The 5 Most Retarded Causes People Are Actually Fighting For

AnnabelAnatomy do you have Dysphraxia then? because you spelled writing wrong.

'Humans haven't reached a perfect utopia so if they care about anything other than humans it's futile and meaningless.'
Yeah, I'm not against eating lobster but I HATE that argument. Article wasn't very good punchline wise either.

FreemDeem,

Dyslexia is difficulty reading, Dysphraxia is difficulty wrighting and Dyscalculea is a difficulty with numeracy.
That said, the disorders have quite similar symptoms that just affect different parts of learning so people tend to just group them together- also sufferers tend to suffer from 2 or more of the disorders i stated above.

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you guys are all wrong the most retarded cause people fight for is at www.vhemt.org

peta.com is a f****n bullshit dude bunch of f****n hypocrites

Oh yeah also. If you had dyslexia you would struggle with reading AND writing. Are you sure you're not making this up or possibly confusing it with something else?

Covertwalrus, Aspergers has nothing to do with dyslexia.
Duh.
(I know the guy below said it but I just wanted to show support lol)

Asperger's isn't related to dyslexia...
Asperger's is like high, high functioning autism. It has nothing to do with dyslexia

While not Asbergers, I do have the related condition of Dyslexia ( Yeah, as if you hadn't guessed from the typing ), and it has been hard for me to cope with many things - the attempts to 'cure' it by beatings and suggested lobotomy in the 1970s for instance.

But I have adapted to have a huge memory, some pretty astounding reading skills even if my writing sucks when I'm tired, and to have graduated university with two degrees and held jobs of technical natures.

There are worse causes to promote, true, abnd there are far better ones as well. Probably none on this list, with the possible exception of the Snake Rights movement - those suckers might attack unwary peopel, but in India, for on example, the protect crops from rodent infestation and as a bonus prevent Bubonic Plague outbreaks.

what the f**k dude peta goes o f****n far year after year the sad part im a member but im not an extremist freak like the rest of those retards

what's ass burgers?

Oh My God...I like to play video games too! So by doing the math, I must have Aspergers!

No, wait. Damn, I did math. Never mind.

Yes, I've Aspergers as well. Over time you learn what isn't accepted by normal society and you adapt. Behind closed doors is another matter.

Telling the world you have Aspergers in the manner of a pride movement is saying you're trying to prove to everyone that you can BS your way into a misdiagnosis.

Granted, some of us have what others term, strange habits, but for the most part when we obsess over something it's something normal. An engineer devoted wholeheartedly to engineering who has AS is a prime example. Me, I obsess over video games and the internet as I'm disabled. Still, these are normal activities.

Being a Star Trek geek doesn't automatically make you a candidate for AS. It DOES make you a candidate for misplaced priorities. I've yet to see or hear of an actual AS person taking Star Trek to that degree. Sure, there are fans that have AS, but they don't take it to the extreme.

Want to go around declaring you're an AS person so therefore all of your percieved idiocies can be done with ease? Fine, get a psychiatrist to declare you as such.

I have Aspergers Syndrome and Its not nearly as debilatating as everyone says it is. I realized that reading naruto and picking my nose in public would not get me anywhere, so I adapted and now lead a normal life. I used to wish that I didn't have Aspergers but looking back now: the super powers wore so f*****g worth it :P

Yea verily, self-diagnosed Asperger's is often just a euphemism for wilful reclusiveness, misanthropy, and the aforementioned dickishness. *Pause* Not that there's anything wrong with the first two...

Kozue: I'd sign up, but I'd dare say you'd have to cull at least half of the human race, and get your hands dirty with eugenics and whatnot. Not everybody goes for that kinda thing, the jellyspined cowards...(j/k, maybe)

http://www.tokillfor.com/view_video.php?viewkey=03ef61cad8f151c515fc&page=1&viewtype=&category=mr

The specific case that is most memorable to me was going for a GAP exchange just out of high school. My diagnosis was in my high school records, so the school told the company, and as a result none of the countries I wanted to go to would accept me. I was 17 at the time and it was hard to get over it.

Wow. Who's up for a "Humans to restrict stupidity" movement??

Sigma;

I too have had this problem; if you need any dispensation for any medical or personal reasons, then you have disclose it at application, pre-interview. and as a result....

Sigma: Over here in a job app you usually have to disclose whether or not you have it so that that can be taken into account during the interview. I usually don't bother, as I believe that mine is mild enough to make any preferential treatment I recieve unfair. However there are those who have it worse than me who cannot pass for normal with effort, and thus must disclose that they have it.

Even though many businesses here claim to be equal opportunities employers, sadly there are always people who discriminate against others.

And before the naysayers say that I'm just another fake crawling out of the woodwork, I'll remind you that I recieved my diagnosis 7 years ago (when I was 13), which was a time when ADHD was the fashionable diagnosis, and not AS.

Luftwaffe: Neither AS nor ADHD is made up. However, they have, at one point or another, been fashionable to diagnose, so that people who don't have the disorders have been diagnosed anyway due to the doctors not being able to say "your kid's just an arsehole"