When's it okay to dislike "special" people?

[AgedGrunt]

"Okay" is rather subjective; it will mean 100 different things to 100 different people.

To me it is always okay to like or dislike people. That is, it's your right to an opinion. As far as what other people think of that? It's your personal experience with the individual, not theirs.

Special needs' people can be an exception, but it's important whether or not their behavior is willful. They may not have control over it or simply don't understand. In the end I'd say it's more about that behavior than the person, unless they are one in the same (if that makes sense).

 

[Korolev]

Well, it depends. His behaviour may be annoying, but is he really responsible for his actions? Is he acting that way BECAUSE he has a mental impairment, or would he have acted that way just because that's his personality? It's a difficult question. If I were you, I'd give him the benefit of doubt. Proper social etiquette actually requires a fairly high degree of intellectual functioning, which he may not have. Many special needs people DO act inappropriately, and on impulse, because they can't control themselves as well, in some circumstances.

 

[xshadowscreamx]

I haven't really found any 'special' annoying, but to kind of change the subject, there is this girl in my class who unnecessary adds to conversations when it was not at all needed or wanted with her annoying voice.
a symptom of asbergus , not that I'm an expert and I do have friends who do have it. It just jarring to me.

 

[lee1287]

being a dick is being a dick, with no legs, legs, blind or not blind. Being "Special" doesn't entitle you to be mean, I'm certain some people see it that way though.

 

[Wolf In A Bear Suit]

Well this is one of those situations where a person can justifiably be treated different. It's not like the hitting a woman debates that were circulating over the past while, the person has a disability and isn't fully responsible for their actions. You don't have to like them but be a little bit more patient. Obviously it depends on the disability though. If the person can't behave properly though, say in a workplace they probably shouldn't be there. Not fair to other staff.

 

[scorptatious]

Boy does this question hit close to home.

My brother and I were both diagnosed with autism. He was affected worse than I was.

He's not a bad guy, in fact sometimes he can be fun around.

He has these annoying aspects to him though that are more or less symptoms of autism. He gets freaked out when things don't go EXACTLY his way, he's not very social, so he has a very limited amount of things to talk about beyond video games and movies, and he lacks the ability to understand most social cues so more often then not, he'll just keep rambling on and on about stuff that most people don't really care about and won't realize that he's been talking for too long.

He also has this annoying habit of not learning from his mistakes. We tell him that all the above stuff I mentioned can annoy people and it has gotten him into trouble in the past. He does realize what he did got him into trouble, but he just goes back to doing those things anyway.

It makes him be rather hard to be around, and as awful as it is for me to say, I can't help but resent him for being this way. I wish he would change himself for the better, but deep down I know that that's most likely never going to happen.

At the very least though, he doesn't know how to use a webcam and upload videos on the internet. Because then he would probably end up like this guy:

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Even then though, he's probably smart enough not to do the things this guy did.