My wife actually sent me an article about this - apparently a significant percentage of them have undiagnosed autism.
My daughter likes Harry Potter so we had to go to Universal to visit whatever they call Harry Potter land. Yes. There were a lot of adults and many were dressed in Harry Potter outfits. My wife got mad at me as I regressed to New Jersey mode and gestured at people while saying, āwtf is that?,ā or āthey do know those wands arenāt real?ā The reality is, it has nothing to do with any experience and is just something created with getting as much money from you as possible.
I have a theory that vaccines actually do increase the rates of autism. But itās not because they cause autism. Itās just that autistic people used to die of measles and stuff more in the past.
What is the thinking behind it?
I have heard a similar suggestion for Oregon and Washington. Economically, culturally, and politically, both Oregon and Washington have significant east/ west divisions with the eastern parts and western parts of each state having more in common with each other than the other half of their own state. Of course, it wonāt happen because the western parts like controlling the eastern parts instead of allowing them self determination.
Those are real places?
I hate companies that ask me to round up my purchase for charity. Why donāt they round down my total and donate the difference to charity.
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Ask them for a receipt.
I donāt like that they get credit for the donation of your money.
Its vice disguised as virtue.
Very similar circumstances in the Dakotas. SD is divided in half by the Missouri. The two halves, while pretty similar, are more different than eastern SD and eastern ND.
I have long since retired from trying to teach men how to shoot. Not because I hate themāsome of my best friends are men. But because they, collectively, have the listening skills of a brick and the humility of a cat wearing a crown.
Let me explain.
A man signs up for a lesson. He struts in, chest puffed, eyes scanning the range like heās about to single-handedly reenact Saving Private Ryan. Before I can even open my mouth, heās already racked the slide, taken a stance that makes my knees hurt just looking at it, and is preparing to āshow me what heās got.ā
Spoiler: What heās got is a wildly inaccurate shot group and the unwavering belief that the gun is at fault.
āMust be off zero,ā he mutters, shaking his head.
āBrother, the sights are fine.ā
He adjusts his gripāincorrectly, I might addāthen pulls the trigger again. The bullet goes wide. Again. He adjusts his stance. Wider. Because of course the problem is that he just didnāt spread his legs far enough apart to establish ādominance over the recoil.ā
Meanwhile, Iām over here watching this spectacle, mentally tallying the amount of time he couldāve saved if he had just listened to me for thirty seconds.
Now, contrast that with teaching women.
She walks in, listens to everything I say, and follows instructions exactly. She doesnāt assume she knows more than me because she watched three YouTube videos at 2 a.m. She actually absorbs what Iām saying, makes the adjustments, andāmiraculouslyāhits the target consistently.
She doesnāt blame the gun. She doesnāt blame the wind. She doesnāt blame the alignment of the planets. She just gets better.
Within an hour, sheās outshooting half the guys at the range. And I? I am at peace.
So, no, I donāt particularly enjoy teaching men to shoot. Their egos are bulletproof, their listening skills are jammed, and their ability to admit fault is a misfire. Women, on the other hand? They take the instruction, apply it, and hit their targetsāboth in shooting and in proving a point.
And that, my friends, is why I will always prefer to teach women to shoot.
No shame. No regrets. Just facts.
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Similar dynamics exist in grappling and bar fighting. A lot more men than women are unable to accept that they suck at something they imagine themselves being great at.
It is a major impediment to learning.
Most guys who arenāt open to learning show up for one or two classes at most, then return to their fantasy existence where any violence that comes their way will be easily handled.
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If theyāre undiagnosed, how do we know theyāre autists?
Are we applying the undiagnosed retard method?
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How did you know my real name?
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Oh I get it. I was the instructors assistant in my welding classes.
. Oh man.
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I didnāt, I just wondered if they reached such conclusion by applying a similar method to the one we used to determine that Castoli is a retard, even if undiagnosed (or is it?).
I was diagnosed as ānot retartedā as a young kid.
. I showed them!
Donāt be stealing my identity or Iāll have to show up kitted out with quad tube white phosphorus nods.
Did you see this?
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