Comments on Natural Variation - Autism Blog: John Best's Greatest Hits

I found your blog while searching for John's. Tha...

2009-10-18T12:22:21.058-07:00

I found your blog while searching for John's. Thank you for the great list of quotes. I agree with John, can't wait to start reading his blog.

Liz

Dang.... I can't even read anymore of that guy Tha...

2009-05-20T21:50:13.147-07:00

Dang.... I can't even read anymore of that guy
That's concentrated stuff I can't stand

yeah, unfortunately all our reports to the feed an...

2009-05-18T05:03:00.000-07:00

yeah, unfortunately all our reports to the feed and directly to facebook are so far being ignored. He's regenerated into his homophobic anti-feminist autistic hating ways already too. The whole world is one giant paid conspiricy against him to prevent him from taking the United States to court for poisoning his kids. Unbelievable!

If there's technically no way to ban him in Facebo...

2009-05-18T04:53:00.000-07:00

If there's technically no way to ban him in Facebook, I'm not sure what else you could do.

Hi Joseph, John's currently trying to infect ever...

2009-05-17T21:32:00.000-07:00

Hi Joseph,

John's currently trying to infect every single post he can come across on the Facebook Autism Awareness group. We figured him out pretty early on in the piece but he's too stupid to realise we aint going to bite anymore. He's targeted me in particular to try to troll a responce from cos I keep exposing him and disrupting his sick perversion. He's a dumb shit when you really get to know the man.... and so are all of his aliases who like to support him with all his arguments. We keep reporting him but he won't go away. Any tips on what we can do to relieve ourselves of this whacko?

This has to be one of my favorite comments that be...

2009-01-09T09:08:00.000-08:00

This has to be one of my favorite comments that began me thinking that I should take more of a Norman Lear/Archie Bunker approach of laughing at the absurdity rather than trying to be rational. With presumptions like this why even bother to try and use rational thought:

"All people on my side of the issue speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Neurodiversity never utters any truth."

My response to this was to say "listen very carefully, John...I'm lying right now" in hopes that I could illicet some kind of Star Trek logic overload...

Dysthymia is found twice as much in women as compa...

2008-11-12T03:38:00.000-08:00

Dysthymia is found twice as much in women as compared to men and this ratio does not depend on racial, ethnic or economic background. Until adolescence the rate of depression is not so much between boys and girls but after the age of approximately 12-13 it is more prevalent in girls, the reason could be the rapid changes in their physical, intellectual and hormonal constitution. http://www.xanax-effects.com/

I am intentionally offensive when dealing with lia...

2008-08-16T22:18:00.000-07:00

I am intentionally offensive when dealing with liars and nitwits. My disdain for these people should not be misinterpreted as social ineptitude. I'm not trying to make friends here.

...Or valid points, or decent arguments, or research...

I was rereading John Worst's comments, and I reali...

2008-06-17T10:45:00.000-07:00

I was rereading John Worst's comments, and I realized, at the risk of Godwinning, he's exactly the sort of person Hitler would have been if almost no one listened to him.

Since there's probably not much chance people will start listening, I'll file him under "pathetic" rather than "scary."

um... do you have any link to WHERE he said these ...

2008-04-17T12:12:00.000-07:00

um... do you have any link to WHERE he said these things? I can't track them down.

"“Autistics who don't want to be cured cost us a lot of money. If they're too crazed to accept a cure, they should be euthanized and put out of their misery. Let's decrease the surplus population.”
Sunday, December 23, 2007"

I really really want to make use of that one.

"You have the option of remaining ignorant or lear...

2008-04-16T15:19:00.000-07:00

"You have the option of remaining ignorant or learning from me. Your choice."

This quote reminds me of when I was in 7th grade and a group of girls who were mean, gossipy, and generally self-absorbed, blocked me from getting to my math class. I was having a hard time getting through or saying anything. Then, one of the girls said: "You should be making yourself more like US!" and I burst out laughing. Then I said, wiping my eye of a tear of laughter, "Thanks, I really needed a good laugh." They were so dismayed that they just kind of dissipated, and I got through to my class.

These three more recent Bestisms I think say it all:

“Autistics who don't want to be cured cost us a lot of money. If they're too crazed to accept a cure, they should be euthanized and put out of their misery. Let's decrease the surplus population.”
Sunday, December 23, 2007

“Hitler did not kill any autistic people because none existed at that time.”
Sunday, December 23, 2007

“You assholes are the ones who are worse than Hitler.”
Sunday, December 23, 2007

Cheers!

