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I started to get livid at the notion that we aspies are all part dolphin, but then someone tossed me a fish, and I calmed down.

I'll just put some more snuff down the blowhole in the top of my head and ponder the issue some more, and get back to you all.

These notions are too dumb to be offensive.

The people promoting them dont seem to be hatemongerers. Just flakes- some of whom might even be autistic themselves and may actually be autism-supremicists

You might say that 'down the road' such ideas might become dangerous because the idea could be used by hatemongerers against the autistic.

But hatemongerers dont need that sort of thing to monger hatred.

They will latch on to the conventional idea that autistics are just people wired differently as an excuse for hatred just as easily.

None of both, it simply makes me laugh. XD

Good point about the autistic-supremacists, and that is indeed a group of people who can come to the same ideas, because they believe normal doctors cannot truly understand them, and therefore they do not believe the current explanations and theories on autism in psychological research, thus venturing in the unexplained using their imagination.

I think it is still important however to make yourself aware of what the negative effects of certain idiotic ideas can be, and even if only 1 autistic person amongst the billions of people on this earth would be negatively affected by such a theory, then that still would be one person too many in my book.

I'd say the theories presented would sooner be used as material fueling teenagers who bully kids with autism, rather than actually filling a person with such hatred that they would physically harm a person with autism ( but I cannot exclude this event as such a person could exist).

There will be plenty of different intentions behind the creation of these theories:

- Autistic people searching for a reason why they are autistic.
- Non autistic people trying to explain why autistic people are autistic.
- People attempting to ridicule the existence of disorders by using autism since it is a popular topic.

And many other reasons that I may not even be able to think of.

We don't have to live in fear because these theories exist, but we should be aware that there is the possibility that they could be used out of context, in regards to what the authors true intentions were, but sadly that counts for almost any written theory about anything, just because it seems unlikely that someone would use a theory for a certain purpose, doesn't mean they never will use it for that purpose.

Maybe I'm a bit too analytical sometimes(not that I can or want to stop that ), but I can still laugh at the theories as well, must be the dolphin genes talking, but who knows I'm not a scientist.

I find this to be the craziest unbelievable theory ever.

I would say it is patrionizing. I recently ran into one of these new-agey types. She was trying to convince me that I was a star person. The woman was actually annoyed when I rejected her ideas..

Wrong planet, aliens, star people, that's a lot of talk about space.

I think it's funny.

That is hilarious, especially since dolphins are my favorite animals! Cute!

I find it a bit scary actually.