Response to Scott on Autism
Response to Scott on Autism
Post: #4 PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2011 10:24 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List Report Post
There are other types of learning difficulties other than those commonly titled autism.
In fact, I think if one claimed that autism necessarily entailed learning difficulty that then one is actually the one guilty of negatively judging--particularly in the case of high-functioning autistic people. If it was my child, for an anecdotal instance, I'd rather say, "He is autistic," then say, "he has difficulty learning." To me, the latter sounds more like calling someone stupid, whereas many autistic people are smarter in many ways then most non-autistic people.
On another note, I would consider any sort of advocacy for abandoning a denotationally accurate term for a group of people on the grounds that the term is allegedly a pejorative for which there is an allegedly less offensive and at least as equally accurate term--e.g. calling a person 'African-American' as opposed to 'black' or calling a person 'elderly' instead of 'old' or a 'senior citizen' instead of 'elderly'--to be misplaced unless backed by the actual opinions of the people in question. Where two terms essentially denote the same thing and are understand about equally offensiveness aside, then of course let's use the one that the person/group to which we referring prefers. This is as commonsense as calling someone named Richard, Ricky if he prefers that and is annoyed by being called Richard, or calling him Dick if that's his preference but calling him Dick if he doesn't like that.
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I'm not aware of any phenomenom called autism. To say that someone is autistic is to regard them as a clinical mishap.
Autism doesn't denote, so I don't see how it could be "accurate".
To call someone by their name is to acknowledge them as a person. To call someone autistic is to acknowedge them as, at best, a patient without a bona fide identity.
We do not acknowledge each other by naming the physical structure of brains or by what the doctor thinks.
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You mean... you want to be referred to by the structures in your brain and by what the doctor says about you, because it is the truth? So how are you today, 10 to the power 8.42 dendrites of the SP2 limbic variation with anxiety dysfunctional condition DSMIV?The guy.... wrote:What is there to LEARN, if not the TRUTH?
If what you learn is NOT TRUE, that how can you say that you have learned anything at all?
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"X" is TRUE, therefore "X" is or maybe FALSE..
We are all irrational, which is to say
“WE DON'T ALWAYS CHOOSE TO ACT ACCORDING TO OUR OWN OPINIONS OF HOW WE OUGHT TO ACT.”
This is NOT what hypocrisy truly is, this is simply stupidity and weakness, it is “lack of rationality”
There is a difference between “not acting wisely”, and “not knowing what is wise”.. and further there is also simply being WRONG about what is WISE..
Hypocrisy is presuming to be WISE, when in fact you are utterly FOOLISH, irrelevant of the way you choose to act....
One does not need to act, in order to have foolish beliefs..
They can in fact, act contray to their foolish beliefs, and for them, this would be “lack of rationality”
They have failed to act according to their own opinion of how they ought to act..
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