But different isn't necessarily bad, either.

How about instead of trying to eradicate people who aren't like you, you let them be?

I've found that it's extremely useful just to have a word for it, because people are a lot less annoying about "I'd rather use email than phone, I'm autistic" than they are about "I'd rather use email than phone".

So, if we find an example of a non-autistic person who's highly social and totally dysfunctional, should we claim that this is an example of "severe" non-autism, and therefore we should be trying to cure all non-autistics of their horrible condition?

Well, why would we expect anyone to be normal?

Also, speaking only for myself and also all the people I have ever known who are autistic: "Autistic" as an adjective is fine, "suffering from autism spectrum disorder" is insulting.

I would consider the death to be about the time of the Activision merger, so 2009-2010. Not really a decade yet.

Microcenter has a tolerable $400 2560x1440 these days, but yeah, they're a little rare still.

But as time goes on, that may change. I just wish more of them were 16x10, I really hate losing 10% of my screen space on the off chance that I never do anything but watch movies.

I consider it somewhat a good thing, simply because Steam doesn't fit my use case well, so I buy stuff from GoG.

I'd also point out that there's a fair number of 2560x1440 monitors out there now.

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No, quite the opposite, really.

People who don't make mistakes are either (1) perfect or (2) unwilling to try things without total confidence.

#1 doesn't exist. #2 is pathological and crippling.

People who don't have a history of interesting and possibly impressive mistakes are almost certainly a bad fit for any job important enough to bother with a background check. Thing is, if we were comparing the teenager to a much older person, the "irresponsible kid" comparison might be relevant. But that's not what's on the table; we're comparing two adults, one of whom did stupid stuff years earlier when their brain wasn't even finished growing.

I don't think that makes it a misquote.

Especially when you look at Google's ongoing practices when it comes to privacy, personal data, or people who could conceivably have a reason to care about their privacy.

I have a Wii U. I use it at least some. I have no intention of getting either the PS4 or the Xbox One. This is not unique among gamers I know.

Well, one answer might be that they could get the same rights everyone else does, to ask to be addressed or referred to a given way. But not necessarily the right to demand that everyone else be referred to the same way.

But I've only ever known one, and so far as I can tell, if her family weren't abusive she'd be fine, it's just that they're abusive to her. It's sorta like the distinction between "gay people" and "people who struggle with homosexuality".

See, that's the thing.

I don't want people going around separating me from who I am. Autism is not a thing that happened to me. It's what I am. If you made a thing otherwise like me, but not autistic, that thing would be a person, sure, but it would be a different person.

Please, please do NOT use "person-first" language.

I'm autistic. Most of my friends are autistic. I know dozens to hundreds of autistic people.

Guess how many people I have ever met who are autistic, and prefer to be called a "person with autism"? Hint: The number is slightly lower than one, and it's an integer.

Try going around referring, not to women, but to "persons with femaleness", and see how that works out for you.

A randomly selected blog article on the topic.

Basically, person-first language marks you as aligned with the Autism Speaks folks and their anti-autistic-people propaganda machine. Avoid it.

The distinction you point to is not as clear-cut as it might seem, because often these are the same people under different circumstances.

I do just fine. I have friends whose underlying autistic traits aren't any "more severe" or whatever, but who were raised by people who tried to force them to "be normal", and they have a much harder time.

Overload me, and I can't understand or use spoken language reliably. I can still read and write, though. But if no one ever gives you a pen, you can come across as a lot less capable than you are...