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From [livejournal.com profile] beccastareyes: "The autism spectrum and the jackass spectrum are disjoint."

I know some jackasses. I know some people on the autism spectrum. The overlap between the two sets is only as much as would be expected by chance. Having Asperger's, or any other autism-spectrum trait, is neither an excuse for being a jackass, nor a reason to be one. Autism doesn't make you a jackass, and my friends who are autism-spectrum aren't jackasses, nor does their autism push them toward jackassery.

If you act like a jackass and then say "it's not my fault; I have Asperger's", you're just plain wrong. Having Asperger's doesn't make you a jackass any more than being left-handed does.

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Date: 2013-12-11 02:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] browngirl.livejournal.com
I need to figure out how to turn the interpretive dance of horror I just did into a coherent response. Thank you for telling me this, and, well, I continue to be sorry you had to live through it. And I know what you mean on taking awhile to realize what seems in retrospect objectively obvious -- I didn't realize my first boyfriend had abused me till several months after graduation separated us, rather than right when he was choking and slapping me. (I regret not pressing charges against him, too, not least because I wonder if he ever did that to another woman and how many he might have gone through before getting in any kind of trouble.)

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