Kid. I started out with 40 different dialects of basic and three different processors of assembly. And wrote my own word processor at age 13, with spell check, in a version of basic that didn't even have fonts.
Most Aspies talk a lot if you get them on a subject that they're interested in, because they don't have the body language reading ability to know when you're bored out of your skull.
" The movie "Falling Down" is like a poster for how Asperger kids/adults feel every day (if a bit sensational)"
Yes, but most of us, by age 25 or 26, learn enough coping skills to keep the violent meltdowns at bay (at least for the most part). Doesn't mean I don't fantasize about finding a nice tall tree in Forest Park and shooting towers in Portland, however.
The autistic equivalent of Nigger is "Neurotypical". Most autistics realize that social skills are hard, but the lack of social skills makes us far better than NTs at other stuff.
I would point out that even for somebody with asperger's, religion can provide an experimental test bed for objective testing of moral rules. Which is why I like reading about the older religions, they've had more time to experiment, and thus reject moral hypothesis that do not work for human survival in the long term.
Possible coincidence- the one year vaccines happen to come near 18 months- and one of the most common types of autism has a regression at 18 months, though it can now be diagnosed earlier with an MRI, before the regression happens.
And huge numbers of software engineers have proper clinical diagnosis. Yep, no surprise here, except maybe to the neurotypicals who thought they could program who are having Aspies debug their code.
"May I ask you to direct your saturated notion of this word and associated frustration to those who use it for misc. fluffyness to review their meaning and out-of-context-usage of the word."
By the first definition though, isn't this just moral relativism dressed up in a new word, the same moral relativism that spawned the Protestant Reformation and Friedrich Nietzsche? And thus, isn't any meaning and out of context usage of the word merely a "social construct" particular to the brain of the individual using it?
"That's perhaps how it ought to be, but these days having a majority based on equal votes is how things are actually decided."
Boy do they have you fooled. Real democracy these days is based on clever writers and kingmakers who are able to make two sides out of a single sided question. It doesn't matter who the majority votes for if the end result of every question on the ballot is the same.
The real problem with democracy is that it is a con game. Self-rule requires doing what you want. Democracy asks the voters two sided questions about what they do not want. In the few instances (more than binary party systems) where the ballot offers more than two choices, ALL the choices are invariably bad. That's because it is a small minority who writes the ballot, and their lives are not related to the problems of the common person in any way, shape, or form.
Stolen from GK Chesterton, who noticed this particular property of democracy way back in the 1910s.
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Yet another example of the intolerance of modern science for democracy. They're redefining the whole bloody way we measure the advance of TIME, affecting everything from economics to electronics, and they can't be bothered to put the article into the public domain.
Soap operas too- my wife watches Y&R (ok I know, kill the jokes about a slashdotter having a wife, we all get older eventually) and when I can stand to watch it with her (usually for a six or eight month stretch and then I have to take a break for a couple of years) the number of characters that get killed and come back is ridiculous in the extreme.
I'm kind of glad nobody else thought of the easiest, and to me and my love for Cascadia, least favorite solution: Barge it across the ocean and up the Columbia to irrigate the already radioactive but potentially biologically useful and unique Hanford Reservation (there have been two unique species found there in the last 40 years, both of whom could use a bit more ground cover, even if it's radioactive grass).
Pretty bad programming on the part of the video game story writer, I'd think. Seems to me that a much more fun game would have severe consequences for violence- if nothing else than those who live by the sword should die by it, quite often....
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I was diagnosed at 30- and fit your definition better.
Kid. I started out with 40 different dialects of basic and three different processors of assembly. And wrote my own word processor at age 13, with spell check, in a version of basic that didn't even have fonts.
It's more so that the NTs don't panic. "Always leave an error in for the tester to find".
Most Aspies talk a lot if you get them on a subject that they're interested in, because they don't have the body language reading ability to know when you're bored out of your skull.
However- getting to that level makes losing a job feel like a divorce.
