I don’t understand how you can seriously not understand that difference between the two.
Autism is a developmental disorder, which manifests itself in many ways, most of which are completely irrelevant to your post.
Whereas being a “terrible leader”, as you call them, is a personal trait which does not resemble autism in almost any way.
Furthermore, the word autistic in the title is not only completely speculative, but also does not help your case at all.
I think that by using that term so explicitly in your title, you spread misinformation, and with no good reason.
I ask you to change the title, or let the forum moderators handle this situation.
Contrary to your insinuation, I never wrote that I don’t understand the difference between those two. I was pointing out that Brian’s argument applies to both “(autism)” and “terrible leaders”.
I meant the difference between using the two, I don’t doubt that you understand the difference between autism and (lack of) leadership.
In any case, this was not main point, which is that the word autistic in the title does not help your post in any way, and spreads misinformation.
I do find the rest of the post insightful, and I don’t think you are intentionally trying to start a controversy.
If you really believe that this helps your post, please explain why (you haven’t so far).
Note from the lead moderator: We discussed a potential change to the post title, but no participants in the discussion thought that doing so was the right move.
I personally found the title confusing and annoying for some of the reasons others have mentioned, but titles don’t have to help the author’s case (or even make sense).
If a claim that someone had been diagnosed with a developmental disorder were being applied with no evidence to someone other than a public figure, it would clearly run afoul of our rules. But in this case, I don’t think that whatever harm is done by confusion and the potential misuse of a medical term overrides a strong prior of “people can name posts what they want, and commentators can react as they see fit”.*
I’m glad that the author added further explanation since this comment was made. In the future, I hope that Forum users will routinely back up controversial claims in their titles.
*I will sometimes change a post title if there’s a clear mistake I think the author would want reversed (e.g. a misspelled word or misplaced punctuation mark), or if the title is visually awkward (e.g. written in all caps or written LiKe tHiS).
I don’t understand how you can seriously not understand that difference between the two. Autism is a developmental disorder, which manifests itself in many ways, most of which are completely irrelevant to your post. Whereas being a “terrible leader”, as you call them, is a personal trait which does not resemble autism in almost any way.
Furthermore, the word autistic in the title is not only completely speculative, but also does not help your case at all.
I think that by using that term so explicitly in your title, you spread misinformation, and with no good reason. I ask you to change the title, or let the forum moderators handle this situation.
Contrary to your insinuation, I never wrote that I don’t understand the difference between those two. I was pointing out that Brian’s argument applies to both “(autism)” and “terrible leaders”.
I meant the difference between using the two, I don’t doubt that you understand the difference between autism and (lack of) leadership. In any case, this was not main point, which is that the word autistic in the title does not help your post in any way, and spreads misinformation.
I do find the rest of the post insightful, and I don’t think you are intentionally trying to start a controversy. If you really believe that this helps your post, please explain why (you haven’t so far).
Note from the lead moderator: We discussed a potential change to the post title, but no participants in the discussion thought that doing so was the right move.
I personally found the title confusing and annoying for some of the reasons others have mentioned, but titles don’t have to help the author’s case (or even make sense).
If a claim that someone had been diagnosed with a developmental disorder were being applied with no evidence to someone other than a public figure, it would clearly run afoul of our rules. But in this case, I don’t think that whatever harm is done by confusion and the potential misuse of a medical term overrides a strong prior of “people can name posts what they want, and commentators can react as they see fit”.*
I’m glad that the author added further explanation since this comment was made. In the future, I hope that Forum users will routinely back up controversial claims in their titles.
*I will sometimes change a post title if there’s a clear mistake I think the author would want reversed (e.g. a misspelled word or misplaced punctuation mark), or if the title is visually awkward (e.g. written in all caps or written LiKe tHiS).
Thanks and apologies for the confusion created.
Thanks to Aaron for updating us, and thanks guzey for adding the clarification in the head of the post.