(Picture is of a book cover, which reads: "The Bisexual Syndrome: A mild form of gayness" and has a review quote that reads: "A fascinating look into the world of the high-functioning homosexual.")As per the forecast of the Autistic Bitch from Hell in
this post.
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OMFG!!! X-D
Now, wait ... does that mean I'm an extreeemely high-functioning homosexual? Or am I just a low-functioning heterosexual? Oh, pleeeease, won't someone tell me how to define myself!
Seeing as any unlabeled lab-specimen get thrown in the incinerator...
Your guess is as good as mine - I've been saying that these functioning labels can be confusing! :)
Now I'm really confused.
Of course my getting confused is often described as me being not smart enough to understand things but sometimes I think it has more to do with people who are decribed as smart people that I'm supposed to listen to (like the NY Times) saying not-so-smart things.
Maybe it's a matter of otherwise high functioning journalist (as they are refered to by what are consisidered the highEST functioning journalist) exhibiting what seems to me by what I consider jounalistic standards, practicing low funtioning jounalistic behavior....or in other words, " This book sounds really stupid."
Yeah, we could fill a whole bookshelf with this stuff:
"Teenagers: High-Functioning Children"
"Tomboyism: A Mild Form of Femaleness"
"Bilingualism: A Sub-category of Foreigner Syndrome"
"Suntan: A Disorder on the Blackness Spectrum"
Medical professionals just don't seem to grasp how offensive this stuff is. Maybe we should make up a new disorder for them, too.
ed:
I'm not sure I understand your comment, but yes, you could also have a journalism spectrum, I suppose. :)
As to the hypothetical books, while yeah they sound like they'd be just awful, I'd almost want to buy one just so I can keep it as I would a novelty toy.
abfh: Yes, that would be the best bookshelf ever! Perhaps we should diagnose them with Mild Ignorance NOS?
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