There’s a distinct difference between stating an actual fact versus bullying someone by speaking in a negative context about an aspect of their person that may or may not be a fact.
This thread isn’t about criticism. Calling someone “Autistic” as an insult isn’t a criticism. Blaming someone’s mistakes on being Autistic isn’t a criticism either, it’s derogatory. Chances are the people saying this don’t actually know any Autistic people or they wouldn’t use it as an insult.
What it boils down to is a severe lack of respect for other players and other people in general. I used to think people could be convinced, that empathy could be learned… I still hold hope every once in a while… but mostly I just turn off all public channels and report and mute people who cross the line. I have neither the time nor the patience to be everyone’s mother and teach them how to play nice and respect others.
Over 99% of cases of obesity are due to overeating. So yeah, before you try to scream “BUT MUH THYROID!” you should really think about “BUT MUH 6 SLICES OF PIZZA AND 2 SLICES OF CAKE FOR DINNER!” Try having baked chicken breast and steamed vegetables with no sauce. This is a normal meal. Your 3 McDoubles are not.
People need to get their weight in check. It’s a personal responsibility that obese people are choosing to ignore. It causes the entire nation undue strain on our healthcare systems and raises the costs for healthy people and people with ACTUAL UNAVOIDABLE AILMENTS (like autism)
Over 85% of statistics are made up. Please link a source to back up this claim, as the number you quoted seems extremely unlikely. I doubt 99 out of 100 people will be obese simply because of “overeating”.
Increased energy intake alone virtually explains all the
increase in body weight in the United States from the
1970s to the 2000s
Swinburn, B.A.1; Sacks, G.1; Ravussin, E.21
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia2
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
-17th European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2009) 1/ 52
Again, need a statistic, not an ambiguous phrase like “virtually all”.
“Virtually all” is not a number, and skips a whole mess of other variables in regards to what constitutes as overeating. Since you can eat a ton of food and still not gain a pound, so long as you are using all the energy of said food working out.
Your argument is extremely generalized and misses the mark entirely. You can change that to “99% of obesity is because people dont work out” or “99% of obesity is because people don’t eat healthier”
None of these are wrong, but none of these are true.
Did you read the research documents? That was only the title. It literally states the numbers that contributed to my figure of over 99%.
Edit: It also explicitly states that there has not been a significant increase in energy output.
There have been no major shifts in genetics or new disorders within the last hundred years that are causing the obesity epidemic. It’s literally people eating too many and too much calorie-dense foods. Trying to argue against empirical data is asinine.
This has gone kind of off topic. Sorry to distract from the discussion.
I personalIy find this insult humerous. People get offended over anything in 2019. Better to just ignore those who can find a comedical laugh these days
Autism is a condition your born with. Something you have to live with for the rest of your life.
Chopping down on 10000 boxes of greasy pizza in a year does nothing to add or subtract from it only thing it will do is clog your arteries and make you have a heart attack or stroke and make you gain 300 pounds.
Right, that was my point. This was a long chain of exchanges beginning early on in the post here
Basically my point was that obesity should be called out, as it’s a correctable condition. Autism is nothing to be ashamed about. You can’t fix it by eating less cake.
You can take medicine and such but you will always have Autism. There is no cure otherwise the doctors office will be full 24/7 for 100 years asking for a cure right now.
Sounds like bad parenting to me. Equip your child to deal with adversity, because the reality is that people are never going to be nice all the time. Especially with internet anonymity. Teach them that not everything is personal, because it’s really not. If someone can’t see you are autistic or have Aspergers, why would you feel they are directing a comment at you? If your child is too young for that, then the real question is why are you allowing him access to unfiltered interaction with others? The console gaming crowd for Christ’s sake? I’ll say it again, bad parenting.
It’s easy: don’t use autism as an insult, because there’s nothing wrong with having autism. There’s a million other ways out there to insult someone, why do you have to pick a disability to do it?
And ah yes of course, it’s bad parenting if someone insults me for the crime of being born with autism and not being able to do anything to change it. If only my parents had insulted me more to toughen me up to get used to people being huge jerks to me so I can just “deal with it” instead of standing up for myself.
That is easy for you to say when you presumably aren’t a person affected by the problem. It goes far beyond personal hurt. Making derogatory statements about broad groups of people based on intrinsic and unchangeable aspects of their being perpetuates social stigmatization and results in ostracization and discrimination both in games and in real life.
I’ve encountered people who’ve openly said they won’t group up with me because I’m a woman and autistic and they would kick such individuals from their groups. It’s not just that it’s an insult, it’s a degradation of the affected individual’s ability to group up with others, to socialize and cooperate, and to gain skills and experience.
Your quote of Tyrion Lannister is appropriate, but you clearly don’t understand its meaning. What you seem to suggest is that we should just accept that people are going to use words that describe us as inappropriate insults. That’s not what that quote is about. That is not rising above, that is giving up. I’m not giving up.
The idea of rising above… this is how we rise above, by confronting the misuse of terms that describe us and misconceptions about us. By confronting the notion that what differentiates us from “normal people” somehow makes us incompetent and unworthy of respect.
I was called “Freak” in school and I wore it like armor. I didn’t let it hurt me personally or emotionally, but it still hurt me socially. That’s the bigger problem. The only way to solve such a problem is to confront it, to challenge it head-on.
Don’t confuse these objections as being “soft-skinned”. Objecting is how we challenge things that are wrong. If you think that to object to and challenge the inappropriate behaviors of others makes me a fragile snowflake then you should remember, “Winter is coming.”
