Re: person first language craziness (was Why occasional sobriety is recommended for college students

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jypsy [ janet norman-bain ] wrote:

> At 10:16 AM 5/5/2004 -0800, Jane wrote:

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>>Remind me: who is it that's considered " rigid " ????

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> her latest reply:

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> you're just looking for an argument. I won't change my values for you and

> I won't feed your need to micro-analyze.

> I don't think the word autistic is nice, and if you don't have anything

> nice to say, don't say anything at all. So, that's the reason I won't say

> anything to you " at all " .

In other words, she's rigid.

Griff, amused

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jypsy [ janet norman-bain ] wrote:

> her latest reply:

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> you're just looking for an argument. I won't change my values for

> you and I won't feed your need to micro-analyze. I don't think the

> word autistic is nice, and if you don't have anything nice to say,

> don't say anything at all. So, that's the reason I won't say

> anything to you " at all " .

I tired of going into these bastions of autistic denigration (for our

own good, of course) years ago. I determined that my efforts were

better spent writing to people that actually had minds open enough for

me to be able to get through. When you take several on at once, they

get the whole NT mob mentality thing going, and you have very little

chance of getting through. They're more interested in showing how

anti-you they are to one another than in engaging in honest debate, I

think. I'll take them on one by one as they reply to my site, but taking

on a mob (or even one person who is in a group of people like her who

are not participating) is an exercise in frustration.

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> I tired of going into these bastions of autistic denigration (for our

> own good, of course) years ago. I determined that my efforts were

> better spent writing to people that actually had minds open enough for

> me to be able to get through. When you take several on at once, they

> get the whole NT mob mentality thing going, and you have very little

> chance of getting through. They're more interested in showing how

> anti-you they are to one another than in engaging in honest debate, I

> think. I'll take them on one by one as they reply to my site, but taking

> on a mob (or even one person who is in a group of people like her who

> are not participating) is an exercise in frustration.

Something interesting to me is that since instituting the mailing list

format for emails to webmaster@... (it goes to a mailing list

of four people and one must use a password " Quaoar " in the subject line

to get it through now), we have received no flames and lots of praise

for the Dawson stuff, mostly from non-autistics.

I know from what Muskie has told me that she has gotten a lot of flames

in the past (as I certainly have as well), but it seems that this time

they don't want to bother to flame us in person. Yet, anyway.

--

" Humans: No fur, no paws, no tail. They run away from mice. They never

get enough sleep. How can you help but love such an absurd animal? " -

An anonymous cat on Homo sapiens

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At 03:00 PM 5/5/2004 -0700, wrote:

>Something interesting to me is that since instituting the mailing list

>format for emails to webmaster@... (it goes to a mailing list

>of four people and one must use a password " Quaoar " in the subject line

>to get it through now), we have received no flames and lots of praise

>for the Dawson stuff, mostly from non-autistics.

seems they've aimed their flamethrowers at me instead....

-jypsy

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