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▲ jonahx 2 days ago

"the average persons hatred of autistic or nerdy people"

This is a wildly inaccurate picture of the average person. I don't even think this is true of 10% of people.

▲lanstin 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Probably enough for 90% of such folks to be tormented quite effectively during childhood.

▲bear141 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is a great point. If a small percentage of the population is openly and aggressively negative towards another part of the population, it makes sense that they would both artificially appear as if they are a larger part of the population, to each other. I think it goes both ways.

▲macbem 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anyone who's a bit different has a high chance of having been bullied at some point. It doesn't mean that society hates this specific group of people.

▲LPisGood 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I _highly_ doubt 90% of nerdy people were tormented during childhood. Have you spent time in/around academia? These people are massive nerds and horrendous childhood torment is pretty rare.

▲ted_dunning 2 days ago | parent [-]

It was 100% in my personal experience.

▲LPisGood a day ago | parent [-]

I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. I’m not even saying it doesn’t happen at all higher rate than the general population.

But 90% is just too much to be feasible.

▲lanstin a day ago | parent [-]

Well all good stats are made up.

My point was more that its doesn't take a large chunk of a population to mistreat others to make mistreatment almost inescapable.

For child sexual abuse, which is studied more than "anti-nerd bullying" offenders are just a few percent of the population, if that (I can't actually find good sources for population incidence of being an abuser) but the offended against are 1/6 to 1/3 of the population.

Another interesting point is that some nerdy folks might not even notice the bullying that much - I once had a friend from high school say that they always felt bad for how much bullying I experienced, and I said "what? what do you mean?" I felt that many of the folks in high school were terribly evil people, but I didn't get that upset by the bullying itself. Just determined to move as soon as I could. Not like as a strategy to over come the bullying, just to get among people I can respect.

▲MrMcCall a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Our son was specifically chosen to be in his 4th Grade class because it spent part of the day hosting the spectrum kids within their "regular" class. He was chosen for that honor because of his kindness.

He has been taught to love others since he was born, and the Path of Love has borne fruit for all those around all four of us.

All the people who say it can't be done have never tried consciously evolving with Divine help.

{Complete lyrics} --Sinead O'Connor in Massive Attack's "What Your Soul Sings"