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Monkeys Pay for Monkey Porn
An anonymous reader writes "Give a monkey some spending money, and he'll blow it on pictures of women monkeys. He'll also pay to see dominant monkeys. But you'll have to pay him to look at inferior monkeys. That's the upshot of a study out of Duke that was designed to explore the 'social machinery of the brain with an eye toward helping autism patients.' Next up -- seriously -- the researchers want to run the same test on Joe Sixpack (sans the monkey business)."
Would there be anything wrong with this sentence: give a human some spending money and he'll blow it on pictures of female humans?
I guess I'm objecting to the notion that being male is the norm.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
Personally, I think most sports fans are a little "gay". They'd rather watch a bunch of sweaty guys jumping all over eachother, than, say fashion TV - where hot models walk down the runway.
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No. If a creature happens to accept what is put in front of him at certain times, that is not the same as an entire society embracing the manufacture of the thing, and never choosing to step back from it.
Not that I think porn is necessarily wrong, but we're definitely not "natural porn addicts", any more than we're "natural crack addicts".
Thank you. I personally have been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and was somewhat alarmed at the slashdot article (not that such tend to make much sense). It is relieving to see a voice of reason.
The problem here is that your son is going to have to live and socialize with people who are not autists. While a "cure" might be impossible, it certainly is possible to come up with ways of making it easier for people with autism to interact with those around them.
Lovely. Listen, is your boy high functioning, or low? Is he the next Temple Grandin, or is he one of the ones that rocks incessantly and can't dress himself at the age of ten?
Just because you find your boy easy to deal with doesn't mean everyone else's kid is the same. Some autistics can survive in the world, many can't. For them amelioration of the effects means not having a "normal" life, but having a shot at any kind of independence.
All the technology in the world won't hide your lack of vision, talent, or understanding.
Simply put, I am a person with a vision "disorder". My sight is not 20-20. I am sure that everyone knows someone who meets this criteria. This is most likely an inherited trait. Should I consider it part of who I am, and never learn to read/drive/etc. Or should I get these new-fangled things called glasses (or contacts, or worse, laser-surgery) so that I can function 'normally' in society. The parent poster should read his own sig. Just because it's new doesn't mean it's bad. I'm sure there are autistic individuals that exist that would like nothing more than to be 'normal'.
Thank you. I felt like that was the point someone needed to make. I've spent nearly five years working with autistic kids, and am now working for a study doing public health surveillance for autism and other disabilities.
Autism *Spectrum* Disorders cover such a broad range of levels of functionality, it really isn't fair to use the term "autistic" when someone says "Children with autism do not need to be cured." A lot of doctors have differing views on what actually constitutes a pervasive developmental disorder, and there can be motivations behind getting the diagnosis for your child.
A child I work with has broken bones in his feet and fractured bones in his face due to self-injurious behavior. He could stand to be cured, if it was possible. But if a child has problems with eye contact and perseverates on trains and is called autistic, it is a lot easier to say "There's nothing wrong with autism. YOU people are the ones who are going to need to change!"
My agenda is "keeping it real", which means that I don't get along well with far left socialist liberals and far right Bible-thumping republicans. How can all the people in the middle get along when you have both sides trying to take over the world? They're troublemakers.