P.S. to Tom - I know I can be a jerk, and hard to deal with, and sometimes suck at communicating - but I 110% mean well to and for everyone, and want you to be happy with me, the other people on the list, and the world. Happy-go-lucky-pre-coffee-me is kinda different than the me that snipes at people late at night ;-) best (with ponies and rainbows, even!), --e On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Elijah Wright <elijah.wright@gmail.com> wrote:
Oddly, the behavior demonstrated throughout this discourse closely aligns to cyber bullying, and on an email list of professional academics and researchers no less. This is not the solution; this is the problem.
Starting over: Hi Tom, welcome to the list! :-)
Tom - what you possibly don't know - there are several people on the list with Aspergers or coming from some other location "on the spectrum" who've been vocal about it.
I deal with someone with Aspergers-ish issues *every day*. He's 15, not an internet troll, and having a direct comparison made between internet trolling and what Aspergers is like is just painful to me. Being an 'jerk' or a troll and having Aspergers or other autism-spectrum symptoms are pretty different. :p
There are a lot of researchers in the area of disability studies doing interesting work - I'm not really very aware of anyone doing work that crosses disability studies with internet research, but I am going to go ask a friend now if they do know of some - it seems to me that there's a nexus of interest there that someone should be exploring. You're right to point it out, and I want to acknowledge that I see the value in having you point to it, even tho I don't really agree with how you went about it.
best,
--elijah