(a) That's an unfair reduction of Asperger's Syndrome-- which I realize is totes not the point, but I wanted to put that out there. The daughter of one of my friends has Asperger's for reals (she leveled up from autism to Asperger's after years of sensory integration therapy), and while she's intensely inner-focused, I would never accuse her of lacking empathy;
(b) Some people are assholes; this is, in some cases, a psychological or neurological phenomenon, but often it's someone who's a dick; I'd suggest that the people who are dicks on the Internet would be dicks to you in real life if they thought they could get away with it. IE, the absence of empathy isn't conditional, and only the anonymity is variable. They're not "forgetting social mores" so much as they're acting in a way that they'd love to act in their daily lives if they had the immunity.
Also, Asperger is always awkward to say in conversation because it sounds like ass burger.
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Date: 2009-12-05 03:48 am (UTC)(a) That's an unfair reduction of Asperger's Syndrome-- which I realize is totes not the point, but I wanted to put that out there. The daughter of one of my friends has Asperger's for reals (she leveled up from autism to Asperger's after years of sensory integration therapy), and while she's intensely inner-focused, I would never accuse her of lacking empathy;
(b) Some people are assholes; this is, in some cases, a psychological or neurological phenomenon, but often it's someone who's a dick; I'd suggest that the people who are dicks on the Internet would be dicks to you in real life if they thought they could get away with it. IE, the absence of empathy isn't conditional, and only the anonymity is variable. They're not "forgetting social mores" so much as they're acting in a way that they'd love to act in their daily lives if they had the immunity.
Also, Asperger is always awkward to say in conversation because it sounds like ass burger.