I'm autistic, with Aspergers- no joke right?
And I'm in a game of ARAM and some very uncouth individual calls my team something to the effect of:
"autist. enemy team"
Now, I feel like a lot of people are silly as heck when they use these phrases to describe stupidity- my team was doing fine in my opinion, a little tunnely but it was ARAM right?
Anyways towards the end when we were winning I /all'd
"HOW DOES IT FEEL TO HAVE AN AUTISTIC BEAT YOU!"
And amazingly my teammate- someone I've never even met before said "Wait, you're autistic? Doesn't that make you half robot or something- that's not even fair to the enemy team."
Now keep in mind, that the Internet is just plagued with misnomers about autism. I was laughing so hard at this though, I've never had a compliment like that or even joke that wasn't really insulting aimed towards me much less autism in general. So what was toxic became banter, and than praise all in one game. Was pretty great. I feel like that falls under "absurd" a little bit, of all the people to get paired against and with I got that kind of interaction? Pretty fantastic in my opinion.