One guy who just got out after doing 2 years spent all his time watching movies (on his personal tv). I don't know if he watched DVD's or On Demand or what specifically but he saw thousands of movies over the 2 years there.

It's not a bad lifestyle if you're built for it and most people in prison don't have much, or many aspirations, on the outside anyway.

Must not be only me considering how many people want to/don't mind going back. Recidivism.

Your friends and cousins are in prison. It's the hangout spot.

I don't think anyone actively wants to go to prison but do a lot of people have an attitude of 'ehh... it's cool' if they get caught? Definitely. For everyone that is in prison furious and punching the wall, there's another (usually young) who is a follower of the lifestyle.

No. It raises questions about culture. It's the view of the inevitability of a criminal lifestyle; the view that it is normal/typical/expected of Black men to be criminals at age 17-30, the same way that is normal/typical/expected of people to go to college, get drunk a lot, experiment with drugs, etc.

It's not economics. It's what people are taught they are supposed to be like; taught what they are supposed to emulate. It's what they follow.

It does actually look kinda like boy scout camp, only with more tattoos, sturdier buildings and uglier uniforms.

That said, I absolutely hated boy scout camp.

I was 12 when I was at boy scout camp. Most of the kids' balls hadn't dropped yet. No experimentation.

Whenever I see a black boy--at the supermarket, for example--I'm sure to ask his parents if they've picked out a prison for him yet. If they haven't, I advise them to start him early with some petty shoplifting, perhaps at that very store. The really prestigious slammers are increasingly selective. I hear Marion won't even take you until you've shanked at least a couple at an institution of lower repute.

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I don't know what you have been smoking lately but I am truly envious.

I'm not really sleeping as much as I should; does that count? Other than that it's just a tiny bit of booze and I haven't posted drunk in years.

What other dumb stereotypes about people with aspergers have you come up with?

Yeah, nobody ever claimed we have no sense of humor AFAIK. Some of us take things literally so we might not always get jokes others make, but in many ways we do vary significantly from Mr. Spock. Honest. Like, did you know I can have sex more than once every seven years?

My brother is an Aspie and quite frankly, he's no fun at all. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/frown.gif

But he probably gets laid more than Speer.

Fortunately, I already ceded the moral high ground at the dickgirl debacle

google asperger and sense of humor and you'll see tons of references to aspergers having no sense of humor, though many of those are aspergers sites saying basically what gives with the stereotype?

You (and some others here) have a problem understanding that perceptions, even false or unsubstantiated, can still be common and powerful. We've had this discussion before where you denied the existence of another common misconception and my response was identical: google it and see how many people talk about it.

Multiple psychiatrists and therapists immediately dismissed the idea (like within 10 seconds of speaking to me) that I have aspergers, despite my mother's repeated insistence to them.

I don't know what the criteria is for determining aspergers but it's clearly not: taking things literally, a lack of understanding of nuance, the compulsion to blab on about topics that interest me, inability to respond to social cues and interact meaningfully with others, inability to form close friendships, and a dislike of being touched.

Whatever I have may seem like a stereotype of aspergers but it's not http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/tongue.gif

If they dismiss any suggestion after only ten seconds with the patient in question, they're lousy shrinks and you should ignore them.

I should also mention that I'm what they call "very high-functioning," which means I pass for normal pretty easily for short periods of time among non-psych majors. Also I catch on to certain social realities more easily--for example, I understand intuitively that it's absolutely impossible for a woman to "hypothetically" ask you if you would like to have sex with her. I hear some people have problems with that.