Comments on: Bernie Rimland is dead. https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/bernie-rimland-is-dead/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:40:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: drhope https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/bernie-rimland-is-dead/#comment-14384 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:40:52 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=243#comment-14384 God Bless Dr Rimlin. He had courage to look into the unseen.

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By: David N. Andrews MEd (12-2006) https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/bernie-rimland-is-dead/#comment-14383 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:52:18 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=243#comment-14383 Imbecile: “Andrews, Calling me an imbecile isn’t going to persuade me to remove any comments I’ve made about you.”

So you get referred to as that then, since it’s evidently what you are.

You want me to not insult you, show me first that same respect. If you can’t do that, stop whinging all the time.

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By: David N. Andrews MEd (12-2006) https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/bernie-rimland-is-dead/#comment-14382 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:08:22 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=243#comment-14382 ImbecileNorthEastern: “Andrews; I got rid of a couple of posts about you recently. You’d have to be more specific.
No insult intended, my son functions much better with some of the mercury gone. You can apply your quoted “insult” to every person on the spectrum who has not proven that their disability is genetic.”

I’d say that just about everything you have said about/to me has been insulting.

So, remove everything.

Odd thing is, there was one remark you made that didn’t seem like baiting that someone thought was. That remark was obvious as non-insulting based on the fact that everything else you’ve ever posted about/to me has been insulting.

You are going to have to do way better than this, Imbecile.

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By: David N. Andrews MEd (12-2006) https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/bernie-rimland-is-dead/#comment-14381 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:53:08 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=243#comment-14381 John, obviously you have a two rule system in your head.

“J; Andrews’ personality might not change just because he got the mercury out of his head. He might function better though and would no longer feel he was being picked on because he was autistic. He might lose his paranoia and be less disagreeable and he’d probably add a few IQ points. For that, I’m sure he’d be grateful.”

This was entirely an insult. You may not think so, but I’d say that most reading it do. You want me to stop insulting you, you have a lot to do before your earn that, I can tell you.

Start getting rid of your insulting material about me, and I’ll be glad to start seeing you in a better light.

Sadly, I hold out absoultely no hope that you would ever do that.

So you’ll be lucky if I have any motiviation not to refer to you as what I have every right to see you as: an insult-mongering, unintelligent, boorish piece of elephant-shite.

If, on the other hand, you were to get rid of your very insulting thread about me on your blog (no, I haven’t read it, but a lawyer friend of mine told me about it)… that I would see as a start.

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By: n. https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/bernie-rimland-is-dead/#comment-14380 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:52:32 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=243#comment-14380 JB: I don’t have moles. (Well there is that one on my arm…) I don’t even have “people” in the sense of “I’ll have my people call your people.” You must be confusing me with someone important. And creepy.

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By: David N. Andrews MEd (12-2006) https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/bernie-rimland-is-dead/#comment-14379 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:01:55 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=243#comment-14379 Imbecile Northeastern: “Andrews; You’ll speak well of me after Finland’s Social Services learns that you should be cured and helps you.”

You need to give up comedy. You don’t raise any laughs.

Imbecile Northeastern: “I’m not discouraging respect.”

You’re just not giving it.

What the fuck is this obsession you have with me? You really are clinically warped. If you can be cured of this obsession by being chelated, I’ll buy into the theory. Until then, stick your ALA where the sun don’t shine.

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By: n. https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/bernie-rimland-is-dead/#comment-14378 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:13:34 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=243#comment-14378 I actually know an autistic woman whose greatest regret is learning language.
that is such an intriguing statement. as a person whose #1 perseveration is language(s), both as an art and as struggle (or often both simultaneously), i am very curious to know more of her story about that. if she would not mind, could you tell it? if she has told it herself, can you give a URL or reference?
if that is very private to her, then nevermind the curiousity, of course.

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By: ballastexistenz https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/bernie-rimland-is-dead/#comment-14377 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:17:02 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=243#comment-14377 I actually know an autistic woman whose greatest regret is learning language.

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By: n. https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/bernie-rimland-is-dead/#comment-14376 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:06:15 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=243#comment-14376 The truth is that no cured autistic person has ever asked to revert to being autistic.

If this is true, it is only because there ARE NO cured autistic persons. Show us one, just one.

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By: J https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/bernie-rimland-is-dead/#comment-14375 Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:56:28 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=243#comment-14375 Mr Best,

So you’re in favor of responding to predjudice (“being picked on because he was autistic”) by forcing the group being mistreated to become more normal, rather than encouraging respectful behavior as a social standard? Personally, I’d target the bullies for correction before the bullied.

And do you consider becoming more trusting (“lose his paranoia”), being less of what you’d consider disagreeable, more social behavior (which is generally considered a component of increased functioning), and feeling gratitude to someone he seems to dislike intensely a personality change, or not? Because if it is, than your post about having him ‘cured’ by social services is a discussion of forcibly altering his personality. If not, I’m curious what would constitute a personality change in your views.

If someone wanted to subject you to a treatment that would make you speak well of people you currently genuinely dislike (I’m sure you can think of a few names), and this treatment claimed to operate by physically altering your brain functions, would you have any concern about how this would rewrite your personality or your sense of self? Would you assume anything that made you more agreeable, less likely to be picked on, and could gain a few IQ points was an unequivocal good? Or would you worry about someone you disagreed with tampering with your mind to make you fit their idea of better?

Also, do you think your approach to communicating with the people at this blog is potentially persuasive, or do you simply wish to provoke hostility and fear? You didn’t answer that question.

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