A link and a meme:
The story of a loving father with an autistic 1.5 year old. Touching. Got it from one of my subscriptions, but no idea which one.
| Joe Swanson You scored 10% Evilness, 60% Horniness, 90% Intelligence, and 80% Fitness! |
| You’re Joe Swanson!
You’re a powerhouse of physical fitness, aside from that whole “ALL RIGHT! LET’S DO IT!” |
 |
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
|
| Link: The Family Guy Character Test written by Antimuffin42 on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
autistic or not…
Who the hell names his kid “The Squirrelly?”
Re: autistic or not…
That’s what I was wondering. And you have to question a story that lies below a giant banner saying “defective yetti.”
Re: autistic or not…
I think the dad refers to himself as the defective yeti, looking at other entries.
Re: autistic or not…
I just don’t have that kind of time. 😉
heh
well, my experience with full-functional yettis is pretty limited, so I’ll defer to them on that one.
But, come on. They’re not doing the autistic kid any favors. And he’s already facing a pretty freakin’ uphill battle…
p.s. Vive the agnostics… though, personally, I think you’re all conceding the point, a little. Whether or not there’s an invisible superman running the universe really seems like a conversation we shouldn’t be having at all…
Re: heh
lol, I’m not stupid. But science still has to fight these battles.
Re: heh
When you construct an experiment that an omnipotent entity that “moves in mysterious ways” can’t fuck with, get back to me, I’d like to hear all about it. 😉
In short, if there is an omnipotent entity and he just wants to hide out on a cloud and watch the show, there’s precious little we can do to know whether or not it exists.
Proof of nonexistance is also pretty damn hard.
More succinctly, this isn’t a science question. =)
Re: heh
You totally misinterpreted what I meant.
Re: heh
My apologies, please elaborate, what exactly did you mean? =)
Re: heh
I meant when you’re being chained to a firing post by a Nazi, you can’t just tell him his beliefs are meaningless and expect not to have a bullet put in your head.
Vivid imagery
Let me see if I can draw a more general statement out of the image. People still care about religion, so stating a perspective of universal ignorance can hardly be seen as equivalent to withdrawing from the debate; everyone else is going to hate the position. Something like that?
Re: Vivid imagery
Something like that. Or, ‘you can’t just ignore it and expect it to go away’?
Re: Vivid imagery
Yeah, I tend to be militant agnostic on the inside and apathetically indifferent on the outside. Reduces conflict.
Re: Vivid imagery
Yeah, I tend to keep my mouth closed when it doesn’t really matter.
Re: Vivid imagery
Though sometimes I can’t help but roll my eyes.
Re: heh
I dunno, when I read the full story, it sounds like they’re doing their best to make sure the kid is getting top notch care. Plus, ‘defective yeti’ does not specifically refer to his child or said child’s autism. It’s a reference to the father, the author. He’s had the blog for longer than he’s been a dad, though that’s not proof that he didn’t rename it at some point, it seems a little ungenerous to assume he did.
Re: heh
Sheesh, more with this “reading the whole story” thing. 😉
And I completely understood that he’s the yeti in the solution. No problems there.