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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #165 on: January 02, 2009, 10:24:02 AM »
I just checked out: I weighed 61 kilos or 135 pounds at 18, which means I weighed even less earlier. I exercised a lot at home but could never gain much muscles due to my low weight.  :(

I don't think I have ever fit those proportions. I'm a fairly thick fellow.
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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #166 on: January 02, 2009, 10:26:09 AM »
Honestly, are you surprised if Aspie kids who have the possiblity bring guns to school and kill the bullies?

Not really surprised; ashamed and disappointed, more like.
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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #167 on: January 02, 2009, 10:31:47 AM »
Honestly, are you surprised if Aspie kids who have the possiblity bring guns to school and kill the bullies?

Not really surprised; ashamed and disappointed, more like.
Of whom?

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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #168 on: January 02, 2009, 10:37:41 AM »
I took some martial arts training as an adult as well, but not when I was a kid being picked on.  I really could have used it then.

You are right about it teaching you more control, both physical control and self-control.  I could swing at you as if I were going to punch right through you, but stop at barely touching your clothing with my fist, assuming of course you didn't block me first.  I also learned a lot about blocking kicks and punches.

My husband and I thought long and hard about getting classes for our daughter, but given her physical aggression, we decided against giving her more training in physical control.

She might have learned more self-control but we couldn't be sure, so the last thing we needed was her to just become more well-trained in punching and kicking.



I think that the kicking and kick blocking training had for me immediate benefits, as well. I had already become a bit more confident of myself when I began to train, but I had no direction and no ability to stop once I lost my cool.
From my early encounters in school, once I finally tried to fight back, I found that I was indeed far faster than the average idiots who harassed me and some confidence came slowly afterward. This is what made me try out for the boxing team and I began to realize that I could almost always dodge a swing and avoid being hit. It came just from watching them, where always before my first fights, I always looked away at someone trying to "get up in my face."


I am lucky that my son is not the aggressive type, I suppose. I am not either, really, but when I responded with violence it was usually out of fear. I can see this same fear in him.

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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #169 on: January 02, 2009, 10:48:48 AM »
I don't know.  I was also picked on a lot verbally like you describe, but I was hit, poked, my hair pulled, etc, as well.

Maybe it could be a difference between you and me, or maybe it could just be a difference in the people who were bullying us.

I would be more likely to suspect differences between us, since we both presumably had a bunch of different bullies. What I can't figure out is what the differences would be. I was female, small and clumsy, quiet and mostly passive. I don't understand why people didn't try to intimidate me physically.
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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #170 on: January 02, 2009, 03:44:01 PM »
Honestly, are you surprised if Aspie kids who have the possiblity bring guns to school and kill the bullies?

Yes. There is something wrong if the reaction is that extreme.
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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #171 on: January 02, 2009, 05:07:48 PM »
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My husband and I thought long and hard about getting classes for our daughter, but given her physical aggression, we decided against giving her more training in physical control.

She might have learned more self-control but we couldn't be sure, so the last thing we needed was her to just become more well-trained in punching and kicking.


How about Tai Chi Chuan or somesuch?  As I understand it, that would implement the self-control before it gets into actual fighting techniques.

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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #172 on: January 02, 2009, 05:23:32 PM »
Honestly, are you surprised if Aspie kids who have the possiblity bring guns to school and kill the bullies?

Yes. There is something wrong if the reaction is that extreme.

That's not extreme. Extreme is what I did. These kids have gone beyond anything justifiable.

We are supposed to be smarter than the average buttface, in general, but resorting to killing in order to resolve a bruised ego is another definition of insanity, in my way of thinking.

I have remorse for the big badass I first put in the hospital, still. Of course, I'm not "norbal,"  as Lennon says, but keeping ourselves safe is what we are trying to do. Going so far as killing is insanity.

Read it again, hadron. Once some of your brain turns to heart, you will understand.
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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #173 on: January 02, 2009, 05:26:48 PM »
Of course it's insanity. I have no idea why some people seem to think such violence could ever be justified.

And before you say something, Lit, you do know that you're mad, right? Your obsessions are talking.

And Hadron, while there is still time, consider if you really want to end up being another Lit.
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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #174 on: January 02, 2009, 05:29:49 PM »
Honestly, are you surprised if Aspie kids who have the possiblity bring guns to school and kill the bullies?

Yes. There is something wrong if the reaction is that extreme.
Yeah there is - society. I wish suicidal aspies would do it as a parting gift everytime they offed themselves.

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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #175 on: January 02, 2009, 05:32:59 PM »
Honestly, are you surprised if Aspie kids who have the possiblity bring guns to school and kill the bullies?

Yes. There is something wrong if the reaction is that extreme.
Yeah there is - society. I wish suicidal aspies would do it as a parting gift everytime they offed themselves.

... or get help?
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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #176 on: January 02, 2009, 05:33:25 PM »
Honestly, are you surprised if Aspie kids who have the possiblity bring guns to school and kill the bullies?

Yes. There is something wrong if the reaction is that extreme.

That's not extreme. Extreme is what I did. These kids have gone beyond anything justifiable.

We are supposed to be smarter than the average buttface, in general, but resorting to killing in order to resolve a bruised ego is another definition of insanity, in my way of thinking.

I have remorse for the big badass I first put in the hospital, still. Of course, I'm not "norbal,"  as Lennon says, but keeping ourselves safe is what we are trying to do. Going so far as killing is insanity.

Read it again, hadron. Once some of your brain turns to heart, you will understand.
No, no. A few sprees would change society for the better, if they were well targeted and orchestrated. Bear in mind the removal of one bully means at least one kid not driven to suicide because of them.

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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #177 on: January 02, 2009, 05:35:19 PM »
Honestly, are you surprised if Aspie kids who have the possiblity bring guns to school and kill the bullies?

Yes. There is something wrong if the reaction is that extreme.
Yeah there is - society. I wish suicidal aspies would do it as a parting gift everytime they offed themselves.

... or get help?
Help with what - deluding themselves into being "happy". The root problem is society - and elimination of certain so-called "people" is the best way of dealing with the problem.

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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #178 on: January 02, 2009, 05:36:10 PM »
We've already had more than a few sprees.

How much better off are we?

None!
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Re: blast from the past - new info on a bad teacher I hate, decades later
« Reply #179 on: January 02, 2009, 05:37:10 PM »
... and don't bother with telling me crapshite like the wrong ones were killed, because there are no right ones to kill.
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