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Calling someone "Autistic" is a really dumb insult for League

EvilUnicornLord·May 22, 2017·108 votes·5,804 views

So what makes you better at video games?

Social skills or math?

Obviously not Social skills

And those who are diagnosed with Autism often struggle with understanding social rules and cues but are proven to be extremely proficient at math, science, engineering, and other like subjects. Famous individuals such as Einstein, Tesla, and Mozart (to name a spare few) were thought to have Autism or a similar social defect.

While calling someone Autistic in real life indicates that you're calling them socially inept and/or immature, calling someone Autistic in a video game where social skills matter much less is kind of like saying "you're intelligent".

And while you are going to need social skills to co-operate with your team in League- No wait, you aren't because you can ping.

Thus concludes why you should consider calling someone "stupid" rather than "Autistic" (unless you are a psychiatrist).

######Cue the downvotes.

128 Comments

ABlueQuakerMay 22, 201733 votes

This is why I usually stick to calling people potatoes.

Example 1 Ally Dies Me: You're a fucking potato.

Example 2 Ally Dies Me: You have the map awareness of a fucking potato.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato

EvilUnicornLordMay 22, 201733 votes

Well, considering potatoes have exactly - uh - zero brain cells.

https://media.tenor.co/images/984677b4ee253e16a2888e63db8951d2/tenor.gif

Mecha MaIphiteMay 22, 20178 votes

Potatoes also have 48 chromosomes.

The Ender CobraMay 23, 20171 votes

O_O

BrascusMay 22, 20179 votes

You sir, are as smart as a table.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/343/462/79a.gif?noredirect

Velzard of KozMay 22, 20172 votes

Or "You sir, have wits as sharp as hammer"

Arsenic SulfurMay 22, 20176 votes

"Your skull is thick as a bowling ball, and twice as dense"

BrascusMay 23, 20171 votes

Your cranium is so dense, it is collapsing upon itself, forming a star to blind us from your obtuse nature.

CowseedMay 22, 20173 votes

but......... isn't the wedge at the back of a hammer pretty sharp?

SqkergMay 23, 20172 votes

Sledgehammer

Nightshade RoseMay 23, 20171 votes

Edgehammer

The Ender CobraMay 23, 20171 votes

I'm on my phone, I can't delete the comment

TerozuMay 22, 20173 votes

The second one makes no sense, Potatos have a lot of eyes, i.e. a lot of map awarness, try team fight skills, much better example.

AptestMay 22, 201717 votes

we are going to run out of insults at this rate and i will have to start calling people stupid random shit like "baked alaska" and "smoked salmon"

EvilUnicornLordMay 22, 201713 votes

Well, they won't see it coming.

AptestMay 22, 201712 votes

nobody expects the Spanish inquisition.

EvilUnicornLordMay 22, 201710 votes

Just fling movie quotes at them.

#"YOUR MOTHER WAS A HAMSTER AND YOUR FATHER SMELT OF ELDERBERRIES!"

They'll be expecting something like "noob" or "scrub" but gold like this will catch them off guard. XD

AptestMay 22, 20173 votes

no the whole premise is silly and is very badly written. I'm the senior officer here and i havn't had a funny line yet so im stopping this.

Pale PirateMay 23, 20171 votes

I sure didn't expect it here.

WindOfVengeanceMay 22, 201716 votes

Yea it's bad, but what if... https://pics.onsizzle.com/8-45-pm-what-if-your-child-was-born-acoustic-8-45-5152507.png

(Nail me to a fookin' cross but i find this funny af)

EvilUnicornLordMay 22, 20173 votes

I showed this to a an Autist and he found it hilarious. XD

Sahn UzalMay 22, 20177 votes

I am an autist and I love that meme :P

DuskDaUmbreonMay 22, 20176 votes

You too love that meme? Well, I just so happen to have a friend, that knows a guy, that visits a meme page his brother-in-law owns, that has a kid. The kid that sat one seat to the left and two seats behind that guy's father once upvoted that meme.

Lord GalvatronMay 22, 20178 votes

Agreed, people with Autism are far more intelligent and skilled then most of the people I play with in my games. http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/043/disaster-girl.jpg

Dancing FoxxMay 22, 20176 votes

I got called an expletive AUSTISTIC during a game we won, and I carried, because I didn't follow the aggressive Thresh support into a 2 v 4. He later called me "expletive stupid" when 4 were dead on the enemy team and I recalled during Baron (I was Ahri and everyone else was on it, no chance of a steal) to prevent the last enemy from taking an inhibitor because the inhib turret was already down. The enemy was fully visible on our map, in our base, hitting inhib. Because I recalled, she wasn't able to finish the inhib.

It was the enemy team who started saying I was a good player because they felt bad about how the Thresh was raging on me while I was making smarter plays.

I reported him and specifically mentioned in my report being called autistic, but nothing ever happened.

An Enemy SutandoMay 22, 20171 votes

A good thing to remember is to not report people unless they do some major fucked up shit.

Riot only punishes the most toxic of people.

HalcyonDwellerMay 23, 20171 votes

Using labels derrogatively is major fucked up shit.

That's why we punish people for calling people or things 'gay' in place of a word for 'bad' and it's why we don't tolerate the N-word on the NA server.

