Quote:I think people can learn behaviors.  For example, someone who tends to be socially insensitive can learn to say the appropriate things in conversation to fit in better.  AS is a condition but shouldn't be used as a crutch in my opinion.

 

That is true, but I can't learn a certain behavior is bad without trying it first. For example, nobody could have prepared me for the time when I turned down a suggestion, thinking it was "take it or leave it" because I know that is what the word means. I had to make that mistake first, then later be told it was a soft way to tell me what to do in case it ever happens again.

 

Quote:You have learned many things throughout your life; the English language, message boards, internet, bus schedules, et. al. then why is it you can not learn to disregard comments from anonymous posters?

 

That is like asking a man born blind why he can't learn what colors are.

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