Autism as an insult

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It baffles me, how people in WoW have started using ‘autism’ as an insult.

I mean, sure, it’s a ‘developmental disease’, and people associate Asperger’s syndrome with it - but to use that as an insult in BGs? How toxic and weird do you have to be?

Autism can, after all, lead to a situation, where “…someone with significant mental disabilities demonstrates certain abilities far in excess of average”.

Think of ‘Rain Man’ in the movie, for example. So someone with autism could be an extremely skilled WoW player, but bad at buying groceries.

So as an insult, it doesn’t make much sense, and it doesn’t really work very well - it’s really puzzling how toxic people use it so much in BGs. These kitchen-psychologists love ‘diagnosing’ fellow players with autism and asperger’s… I just can’t understand where this trend came from.

I guess the words ‘idiot’, ‘stupid’, ‘moron’, ‘imbecil’ and so on have suffered so much inflation due to over-use, they needed something different, but it’s just strange to me.

I guess toxic people will always spew poison, no matter what, but this variety leaves me baffled.

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I think I know why they called you autistic.

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I don’t think you are daft. Why do you post this topic on wow forums.

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“Retard, idiot” are also medical conditions, but that does not stop anyone. Also if you got offended by something so insignificant, perhaps you should stay off any group activities…

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Well if in a team fight scenario you wander off on your own doing who knows what, is it reasonable to assume you might have that condition?

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Well sometimes you gotta wonder if ppl really do have gaming autism due to how they play.
Like playing PERFECTLY against you.
PERFECT cc
PERFECT counters
PERFECT timing on defensives and burst.

or they just spend too much time in this game.

Who knows…either way, you come out as the loser :slight_smile:

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I think that we just have to check out some famous twitch streamer to find out the root of this trend.
Yet still, stupid trend is stupid.

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OK i have no idea what that is but I gotta ask.
How is someone bad at buying groceries? Is there also people who are good at it??

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Well, some of us have difficulty with it. As an autistic person, if I went to a grocery store and an isle was blocked by a couple women (it’s always women that block isles talking rubbish to each other), I wouldn’t be able to ask them to move. I’d feel awkward waiting for them to move too, so I’d just not buy from whatever isle they were blocking.

There’d also be no turning back to go to that isle when I’m done, because shopping is done on a brain timer. I have to do my shopping before I get over aggitated and stressed.

So yeah, that’s how you be bad at grocery shopping.

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That sounds harsh.

Have you tried pushing the shopping cart slowly towards the blockade looking at your phone as if not paying attention?
I’d wager on more often than not that they would move out of the way.

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I see :frowning:

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