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AmericanPie
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 Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:35 am Post subject: |
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"i demand you take me seriously as an academic"
Mr Appleseed didn't set out to make a fortune, didn't surround himself with apple-stealers, weirdoes, and freaks - plaster his family all over the MA Examiner - he just got on with it, without expectation of reward or thanks.
Attwood is clearly an intelligent and capable man. Perhaps he just needs some PR advice. Like stop being a SlimeyLimey. Loose the tan, definitely loose the shirt and loose the hangers-on.
Go back to being a full time psychologist, researcher and academic. Not a crap-superstar. |
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sinsboldly
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| AmericanPie wrote: |
Mr Appleseed didn't set out to make a fortune, didn't surround himself with apple-stealers, weirdoes, and freaks - plaster his family all over the MA Examiner - he just got on with it, without expectation of reward or thanks. |
perhaps you missed the part where he made his living as a nursery man and bartered his apple trees to the settlers. He didn't give them away, he wasn't a saint, he was a human being and retired a wealthy man. In the States, that is legal. It is part of the entrepreneurial spirit of opening a new land. At the time, living in harmony with the native dwellers already living there (the 'Indian') would have been just as reviled by his contemporaries.
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AmericanPie
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Merle, are you calling me a weirdo?
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sinsboldly
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| AmericanPie wrote: | Merle, are you calling me a weirdo?
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 no, dear, I am not. I am sure as an autistic you have been called much, much more, but not by me.
Merle
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AmericanPie
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Merle, I forgot the [light-hearted-rejoinder] tags to take the heat out...
i'm not a weirdo, i just look like one.
and yes, i have been called worse, but not because i have aspergers
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westernwild
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| jelibean wrote: | Hello, yes am still here  Never went anywhere!
Please don't DEMAND answers from anyone. I am merely observing that's all  |
LOL. YOU were the one "demanding answers", in emotional, hysterical capital letters no less, from anyone who dared to question your God Atwood. Yet no one has the right to question YOU, apparently. Nice little hypocrisy you got going there.
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EvilZak
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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I think it's great that this issue is being argued so passionately - after all, it's quite an important situation, and one that has quite a lot of ramifications for the way autistic groups interact with professionals in the future.
That said, there's a line when passionate argument just becomes a flame war - trivializing the issue into nothing more than a series of personal grudges. This thread is starting to tread dangerously close to that line.
As passionate as I am about the issue, there are good arguments on both sides that need to be explored - if for no other reason than to address all doubt.
So if you're at all serious about this issue, then please - don't make it personal. |
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sinsboldly
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| AmericanPie wrote: | Merle, I forgot the [light-hearted-rejoinder] tags to take the heat out...
i'm not a weirdo, i just look like one.
and yes, i have been called worse, but not because i have aspergers
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me neither! I have plenty more than my AS to keep people making fun of me
but now I am curious, what was the pic that now has the big red X on it?
Merle
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AmericanPie
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oh the pic...
it's from a sheriff's website in FL.
sheriff's website
probably the scariest guy I've ever seen...
but the pictures change everyday... and he's happily locked up for somekind of nasty-ness thank G-d. |
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CrabRaptor
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Petitions are useless. I've seen all of them fail, and petitions are just the worst way to go about things. If you want to do something, CONFRONT.
Making an online petition will be scoffed at and just made fun of. |
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EvilZak
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| CrabRaptor wrote: | Petitions are useless. I've seen all of them fail, and petitions are just the worst way to go about things. If you want to do something, CONFRONT.
Making an online petition will be scoffed at and just made fun of. |
I completely agree - the petition on its own wouldn't do very much, if anything.
Fortunately it's backed up by enough offline actions to make it effective - the direct approach is much more effective when you can prove you have the numbers to back it up... |
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