What "disturbs me" is your hateful attitude toward people and things that don't fit some neurotypical or physiological mold, people who simply are different, not because they're they're screaming for attention like misguided "Goth" kids but because they simply are through no choice of their own. Your attitude displays ignorance and fear. I'd like to see an intolerant jackass like you get eaten alive in a horror movie. Or a few Goth people.
For your information, the character Chuy represents an autistic child, more specifically one with Asperger's Syndrome. In the real world, people like Chuy might be hated by idiots like you due to their lack of social intelligence, but believe me they make up for it in other ways.
Due to your ignorance you wouldn't know this, but most of the greatest scientific discoveries in human history were - and continue to be - made by single-minded people with Asperger's Syndrome. Archimedes had A.S.; so did Einstein. Bill Gates is rumored to have the traits. There are MANY others, and the list of their accomplishments fills the history books and scientific journals.
We may have only had a label for it for a decade, but the genes responsible have been in the gene pool for a very long time, and they're still present because they're not universally detrimental. Most people with A.S. have extremely high logical intelligence and usually a singular obsession to go with it. Personally I think it's an evolutionary divergence, like Caucasians from Negroids and blonde and redhead from black and brunette. Didn't it ever occur to you that not all evolutionary changes are ones you can SEE?
Without entirely knowing it, Gene Roddenberry patterned his "Vulcans" in Star Trek after people with Asperger's Syndrome; he at least could see the value of some of these traits, however unlike neurotypical humans they might be. You don't have the intelligence, wisdom, or foresight of a Gene Roddenberry though, do you?
Ignorance leads to fear. Fear to leads to hatred.
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marsodyssey2010
19 years ago
Chuey had a little bit more than Asperger's Syndrome. His repetitive behaviour and mimikry suggests some deeper form of handicap.
He also seemed to have an atypical mental age and/or capacity for learning. Which does not go along with textbook Asperger (many Asperger sufferers actually seem more intelligent than average because their lower level of social development is similar to that assosiated with 'nerds and geeks' in popular culture). Plus his underdevelopment appeared to stretch to his awareness stretched to his environment rather than to his social perceptions.
I would say that it was more likely to be poorly acted autism (he made eye contact which is a non indicator for autism, but he was only an actor).
Then again, I'm not trying to pick a fight so .....
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