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Offline AnthonyPadua

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Re: Allow autists on the internet?
« Reply #25 on: December 18, 2025, 06:03:13 PM »

Please distinguish between calm, balanced, intelligent people, and autists.

Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop Williamson would be examples of the former.

Many posters on internet forums would be the latter.
:facepalm: I'm not even sure how to respond to this? Do you think high functioning autistic people can't be calm, balanced and intelligent? As for low functioning, these people can barely use the internet on their own.

I once saw a meme that women only like non-autistic men, maybe it's true 

Re: Allow autists on the internet?
« Reply #26 on: December 18, 2025, 06:04:11 PM »
The advice to "ignore it if it bothers you.  If it is offensive, report it to the moderator.  If it is a character flaw, rise above it" is an example of subsidiarity yet you are rejecting that in favor of a State mandated approach.  Rather marxist of you, isn't it?


I'm talking about those of us who are not terminally online. People with actual family to care for. Friends, family with autism. And how to handle this. How to guide them.


Offline AnthonyPadua

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Re: Allow autists on the internet?
« Reply #27 on: December 18, 2025, 06:06:41 PM »

I'm talking about those of us who are not terminally online. People with actual family to care for. Friends, family with autism. And how to handle this. How to guide them.
People tend to spend more time on the internet than needed when they have nothing else to do. A lack of personal space to do things, funding, and spouse/children tends to do that.

Re: Allow autists on the internet?
« Reply #28 on: December 18, 2025, 06:12:19 PM »
:facepalm: I'm not even sure how to respond to this? Do you think high functioning autistic people can't be calm, balanced and intelligent? As for low functioning, these people can barely use the internet on their own.

I once saw a meme that women only like non-autistic men, maybe it's true
Austists are sick. You can't undo it. It is a permanent, chronic condition.

They will always have an imbalance there underneath their acquired habits.

You shouldnt confuse that with someone who is simply intelligent. This is the problem with discussion about autism by Gen Z ers. Its that it has become far too normalized, that they seem to have forgotten that autism is not just, not cool, but a sickness.

These people need limitations on their behavior by their families for their own good. Because they can harm themselves. They need care, even if they are high functioning ones.

What I think you don't understand is that autists can appear normal because they can function well with certain parts of their brain. Like with computers and math etc. etc. But life is more than that. Our behavior and its morality is judged by far more than our intellectual achievements. It is also about our interactions with other people.

Re: Allow autists on the internet?
« Reply #29 on: December 18, 2025, 06:14:12 PM »
People tend to spend more time on the internet than needed when they have nothing else to do. A lack of personal space to do things, funding, and spouse/children tends to do that.
That's a whole other can of worms right there.