By the way -- I gave up completely on Donald Trump when he mocked the handicapped. I remember hearing jokes about the handicapped (except for moron jokes) from people my age when I was about ten years old. Most people outgrow such garbage (and it really is cruel) when they are about ten years old. Around that age, one either finds those repugnant or someone is able to explain why you don't do them (Dad tells you that the fellow in a wheelchair is a disabled veteran who served his country heroically, and there but for the Grace of God go you ten years from now if we get into a war with the Soviet Union. I may judge harshly people who hurt themselves through their own follies such as drugs, alcoholism, extreme obesity, and criminal behaviors.. but I fault nobody who did nothing to fault himself.
I have a neurological disorder that makes me little more than my intellect. It has messed me up as can a drug or alcohol habit except to not put my life at risk. No, I'm not crazy; I simply can't enjoy what many other people enjoy. I could never attend a rock concert. Yes, it is genetic. I got a double dose, as my late parents both showed signs of being on the autistic spectrum, and it is probably a good thing that I never had children; they would be at a high risk of institutionalization.
I have a neurological disorder that makes me little more than my intellect. It has messed me up as can a drug or alcohol habit except to not put my life at risk. No, I'm not crazy; I simply can't enjoy what many other people enjoy. I could never attend a rock concert. Yes, it is genetic. I got a double dose, as my late parents both showed signs of being on the autistic spectrum, and it is probably a good thing that I never had children; they would be at a high risk of institutionalization.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
