Actually I think folks with ASPD are the worst, trash that should be discarded from society. /s

I think you're confusing folks who have pedophilia with folks who act on it.

Pedophiles are just people with an illness. Child abusers are irredeemable and pure evil. But not all pedophiles are child abusers (and for that matter, not all child abusers are pedophiles). Pedophilia is nothing more than an attraction. Some sufferers succumb to and act on that attraction, others seek psychological help to manage that attraction so that they don't act on it.

This commenter was very obviously referring to the latter: those afflicted by pedophilia who are determined to keep themselves from acting on it, but face social challenges in finding psychological help.

Assaulting children is the worst thing there is. Being attracted to children is not the same thing as raping children. You've proven their point with your ignorance

Okay then. I didn't actually respond that way, and you saying your illness is valid and their isn't is how we got to this point in the first place. I never compared the two, merely voiced an opinion about how you derailed your own argument by going "ew, gross" about another issue. That's the way people feel about mental illness, so to say that about another oppressed group, for whatever reason, is disingenuous and how you only care about your specific problem and not the world at large.

You are completely wrong