I think it's accurate to say that upon reading this poll, dozens of college science professors will be looking at their respective screens in their respective locations in the world and collectively shaking their heads from side to side.
As an autistic person, I think that "person first" language is offensive. Saying "person suffering from autism spectrum disorder" implies that autism is not a fundamental part of who I am, but is instead something inhuman that should be removed from me.
No, person-first language is something that parents insist on. These are the same type of parents who post YouTube videos about "what autism is like", when in reality, they've never experienced autism, but instead have only experienced interaction with an autistic person. Autistic people don't suffer from autism. They suffer from other people.
As for whether autism is real, it absolutely is.
I am not a child. I exhibited the symptoms of autism long before the world wide web existed, so I didn't and my parents didn't get a fad diagnosis. We didn't know what it was. Everyone just thought that I was a genius, because of teaching myself to read and do math and memorize large amounts of information and fix things, but most people didn't realize that I had severe sensory issues and overwhelming social cognitive deficits. This is not just normal what people call "shyness" or social anxiety. Throughout my life I have had major issues because, far from trying to handle social situations and failing, there have been a lot of times when I didn't realize that I was supposed to interact, and there have been many types of social interaction that I didn't even have concepts of. When I was very young I was considered absolutely brilliant, but I also did a lot of things completely incorrectly. For example, I attended the wrong classes for a significant part of a school year because I never communicated that I was in the wrong classes, so none of the teachers realized it. I didn't understand that people formed networks with each other or attempted to socialize outside of school. I attended high school and college and never asked anyone for a reference, not because of fear, but because I didn't know that anyone did, and didn't have any concept of why they would.
You insensitive clod.
And then they write them down, stick them on sticky notes, and put them under their keyboards, or in their drawers, completely destroying the security, but maintaining the administrators' beliefs in it.
It's almost as good of an idea as making people change their password once a month, which also encourages people to write them down, re-use their weak passwords or choose passwords that are easy to guess.
And how about those password retrieval questions?
What's your favorite color or your mother's maiden name? No one can guess those.
Wow.
Everyone thought this was a comment about blocking ads.
It was a comment about no one using Windows Phone.
So can 3-d printers print 3-d printer parts?
And how?
Asperger's is a lot more than being a "very shy child". There are sensory issues, prosopagnosia(the inability to recognize faces), and obsessiveness.
And the "shyness" you described comes not from normal apprehensiveness or from past social failure but from a (sometimes complete) lack of social understanding, or a complete lack of social intuition. It's not that people with Asperger's or Autism want to be sociable and am just afraid to, or that they want to be sociable and don't know how. Sometimes autistic people don't understand that they're expected to interact in particular ways, or don't understand that they're supposed to interact at all. I can't explain how shocking it is every time I find out that other people have been interacting in ways that I had never conceived of.
If only it was shyness, that would make things so much easier. It's not. Saying that Asperger's Syndrome is just being very shy is exactly the thing you're complaining about, identifying a symptom but missing its cause.
Autism is a disorder, yeah. Autism is definitely a disorder.
Right. Human vision sensors tend to come in a 2:1 configuration. 16:9 is a lot closer to that than 4:3.
Sure it will.
When is the last time Microsoft named subsequent operating systems subsequently?
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7 (?!?!?!?!)
The next version of Windows may be called "Windows 8". But given their history, it just seems incredibly unlikely.
I'd expect the next version of Windows to be called "Windows Kumquat" or something equally nonsensical and meaningless.
Except that every Fox story is something like "Is Barack Obama the antichrist?" or "Do Democrats want to kill your grandmother?" or "Are liberals spineless cowards?" or "Is global warming actually good for you?"
It may be that they only answer the question with opinion and not facts 55% of the time, but 99% of their headlines are in that form, "asking a question" to make a statement.
Imagine I brought you on a show, and you didn't know what for, and then you found out the discussion of that episode was "Have you stopped beating your wife?" You can answer the question in a non-biased way, but the question was asked in a biased and leading way. MSNBC answers their questions in a biased way, absolutely, but the last time I checked(and admittedly it's been many years since I was a regular viewer), they were still asking real questions.
I turned on MSNBC just a minute ago. The question on the screen said "Can Mark Sanford win over family-values Republicans?" Then I turned on Fox. The question on the screen said "Automatic gun ban fail: Did the press pass on the news?" One of those is a real question, and one of those seems to be trying to put an answer in your head.
4.5 billion years.
Free market, my ass.
You hypocrite.
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
