Famous autistic people - Lionel Messi

I have read in several different places that Lionel Messi is autistic, it is said he may have been diagnosed as a child in Argentina before he moved to Spain at 13,  and reading books and articles about him and seeing how he talks in interviews and how he is on the pitch a lot of his personality and behaviour would fit with an autistic person. I found it really comforting and inspirational when he won the World Cup yesterday. It felt like NT people always reject us and look down on us and make us feel we are not as good as them and yet an autistic person is the absolute best in the world at something. It made me almost cry with happiness, like a victory for autistic people. 

I believe Albert Einstein may have been autistic too. I teach other autistic kids and when they put themselves down and see their autism as something that makes us inferior, I say to them the most intelligent man in history and the greatest footballer in history are both autistic.

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  • A young Russian couple on Youtube rescued a Puma from dire circumstances and live with him in their flat.

    They named him "Messi" after that particular footballer. They have a large following. 

    Even factoring in "normie" levels of dishonesty and misrepresenation, you can clearly see that they have a really nice attitude to life. 

    I'll be honest, my studies of Russian people over the years, which started due to owning Russian cameras and side car motorcycles, and swiftly extended via youtube to seeing all sorts of heroism and stupidity in equal measure from these people, (much like my own, really, I guess) makes me want them very much as friends rather than anemonies. At an engineering level they really do seem to think more like us than any of the other developed nations, and what they managed to do with their aeroplanes when a labour government sent them the latest RR jet engines in the fifties, was not only awesome, but if they were our friends diplomatically speaking, we could bill em for the unpaid licences to manufacture, and being an essentially honourable people, they probably have paid the bill!

  • Because the United States controls the narrative.

    They claim to 'Oppose Imperial Outreach', but created a Global empire; by Proxy. The Democrats view themselves as Invictus. While the Republicans are just the Least Worst Option. Libertarians are too niche to make an impact; even though they're spot on, philosophically.

    They created the perpetual 'Boom and Bust' bubble; through the Federal Reserve. Then they cry foul while we have Double-Digit Inflation. They made the bed; let them lie on it.

    Russia knows what Mericans want, so they provide what Mericans want within Russia. It's the Triple Bluff.

  • We mess with these people at our peril. They still seem to have the ethics/cultural system that we left behind.

    *edit* And they are still kind to animals, as can be clearly seen in their early "Messi the puma"s videos and many others I've seen on the internet. As a cat lover I wince at a lot of our "Cat video's" where people are clearly getting amusement from their cat's extreme discomfort in some cases. We talk a good game when it comes to being a decent society, but my internet and reality watching eyes keep telling me a different story. 

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  • We mess with these people at our peril. They still seem to have the ethics/cultural system that we left behind.

    *edit* And they are still kind to animals, as can be clearly seen in their early "Messi the puma"s videos and many others I've seen on the internet. As a cat lover I wince at a lot of our "Cat video's" where people are clearly getting amusement from their cat's extreme discomfort in some cases. We talk a good game when it comes to being a decent society, but my internet and reality watching eyes keep telling me a different story. 

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