Isn’t autism speaks the one that wants to ““cure”” autism?
wtf
👏 bingo I’d actually rather them not speak at all as well
Once asked a girl what the orange ribbon on her jacket signified. She said domestic violence. I asked for or against? Sometimes I should just not be allowed to speak.
The ‘against’ ribbon is orange. The ‘For’ ribbon is black and blue.
I saw a black and blue ribbon once. Everyone piled on me shouting that it is actually white and gold.
I thought it was red white and blue.
Either that or a police badge
That’s not so bad. If you want to filter out people who don’t share your dark sense of humour, it could work
This greentext is fake and gay! (happy pride month btw)
What really happened is that Anon misinterpreted the cashier’s facial expression because they are autistic. Upon hearing Anon‘s quirky statement, she actually replied:
“I’m deeply sorry for not directly recognizing you as the CEO of Autism®, would you like to take a look at our selection of sandbox factory building and farming simulators? We also might still have a few copies of uhhh…Sonic??”
I mean Autism Speaks is a pretty shit org, I really do wish they’d stop speaking at all
Ooh, I thought that was the joke! He meant that autistic people should stop speaking altogether?
We should though
AFAIK Autism Speaks fucking sucks. They should STFU!
Not sure what anon was actually going for. Self-identification as autistic seems pretty common on 4chan, is he tired of speaking? Trying to make a point about Autism Speaks? Just being ableist?
He’s being self-deprecating for blurting out the first edgy nonsense that comes to mind, a tendency which he attributes (with good reason) to spending too much time on /b/. He may have intended his comment to be targeted at autism speaks instead of people wuth autism but to innocent bystanders that’s not obvious and he’s aware.
Based on my experience, a long time ago, no. Even if they self-diagnose as autistic, they also say hateful things about them, and anyone else for that matter.
omg twinsies
Self-aware enough to realize he’s getting checked out, 8/10… Imma press X to doubt.
I think he means she’s processing his items at the cash register
Yeah, that’s more plausible than my attempt, hah.
People definitely do interpret customer service as flirting though
i mean customer service very very occasionally is flirting. rarely enough that you should just assume it’s not, but often enough that those people who don’t get flirted with and will take any and every chance will flirt back out of desparate hope.
Thinking about it, I’d say the average Anon wouldn’t state with confidence “she was checking me out / flirting with me”.
So fuck you, your answer is clearly the better one. 😜
Yes, that’s the joke
Eh… Not uncommon for socially awkward people to misinterpret professional friendliness as flirting.
somebody said my hair looked nice, clearly dtf
At one of my old jobs (which handled owning malls (I worked on the websites)), one of the locations would hold an event with Autism Speaks; during a meeting, someone mentioned that we needed to get the campaign advertisements on the site for one of their upcoming events.
At the mention of “Autism Speaks”, I reflexively went, “Ew.” Only dawned on me, after the fact, that it probably looked to the rest of my coworkers like I was ridiculously immature about and ablist towards autistic people.
