Quote:tell that to the rest of the board too then!

 

I have talked about a friend of mine whom I have known all my life who has the same disease...I have talked about it extensively in another thread a long time ago...I have a good knowledge of Asperger's...The best thing I can say to help shed some light on this is that persons afflicted by Asperger's are ruled by logic (as they see or understand something)...  Most of you here are too young to know "Mr. Spock"  on the original Star Trek series or the entire Vulcan population who are ruled entirely of logic... If something makes no sense to them afflicted by Asperger's it "can not be true" in their mind...as we have all seen sarcasm is lost on MJF and she rarely gets jokes especially tongue in cheek jokes...Once an Asperger's person understand something they can then use it such as phrases " Don't let the door hit ya on the way out" where we people would know it meant you can leave anytime ya want or leave quickly, Asperger's people would wonder why the door would hit them on the way out, and is one of those automatic doors that open and close themselves? I'm going to give one more example and leave it at that...If someone told a person with Asperger's "they kicked the cat across the street," they would drive themselves nuts trying to figure out if they kicked kicked a cat from one side of the street to the other, or if they walked across the street and kicked a cat...and now she is saying to herself, why would someone kick a cat anyway....

 

Many of you here bait her, to say something you consider stupid just so y'all can jump on her, just like y'all did to TMD then complain about him firing back...

 
The bold red part i highlighted is a prime example...There are many posters on here including Mods who are always calling people stupid, and idiots if other posters don't agree with their own position, but no one tells them to stop doing that...Why just tell MJF not to do that?

 

She made this thread because she wants to find out why people jump on her and are very rude to her...Everyone can see that...Yeah she comes across as rude on occasion but we have cognizant ability to see and understand, she does not, and as many rude comments and insults that are thrown around on this board, MJF is far from alone in that category by people who KNOW they are intentionally being jerks...When a person sees people throwing insults and name calling a bazillion times, Asperger's tells her, Oh this is what we do here...