What are you thinking right now?

[Adamridge79]

No one was around in the eighties..or even nineties...the 'names' we called each other as a joke,would make us monsters. I am sorry about, and I'm guessing, so chill, that 7 percent of a population are offended. But. So easily offended. And the anger. It's not as if they are walking up to a legitimate and literal person with development issues and calling them names. It just the organic prevalence that occurs it most standard fluid languages, especially America English, which has a rich history of batardizing said speech.

 

[Adamridge79]

in most, not it most...

 

[TheRealCallie]

Thing is different countries have different rules too like, I was talking to this guy on the phone from the US and he was like uhh well.. you cant say that, thats offensive, and im like what? What cant I say? And he was like “blank”, and i was like lol issue is in the UK we’d find what you just said as offensive. So theres that, but my point is more there is nothing insulting about having autism and people need to stop chucking it around as such

It's not a country thing though. Like, Finished said, it's an individual thing. I know people in England who are going to go after you if you say autistic. I'm American and I don't care what you say and neither does my son (who has autism and/or is autistic).
There's more important honeysuckle to worry about stuff like this and it shouldn't matter, but everyone needs to cause, right? BUT, there's actually a lot of that kind of things in the autism community. There's a big debate over whether or not to hate the organization Autism Speaks.....not to mention whether or not to use the puzzle piece as a logo or the infinity logo. Honestly, it all boils down to perspective. People see the parts they want to see and refuse to see anything else.

 

[CenotaphGirl]

It's not a country thing though. Like, Finished said, it's an individual thing. I know people in England who are going to go after you if you say autistic. I'm American and I don't care what you say and neither does my son (who has autism and/or is autistic).
There's more important honeysuckle to worry about stuff like this and it shouldn't matter, but everyone needs to cause, right? BUT, there's actually a lot of that kind of things in the autism community. There's a big debate over whether or not to hate the organization Autism Speaks.....not to mention whether or not to use the puzzle piece as a logo or the infinity logo. Honestly, it all boils down to perspective. People see the parts they want to see and refuse to see anything else.

Yeah very true ! I keep it on an indivisual basis now as I noticed that different countries do have difference of opinion on some terms, so you may find that people have never even herd of certain terms in some countries too as a generalisation more so than everyone in the uk thinks this or that. Like a lot of Americans were taken back by my reaction to being called “english” I prefer to be called “British” they simply had no clue that was a thing.

 

[TheRealCallie]

Like a lot of Americans were taken back by my reaction to being called “english” I prefer to be called “British” they simply had no clue that was a thing.

I don't see why that wouldn't be a thing. "English" is a language, not a nationality. There are many countries that speak English, yet we are not the same nationality.

 

[user 135671]

I haven't read all the relevant posts but English is defo a nationality, England is still a country, in it's own right, as well as a member of the United Kingdom. British technically isn't a nationality as we no longer call the union Great Britain ( I think ). Unified sports teams compete under the Great Britain name so maybe it is too.

 

[CenotaphGirl]

I haven't read all the relevant posts but English is defo a nationality, England is still a country, in it's own right, as well as a member of the United Kingdom. British technically isn't a nationality as we no longer call the union Great Britain ( I think ). Unified sports teams compete under the Great Britain name so maybe it is too.

True truee British is my nationality on my passport so lol I hope it is still a nationality Might have an identity crisis otherwise

 

[Finished]

I really don't mind being called anything. But, I will laugh if you call me cracker. Ha! ha!

 

[Trevor]

The sweet pepperoni pizza cooking in the oven. Mmmmmm...pizza.

 

[TheSkaFish]

Apparently Justin Bieber was just banned from Ferrari, for life.

I'm just trying to figure out how he got out of my laundry room!

 

[ringwood]

Apparently Justin Bieber was just banned from Ferrari, for life.

I'm just trying to figure out how he got out of my laundry room!

Sheesh. Sounds like you're not working him hard enough if he escaped. You've gotta drown him in dirty whites - get him doing your neighbour's laundry too. Heck - the whole neighbourhood. If you don't, this is what happens - he gets into mischief, painting a perfectly respectable Ferrari a horrific Electric Blue - WTF?!

 

[CenotaphGirl]

Now im not saying you have to know how to play chess to be a real man… but only real men know how to play chess! There I said it Ugh but I still wish I knew how to play

 

[Melli12]

I have two great enemies in life. The first one is, what we call the inside pig dog in german, one's weaker self, the skunk, that always brings ppl to procrastinate and not do anything or to try something new. The laziness or fear to change something.

The second is the inner slasher, that inner voice, that can be very loud and harsh. It tells me how worthless I am everyday and always stands between me and between what I do. It keeps my self-confidence low and makes me constantly feel bad about myself. It triggers the urge to self-harm and to commit suicide, it fuels my depression.

I guess I need love and empathy for myself, so that I can fight the enemies inside my self. I just struggle with the huge pain, that emerges with it. It is so painful to be kind to myself.

 

[Abstamyous]

A few years ago, I was begging someone from the States to send me a cream soda Dr Pepper. They told me it wouldn't be worth it by the time it got here.

Well, it's finally available in my town. And I am not disappointed at all.

 

[user 135671]

I should love musicals. It takes two of my favourite things, music and film, and puts them together. But I'm not a glutton, I don't want ice cream lobbed on my medium rare steak. Some things are best left as far from each other as possible.

I hate musicals and it's a hate that goes beyond the regular, ho-hum kind of hate reserved for Adam Sandler comedies and sprouts.

It's when musicals ask the audience to do more than smile that the problems begin. The musical wants to have its cake and eat it - it wants the audience to be emotionally invested in the story, to be exhilarated by the fun peaks and also to take to heart the dramatic lows. It's the latter where it all falls apart. It's impossible to be moved by a musical's more emotional moments. How am I supposed to get involved with the Von Trapp's flight from the Nazis if they're prone to sing at the drop of a hat? If they're not alarmed then why am I supposed to be? Being emotionally invested in a musical is akin to being annoyed that your favourite professional wrestler lost an important match.

 

[Finished]

I want to magically be transported into the Andy Griffith Show. The simple easy life.

 

[EricaMG]

Hailey being happy and getting used to my place.My two nephews welcomed her in.I see myself as a great mom to her.I told her I have pituitary dwarfism and she has another form of it.She is glad that she will have a mom that understands her

 

[user 130057]

So it was exactly what I feared... thanks for being one of the most manipulative, disingenuous and downright untrustworthy people I have ever met. Better to find out after 3 months than after 3 years I guess. I should've listened to my instincts.

 

[TheRealCallie]

So it was exactly what I feared... thanks for being one of the most manipulative, disingenuous and downright untrustworthy people I have ever met. Better to find out after 3 months than after 3 years I guess. I should've listened to my instincts.

I'm sorry that happened to you, user 130057. Always trust your instincts.

 

[user 130057]

I'm sorry that happened to you, user 130057. Always trust your instincts.

Thanks for the kind words, Callie, much appreciated.