Autism is a real disorder!

Did I mention I also suffer from anxiety? Like, there are days it can get so bad, I'm tempted to call in sick and not show up for work? It's one reason I'm a huge advocate for animal therapy.

what's happening here on gbablog? Isaac's closing blogs after i responded to 2 of them.... is Isaac going to close this one too?

This one is being civil and isn't a violation of any rules. It's fine.

for one 1 min i think my comment was cursed lol

not sure if I have autism but I have a lot of trouble getting ideas across sometimes (verbally) so I'm starting to question it.

Same here, technically speaking I'm Autistic, but it's so mild that it really just boils down to crippling social anxiety :/. I don't really get upset when people use it as an insult though, partially because I understand that the people who do use it as an insult don't really understand what Autism even is.

if you know that being autistic isn't all that bad for you personally, but your able to easily identify the socially negative traits that are common amongst people with autism, then you shouldn't have an issue with people using it, as long as they don't actually express any undeserved/callous/ignorant negativity towards people who truly suffer from autism, but then again lets be honest autism is being watered down down to mean anyone with any form of social anxiety.

think of it this way, do you think a cripple should be upset if you say to someone refusing to stand up "stop acting like a cripple"......sure you might say its insensitive but I would personally love to believe that most actual cripple's could easily see why that statement is being made, and while they may be a cripple for reals they hopefully wouldn't expect nobody to ever imply that being a cripple is anything other than a tragic tragic unfunny thing that must only ever be talked about in very clinical matter of fact ways

I honestly think there is a lot to be said about growing thicker skin and learning to have a bit of humility, words cannot hurt you, and if the observational insult is indeed true i.e autistic people act "awkward" at times and cripples cant walk, then maybe you could accept that while using your personal ailment as an insult might be a bit insensitive, you could look at the silver lining in the sense that people are aware that the ailment exists and understand its implications, me criticizing a person who can walk for refusing to walk and comparing it to a situation where a person has no such choice is not the same as insulting someone who cant walk for not walking

and don't get me wrong, I can totally sympathize with people truly suffering from actual autism, but i am also in the belief that people need to learn to deal with insults, rude remarks, unfair presumptions, if we don't everyone will end up hypersensitive bags of nerves who have a mental breakdown at the very though of someone calling them a mean name which already seems to be happening in some communities

and as i have shared on here in the past i have dealt closely with people with many forms of autism, and know they can be really great people, and are often very intelligent in some aspects, I'm simply saying that becoming upset and angry over something that most people know is #notall but being able to see how and why that is said and seeing that even when people use it as an insult, virtually nobody would truly treat someone who is truly autistic badly for their disability,