Does anybody else wish there were more restrictions to legal rights in the US?

I do. I’m mainly thinking of the 1st amendment. Because of the first amendment, laws have varied so much in the US that something entirely legal in 1 state is illegal enough to get jail time in another. That sounds very unfair to me. There should be some federal law that prevents this from happening.

I also think that your high school bully likely managed to get away with bullying you because of such a right. If there was a legal restriction against it, like there is in some countries, then bullying would be harder to get away with. It also might encourage people who are anti police to find more constructive ways of addressing their dislike of police as opposed to just saying things like “fuck the police” or “ACAB”. I’m not gonna deny that policing in the US is flawed but I think that if a person believes it is flawed and has to change, then they should just say that.

There is a right in the US I feel strongly about which is the 2nd amendment, to the point that i think every country should have a legal right like it. It’s mainly because i strongly believe in the general right to self defense and there have been times where I felt very unsafe because I wasn’t legally carrying a gun at the time. I didn’t even have a single weapon on me.

If there was some restriction on the 1st amendment that made it legally impossible to vote for most restrictions on the 2nd, then gun laws wouldn’t vary much in the US and no gun owner would have to worry about getting arrested when they have to go to another state just because the gun laws of that state are so different that it would suddenly make them a lawbreaker. Similarly, the US cares so much about local control that if you were to get a concealed carry permit in 1 state, it would be legally invalid in another. That sounds unfair and silly to me. There should be a federal law that makes such a permit legally existent in any state.

I think this last restriction would probably be most attractive to the kind of people who frequent this sub, even though it doesn’t have much to do with rights that already exist. The restriction consists of an amendment that fully criminalizes slavery no matter the reason, not even as a “punishment for a crime”. The only reason I support this is because perhaps the US justice system’s focus on punishment is turning criminals into repeat offenders and not “rehabilitation-oriented” enough. Perhaps this restriction will make it more “rehabilitation-oriented” so they don’t turn into repeat offenders.

This is probably the most left-y political opinion I have. Private companies should have legal restrictions so they can’t do things like force people to work despite being sick and refuse to hire people who are disabled. There are more things i think they should be legally required to do and to avoid doing but I won’t list them here because I don’t want this post to be too long.

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 13 days ago

Do you feel like this kind of emotional pain is unique to autism?

Any kind of emotional pain that comes from a failure to achieve something that other people already achieved and you need more time to achieve it for some reason or you have some other issue that keeps you from achieving it.

I remember feeling this way with driving. I think I felt this way before I tried to get a drivers license but I don’t remember what it was. I think it was probably something I was trying to make as an elementary schooler that most kids my age were already done making.

A similar example was when I was at summer camp trying to do something with these scientists and it took me a few tries to pull it off. It took other people who tried it only 1 try.

After I experienced that kind of pain with driving, I somehow never thought it would come up again but it did very recently.

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 26 days ago

Have you ever had an opinion that you felt so strongly about or supported so much that you found it unfuriating that either no one agrees with it, or it’s somehow too foreign of an opinion for them to grasp?

I have a few of these opinions and many of them are philosophical.

*infuriating

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 1 month ago

Do you miss things like going to McDonald’s after going to a doctors appointment?

I do. I hate going to doctor’s appointments and feel like I should get rewarded for it. It doesn’t even have to be going to McDonald’s.

Apparently some people were rewarded with a trip to McDonald’s after having to go to the doctors appointment as a kid and I was one of them.

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 1 month ago

I came across a short video that showed pics of human remains that were dug up and upon seeing those pictures, I could almost hear the remains screaming as if it got extremely angry at whoever dug it up or as if it was a person being burned to death.

Is being able to almost hear such sounds when seeing pictures like that common in autistic people?

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 1 month ago

How would you want a person to react when you tell them “I have autism”?

Idk if anybody would agree with me but I would want someone to say this if I told them I have autism.

“Living with that must suck. Do you wanna talk about it?”

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 1 month ago

Have you ever had a thought and reacted to it like “OMG! Philosophy: 100”

I have, on numerous occasions. Here is a very recent example.

