bkev said:

As someone who's closest friends identify as on the spectrum, and having a debatable place myself, I do take some offense to Ender's self-righteous claim that Warb belongs there. Or, rather, the way he presented it with no tact whatsoever. Web diagnoses on these sorts of things are pathetic at best - as I would think a nurse would know. Ender, you're using it as a way to discredit him in argumentative situations on the forum. Seriously, listing the signs here? As if to remind everyone else he's below you?

That's the sort of thing that, if you were genuinely curious, should have been addressed in private via PM or something.

I understand you were trying to be polite, but all you've managed to do is cherry coat a condescending appraisal of Warbler. I've a right to point out that this comes off as rude.

I worried very much about this post and the offense it would cause, most especially to Warbler. However, judging by how you took offense, you didn't understand my post very well. Web diagnoses are very unreliable things, but I pointed that out myself and tried to emphasize that with TheBoost. I cannot verify my "suspicions" (as I believe I identified them). What's more, I never used it in a way to discredit Warbler. If you read the comment, you will see that I was directing it towards Bingowings, not to discredit him, but to encourage him to be more sympathetic toward Warbler. I did so with great hesitancy, but I really wanted people to be more sympathetic. Maybe I didn't do it tactfully, but you have to understand that I wanted people to be kinder to Warbler. It was a comment meant in his defense. Please reread it and understand.