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but they are not actually Irish, that's literally just your opinion! Legally someone with Irish citizenship is Irish, someone born here to foreign parents is not.

IIm not suggesting that they are less Irish in the way they feel or have been brought up. It's the law

How would you identify, yourself?

I wouldn’t disagree with you, you’ve said you’ve got the passport but if you weren’t born here some might not agree, as we’ve seen above.

People who post "eat the rich" anticapitalist memes have no idea how fun it is/was living under Communism.

I'd add to that by pointing to the fact that ideologues like Ruth coppinger have opposed the building of more prisons, claiming that such policies are classist

Same ideologues now complaining about lack of sentencing

Agreed. She should be highlighting the ruling in the case, however to say it only happened to her because she's female just isn't true.

I see that misery Louise O'Neill with a banner topper on the examiner about we shouldn't be using women as punchbags.

Wow thanks captain obvious and there was I going to use a woman as a punchbag.

You would be surprised how many people don't consider me "proper" Irish cos of the accent.

People who post "eat the rich" are usually vegan…

I'm not surprised a fella like that slipped through the net for the army.

Any lad I know who joined the defence forces after school were like what Tommy Tiernan would describe as 'thick fookers who love sheds'. None of them ever lasted more than a few years either, certainly no promotion.

And you'd swear the Irish army was as psychologically wearing as the US/UK equivalent.

There is mild and severe autism, to say their isn't is pure bullshit.Every single health/mental condition that exists can be mild or severe, autism is no different.The fact that Autism is a spectrum disorder confirms this.

Some people who have autism it has a severely debilitating effect on their lives that they'll never be able to live a normal life and can't live independently

Other people who have autism are able to get on perfectly fine and live full lives.

I haven't compared autism to Schizophrenia, I compared having a mild condition with a severe one.

Surely by saying someone has Autism is also putting them in a box in the first place as you've labeled them s someone with a condition.

You can have any number of conditions and live a perfectly ok life where its only a minor inconvenience not a major one.

This applies to Autism , for some people it is extremely debilitating for others it isn't as debilitating.

Just because you have a diagnosis for something doesn't means it is always a massive deal, it can be just a little bump in the road of life.

You get a diagnosis for pancreatic cancer it almost certainly means you'll die, you get a diagnoses for Testicular cancer you'll probably live.They're both cancer but one is easier to treat than the other.This applies to every single condition in the world including autism , denying this is denying reality, autism is not all the same there are degrees to have debilitating it can be.

No, because something can a charactristic without defining you. To take another point of this thread: I'm Irish, but it doesn't define me. It defines a lot of other people, sure - and power to them - but there are lots of other things define me and who I am and with a lot more accuracy.

I kind of got the point - correct me if I'm wrong - from you're original point that you were disagreeing with the idea of a "spectrum" which I interpreted as being against different scales or degrees of autism, but the rest of your post contradicted that so it wasn't clear. Coupled with the fact that there are different types of Autism - Aperger's for example - made the rest of your post kinda confusing.

Depends on what you mean by patriotic. What do you mean by patriotic?