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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Your explanation of your autistic comment was what I found insulting, derogatory and condescending. It sounded like you were saying most autistics can't function.
The rest of your post was ok.
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Perhaps it sounded condescending to you because you're not familiar with the matter?
Highly functionning autists are usually very valuable as it's oftentimes paired with high IQ.
But on the side, there might be communication problems.
There's a very broad spectrum, and I wasn't making two groups: one with functionning and another with non functionning (I gave no indication of the amount). I was saying that there exist HIGHLY functionning autists that are very very valuable, so I don't think autist is ALWAYS a net bad.
Sometimes, autist is thrown off as an insult, and it's because some autists are very handicapped.
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my native language is french.
About intangible, I have troubles understanding, I think it's wrong in that case. Your "ebook" is stored on somepart of a hard drive, and you could see those parts if you wanted. Interpreting the ebook into something readable is another matter, but it's not intangible I believe? If you don't know braille for instance, you couldn't read a braille book either, but you could see it.