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Bed Punishment Was the Boy likely to have been Autistic?

David

I heard a little boy about nine years old in my local park scream he does not want to go to bed.

It was about 4PM.

Pulled the lady  he was with probably his Mother.

A lot of the time she was on her mobile talking about the number of people in the park.

A girl probably his younger sister comforted him.

The apparent Mother ignored the screaming and being pulled about.

Many people in the Mothers situation would have hit the boy.

I asked the NSPC by E Mail who was abused.

They said that if I could identify the child I could report it.

There are two sides here.

One side is that children should not be put to bed during the day for punishment so he was right to resist.

 

The other side is that children should obey their Mothers.

I have been told many times that I should accept authority even if it is wrong.

Was that little boy likely to have been Autistic.?

David

Mod - Edited to remove full name.

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  • Take all the things that British people do, and are, quantify them, average them, and then you come up with a set of traits that are 'typically british'.

    Note, Hope, that that is not to say that everyone who is British precisely adheres to what it is to be typically British, but that equally doesn't mean that such a thing doesn't exist.

    This is the stereotype argument all over again Hope. And you just don't get that just because these things really do exist, in a statistical sense, it doesn't mean to say that everyone within the group under consideration is just like that and doesn't have other traits too.

    It's an average.

    Like take these numbers:

    1,3,5,7,9

    What is the average?

    7.5

    Are any of those numbers 7.5?

    No.

    Does that stop the average being 7.5?

    No.

    And so it is with people, and stereotypes - just because very few, if indeed any, of the people adhere precisely to the stereotype, or average, of that group, doesn't mean that that average is nonsense, or pointless, or unapplicable - it is because it is based upon the people in the group.

     

    Oh, and by the way, it's Scorpion0x17, not Scorpian. Unless you want me to call you Hyp?

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  • Take all the things that British people do, and are, quantify them, average them, and then you come up with a set of traits that are 'typically british'.

    Note, Hope, that that is not to say that everyone who is British precisely adheres to what it is to be typically British, but that equally doesn't mean that such a thing doesn't exist.

    This is the stereotype argument all over again Hope. And you just don't get that just because these things really do exist, in a statistical sense, it doesn't mean to say that everyone within the group under consideration is just like that and doesn't have other traits too.

    It's an average.

    Like take these numbers:

    1,3,5,7,9

    What is the average?

    7.5

    Are any of those numbers 7.5?

    No.

    Does that stop the average being 7.5?

    No.

    And so it is with people, and stereotypes - just because very few, if indeed any, of the people adhere precisely to the stereotype, or average, of that group, doesn't mean that that average is nonsense, or pointless, or unapplicable - it is because it is based upon the people in the group.

     

    Oh, and by the way, it's Scorpion0x17, not Scorpian. Unless you want me to call you Hyp?

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