I'm not here to evaluate a personal dispute (especially since I haven't been fully keeping up), but I will offer my two cents regarding one specific point: I think, in fairness, as a general rule, someone being on the spectrum is a decent explanation for occasional faux pas and honest miscalculations, where there was genuinely no intention of harm or wrongdoing. So, at least to some degree, it matters whether someone has good or bad intentions. Find the intent, and you find the ethical balance of their actions, whoever they are and whatever they did. And just as people have an ethical responsibility of trying to treat each other well, it is also people's ethical responsibility to offer others the adequate courtesy of trying to understand what their intentions are. I cannot say how much of this is practical on a completely anonymous board, but I still think it's a good idea to do what you can. That is all. Back to comic-reading.
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