Now, typically, I don't respond to things like this, but your response was so amusing (your first inaccurate sentence) and dangerous (your last sentence) that I just had to waste my time by responding.
The first sentence is just plain silly, because nobody's perfect; let alone someone with a mental disorder. Come on...if you knew I had a disability, then you knew I can hardly consider myself anywhere near perfect, so that sentence is just a contradiction. Humans, after all, aren't perfect, "normal" or not. Nothing and nobody is.
As for the last sentence...
You played a dangerous card with your comment, bringing autism into it. There's a rule of thumb to not include unrelated points into a discussion. I, or anyone else, can now use that and turn it right around on you. I can say something like: "Are you going to lurk around on Failblog (and like sites) and start calling each poster there hypocrites, too?"
Then, I can say: "Of course you aren't going to troll failblog...because you don't know if the posters there have autism or any other sort of disability/disorder that people can possibly make fun of, so you have no argument for them. Thus, you can't pick on them."
It's dangerous to throw around words on a disability or personal problem where there shouldn't be any. Thus, someone can look at this and think that you're just trying to be a bully, rather than attempt to stand up for whomever wrote that.
Here's a response someone had when I showed all this to them: "So, let me get this straight. That person knew you have autism, and yet they're accusing you of thinking you're perfect? What a...!" (I'm not going to type in what they said after that...)
Also, to answer your question...no, it's not being hypocritical. I was just sharing something I found amusing with my friends and other people, since I don't flame folks for things like that in reviews (I don't flame people, period). I even smudged out the author's pen name, and even the title of the story so nobody can find it. It wasn't done out of malice.
The first sentence is just plain silly, because nobody's perfect; let alone someone with a mental disorder. Come on...if you knew I had a disability, then you knew I can hardly consider myself anywhere near perfect, so that sentence is just a contradiction.
Humans, after all, aren't perfect, "normal" or not.
Nothing and nobody is.
As for the last sentence...
You played a dangerous card with your comment, bringing autism into it. There's a rule of thumb to not include unrelated points into a discussion. I, or anyone else, can now use that and turn it right around on you.
I can say something like:
"Are you going to lurk around on Failblog (and like sites) and start calling each poster there hypocrites, too?"
Then, I can say:
"Of course you aren't going to troll failblog...because you don't know if the posters there have autism or any other sort of disability/disorder that people can possibly make fun of, so you have no argument for them. Thus, you can't pick on them."
It's dangerous to throw around words on a disability or personal problem where there shouldn't be any. Thus, someone can look at this and think that you're just trying to be a bully, rather than attempt to stand up for whomever wrote that.
Here's a response someone had when I showed all this to them:
"So, let me get this straight. That person knew you have autism, and yet they're accusing you of thinking you're perfect? What a...!"
(I'm not going to type in what they said after that...)
Also, to answer your question...no, it's not being hypocritical. I was just sharing something I found amusing with my friends and other people, since I don't flame folks for things like that in reviews (I don't flame people, period). I even smudged out the author's pen name, and even the title of the story so nobody can find it. It wasn't done out of malice.
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