58697132DEL1May 22, 20176 votes

You know what really bugs me? Like besides how annoying and offensive it is? It's not creative! Like looking in this thread alone I got so many better things to call people! Like, show you have more brain cells than the person you are insulting and actually say something that doesnt sound like you're a lazy south park writer lol.

HethaleanMay 22, 20175 votes

Yes, but to them it FEELS more insulting to call someone autistic because they have a gross misunderstanding. It's all about how hurtful they feel they can be. Reason need not apply.

EvilUnicornLordMay 22, 201711 votes

Considering incredibly dark topics such as the holocaust and rape are commonly used as insults in gaming, I think social disorders are several steps down.

COBRA C0MM4NDERMay 22, 20175 votes

If you're special. go with it, don't make it out to be a superpower.

'A true hero never shines...they sit in the darkness humble and waiting for that perfect moment of glory.'

If I want to insult someone, I'd call them heathens... Heathens waiting a cleansing.

and my soap has +100% crit.

DuskDaUmbreonMay 22, 20176 votes

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and my soap has +100% crit.

Take my Infinity Sponge. It'll double your crit damage.

M00nKryzalid824May 23, 20171 votes

Okay, that made me chuckle.

+1 upvote

HalcyonDwellerMay 23, 20171 votes

There's a joke somewhere in there about dropping soap...

[slayer-jinx-catface]

Sp33d Zer0May 22, 20174 votes

I just tell them they're a silly goose.

No one ever knows how to respond to that.

JESUSSAYSNOMay 22, 20174 votes

It's the freshest social insult. Falls under the same catagory Retard did in the mid 200x era. You're looking too much into it.

19348180DEL1May 22, 20174 votes

In my personal experience, lobbing an insult in general is never a boon to the team moral high-ground, and is best avoided.

Sraeg2013May 22, 20173 votes

Autism doesn't imply being good at non-social activities though.

Sp33d Zer0May 22, 20174 votes

This is true.

It doesn't however have any implications to being unable to process information either.

Sraeg2013May 22, 20171 votes

It doesn't however have any implications

I may be wrong here, but "doesn't imply" and "doesn't have any implications" don't mean the same thing.

Sp33d Zer0May 22, 20171 votes

im·ply imˈplī verb strongly suggest the truth or existence of (something not expressly stated).

im·pli·ca·tion ˌimpləˈkāSH(ə)n/ noun plural noun: implications 1. the conclusion that can be drawn from something, although it is not explicitly stated.

Do note that implication DOES have two meanings: the action or state of being involved in something.

Yaśuo MainMay 22, 20173 votes

doesn't imply means that it does not imply x but it does imply y

doesn't have any implications means it does not have any implications

I assume this is what you mean?

TheFancySkeletonMay 23, 20173 votes

That's why I stick to really odd and confusing insults. It's better to confuse 'em then make them angry! "Try a little harder next time, you pug-licking salad fork!" "Almost got me, you chair-breather!" "Next time, try not to be a legless shrimp calling out for it's mother."

Colgate GatorMay 22, 20172 votes

I believe you're looking waaay too much into it.

EvilUnicornLordMay 22, 201714 votes

Perhaps, but people like to calculate out how much damage Yasuo does to a champion given an exact number of runes, masteries, and items so I'm actually shooting small.

I just think it's funny people are throwing around insults that are actually borderline compliments.

QuickenedBladeMay 22, 20172 votes

{quoted} were **thought **to have Autism

I was thought to have autism when I was younger lo and behold I am actually just a psychopath and have an IQ 5 deviations above average

why am I a higher rank than my autistic brother if autism doesnt effect skill in league? exactly.

HalcyonDwellerMay 22, 20176 votes

Anecdotal evidence is not enough to prove a point.

What is true in your situation is not then automatically true in other similar situations.

ox2genMay 22, 20172 votes

"those who are diagnosed with Autism often struggle with understanding social rules and cues but are proven to be extremely proficient at math, science, engineering, and other like subjects"

Links to the proof? No? Why weren't the patients I was working with during my internship proficient?

Nothing is "proven" in science, that's what the principle of falsifiability is. There is also no serious research suggesting a causal link between the ability to do mathematics/science and autism. The only articles suggesting these links are correlational studies at best, which still don't explain whether or not the ASD is linked to any type of mathematical ability or if there is a third (possibly more) hidden factor trailing along.

Autism is used as an insult because it suggests not just stupid, but mentally retarded. That is not necessarily true, but try explaining that to a salt-driven chimpanzee whose bronze rank equals his number of brain cells. Similarly, the ape species in this game like to abuse yet another term, cancer. "X gave me cancer". I don't know where this trend began, seeing that it's not even funny, it just makes it obvious your tiny butt cheeks wouldn't even handle a tick, let alone a tumor.

Arsenic SulfurMay 22, 20176 votes

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did report that 46% of all Autistic people had above-average intelligence. If you want to know the gist of things head here https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/autism-spectrum-disorders-asd/index.shtml .

It's also possible you were working with people who had Heller's Syndrome(Child Disintegrative Disorder) so they could've missed a lot of years of development. It's 1 in 100,000 but a very real possibility.

There could be a lot of factors aiding in that statistic. It could be the tendency to repeat things thus helping memory, just having good memory in general, or a desire to be good at SOMETHING. "I'm awful at interacting with other human beings, so screw em. I'mma be a computer instead! Hand me that calculus textbook!"

DarkfireAMMay 23, 20171 votes

Technically 49% of the worlds population has above average intelligence.

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