To repeat what I wrote with emphasis... (Main Forum)

by Brian Coyne , LINDEN, NSW, Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 10:36 (793 days ago) @ Roch

Maybe this might assist Grahame...

I suspect it might be like water off a duck's back to yourself — as Aspies seem to have difficulty in understanding when someone is giving them shit, or taking the mickey out of them, as much as they don't understand when they serve up objectionable or inappropriate responses in social situations[1] — but what if I responded every year when Grahame Fallon "remembers his first wife and son" with something like this:

Get over your "unresolved grief", Grahame. Can you bloody-well shut up about your son and your first wife. We all know their story and how deeply it affected you, but we're sick to death of hearing about it like some broken record. You didn't mention Jesus, the Buddha, Teilhard de Chardin, the "Total Christ", the "Cosmic Christ", "Cosmic Christology", "Christic Cosmology", Pope Benedict, Alfredo Ottaviani, the Monitum, Humanae Vitae, The Theology of the Body, Hope or whatever in the 556 words you used (or however many it was and I meticulously counted every single one of them) to express your "unresolved grief" over the loss of your son and your first wife.

I'd be interested to know how you would feel if I responded like that? Is that an inappropriate question to ask you? Do you find it in any way offensive? Would you feel offended if I, or another poster, responded to you when you were writing about some "unresolved grief" like the death of your son and your first wife, in a similar way to the indented paragraph above?

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[1] See: "Asperger syndrome and interpersonal relationships"

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