Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: 1 ... 555 556 [557] 558 559 ... 852

Author Topic: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread  (Read 882077 times)

Vector

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8340 on: December 15, 2011, 01:17:16 am »

My argument is that autism has its own range of "intelligence" and there's something called "can't perform simple tasks" in the neurotypical world, too.
Logged
"The question of the usefulness of poetry arises only in periods of its decline, while in periods of its flowering, no one doubts its total uselessness." - Boris Pasternak

nonbinary/genderfluid/genderqueer renegade mathematician and mafia subforum limpet. please avoid quoting me.

pronouns: prefer neutral ones, others are fine. height: 5'3".

Heron TSG

  • Bay Watcher
  • The Seal Goddess
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8341 on: December 15, 2011, 01:21:45 am »

Is your argument that the problems from 'severe cases of autism' are not caused by the autism but are instead caused by a different mental condition that those people also have? (I don't know enough neuroscience to know if that is true or not.)
It sounds to me like she said that the extreme cases should not be the stereotype for literally every autistic person ever.

Don't mind me, I'm not putting words in anyones' mouth.
« Last Edit: December 15, 2011, 01:43:44 am by Barbarossa TSG »
Logged

Est Sularus Oth Mithas
The Artist Formerly Known as Barbarossa TSG

Vector

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8342 on: December 15, 2011, 01:23:44 am »

No, that's another thing I'm saying, too.  Thanks, Barbar.
Logged
"The question of the usefulness of poetry arises only in periods of its decline, while in periods of its flowering, no one doubts its total uselessness." - Boris Pasternak

nonbinary/genderfluid/genderqueer renegade mathematician and mafia subforum limpet. please avoid quoting me.

pronouns: prefer neutral ones, others are fine. height: 5'3".

G-Flex

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8343 on: December 15, 2011, 01:27:05 am »

So, do you want your entire neurotype exemplified by the most pathological examples?  I mean, you do realize that the ability to manipulate others emotionally is really nasty when maximized, and many members of your neurotype are massively, incomprehensibly illogical.  Can't perform simple mental tasks.

You should read this.

And this.

You talk to me like you have more of a right to discuss this than I do.  And you're defining the whole by fringe cases, which are being used right now as justification to pursue genocide for the whole.  I have problems with your idea of pathologizing an entire people based on a few members who may have problems, and I have problems with your deciding what is simple, what is functional, and what the measure is of a worthy human being.

You're getting a lot more offended over this than you need to. I'm not saying that everyone with autism (or autism spectrum disorders) is pathological, just that there clearly are pathological cases, so considering the entire thing non-pathological seems silly to me.

Also: When did I say anything about the measure of a "worthy human being"? What does that even mean?
Logged
There are 2 types of people in the world: Those who understand hexadecimal, and those who don't.
Visit the #Bay12Games IRC channel on NewNet
== Human Renovation: My Deus Ex mod/fan patch (v1.30, updated 5/31/2012) ==

Vector

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8344 on: December 15, 2011, 01:29:38 am »

Okay, then you've got to admit that calling neurotypicals "not pathological" is also foolish, because there's extreme cases of your dominant traits going awry, as well.

Saying that some autistic people can't perform simple tasks centers the point of view that there are some tasks that should be universally simply to all human beings; those who do not find those tasks simple are decentered in the discourse and labeled pathological, different from the core of humanity, somehow unworthy.
Logged
"The question of the usefulness of poetry arises only in periods of its decline, while in periods of its flowering, no one doubts its total uselessness." - Boris Pasternak

nonbinary/genderfluid/genderqueer renegade mathematician and mafia subforum limpet. please avoid quoting me.

pronouns: prefer neutral ones, others are fine. height: 5'3".

Truean

  • Bay Watcher
  • Ok.... [sigh] It froze over....
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8345 on: December 15, 2011, 01:32:47 am »

Meh, real simple. Whether or not autism is a disorder, that doesn't mean you dehumanize the people with whatever it is. Don't treat the person as a disease; treat the symptoms that negatively affect their lives. Medicine, of any kind, should be focused on that. To  the extent that it doesn't, it isn't medicine and it isn't help. In any case, most people in general, do some amazingly foolish things....

I fail to see what "treating autism as a disease," in and of itself accomplishes. It's such a wide range of things, which a person may or may not exhibit at varying levels, that we might actually be describing several different things that we've just decided to clump into one label. People with "Autism" sometimes have trouble socializing. If this is an issue, then treat that. I've seen autistic children self stim with inappropriate behaviors, treat that. I've also seen repetitive, maladaptive behaviors, again treat that.... Unfortunately, instead of treating to make the person's life better, we often just stigmatize them; in common language, most people think "autistic" is the new word for "mentally slow." It isn't.

