Tim_Tex wrote:
I have made the near-final decision to leave WP. And this time, it could be permanent.
When I first joined in July 2004, it was a very friendly support system. But lately, it's very difficult to get support from peers and colleagues. And I have tried to help people when they were going through difficult situations.
Now people are getting attacked for not having certain religious or political beliefs (or lack thereof in case of religion), even in the "Haven". Legitimate relationship advice is being ignored in the L&D folder, while threads with titles like "All Women are Possessed by the Devil" get tons of hits. And there is a lot of favoritism on here. If you're not one of the "VIPs", you will be constantly ignored.
I feel that I am no longer of use or service on here, despite my best intentions and efforts.
If anyone wants to contact me, feel free to do so via my e-mail or IMs.
I agree that things have changed for the worse here on WP, but not in the ways that you see. What I see is that it is no longer a safe haven for aspies and supportive, sympathetic family members and friends. What I'm seeing are a lot of newbies of the FAAAS mindset who come here in the guise of asking for advice and help but who parrot FAAAS and anti-aspie talking points, misinformation and hysteria. Then I see posters, a lot of whom are also relative newbies, shower said posters with sympathy and murmurs of agreement about how horrible aspies are and how saintly the poor woman is to put up with them. Said posters agree that the aspie needs to do ALL of the "changing" or else. Then others nod in agreement and pounce viciously on those who try to defend the aspies and explain that differences in perception and communication, and not inherent evil of AS, is largely responsible and that aspies also need consideration and acceptance instead of bearing ALL the burden of problems and change.
And I don't see the mods doing anything about that, either. This is supposed to be a safe haven for aspies/ASD. We get enough hate, misinformation, stereotyping and discrimination, and have to constantly do enough justifying and explaining, out in the real world every single day. We do NOT need to deal with it in here.
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Queen of the anti-FAAAS. FAAAS does NOT speak for me and many other families!!
Life is not about waiting out storms, but learning to dance in the rain-Anonymous
17 Aug 2009, 7:28 pm