Yep, I've experienced that myself. Makes for an awfully choppy and long resume.
" The movie "Falling Down" is like a poster for how Asperger kids/adults feel every day (if a bit sensational)"
Yes, but most of us, by age 25 or 26, learn enough coping skills to keep the violent meltdowns at bay (at least for the most part). Doesn't mean I don't fantasize about finding a nice tall tree in Forest Park and shooting towers in Portland, however.
Then you should at least Know how to spell Aspergers- and know what an insult it is putting a b in it.
The autistic equivalent of Nigger is "Neurotypical". Most autistics realize that social skills are hard, but the lack of social skills makes us far better than NTs at other stuff.
I would point out that even for somebody with asperger's, religion can provide an experimental test bed for objective testing of moral rules. Which is why I like reading about the older religions, they've had more time to experiment, and thus reject moral hypothesis that do not work for human survival in the long term.
Possible coincidence- the one year vaccines happen to come near 18 months- and one of the most common types of autism has a regression at 18 months, though it can now be diagnosed earlier with an MRI, before the regression happens.
And huge numbers of software engineers have proper clinical diagnosis. Yep, no surprise here, except maybe to the neurotypicals who thought they could program who are having Aspies debug their code.
Been forced to be. As my nick and relatively low userID suggest, I've had my ideals beaten out of me by real life.
It's actually the opposite of true common sense:
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2006/dahlquist_commonsense_jun06.asp
GK Chesterton would disagree:
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2006/dahlquist_commonsense_jun06.asp
True to a certain extent- but then how else are we to be prepared for a career? Or should we all be trust fund babies?
"May I ask you to direct your saturated notion of this word and associated frustration to those who use it for misc. fluffyness to review their meaning and out-of-context-usage of the word."
By the first definition though, isn't this just moral relativism dressed up in a new word, the same moral relativism that spawned the Protestant Reformation and Friedrich Nietzsche? And thus, isn't any meaning and out of context usage of the word merely a "social construct" particular to the brain of the individual using it?
"That's perhaps how it ought to be, but these days having a majority based on equal votes is how things are actually decided."
Boy do they have you fooled. Real democracy these days is based on clever writers and kingmakers who are able to make two sides out of a single sided question. It doesn't matter who the majority votes for if the end result of every question on the ballot is the same.
The real problem with democracy is that it is a con game. Self-rule requires doing what you want. Democracy asks the voters two sided questions about what they do not want. In the few instances (more than binary party systems) where the ballot offers more than two choices, ALL the choices are invariably bad. That's because it is a small minority who writes the ballot, and their lives are not related to the problems of the common person in any way, shape, or form.
Stolen from GK Chesterton, who noticed this particular property of democracy way back in the 1910s.
Is appeal to authority a rhetorical fallacy or a logical fallacy? And on whose authority do you base your answer?
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Yet another example of the intolerance of modern science for democracy. They're redefining the whole bloody way we measure the advance of TIME, affecting everything from economics to electronics, and they can't be bothered to put the article into the public domain.
Soap operas too- my wife watches Y&R (ok I know, kill the jokes about a slashdotter having a wife, we all get older eventually) and when I can stand to watch it with her (usually for a six or eight month stretch and then I have to take a break for a couple of years) the number of characters that get killed and come back is ridiculous in the extreme.
I'm kind of glad nobody else thought of the easiest, and to me and my love for Cascadia, least favorite solution: Barge it across the ocean and up the Columbia to irrigate the already radioactive but potentially biologically useful and unique Hanford Reservation (there have been two unique species found there in the last 40 years, both of whom could use a bit more ground cover, even if it's radioactive grass).
Pretty bad programming on the part of the video game story writer, I'd think. Seems to me that a much more fun game would have severe consequences for violence- if nothing else than those who live by the sword should die by it, quite often....
The sad part is, I was just watching a history channel documentary two days ago that claimed the same thing.