The thing is how it affects the person's life, high or low functioning. I find it a lot like the trans or gay thing really. There are some transsexuals, who truly need therapy, because how the hell do you deal with that.... I know I needed it (still do?). Having/being the thing itself sometimes causes problems for the person in their everyday life and those problems are partially due to the environment and people around said person. Sadly, we have a major stigma against ... really any kind of difference someone might have. Heaven forbid it's a mental issue.... That stigma, is quite worthless most of the time. Oftentimes, the "help" just hurts....

Fact of the matter is, most "normal people" are pretty nuts and this almost certainly includes me along with everyone else. I could write one hell of a book with the insanely foolish mistakes "normal people" have made and expect me to fix for nothing and quickly....

Summation: "People are people too," "treat to make life better," "stigma bad," "we don't really even know if "autism" is one thing or many different things that we're too lazy to properly identify as more than "high" or "low" functioning, "'normal people' aren't that great."
« Last Edit: December 15, 2011, 01:40:12 am by Truean »
Logged
The kinda human wreckage that you love

Current Spare Time Fiction Project: (C) 2010 http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63660.0
Disclaimer: I never take cases online for ethical reasons. If you require an attorney; you need to find one licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Never take anything online as legal advice, because each case is different and one size does not fit all. Wants nothing at all to do with law.

Please don't quote me.

Gunner-Chan

  • Bay Watcher
  • << IT'S TIME >>
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8346 on: December 15, 2011, 01:33:09 am »

Vector. Why are you treating Autistics and non autistics both potentially having pathological traits as binary? When this this become a personal attack on you like you're treating it as and not simply a discussion that some Autistics have pathological traits? Much like otherwise neurotypical people?
Logged
Diamonds are combustable, because they are made of Carbon.

G-Flex

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8347 on: December 15, 2011, 01:37:21 am »

Okay, then you've got to admit that calling neurotypicals "not pathological" is also foolish, because there's extreme cases of your dominant traits going awry, as well.

Sure, and those things either should be in the DSM, or already are.
Logged
There are 2 types of people in the world: Those who understand hexadecimal, and those who don't.
Visit the #Bay12Games IRC channel on NewNet
== Human Renovation: My Deus Ex mod/fan patch (v1.30, updated 5/31/2012) ==

Bauglir

  • Bay Watcher
  • Let us make Good
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8348 on: December 15, 2011, 01:40:33 am »

I'm gonna repeat myself here. I'm not seeing anything but reasons why "Autism is bad" is a statement with equivalent accuracy to "Bacteria are bad", no disrespect intended (it occurs to me now that it might come off as kinda rude to compare people to bacteria, but I don't intend to convey a sense of worth in the analogy, just a sense of the broadness of the statements in question).

I'd have to agree that "Neurotypicality is good" is a statement of equivalent validity to "Plants are good", to continue this analogy of arbitrarily assigning health values to concepts too broad to accept them. I guess I should make clear, just in case it wasn't already, that it's limited to health value to some arbitrary animal, since I don't want to start any arguments over the relative merits of complexity or relative biomass or organism counts or whatever other metrics of "goodness" might be brought up to cloud matters.

Okay, then you've got to admit that calling neurotypicals "not pathological" is also foolish, because there's extreme cases of your dominant traits going awry, as well.

Sure, and those things either should be in the DSM, or already are.
Are they listed under "Neurotypicality Disorders", or a similar category? The actual name doesn't matter so much to me as the association with extreme forms of "normal" behavior.
Logged
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

Vector

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8349 on: December 15, 2011, 01:42:41 am »

Vector. Why are you treating Autistics and non autistics both potentially having pathological traits as binary? When this this become a personal attack on you like you're treating it as and not simply a discussion that some Autistics have pathological traits? Much like otherwise neurotypical people?

Sorry.  It's partially that I'm too wound up over trying to deal with this class, which I can hardly tell anyone IRL about, and it's partially that I'm tired of butting heads with G-Flex over this one issue of "why I'm not calling the entire spectrum pathological because some members have particular problems/why I have problems with autistic organizations attempting to 'cure' autism when there are a number of cases that are really bad."

I'm kind of freaking out right now because I'm trying so hard to do something that isn't working so well and is very scary, which means that I probably shouldn't be on the web.  But I'm here... at least for a little bit, as I snack around.
Logged
"The question of the usefulness of poetry arises only in periods of its decline, while in periods of its flowering, no one doubts its total uselessness." - Boris Pasternak

nonbinary/genderfluid/genderqueer renegade mathematician and mafia subforum limpet. please avoid quoting me.

pronouns: prefer neutral ones, others are fine. height: 5'3".