You make nothing BUT absurd comments, Johnny."Lear...

2008-04-09T16:53:00.000-07:00

You make nothing BUT absurd comments, Johnny.

"Learn from you?" That's the funniest thing I've heard in months! The only thing you can teach me is how to be a feckless liar completely divorced from reality.

"Your[sic] not smart enough to shut me up."Nice......

2008-04-06T15:34:00.000-07:00

"Your[sic] not smart enough to shut me up."

Nice...I gotta remember that one.

Foreskin: "I have 4 nuns and a priest in my family...

2008-04-05T22:47:00.000-07:00

Foreskin:
"I have 4 nuns and a priest in my family so I probably have enough people praying for me already."

Well, that explains the leap from "disagrees with My Authority" to "Likely approves of Fornication with Sheep."

Now, I agree that consent is the issue involved, Fore..something.. Sam?

Whatever.

So, since consent is important, especially when penetrating someone with something designed to change their life, or at least make YOUR day... who signed the consent papers on behalf of your son?

By the way, I'm not implying that you are a perp who is abusing an autistic child - and eveyone else within reach. I'm stating what is, in fact, intuitively obvious with regards to your interactions with other public persons. It is not unreasonable to assume that what you do in public is a milder and relatively more considered version of what you do in private where no-one is watching.

Jesse, I don't make absurd claims. I tell people...

2008-03-20T21:15:00.000-07:00

Jesse,
I don't make absurd claims. I tell people the facts and young people who have not completed their educations just aren't smart enough to accept them.
You have the option of remaining ignorant or learning from me. Your choice.

At 10/24/2007 12:50 PM, Blogger gthomas said..."Di...

2008-02-28T18:47:00.000-08:00

At 10/24/2007 12:50 PM, Blogger gthomas said...
"Did you know that "John Best" appeared at the Awares conference (2005) and then morphed into "Robin P Clark"?" [......] My guess about this character, and a handful of others like him, is that they are full time professionals."

Speaking as Robin P Clarke (r/AT/rpcc.info), the author of the unchallenged gene-expression theory of autism,
I can assure you that I have never needed to "morph" from anyone, and had never heard of a John Best before this thread of drivel here came to my attention. What does it matter whether or not I'm a full-time professional? Well, I'm certainly a fulltime scholar. Why don't you use your space here to engage constructively with my ideas rather than just this trivia gossip drivel? Sorry, no need to answer that!

At 2/04/2008 12:54 PM, Blogger Joseph said... g...

2008-02-18T14:19:00.000-08:00

At 2/04/2008 12:54 PM, Blogger Joseph said...

gwynfryn: I don't know what message you're referring to, but note that this is an old blog post, and very few people are probably reading this.

I'm well aware of this, but I contained the "message" in the very post you read!

As for the original, you only need to go back a few posts to find it, so I'm a bit confused here; are you seeing the same posts that I am? You only need to blog "gwynfryn" or check aspie sites to find my e-mail,(which is gwynzkind@yahoo.co.uk)

Thank you for making this post on your blog.When y...

2008-02-04T14:34:00.000-08:00

Thank you for making this post on your blog.

When you enter 'John Best' into google, it is the second hit.

It is very important that people see John Best as the lying, hateful, fear-mongerer that he is. Just because he has a blog and a child on the ASD does not mean he has a shred of credibility. I am surprised that he not yet been sued for libel or slander for some of the absurd claims and accusations he makes.

gwynfryn: I don't know what message you're referri...

2008-02-04T12:54:00.000-08:00

gwynfryn: I don't know what message you're referring to, but note that this is an old blog post, and very few people are probably reading this.

Maybe most (so it seems?) missed this? Certainly m...

2008-02-03T14:34:00.000-08:00

Maybe most (so it seems?) missed this? Certainly most people ignored my post (nothing unusual there; people like to think everything is normal?) but, if you are the least bit interested in reality, will you please try to at least consider the previous post (repeated below) and try to imagine why anyone called "anonymous" would post such a meaningless empty diatribe?

Here's a copy:

At 11/22/2007 3:41 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love this man.

He is crazy!

