Thank you for elaborating more.

Like I said I'm not condemning you (after all I didn't fare any better in my "trials" involving such encounters). :)
Unfortunately, such clarity often comes when the tie to act has long since gone.
I've often had "inner debates" with myself about things I should have done differently, even if they were completely unimportant and any other involved party completely forgot they ever happened.
Most often such reflections will do no more than make you feel down.

I'm no stranger to shyness either.
It's easier if I'm with someone I know, then I can be distracted by the known person and thus animated, but if I'm on my own it often takes a couple minutes of courage gathering before I work up the nerve to talk to a stranger (having strategically chosen a moment when they're not occupied and having thoroughly "rehearsed" what I'm going to say in my head beforehand).

If I'm out on a walk alone, I'll keep a score of how many pets I've managed to greet since I won't talk to people (sometimes it's quite an art pulling it off without alerting their owners) - we're talking about a simple "hi" here, I won't engage a pet with physical touch without the owner's permission since they know the animal and will let me know if it's fond of such attention or not. XD

My thanks for explaining all that. :)
Now to address these two parts.

"somewhat like you", I'm intrigued.

"You think racism is just a white thing?"
I've no such illusions.
I realize racism can be aimed form any race group towards another or on the level of individuals.
If people want to hate others they will find an excuse to do so and the excuse can be anything - physical appearance, religion or other identity pieces or even something as small as quirks or odd behavior.

Like I've explained in the opening post, the only reason why I invoked racism is because it's easy to imagine and because I was unable to think of better examples at the time.
I realize picking examples involving autism would have been closer to the topic itself, but I couldn't think of any examples to illustrate my point.
I also know the underlying possibility of offending anyone would be equally present if I chose religion or something else that plays a big role in people's lives.
If I've offended you or anyone else I apologize, that wasn't my intention.
As explained in the opening post, the examples are merely examples and do not reflect my opinon.
The content may be ill chosen, but I was focused on making the examples as easy to imagine and clear-cut as possible while focusing on the difference in their form if they were to be compared side by side.

Put very plainly what I wanted to tell people by that section of QA was "I will not shun negative opinions as long as they are argumented and not just insults."
I wanted to get people to back up their statements with arguments, no more no less.

I'm not sure I follow what you meant by "autism becoming a political topic".
Probably something more than people going "You hold opinion X and therefore belong to political camp Y."

I'll try to answer your question nonetheless.
"Will you simply stop having discussions like this one?"
Honestly, it will depend on the particular case if/when I come across it.

If it's an existing debate I didn't open, I'd make sure to check two things:

1 If it's a minefield where people are more prone to argue than discuss.

I'm not sure how influenced I get by this in a text-only environment, but I know it weighs heavily on me in RL.
I find it very difficult to endure witnessing people fighting, especially if they're loud.
It's like a curtain of oppressive air weighing down on me that I can't shake off.
Depending on the case I can even get my stomach tied in knots and feel sick or start shaking, cry in the worst case scenario.
I go into "panic mode" when I take one of two options, get the Hell out of there or do everything I can to stop the argument.
It's due to this instinctive reaction I always without fail know I will misread a "loud exchange of opinions" as a fight every single time in RL.

2 If people are willing to listen.

Hopefully, I'd be able to tell that much before joining the talk.
If all people want to is to hear you, but not listen to you, your effort is as good as wasted.


If I started the discussion, I'd try to politely ask people to leave politics at the door and discuss the issue/topic itself as civilly as possible - I might go for the same QA format since it worked so well here.
However, I'm aware I'm just a regular user and can't per say force people to follow any rules I try to set unlike moderators can.
I'd still try to keep myself updated on the thread as I'd feel responsible for it as it's opener (clumsily put, but you get the point).

I've probabaly missed waht you meant, but I hope I've still managed to answer at least somewhat.

I'd say yes:

Autism = Problem with change = New design is bad

Hm, let's see if I'm closer to understanding your point.
So akin to how this thread started about a series' acting role and finished with Jews and got locked?
Link: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/netflix_is_specifically_casting_a_minority_as_ciri

I would say specifically the early part of the thread. Just looking at it, I noticed that there are many "high rated" posts that I have downrepped, which does say something about the GOG userbase.

It actually bothers me that we can't talk about that sort of thing on this forum.

(It also doesn't help that the initial post of the topic takes a negative attitude towards what should be seen as a positive thing.)

Imagine if that happened every time you tried to talk about autism (in particular, if that had happened to *this* thread).

Good to know I'm on the right track at the very least. :)
I'd pick talking about an issue over downvoting people (I try to avoid it as much as possible).
Unless it's a clear situation of wasted effort to try and talk to the already convinced (a "they hear, but don't listen" situation).

P.S. I'll take a deeper look at the thread later today.

"There's a double standard here; men's issues aren't generally considered." That's the double standard.


Being a SJW proves too much for an autistic professor in his last article before his suicide. https://willopines.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/punched-out/

Oh blow it out your ass Spectre.

You can't think of anything better to do, you need to resurrect a two month dead thread just to start some crap.

You found that article and I just know your dick got hard. You thought, "I'm gonna take this link and I'm gonna take my meaningless stupid fucking flame bait catch phrase, and I'm gonna show all those losers who's boss!"

And don't you feel so high and mighty now.

That's funny, your rant just covered about 95% of your posts here on this forum. The other 5% of course being posts declaring your hatred for your family.

Please stop. This thread worried me when it started that it would devolve into stereotyping and hate, but it pleased me to see that we managed to have a mostly positive conversation with few if any "trolling" posts.

I don't care who started it, please don't continue it here. Start a new thread if you're so concerned with saying something.

Some sources are claiming that deficits in the cerebellum are responsible for some autism and a test based on eye movement can indicate that. https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-athletes-way/201707/the-new-science-using-eye-movements-test-autism https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-athletes-way/201510/neuroscientists-decrypt-the-mystery-rapid-eye-movements



I hope you at least read the article instead of thinking about other posters erections.

...and a partridge in a pear treeeeeeeeeeeee!

What the hell happened to the other 11 days?