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I didn't think "Muslim" when the terrorists crashed those planes on 9/11, and I don't think "Jewish" when Israel commits genocide. A terrorist is a terrorist. I don't care what religion they are.
Someone who attacks random Jewish people because of what Israel is doing would be an anti-Jewish bigot. Someone who wants the genocide to stop and wants those responsible to be punished is not an anti-Jewish bigot.
9/11 is not representative of Muslim people as a whole, and Israel's genocide is not representative of Jewish people as a whole.
A lot of parents want to be forgiven when they're overwhelmed and accidentally snap at their children.
Sure. You can be forgiven for that. As long as you show the same forgiveness to them when they do it.
If your child gets an ass whooping whenever they snap at you, then no, you don't deserve to be forgiven when you snap at them.
"Narcissistic parents treat you like either the golden child who they expect too much of then punish you when you fall off their pedestal or like the scapegoat who they blame for everything."
You just described how autistic people are treated on a regular basis. Some of us are labeled as "high functioning" and are expected to be "smart" and "not really disabled" and are accused of faking any struggles we have. Some of us are labeled as "low functioning" and are treated as a "burden" or as "too stupid to amount to anything".
And that happens way too often for it to be only narcissists doing that. Treating autistic people like that is widely normalized.
So quit labeling socially acceptable patterns of abuse as "narcissistic".
Some dehumanizing descriptions of autism are negative. For example, some people believe that we are incapable of love, or incapable of imagination, or incapable of understanding anything of importance.
Some dehumanizing descriptions of autism are positive. For instance, some people believe that we are incapable of lying, incapable of being manipulative, and that we always say exactly what we mean.
Autism doesn’t work that way. We are fully human, for better and for worse. We are fallible. We make communication mistakes. We don’t always know what we mean, and we don’t always express ourselves clearly. For instance, sometimes we say things that feel direct but that are actually very confusing. That’s human.
We are capable of treating others well, and we are capable of treating others badly. We are capable of caring about others, and we are capable of indifference. We are capable of being kind, and we are capable of being cruel.
Autism means having disabilities that can affect how we communicate, how we move, and how we understand things. Autism doesn’t make us better than other people, and it doesn’t make us worse. We’re not subhuman, and we’re not superhuman. We’re just people.
"But narcissists have unique patterns and abuse people in unique ways."
Really? Then why does every single pattern that gets labeled as "narcissistic" describe the regular treatment of children, women, people of color, disabled people, poor people, LGBT people, etc?
This is how police and their supporters treat protesters to a T. The police are trained to act like this.
This describes everyone who labels BLM or Antifa as terrorists.
This describes every man who complains about MeToo.
This describes everyone who blames the working class for inflation.
This describes every parent who yells at their child then complains about disrespect when the child yells back.
That's an astronomically large number of people to armchair diagnose with narcissism.
Incels always say shit like "women will never like me because I'm short".
Meanwhile, if you look at the social media pages of very tall women, there are many who like towering over their boyfriends and call them "short kings".
It's not because you're short. It's because you're an asshole.
"But how am I supposed to teach my morals and values to my children if I can't spank them."
If you can't sell something to a captive audience without using violence, then what you're selling is shit.
As a parent, you have an enormous amount of power over your children.
They're fully dependent on you for their survival. They're forced to live with you. You have full control over their finances. You have full control over the patterns that you model for them and the morals and values that you teach them.
Even if you never used a single authoritarian parenting tactic, you'd still have more power over them than anyone has over anyone.
But for many parents, that's not enough. They want full obedience. They want to live in the comfort of their own bad habits with no fear that their children will copy them.
Neurotypicals seem to never realize that playing along when someone initiates an interaction with you is orders of magnitude easier than initiating an interaction. And it's not just because of the typical reasons like "fear of rejection" or "fear of embarrassment".
You have no social life and you want to get invited places. Someone invites you somewhere. That's easy (well, in comparison, because it may still be difficult for other reasons). All you have to do then is just play along.
But if you're initiating the interactions, there are many more calculations that have to be done. You have to figure out what to say to them. You have to figure out in what situations it's okay to approach them. You have to figure out how to read signs of interest. You have to figure out how often to approach them, because too little is disinterested and too much is clingy. And even if you do everything right, you probably still won't be invited anywhere because they may like you enough to interact with you if they happen to be near you but not enough to invite you anywhere.
And when you try to open up about struggling to socialize, you're met with "that's not true, you got invited to this one place this one time, you're just being negative".
Correction. He's arguing that he has the right to be a criminal but Biden doesn't.
For many people, math is confusing in the theoretical sense but makes perfect sense if applied to a real world scenario.
For example, if you ask them what 25 times 13 is, they'll just see it as a big math problem. But if you ask what 25 cents times 13 is, they'll be like "that's easy, it's $3.25".
They may be confused by the new addition method being taught in school, where you add part of it to get a certain amount then add the rest. But if you ask them what 5 hours after 9:00 is, they'll be like "that's easy, 3 hours after 9:00 is 12:00 then you add the remaining 2 hours to get 2:00".