Gunner-Chan

  • Bay Watcher
  • << IT'S TIME >>
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8350 on: December 15, 2011, 01:45:53 am »

But that doesn't change the fact that if you know you shouldn't be getting involved with these sorts of discussions at the moment you probably well. Shouldn't. Do something that's not going to keep you wound up instead since between putting words in G-Flexes mouth and lashing out like some kind of wounded animal, you're making yourself look like a damn fool.
Logged
Diamonds are combustable, because they are made of Carbon.

Vector

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8351 on: December 15, 2011, 01:46:25 am »

Well, now I know, don't I?


In an attempt to move the conversation somewhere a bit less volatile on the same subject, I'd like to offer the DSM V's proposed diagnosis criteria.  What do y'all think?  I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about it.
« Last Edit: December 15, 2011, 01:58:19 am by Vector »
Logged
"The question of the usefulness of poetry arises only in periods of its decline, while in periods of its flowering, no one doubts its total uselessness." - Boris Pasternak

nonbinary/genderfluid/genderqueer renegade mathematician and mafia subforum limpet. please avoid quoting me.

pronouns: prefer neutral ones, others are fine. height: 5'3".

Truean

  • Bay Watcher
  • Ok.... [sigh] It froze over....
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8352 on: December 15, 2011, 02:05:16 am »

[hugs]

I don't really know what words to say to make Vector feel better, but let's pretend I said them. Odds are, this professor will continue to think as they do. The only question is, are they also going to manage to piss you off too. I used to really care if people were wrong. Then I realized their ignorance is bliss and they just want to be happy. By disturbing that ignorance, they think I"m making them unhappy and attempt to do the same to me. My usual response now, is "Good luck with that," followed by ignoring them.

People often don't seem to want to be accepting of others, especially GLBT. They don't want to know things.

Don't let them burn you out and waste your life.

In re DSM V Stuff:

In that case I was totally autistic as a kid. Honestly if that's the criteria alone.... So, if you have trouble socializing, some repetitive behaviors, and "odd" interest, that's it?
« Last Edit: December 15, 2011, 02:10:37 am by Truean »
Logged
The kinda human wreckage that you love

Current Spare Time Fiction Project: (C) 2010 http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63660.0
Disclaimer: I never take cases online for ethical reasons. If you require an attorney; you need to find one licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Never take anything online as legal advice, because each case is different and one size does not fit all. Wants nothing at all to do with law.

Please don't quote me.

G-Flex

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8353 on: December 15, 2011, 02:12:01 am »

But that doesn't change the fact that if you know you shouldn't be getting involved with these sorts of discussions at the moment you probably well. Shouldn't. Do something that's not going to keep you wound up instead since between putting words in G-Flexes mouth and lashing out like some kind of wounded animal, you're making yourself look like a damn fool.

Don't worry. I'm used to not being the one to get any sympathy.
Logged
There are 2 types of people in the world: Those who understand hexadecimal, and those who don't.
Visit the #Bay12Games IRC channel on NewNet
== Human Renovation: My Deus Ex mod/fan patch (v1.30, updated 5/31/2012) ==

Frumple

  • Bay Watcher
  • The Prettiest Kyuuki
    • View Profile
Re: Chill and Relaxed Progressive Irritation and Annoyance Thread
« Reply #8354 on: December 15, 2011, 02:35:16 am »

In an attempt to move the conversation somewhere a bit less volatile on the same subject, I'd like to offer the DSM V's proposed diagnosis criteria.  What do y'all think?  I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about it.
S'kinda' weird lookin', to me, especially how C factors in. What about when the "symptoms" are picked up later in life but don't really fit that 'manifest' thing?

I had learned pretty much all of A by the time I hit double-digit years, due to a sort of passively hostile environment (It was either pick up the behavior patterns or pick up broken bones... or possibly murder charges. Except the eye contact thing. That's always been around, gives me a headache via information overload.), and I trained myself up to B4 (Hypersensitivity in particular, though I guess a fairly low key example.) during the early teens (Middling meditation mixed with mild paranoia, heh. Some days I have trouble seeing how other people can be so unobservant of their surroundings.).

Mostly though, I'm curious as to what the impact would be. Howzat different, other than a bit more pleasingly formatted and (possibly, if I'm reading the orig right) a little looser in what'd qualify?
Logged
Ask not!
What your country can hump for you.
Ask!
What you can hump for your country.
Pages: 1 ... 555 556 [557] 558 559 ... 852