[ SECRET POST #2818 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2818 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Am I an Asshole?

[kallanda_lee]

I'm mixed on this. It's not NICE - but my mom knew this woman who had a son with down's when I was little. I was like 6, but he was an adult by then. He would bark like a dog and make erratic movements and I remember being really scared of him as a child. I've mostly grew out of the fear, but I'm still not entirely comfortable with people with Down's.

Re: Am I an Asshole?

[(Anonymous)]

Eegh. Yes. I know it's awful, but people with Down's syndrome (or severe autism, or certain other physical/mental/developmental disorders) tend to trigger a deep reflexive horror in me. With effort I have gotten to the point where I don't visibly react with fear. I think they're falling into my personal uncanny valley, which just makes everything so much worse, because the uncanny valley is supposed to cover nonhumans.

Re: Am I an Asshole?

[(Anonymous)]

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Same here. I'm scared of social interaction in general, and I guess I have a bigger fear that they would interact with me because I wouldn't know what to do/say.

Re: Am I an Asshole?

[(Anonymous)]

People with severe mental retardation, Down's, TBI, etc also trigger a deep reflexive horror in me too, mostly because being in that condition is probably my single greatest fear in the world.

Also, I feel like I wouldn't feel like a real human being if I was in that mental condition -- how could I be a human if everything that I personally define as what MAKES me human is bound up in mental capacities that would be gone if I was in that condition? So it's hard to instinctively/on a gut level see those people as real humans either, although I certainly know it intellectually.

I'm far worse than you though -- I privately can't help feeling it would be better to kill them than let them live in that kind of horror. This is a horrible bullshit assumption because it's totally personal -- I would far rather die than live like that -- and doesn't apply to how other people feel about the value of life in that condition.

Re: Am I an Asshole?

[(Anonymous)]

I think this discomfort arises because the actions of someone with a developmental disorder sometimes aren't predictable in the same way as those of a neurotypical person.

Re: Am I an Asshole?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's something I wanted to say in my reply as well.

Re: Am I an Asshole?

[kallanda_lee]

That definitely is the case for me.