We in England have striven to eradicate thinking like this, but every now and then you meet them. More or less they hide in darker and smaller corners of our society, convinced they are right about...well..anything they feel like really.

You see, he cannot cite any empirical, or properly researched etc, proof to back up what he says. Its a certain kind of 1970's Racial Purity old fashioned way of seeing the world. When there was still a village mentality around the places the likes of him lived. There was a set, definite sense of what was 'Normal', which I reckon is where he is coming from.

He hasnt grown up and moved on like the rest of us. I relate to his attitude the way that a stand up comedian Al Murray does. He uses this mindset in his alter ego - The Pub Landlord - to great effect.

The joke is that he really believes himself and his own ideas, whilst deliberately preaching to people who believe the opposite - like him. For his hulking bald headed facist is in reality a cultured Oxford University graduate!!!

I will be showing my pals this blog. Thanks.

John Best reminds me of the "Age of Imperialism" t...

2007-12-15T09:00:00.000-08:00

John Best reminds me of the "Age of Imperialism" that I'm learning about in history right now. He thinks he knows better than us, and that he must decide for us even if we don't like it (paternalism). It's one thing trying to help people live our lives sucessfully, but to mold everyone into one's ideas of a "good life" is completely different. The Europeans thought their ways of life were more ideal by God than the Africans and Asians. Therefore, many of these people turned against the Europeans, but were still being dominated over.

Fore Sam said... Joe;The only problem I have with ...

2007-11-25T12:43:00.000-08:00

Fore Sam said...
Joe;
The only problem I have with this is that you did not include the fact that my "dumb broad" comments were solely directed at Kathleen Seidel. Of course, when taken out of context, the jokes I was making in response to what I consider nonsense don't show their true nature when left by themselves.
It's also inaccurate to claim I hate autistic people. I'd like to see them all cured so they can enjoy their lives without that disability.

oh look! the snivelling little worm has returned to save his skin! get off this website fore-sam you are nothing more than a bigot a waste of life and a disgrace to humanity the day you die the happier this planet will be.
flardox

I love this man.He is crazy!We in England have str...

2007-11-22T03:41:00.000-08:00

I love this man.

He is crazy!

We in England have striven to eradicate thinking like this, but every now and then you meet them. More or less they hide in darker and smaller corners of our society, convinced they are right about...well..anything they feel like really.

You see, he cannot cite any empirical, or properly researched etc, proof to back up what he says. Its a certain kind of 1970's Racial Purity old fashioned way of seeing the world. When there was still a village mentality around the places the likes of him lived. There was a set, definite sense of what was 'Normal', which I reckon is where he is coming from.

He hasnt grown up and moved on like the rest of us. I relate to his attitude the way that a stand up comedian Al Murray does. He uses this mindset in his alter ego - The Pub Landlord - to great effect.

The joke is that he really believes himself and his own ideas, whilst deliberately preaching to people who believe the opposite - like him. For his hulking bald headed facist is in reality a cultured Oxford University graduate!!!

I will be showing my pals this blog. Thanks.

Did you know that "John Best" appeared at the Awar...

2007-10-24T12:50:00.000-07:00

Did you know that "John Best" appeared at the Awares conference (2005) and then morphed into "Robin P Clark"?

Autism related sites are stuffed with such characters, and you needn't think they actually believe anything they post!

You may wonder why some people troll? Some do it for kicks, and "Aspies" are fun targets, being so gullible. My guess about this character, and a handful of others like him, is that they are full time professionals.

Check the history (via "Aaron Rosanoff on wikipedia, for starters, say) and you'll discover neither Kanner nor Asperger invented the word "autism", but merely borrowed it to label a fairly select set of disorders, which had a superficial similarity to what the word previously meant.

Since then, the label has been widened to include all kinds of developmental disorders, without reference to the original meaning, and, judging from the lengths they go to, it seems that certain elements of the establishment are very keen that the public should not be aware of this rewriting of history.

Conspiracy theory? Yes, and it's real (but you'll never know unless you dig for the facts yourselves; don't automatically believe anything anyone writes about "autism". And that includes me!).

Anon, I don't believe John has checked this page i...

2007-10-17T09:20:00.000-07:00

Anon, I don't believe John has checked this page in a long time. You might want to go to his blog. However, it's honestly a waste of time to try to reason with him. He has some beliefs set in stone and that's all he cares about.