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arely staircase

(12,482 posts) Mon Dec 23, 2013, 05:46 PM Dec 2013

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glaring, gawking, lovingly gazing, creepily creeping, thaoughfully noticing

That shit must be double hell to figure out for my aspergers friends.

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glaring, gawking, lovingly gazing, creepily creeping, thaoughfully noticing (Original Post) arely staircase Dec 2013 OP

The leering is in the eye of the beholdee NoOneMan Dec 2013 #1

Best to keep your eyes downcast when in presence of women quinnox Dec 2013 #2

That is where you would be wrong. n/t Ghost Dog Dec 2013 #4

I've found that the people with Asperger's are generally easier to educate on such matters Brickbat Dec 2013 #3

However, for the vast majority of adults, the distinctions are quite simple.. LanternWaste Dec 2013 #5

NoOneMan

(4,795 posts)

1. The leering is in the eye of the beholdee

Reply to arely staircase (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2013, 05:48 PM

Dec 2013

LOL @ OP

quinnox

(20,600 posts)

2. Best to keep your eyes downcast when in presence of women

Reply to arely staircase (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2013, 05:52 PM

Dec 2013

I said, eyes downcast!

Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts)

4. That is where you would be wrong. n/t

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Mon Dec 23, 2013, 06:55 PM

Dec 2013

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

3. I've found that the people with Asperger's are generally easier to educate on such matters

Reply to arely staircase (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2013, 06:01 PM

Dec 2013

than people without Asperger's who are willfully ignorant.

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

5. However, for the vast majority of adults, the distinctions are quite simple..

Reply to arely staircase (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2013, 07:22 PM

Dec 2013

However, for the vast majority of adults, the distinctions are quite simple...

Unless of course, the temptation to purposefully confuse the two is too great to resist-- which says more about that which what we refuse to learn than it does anything else.

Yet I do realize many people will continue to claim ignorance as a defense in acting out... but then I suppose we'd have to recognize them as, well.. ignorant.

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