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Re:I Gave My Child Autism by bsder on Sunday March 22, 2015 @04:02AM (#9245999)
> I don't understand this. Shouldn't the behavior be constant?

Spoken like a programmer. Adults aren't even consistent. Ever seen a woman going completely apeshit at a male for some reason (sometime justified, sometimes not)?

Biological organisms have significant variations. Sometimes you get an angel; sometimes you get a devil; sometimes both.

In the past, resources were sufficiently scarce that children (and adults) who weren't capable of fitting into society were killed or allowed to die.

Re:I Gave My Child Autism by needacig on Sunday March 22, 2015 @08:28PM (#9248835)
> Ever seen a woman going completely apeshit at a male for some reason (sometime justified, sometimes not)?

Why would you use that example?

Re:I Gave My Child Autism by bsder on Monday March 23, 2015 @01:57AM (#9249656)
I needed an example of an adult giving an emotionally based, uncontrolled outburst.

I have easily seen a dozen or more incidents of women doing this in public. I have only ever once seen a man do this.

I suspect the imbalance is because men prone to this behavior resort to violence privately. Strangers will step in to help a woman but not a man.

Re:I Gave My Child Autism by needacig on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @03:43PM (#9265427)
I've never seen a woman do this so I suspect this is just your stereotype-based expectations biasing your interpretations. Peoples' memory of events are notoriously unreliable and extremely susceptible to the power of suggestion, like the suggestion that women are more prone to emotional outbursts, which is an age-old trope. http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2012/mar...