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_BRI_
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| Spokane_Girl wrote: | | _BRI_ wrote: | I am not sensitive about it, I talk my reality... I wish that they would read my age in the avatar and say: hey that's what a 30y old thinks about that...
I don't know... Our personal realities can be a very possitive and constructive perspective. |
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That's because I know my age HAHAHAHAHA |
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archdude
Snowy Owl
Joined: Dec 03, 2007
Age: 40
Posts: 172
Location: Southeasten Pennsylvania
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| _BRI_ wrote: | | Spokane_Girl wrote: | | _BRI_ wrote: | I am not sensitive about it, I talk my reality... I wish that they would read my age in the avatar and say: hey that's what a 30y old thinks about that...
I don't know... Our personal realities can be a very possitive and constructive perspective. |
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That's because I know my age HAHAHAHAHA |
If this makes sense to someone please explain it to me. |
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Jayman
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Joined: May 26, 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| Getting back on topic. I am 14.0, but quite frankly have a higher mental age than a lot of adult members here. My mental age being 19.42. I don't believe that autistic children especially will respond the same way to things like profanity and sexual topics. I am not the kind of stupid child that hears a profane word and immediately runs to an adult and says "F**k you!" or something as many NT children would do. Also, just because I see guns in a movie doesn't mean I am going to run and buy a gun off the street and go on a rampage. That's why I hate the American rating system. It is the worst in the world and overrates everything significantly compared to Europe, the rest of North America and Asia. Rating systems should be entirely based on mental age. Just because I have the body of a 14 year old doesn't mean I have the emotional maturity of an 18 year old or so. |
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mysterious_misfit
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Joined: Apr 25, 2008
Age: 28
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:51 am Post subject: |
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| I let my 4yo use whatever language he wants. I coach him on when and where and to whom certain words are/ are not appropriate and why. He swears sometimes at home when he is playing by himself, making his action figures fight each other. I've never heard him swear in any other setting. He's a smart kid. |
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Followthereaper90
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Age: 19
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Location: finland
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:55 am Post subject: |
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 sorry but i can image that totally "there u got u "#¤%"#¤#"%#
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MissConstrue
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:04 am Post subject: |
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Yeah I try to but I find kids saying the darnest things and then finding them growing within days or so to 18 and above for strange reasons I can't comprehend. 
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zeldapsychology
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Age: 23
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Location: Florida
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:26 am Post subject: |
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I try to be appropiate and have only asked one "adult" question which was on the adult forum here of WP otherwise everything's good.  |
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DevonB
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Joined: Mar 14, 2008
Age: 41
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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Fact is, I find that you can express yourself perfectly well without using vulgar words. I don't think it's necessary here to use profanity. Yes, the occasional judicious use can be seen as warranted, but frankly...why use it?
I have kids, and I don't swear much around them at all. At work I don't bother, it isn't very professional (however, many of my co-workers feel every second sentence needs to be peppered with it). When alone with my partner it happens.
I don't think WP is really a forum for younger people. I understand that they are here, and do contribute, but one the the reasons I initially joined was due to the high adult content and contexts. I am 40, and I want to discuss things with other adults. We have issues they don't have, and can't relate to.
Just my opinion. Maybe a separate site for them would be a good idea. |
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Norah_W
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Joined: Apr 30, 2007
Posts: 326
Location: Seattle, WA
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Regarding the statement someone made about parents should have at least some responsibility of monitoring what their kids watch or read:
It's not just Aspies who feel this way, as was implied on one post. It's not just a matter of Aspies lacking empathy/theory of mind, and putting ourselves and our wants/needs before others. It's not that cut-and-dried, because Aspies are not the only people who make comments like this.
This is a very popular debate whenever entertainment and media are discussed. And it's by no means a black-and-white issue. there are also many other sites who have people of various ages posting who have this dilemma, and usuually there are some kind of "Adult Issues" folders, or forums tagged as being for adults only. Which of course nothing could stop kids from getting into if they wanted to and no one was looking, even if their parents were very responsible and monitored them most times!
I'll use as an example a newspaper comic strip that this week had a 20-year-old male firefighter's house burning down. He was offered a choice of living quarters that his mom told him he had to turn down. (I'm being very vague here so as not to offend anyone or give any kids the wrong idea, though you can probably tell what I'm trying to say.)
I frequent a site that snarks comic strips, and may people are calling the 20-year-old firefighter a wimp for giving in to his mom and not doing what he really wanted to do (and probably what many 20 year old men would do in the same situation!), and saying that the comic strip writer was being unrealistic, etc. But the comic strip writer no doubt wrote the strip that way because it's considered a family strip that is read by teenagers (don't know if this is really true, but that's what the strip is supposed to be.) Probably the comic strip writer felt a responsibility to give a good example to teenagers, and no doubt also was afraid of the strip being dropped by some newspapers if he went with what was the more likely choice, no matter how unrealistic it might be in many cases.
But what does that say about the snarkers who commented that the strip should have been written with the opposite conclusion? I'm sure there are an Aspie or two among them, but probably a lot of them are NT's, yet they're going ahead and saying something should be the way they want it even if it might set a bad example to kids (most of whom have probably heard of people in the situation anyway).
I guess I'm saying, it's not just Aspies who feel this way, or entertainment would never be the way it is now, and most TV shows and movies would be like they were in the 1950's!
Anyway, I probably have got off topic here--sorry if I've offended anyone. |
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