]BillBillerson [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Odds are a first year psych undergrad.

[–]trombonesandpunsTrombone-kin, pronouns: slide/slides/slideself [スコア非表示]  (6子コメント)

Just someone interested in psychology (I'm intending to major).

[–]solo_a_manowhite failing [スコア非表示]  (3子コメント)

Psst. Do neuroscience.

[–]Orlitoq [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Shhh, you want them to be able to make a living or something?

[–]solo_a_manowhite failing [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

It's too late for me, save yourselves!

[–]TheFacelessObserver [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Then he'd actually have to work.

[–]ragemothafunka [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

just read a book about the subject, don't major in it... unless you want to of course.

[–]johnnytaquitos [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

i think he can read minds with fire.

[–]Aztok [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Same here, I used to wonder why I had no friends, and when I realized it was because I was awkward and weird because of Aspergers (at the time). So instead of blaming others and acting like I didn't need a change, I worked hard at being personable and relatable, and an actual, y'know, person.

The idea other people say "I'm perfect and don't need to change!" And expect the world to rotate around them is both infuriating and dissapointing. I see these people and think there but for the grace of God go I.

[–]-Sai- [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I at least always tended to attract a flock of misfits as friends, but yeah I was still really bad with it as a child. I will admit as a teen I may have gone through a little "you have to excuse me" phase, but at the same time I never accepted extra help in school or anything. I was diagnosed in the 90's back when "asperger's" was less well-known though.

[–]lightningrod14your mom [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

preach it! i'm in the exact same situation, and goddamn is it a tough road sometimes.

I've pushed myself to the limit in order to override these intrinsic flaws that I have, flaws which not only inhibit me but hurt others around me as well.

Of all the things i've taught myself to handle, those flaws being suddenly "okay" is NOT one of them. Fuck you, I deserve respect but I still have a disorder, and if i'm not supposed to self-improve, then you're resigning me and everyone like me to impotence. not to mention the fact that my very existence would make everyone but me miserable in that paradigm, and that would not be okay.

And of course, I would never use my disorder as an excuse except for in the most immutable of circumstances. if you try to tell me otherwise, i'll tell you to fuck off and to do a reality check.

[–]stargrunt6 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Look up Eric Berne's concept of "wooden leg."

[–]UniverseBomb [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Same here. Awareness, even as an adult, can help in dealing with life. And the thing with the idea of a cure is hilarious. The closest we have to a cause is multiple genes, the definition and range has changed multiple times over a relatively short period of time and the best we can do with something as relatively simple as Down's Syndrome is detect it in the womb. We've barely defined it, and people are saying we're diseased already. But I've stopped caring. We shouldn't fight for a cure. We shouldn't fight for acceptance. We should fight for better treatment, it's the only realistic option. Therapy is basically just getting started, and what their doing with kids these days is fantastic.

[–]jcutta [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

We are currently seeking initial steps for my son we think he's high functioning on the spectrum. Do you have any advice for me to help him going forward?

[–]RedRiverValleyFee-Fi-Fo-Fum Self - Respect them or be eaten (◡‿◡✿) [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

From my humble opinipon I would recommend behavoral l therapy where they teach you how to improove interactions and what to look out for. Also it might be a good idea to get him to go to a group with fellow High Functionign Autistics so he can be himself and can let his guard down for a while, though make sure that they are not made up of assholes like the poster featured here. Also I hate to admit it, but I refused to go to therapy until late into my adulthood, because I thought that it would just confirm what everyone already thought of me that I was cracy instead of what it actually did teach me how to intigrate better. My mum told me and I didn't believe her, so if your son refuses just ell him that it is not meant as a punishment that he is not cracy but that it will be liek a school where he can learn how to better interact with other kids.

[–]terjesin [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Hypothetically speaking, if there was a cure, how quickly would you take it?