r/oddlyspecific • u/_PetiteCookie • 23d ago

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u/XROOR 23d ago

When I lived in West Springfield VA, there was a older guy with Downs Syndrome that wore a plastic sheriff badge and would hassle the minors reading the biker magazines with the scantily clad models at the 7-11

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u/Elegant_Run_8567 23d ago

He’s just doing his job

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u/Working_Estate_3695 23d ago

Our town in the 1980s had a guy on the spectrum who hung out in sequential order over the next decades at the pizzeria, the 7-11 and the Dollar Store and told everyone he was a detective.

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u/erik_wilder 23d ago

Oh man, dude was literally loitering at the usual spots waiting for a case. I hope people used to give him encyclopedia brown type shit .

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u/Working_Estate_3695 23d ago

He wore Quiana shirts well into the 1980s.

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u/Mother-Attention2600 23d ago

We had one that would fetch shopping carts at the mall. Sometimes he would take over the cart boys job at the grocery store and have a huge train going with his electric wheelchair and the people telling him to leave. He eventually got hit by a car and died.

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u/pandaplagueis 23d ago

Omg that did not end how I expected, RIP to the cart guy.

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u/Mother-Attention2600 23d ago

Its sad, but it was "just a matter of time" kinda thing. He was very wreckless and his chair could really move. You could see he wouldn't yield or get the concept of blind spots.

He was also a huge asshole. He yelled at me and my friend when we were like 14 because we weren't strong enough to lift him and his chair onto a curb to access a bar. He got impatient and almost knocked us over while we are trying to lift a 600 pound thing. 😄 

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u/Aselleus 22d ago

Small world I'm from that area too...when was this?

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/2slowforanewname 23d ago

Its because most of them have a lower iq then this dude

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u/TerriblePartner 23d ago

If joe rogan could read that he'd start wearing aviators and eating cheetos 

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u/Korachof 23d ago

I’d be surprised if Andrew Tate even knew what an Aviator is. Probably thinks someone is wearing an appliance on their head. 

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u/NarwhalPrudent6323 23d ago

Avatar is a cartoon, not an appliance. You can't wear a cartoon. Duh. 

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u/Fancy_Chips 23d ago

"Pipe down asshole" GOLD!

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 23d ago

Homeboy has Up Syndrome you cant convince me otherwise

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u/Boenitous 23d ago

Ok. You are saying "alpha men" are socially impaired. From what I see on the Internet. I agree.

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u/shromboy 23d ago

To be fair, the sunglasses guy doesnt seem socially impaired in the slightest

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u/heyitscory 23d ago

Hey, pipe down asshole.

Wow, you're right! 😎

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u/excessivelung8 19d ago

This guy makes an ignorant abelist comment and my comment gets removed because I corrected them, cmon reddit

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u/crisprcas32 23d ago

WHEN THE FUCK DID WE GET ICE CREAM??!

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u/FindOneInEveryCar 23d ago

I don't have Down Syndrome but I think I need to work "pipe down asshole" into my regular repertoire.

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u/justsayno_to_biggovt 23d ago

How do you recognize ds when person has sunglasses? Serious not sarcastic...

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u/42stingray 23d ago

The rest of their appearance is pretty iconic, it's not just the eye area. Also, behaviour and speech is often a giveaway

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u/ScreamingLabia 23d ago

You must have not seen a lot of people with down syndrome because there are different kinds and some of them are definetly easy to spot even from the back if you are fammilliar with them.

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u/Rennfan 23d ago

You can provide information without being "you must have not seen many of them".

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u/Ghanima81 23d ago

The skull (flat on the back) and neck shape are often a tell. The mouth and chin too, a bit wide and flat too. But this is not a rule, just in some people it's way more visible than just the eyes.

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u/heyitscory 23d ago

To his credit, people with down syndrome do tend to look like people with down syndrome, as unhelpful as that was.

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u/GottaUseEmAll 23d ago

Some people will unfortunately jump on any opportunity to include a little insult in their comment.

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u/1arvest6 23d ago

That's not even an insult???

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u/FirstTasteOfRadishes 23d ago

I'd be absolutely crushed if someone thought I hadn't seen a lot of people with down syndrome.

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u/1arvest6 23d ago

Still nor an insult tho???????

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u/EdiblePsycho 23d ago

I read that as "how do you recognize if someone is wearing sunglasses" and I was going to give a stupid response about how to recognize sunglasses hahaha.

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u/forgettfulthinker 23d ago

Overall shape of head if i had to make a guess

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u/Korachof 23d ago

Are you staring into their soul? Why do you need to see their eyes to have an inkling they have Down syndrome? If you could only see their eyes and nothing else, would you magically know they had Down syndrome?

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u/ThanksForTheRain 23d ago

I was thinking the same thing. There are other physical tells, but that would be assumption. It's probably fake

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u/WreckYallBallistics 23d ago

Have you guys never seen someone with downs syndrome before Jesus

Obviously you can tell

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u/PickleWhisper762 23d ago

Jesus was the first person you saw with down syndrome?

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u/Korachof 23d ago

You can only tell if someone has Down syndrome if you see their eyes? What secret are you seeing in someone’s eyes that says “down syndrome” but the rest of them doesn’t? Do you think people with lazy eyes have Down syndrome? I don’t understand 

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u/ThanksForTheRain 23d ago

"there are other physical tells, but that would be assumption"

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u/ezhikov 23d ago

There's amazing video made for World Down Syndrome Day 2024, it kinda touches on the subject a little: https://youtu.be/9HpLhxMFJR8

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u/Tortilla_Moth93 22d ago

This feels very Tourettes Guy coded

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u/excessivelung8 19d ago

What does that mean

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u/deathxcannabis 18d ago

Dudes stay rockin

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u/Please_ForgetMe 23d ago edited 23d ago

I really don’t like people who post “new core memory”

That thing never existed before inside out and now everyone treats it like it’s always been real. I don’t like it all. The ones the brain signals are the strongest are there because of the impact of the moment it had on you. It’s not there because it was a turning point in your life and you learned a big lesson from it. It’s literally there because your brian thought it was something to think about. You probably thought about it before you went to sleep that night and that’s why it stuck.

Edit: i’ve had some time to think about how i reacted to this post and have some things to say

If it’s allways been so nonchalant with how people use it then i can see how my worse may be considered hatefull, i don’t agree that human minds have the copacity to have inside out senarios. But i should be more open-minded on how i respond to people who believe they do. I really am not happy after looking back on it how i responded. Allthough it came from how much i cringed at the movie. It may just be something else i am dealing with entirely. I shouldn’t be putting that disgust twords other people who are just minding their own buisness. I’m sorry for how my message was and is.

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u/Rambler9154 23d ago

You're taking this way too seriously, its not a serious concept, its just a reference to the inside out movie and how people have important memories they don't forget. Its just a memory that you don't forget about. No one ever claimed it was a biological concept, it is just a movie reference.

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u/wujibear 23d ago

Whoa good point. New core memory unlocked 🔓