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16 Post author: Douglas_Reay 09 September 2012 04:41AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 September 2012 10:39:01PM *  5 points [-]

I'm reminded of the Diseased Thinking post. If you can't successfully discourage someone with Tourette's from inappropriate swearing but you can successfully discourage a neurotypical male from exhibiting inappropriate sexual-like behaviour, then it makes sense to attempt the latter but not the former.

Comment author: SilasBarta 09 September 2012 02:31:00AM 4 points [-]

I thought the issue was creep behavior, not sexual-like behavior (the latter of which I assume nerds are permitted, from time to time!). And that makes it harder, since a person can also seem weird for erring in the opposite direction, in which they don't start conversations or make eye contact (outside of conversations).

Comment author: [deleted] 09 September 2012 08:44:55AM 2 points [-]

I was mentioning swearing and sexual-like behaviour as two different examples of behaviours which might creep people out. (Edited the grandparent to say “inappropriate swearing” and “inappropriate sexual-like behaviour”.)