/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>8587536

But Eirin, these eybrows make you look like a very cute dude!

But then how will I get money from the government?

As long as you don't go public about it, you should be fine.

>>8587536
How?

Lol @ dumb normalfags thinking that introversion and disorders like depression and social anxiety are autism.

>>8587576
Do you truly think there are not actual autists on /jp/?

>>8587580
Actual autists dont know how to use computers because they are so fucking stupid

>>8587594
But that's wrong.

>>8587594
Ones on the high functioning side of the spectrum (more akin to assbugers than rainman) are more annoying than stupid, which is what I assume our resident autist population consists mostly of.

>>8587617
No

W-...With pedophilia?

>>8587594
I know someone who is has Asperger's Syndrome. He's capable of doing everything on his own, he isn't annoying, and he even has a job, and he gets praised in his job for his high performance (although it's a simple job, but he's [internally] enthusiastic about it). His only main defects are that he has huge difficulty learning complex things without assistance, because his mind can't dig new things without being able to make them 100% structured; and that he is always afraid of being seen as "weird" which makes him never approach girls.

So I assume the main difference between people with AS and us non-autists is a genetically caused, extreme case of ambiguity intolerance. If, unlike the one I know, they weren't assisted in their childhood until they're able to depend on themselves, they turn all emo and annoying.

You know, when I put it this way, it's sort of your (the people around them's) fault that they turned like that. It's like you had people born with broken legs, you never bothered doing anything about it, and now you're whining why they can't walk.

MEDIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>8587580
The spammers.

>>8587696
My last paragraph was directed at >>8587620-san.

>>8587594
This guy is trolling and/or a moron, but 75% of children with autistic disorder function at a retarded level. I very much doubt anyone here has autistic disorder, but I would imagine there are quite a few people with Asperger's disorder. I myself am on a waiting list to be properly checked and diagnosed for it.

By 2014 the distinction between Asperger's disorder and autistic disorder should not matter so much as they are being grouped together as "autism spectrum disorder" in DSM-5.

>>8587718
The spammers are probably stupid and young newfags who are still young enough to think that spamming is something fun, new and novel. That, or they are heavily butthurt dopes and they find it shallowly rewarding when they "ruin it for everyone" who've been making them feel butthurt.

>>8587738
You mad, etc.

I was about to type that with ironic smilies and such, but even that gets old. I get that we keep getting new users, but you'd think they would prefer on-topic conversation to spamming and ruining things.

>>8587751
I didn't mean that newcomers are the ones who ruin things. I meant dumb teenagers who discovered the internet and spamming yesterday and think that spamming is awesome. (I personally know some of them.) They aren't -all- teenagers, but a proportion of them. That, or spam comes in planned "raids" by people who want to ruin things.

Also, I wasn't expressing a frustration; I was just correcting someone's misconception.

If you ask me, I never respond to spamming and trolling. 1. I never get irritated enough to bother with them, and 2. I know that responding to them is rewarding them by teaching them that spamming and/or trolling are effective ways of getting what they want. We wouldn't want that to happen, you know.

Also, I have nothing fundamental against smilies. I tend to avoid them though.


Now if you excuse me. Posted enough in an off-topic thread that turned meta.

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Wilhelm Reich and Ronald Laing were among the few conventionally
trained psychologists who recognised that human society is insane and
that what mainstream psychology classifies as neurosis or addiction is
in fact a healthy response from a sane organism to the stress of being
required to live in an insane civilisation while pretending it's not
an insane civilisation.
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Autism: Doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results

Eirin, you can cure my autism by peeling off your sticky socks and planting your feet riiiiight on my face!

>>8588081
but that's totally what playing Touhou is

>>8588110

>>8587536
Does sucking your breast milk will cure my autism, Eirin:

high functioning autism =/= assburgers you morons

also, it's called "autism spectrum disorder" for a reason

that reason being it's many related neurological disorders, not a single one

don't lump one autistic with another, it doesn't work like that

>>8588130

autismic dweeb detected

People with asperger's are the posters on /jp/ that translate things and despise off-topic posting because it's not orderly or allowed. The few times they do post it is with perfect spelling/grammar and almost sounds robotic.

Everybody else is just anxious and depressed.

please..

>>8588200
ZUN look suits you, Reimu.

>>8588130
> high functioning autism =/= assburgers you morons
High functioning autism isn't a proper term. It's just the informal idea that some people with an autism spectrum disorder function at a "higher level". Even this term is ambiguous, since some people take "higher functioning" to mean "not mentally retarded" and some people take it to mean "can have a normal conversation" or similar. It's worth noting that most people with autistic disorder function at a retarded level.

> also, it's called "autism spectrum disorder" for a reason
It isn't. Not yet. The change is to be brought about in DSM-5 which should be published next year.

(continued)

> that reason being it's many related neurological disorders, not a single one
The point of the revision is not to say there is only one kind of autism or that all autistic people are the same. The problem was that the distinctions between different autism spectrum disorders were vague and had a lot of overlap. However they did have a lot of common features, so the decision was made to fall back a little and create a category called "autism spectrum disorder" whose only member is "autism spectrum disorder". And it is its own category, which is rather unique:
http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevision/Pages/NeurodevelopmentalDisorders.aspx

> don't lump one autistic with another, it doesn't work like that
It does in a way. All of the current autism spectrum disorders share common features and are difficult to distinguish, which is why a category that encompasses them all was created. Consider depression: there are over 10 depressive disorders, but they all have a depressed mood in common. Fortunately we know a lot more about the different types of depression, so we can divide them and diagnose them beyond simply saying, "This patient has depression." There was a time when this was the case, and this is the case with autism spectrum disorders now.

>>8588307
>>8588312
Thanks, anon. That made some question marks disappear.

>>8588312
>It does in a way. All of the current autism spectrum disorders share common features and are difficult to distinguish, which is why a category that encompasses them all was created.
I remember being diagnosed with PDD-NOS. The doc told me there wasn't any local support groups, but that I should consider joining the asperger's support group because they're pretty much the same thing.