Comments on: Favorite Post of Every Month https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/favorite-post-of-every-month/ Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:21:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bullet https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/favorite-post-of-every-month/#comment-14850 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:21:10 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=279#comment-14850 Hmmm, I’m not so sure about John Best. He seems to be trying just a little bit too hard to convince people of his convictions. He’s coming across as being like a child demanding attention. He wants people who are against a cure for autism to go to his site and feel enraged. So he puts out this impression of being very fixated and obsessive about curing autism, unable to see other people’s points of view and well, he’s trying just a little too hard.
Which makes me realise that this site (“hating autism”) is just an act. A very good example of reverse psychology. We’re supposed to read it thinking “so this is the sort of hate filled person that wants to see autism cured, that’s it, my resolve has been strengthened, I am more than ever determined to be happy with who I am”.
Very subtle and very clever.

]]> By: poproxy https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/favorite-post-of-every-month/#comment-14849 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:11:35 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=279#comment-14849 John Best’s subtle diversionary tactic to direct traffic away from this autism-friendly website into his own cesspool of hatred and anti-neurodiversity propaganda disgusts me.

]]> By: Julia https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/favorite-post-of-every-month/#comment-14848 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:35:34 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=279#comment-14848 Oh, and I very much agree with you on your selection for May. That’s one of my favorite posts!

]]> By: Julia https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/favorite-post-of-every-month/#comment-14847 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:39:37 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=279#comment-14847 Wil Wheaton did something similar to this. I think you and he had the right idea! This is a much nicer meme than the “first sentence of the first post of the month” thing.

(I’ve seen entirely too many of the lamer meme, and you and he are the only ones I’ve seen do a “best post” thing, which is more useful. The lame meme is at best entertaining, and so many of the ones I’ve seen were not even that.)

]]> By: Charles https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/favorite-post-of-every-month/#comment-14846 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:24:14 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=279#comment-14846 I just blogged on this one.

http://theartofunderstanding.blogspot.com

]]> By: bullet https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/favorite-post-of-every-month/#comment-14845 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:29:16 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=279#comment-14845 Personally, I found it (“hatingautism”) rather dull. I much prefer this (“ballastexistenz”) blog, because it’s so diverse and has lots of interesting articles.

]]> By: bullet https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/favorite-post-of-every-month/#comment-14844 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:41:32 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=279#comment-14844 Whenever people tell me that I can’t be on the autistic spectrum because of the fact I can type (these are just people on the internet who don’t hear me talk) I tell me to go and look at this blog so their assumptions can be re-considered. It’s proving invaluable to myself as well, I can’t identify with everything but there is a fair amount that I can identify with and it’s helping me understand a lot about myself and, hopefully, a lot about my older son as well.

]]> By: Carolyn https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/favorite-post-of-every-month/#comment-14843 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:21:35 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=279#comment-14843 I am not autistic, but I am interested in autism. I find many conflicting opinions in print and on the internet. To be honest, I find all of the information and different perspectives to be overwhelming.

I wanted to let you know that I have learned so much from you. I have only been following your blog for a short while- a few months- but your entries constantly provoke me into thinking about things and challenging assumptions that I otherwise wouldn’t. Thank you.

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