Quote from: taxed on July 24, 2015, 12:27:13 PM
One of my close friends has a kid with autism.  Also, my sister ran a house for autistic kids.  I heard a lot about it first hand from her.  Even stuff like how when one of them would freak out, she'd have to do manuver with them and do a roll with them on the ground until they calm down.  There's an element of danger to it I remember.  Autistic kids can't just hop on a computer, log into a forum with a username, find the right forum, then post about how the US and da evil capitalism be keepin dem down.  If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

Then you have the rare rain-man like guys, or even like Jacob Barnett who is in his teens and disproving Einstein's theories and teaching astrophysics.  Trust me, cubedemon isn't that one.

I know a boy with autism.  There are all different degrees of it.  The boy is very smart and communicates better on the internet, than with direct person to person contact.  He can play all those computer games and ace them in no time.  He can tell you what day of the week your birthday will fall on, five years from now.   It's just hard to relate regarding every day issues, one on one. 

Quote from: Dori on July 24, 2015, 12:45:52 PM
I know a boy with autism.  There are all different degrees of it.  The boy is very smart and communicates better on the internet, than with direct person to person contact.  He can play all those computer games and ace them in no time.  He can tell you what day of the week your birthday will fall on, five years from now.   It's just hard to relate regarding every day issues, one on one.

That child you describe sounds more like an idiot/savant.  He could have a combination of abnormalities.... not just autism.

Quote from: quiller on July 23, 2015, 09:05:38 PM

Touche! 

Quote from: kroz on July 24, 2015, 04:52:49 AM
Great verse, quiller.....  full of poignant truth !

Service (1874-1958) was called the Bard of the Yukon for his lean, direct, masculine style. A gold miner and adventurer, he knew firsthand whereof he spoke.

This poem is from Service's 1912 book Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, available free, here....

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/309/309-h/309-h.htm#link2H_4_0041

I have given up and quit, yet, my will is strong, and I shall fight and never surrender.

Quote from: cubedemon on July 24, 2015, 06:41:52 PM
I have given up and quit, yet, my will is strong, and I shall fight and never surrender.

You contradict yourself with the first six and the last six words in a single sentence. You're a special kind of idiot, aren't you, sonny?

Quote from: quiller on July 24, 2015, 08:17:07 PM
You contradict yourself with the first six and the last six words in a single sentence. You're a special kind of idiot, aren't you, sonny?

It is called Dialetheism.   

Quote from: Dori on July 24, 2015, 12:45:52 PM
I know a boy with autism.  There are all different degrees of it.  The boy is very smart and communicates better on the internet, than with direct person to person contact.  He can play all those computer games and ace them in no time.  He can tell you what day of the week your birthday will fall on, five years from now.   It's just hard to relate regarding every day issues, one on one.

Would that boy get online and complain how evil competition is holding him down?

Quote from: cubedemon on July 24, 2015, 08:27:13 PM
It is called Dialetheism.

It's called making no sense.  Real autistic kids are distancing themselves from you.

 Dialetheism is not in my dictionary.

Quote from: kroz on July 25, 2015, 04:43:17 AM
Dialetheism is not in my dictionary.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dialetheism/

Quote from: kroz on July 25, 2015, 04:43:17 AM
Dialetheism is not in my dictionary.

Because like all words, they get usurped for ones self interests and bastardized to fit an agenda.
Like gay no longer represents happy, or the theft of all that good in a child's rainbow and taken it's innocence and stomped it into the dirt to represent evil.

dialetheia is merely, "a contradiction" with ism added for ownership in usurpation to apply it as a new meaning to give credence to a theory..

Granted, this is mostly my opinion, but it's something that's happening more and more all the time to give gravity, or gravitas as the left loves to use to a nonexistant issue.
Everything that creates division is through a hidden driven agenda, and... "actus reus" is just another tool being used against American culture.

Actus Reus: Activity that transgresses moral or civil law.

Quote from: taxed on July 24, 2015, 08:33:40 PM
It's called making no sense.  Real autistic kids are distancing themselves from you.

Autism is a spectrum disorder.  You're talking about a particular version i.e. kanners.   I'm on the milder end.   So, these "real autistic kids" are more profound then me so they are a huge distance from me. 

I have an extreme need for routine.

I do take things literally sometimes.

I do have problems with eye contact.

I do have some problems with abstract thought even though the internet has helped.

Quote from: cubedemon on July 25, 2015, 07:12:23 AM
Autism is a spectrum disorder.  You're talking about a particular version i.e. kanners.   I'm on the milder end.   So, these "real autistic kids" are more profound then me so they are a huge distance from me. 

I have an extreme need for routine.

I do take things literally sometimes.

I do have problems with eye contact.

I do have some problems with abstract thought even though the internet has helped.

You meant "spectrum disorder", correct?

Quote from: Solar on July 25, 2015, 07:50:03 AM
You meant "spectrum disorder", correct?

yes