When I first came to VGC is was a great group of people. Really classy kids that wanted to talk about videogams and sales. There were certainly the occasional trolls riling things up just to get a rise out of people. Something happened along the way. I think many of them left, maybe for Facebook, maybe for real life, maybe for other forums, but they definitely left. I think some of them lurk. But what has replaced them is sad. People who wrap themselves in "freedom of speech" and the freedom to be jerks for their own personal comfort. Thanks, curl, for continuously being an example of what VGC once was. I support you and this thread.

You know what, for how much people criticize ResetEra here, I think the alternative, what we have here, seems to be worse.

Without the Autistic people we would just have more mindless sheep,i think they're a great asset for humanity because they think differently and are able give us better views like lets say Einstein or Newton did and yes both of those showed big signs of autism but back then it wasnt as accepted to be different as today.

Im not dissagreeing btw ,just wanted to type this. :p

I wasn't calling autistic people undesirable, which is why I used quotation marks

You're the one who went way far out with some war about removing the weaker people from society, I have no idea why you even decided to bring that up. It's also ironic that you tell people to toughen up and then say that you're going to ignore me for comparing your social Darwinist rhetoric to Nazism.

I know but i was commenting on how for some they are :p

I sometimes take care of my sisters autistic kid and its not easy at a young age,needs a lot of planning so he knows what gonna happen beforehand but outside of that he's very intelligent and sweet. Instead of making lots of friends he will prob make a few friends so he can keep a feel of control but on the other hand does develop more into things like building blocks and arranging things and more than the other kids do.

You need to do some research on what autistic people are before saying such things, its kinda easy to do with the internet these days you know?

What are you autistic?(jk)

Seriously though calling someone autistic is less derogatory and more an expression used to sum up a lot of things into one word just like fag. It isn't intended to be derogatory to actual autistic people nor is fag to gays. It's just the same word used to sum up a lot of different things except actual autism. Of course no one is actually calling someone autistic as in with the disease autism in a derogatory way. O just think being too sensitive about these things for others is not helpful. I'm sure many people with the disease don't mind the humour as well while others with the disease might. Stop being offended for other people and let them speak for themselves instead. And learn to have a sense of humour

Umm, if you were more familiar with him you'd know that he actually is, so that joke kind of falls flat.

Freedom to offend is a thing. Whenever you speak or voice an actual opinion you are daring to be offensive to someone. Without that, you can never ever have a real worthwhile discussion. If I defend a pro something I am offending the con to that thing. You can't truly be a thinking valuable human being without offending someone.