Anon tries to break the ice

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• Boingboing_r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Once asked a girl what the orange ribbon on her jacket signified. She said domestic violence. I asked for or against? Sometimes I should just not be allowed to speak.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The ‘against’ ribbon is orange. The ‘For’ ribbon is black and blue.

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    • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I saw a black and blue ribbon once. Everyone piled on me shouting that it is actually white and gold.

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    • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I thought it was red white and blue.

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    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Either that or a police badge

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    • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Or is it white and gold?

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s not so bad. If you want to filter out people who don’t share your dark sense of humour, it could work

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  AFAIK Autism Speaks fucking sucks. They should STFU.

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    He’s being self-deprecating for blurting out the first edgy nonsense that comes to mind, a tendency which he attributes (with good reason) to spending too much time on /b/. He may have intended his comment to be targeted at autism speaks instead of people wuth autism but to innocent bystanders that’s not obvious and he’s aware.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Based on my experience, a long time ago, no. Even if they self-diagnose as autistic, they also say hateful things about them, and anyone else for that matter.

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  • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What’s wrong with them? Because I have no idea about them whatsoever.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They have a very outdated, paternalistic, rightwing view of autism. They very much view it as a disease on the level of cancer that needs to be cured, versus the “neurodiversity” view that most autistic autism activists have, and they have basically no (openly) autistic people in leadership positions. Also held on to the “vaccines cause autism” myth for a long time.

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• OS2Warp@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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• HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Self-aware enough to realize he’s getting checked out, 8/10… Imma press X to doubt.

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think he means she’s processing his items at the cash register

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s more plausible than my attempt, hah.

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    • tja@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes, that’s the joke

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Eh… Not uncommon for socially awkward people to misinterpret professional friendliness for flirting.

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    • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      somebody said my hair looked nice, clearly dtf

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• irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Isn’t autism speaks the one that wants to ““cure”” autism?

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  • Fourth@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    👏 bingo I’d actually rather than not speak at all as well

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• ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Seriously though, fuck autismspeaks

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  • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m kinda out of the loop, what did they do?

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    • Twiglet@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Eugenics.

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    • ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They’re a terrible organization that talks about autism as if it’s a whole bunch of stuff it isn’t

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  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Because Elon Musk? I get it.

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• tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At one of my old jobs (which handled owning malls (I worked on the websites)), one of the locations would hold an event with Autism Speaks; during a meeting, someone mentioned that we needed to get the campaign advertisements on the site for one of their upcoming events.

  At the mention of “Autism Speaks”, I reflexively went, “Ew.” Only dawned on me, after the fact, that it probably looked to the rest of my coworkers like I was ridiculously immature about and ablist towards autistic people.

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• EldenLord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This greentext is fake and gay! (happy pride month btw)

  What really happened is that Anon misinterpreted the cashier’s facial expression because they are autistic. Upon hearing Anon‘s quirky statement, she actually replied:

  “I’m deeply sorry for not instantly recognizing you as the CEO of Autism®, would you like to take a look at our selection of sandbox factory building and farming simulators? Let‘s see, maybe we also have a few copies of uhhh…Sonic??”

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