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Article #2322Re: OT: My Idea of an Internet Cafe
From: George Herold
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:26
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:26
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On Mar 4, 12:01 pm, GreenXenon <glucege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 4, 8:19 am, John Larkin > > <jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > > What about the coffee? The pastries? > > Yes. There's that too. Yum-Yums with an additional zing of anonymity > to write whatever you want in chat rooms. What more could any warm- > hearted, compassionate, fair, vulnerable outcast -- like me and many > other geeks -- ask for? > > I'm a social outcast because of the clothes I wear. My skin is very > sensitive so I can't wear the stuff that society considers "cool". I > cannot adapt to the discomfort, so I have to wear what I currently > wear. I have a best friend who has tried his best to support me but > society started insulting him for hanging out with me. As a result, he > is forced to abandon me. > > Because of what society does to my friend and me, I want to punish > society by writing extremely taboo things in chat rooms -- without > putting anyone [including myself] in harms way. > > My enemy [i.e. society] pisses me off. To be fair, I want to piss my > enemy off. > > With this internet cafe, any social outcast could get on a chair, put > on those goggles, get connected and pester society to their heart's > content. It would be extremely difficult for society to figure out the > who, what, when, where, why, and how of any social outcast venting > their spleen via this cafe. > > I have an Autism Spectrum Disorder called Aspergers. This contributes > to my sensitivity to certain fabric. Until society accepts my > "oddities" and treats me as an equal, I will continue to want to > punish it. I'm sorry society has treated you so unfairly. Kids in high school can be particularly brutal. Have you read Oliver Sachs, or Temple Grandin's book "Thinking in pictures" George H.
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