Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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IgnorantHave you ever actually met anyone with autism in your life? "Plain weird" is a massive misrepresentation. My dad's got Asperger's, and he isn't weird. Just good at maths, and a little insensitive sometimes, pretty stereotypical. Autism isn't weirdness, it's just a difficulty (to a lesser or greater degree) with social interaction and communication.
You might also be interested to know that the criteria for ADHD diagnosis in the UK is pretty bloody tight - you need something like 2 years of symptomatic behaviour and a psychologist's report.
Your post, like many many others on this QOTW, seemed just like some kind of ill-advised attempt to reintroduce "common sense" into schools/workplaces etc. What would you say if your autistic child was labelled as plain weird?
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 1:17, Reply)
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