Trump brought the Regeneracy, just not in the way he expected.

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(03-13-2017, 07:34 AM)Odin Wrote:

(03-11-2017, 10:09 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

(03-11-2017, 06:48 PM)Odin Wrote:

(03-11-2017, 05:33 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: If the Left could transmute autistic screeching into political power we'd have a communist state by now.  Unfortunately I strongly suspect that it is just autistic screeching.  I'm sure Odin, Eric and others see these protests and are like "OMG its Civil Rights all over again" while everyone else sees this.

I'm buying stock in ear plugs companies.

"Autistic screeching" really? You know that many of us here are on the spectrum, right? You are a massive jack-ass.

Come on, Odin, let's not play this game.  Even I have been accused of being on "the spectrum", including by a VA psychiatrist (I also had another, much more highly-regarded psychiatrist tell me that was stupid and she wasn't surprised the other doctor worked at the VA).

The only person on here I would genuinely believe has some sort of pervasive developmental disorder is PBrower, who somehow manages to be monotone and avoid making eye contact even in a written exchange conducted over the Internet.  The rest of us are just geeks.  Or cranks, lot of those around here, too.

I had a full screening when I was 15 and am officially diagnosed. It's not nearly as obvious, anymore, in my outward behavior compared to when I was younger, but I still have plenty of stereotypically autistic sensory issues.

Oh, and a common behavior in young autistic kids is them walking on their toes, one of my nicknames when I was a little kid was "tippy-toes".

I think Brower's issues come more from depression than from his Asperger's.

The depression comes from bad results from bad choices that I would have never made had it not been for undiagnosed Asperger's. I got a diagnosis of Asperger's only at age 60, when I could do little about it. I have the sensory issues and physical manifestations. I got some help, and I did learn to make better eye contact and abandon some rigidity of thought. I wish I had gotten some help much earlier instead of heeding parental advice to stay clear of the mental health system because having to use the system is disgraceful. Psychiatry and psychology are "Jewish sciences" in some cultures. My parents were antisemitic.

I could hide some autistic tendencies with behavior, but I could never hide that I was hiding something. In this culture, anyone hiding something is assumed to be hiding something malign. If someone had a problem with hiding an African ancestor I would give the advice, "Go ahead and admit that you are black! What would that change?" I have told people who leaked indications that they were gay contrary to their Christian beliefs that homosexuality is evil, "Get out of the damnable closet! Admit it -- God made you gay, and maybe He wants you to testify that one can be a homosexual and a devout Christian".

For something more problematic, like chemical dependency -- one needs to admit that one has a problem and go for rehab. After rehab, choose to associate with clean-and-sober people who can find enriching and fulfilling lives to imitate and to avoid places and activities that one associates with drinking. Criminal behavior? See an attorney for advice, which could include "turn yourself in", Mr. Raskolnikov. (Does anyone think that Crime and Punishment is a novel well worth exposing to most youth?)

It is impossible to get off the spectrum. Maybe some electromagnetic radiation can be transformed from gamma rays to visible light or radiant heat through a series of collisions, but that radiation remains on the spectrum. Of course visible light is far safer than gamma rays...