I once thought that “fear is the distant relative of hope.”

That thought of mine is actually a reference to another thought that went “when hope is all you have, the entire world can feel like an unpredictable nightmare”

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 1 month ago

Did people in medieval times see themselves as individuals in any way?

From what I’ve came across about medieval times, it was a time when people very much considered themselves part of a group. Even though that’s the case, my question still stands and more to the point, in what ways did they see themselves as individuals? Did they often make decisions for themselves entirely and did they often consider how it would make other members of their group look?

Just to be clear, what I mean by “group” in this case is like “the clergy” or “the nobility”

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 1 month ago

Do you feel like there’s anything depressing about telling someone who likely isn’t autistic that you have autism or asking someone if they have autism and they say no?

I think they both sound very depressing because autistic people don’t make up a very big part of the population so the chances of a person running into an autistic person is rather low. The second thing actually has a lot to do with why I don’t ask people if they have autism if they strike me as autistic in any way.

Also this might come from how almost every time I told someone I have autism, I regretted it.

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 2 months ago

Are daggers any good for self defense?

The reason I like the idea of having one for self defense is that since the blade is longer, it means I have more reach so I don’t have to get as close to my attacker.

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 2 months ago

Idk if this joke would land any better than the last one I told but there goes

During my college days, where I was often tasked with writing massive piles of text about text written before me, I had to write so furiously and aggressively that my pen caught fire and I had to call the fire department.

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 2 months ago

Were you told anything like this growing up?

“Hope doesn’t put any food on the table” or more generally “ this thing you brought up doesn’t put food on the table”

I was and I found it very annoying because it happened when me and my parent were talking about something that had little or nothing to do with jobs and they used that phrase so much that I started to think that nothing puts food on the table according to them. I hope you understand how stupid this sounds.

In my first example, it’s even more stupid because for a long time, and even right now, hope has been the only thing I ever had. Hell, it’s been one of the only things I had in achieving certain goals of mine like getting a job.

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 2 months ago

Do you ever fantasize about being mentioned in history books or having sections or paragraphs about you in them?

I do. It’s mainly because I have written a lot of nonfictional monologues about human nature, philosophy, and my stance on certain issues. I think what’s in my writing is unique enough to warrant that kind of attention.

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 2 months ago

How do I tell if I’m high functioning enough for police work?

My diagnosis papers say I’m level 1. I’ve read about a few other level 1 autistic people who have had jobs in LE doing conventional police work. I’m a little concerned that I might not be going in but I feel like training will pull that right out of me or if I’m allowed to redo it until I can get past it.

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 2 months ago

Has anybody here played the Watch Dogs games or seen gameplay footage of it?

If so, do u wish the instant profiler app was real? I think so because I like the idea of reading about quirky or unique things about people.

When you profile an NPC in the game, it just says their age, a picture of them, their job, how much they make, and a unique thing about themselves.

In the first game, there is a notable NPC where if you profile him it says that he doesn’t have a social security number, for instance.

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 2 months ago

Do you find this annoying?

One time I was at a job fair and asked a booth if the donuts they had were free and they said “no they’re 5$ a box. Nah I’m playin, they’re free.”

I find it annoying because it’s like they think making someone feel stupid is fun.

This might sound like a stretch but, this sounds like one of those signs of shadiness I would tell other autistic people to watch out for. I don’t just mean shady in a “you can’t be yourself around them sense” I also mean shady in a “this guy has 5 billion warrants for their arrest” sense

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 2 months ago

There’s something about myself that I noticed that seems weirdly kiddish. Have you noticed it in yourself at all?

Sometimes, when I do something for the first time or something i haven’t done in years I somehow picture it as being part of some kids show, like for example “(name of person) goes to the grocery store.”

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 2 months ago

Do you do this at all? If so, have you noticed it?

I noticed that I tend to be optimistic where people are not and pessimistic when people are not. I kinda don’t like the fact that I have this trait because it kinda makes me seem naive, especially in the case of the former and I strongly believe that I am not naive at all.

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u/Fabulous-Introvert — 2 months ago