Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines

Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines by prepend on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:10PM (#18284630)

“Actually, it is not "their nature". The nature of people on the spectrum is to have difficulty understanding social conventions.”

Holy moly, please don’t tell me what I do and don’t have difficulty understanding. Even if you were a clinical psychologist, it’s a spectrum and throwing out what entire populations do or do not understand is so weird, I’m not sure what point it serves.

Even if I was the elected spokesperson of this population in the world, I’m not sure I’d have the authority to issue such a nebulous statement.

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Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines by flomble on Saturday October 27, 2018 @08:35AM (#18315457)

I apologise for the generalisation. That was too broadly and absolutely worded. But I would stand by the idea that "people on the spectrum are more likely to have difficulty intuitively learning social conventions".

Is that still a nebulous statement?

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