Reply #76: Not sure I understand...

[SpiderMom]

What's with the flames against this post and making fun of spelling errors? That seems like... oh, I don't know... bullying?

He wasn't saying that gay and obese students are not bullied. Just that there are other groups who are also bullied... and perhaps at a higher rate. It is a fact that learning disabled students are bullied as well. 95% of children with Asperger's syndrome are indeed bullied, and some statistics say the rate is even higher than that. These are very quirky kids who instantly draw attention to themselves as being different. My child is one of them. And this is a real problem to be considered when rates of Asperger's and autism diagnoses are on the rise.

I find DU to be an interesting site with lively debates. I don't always agree with opinions here, and that's a good thing. What would be the fun in always agreeing with everyone? But I don't understand why everyone who has a dissenting opinion seems to get "tombstoned", as you called it. And I don't understand the childish name-calling.

And I will concede that I know "endersdragon" personally (and am sure that will draw out attacks upon myself for that concession). In his defense, he is dyslexic (which explains the misspellings), but he is anything but an idiot. Opinionated, yes. Sometimes types without thinking it through first, perhaps. But this post was certainly not worthy of name-calling and "bullying".