Just a thought concerning this forum.

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I am not trying to offend so sorry if I do.


Anyways, people who don't like this part of the website should maybe quit coming here to talk down on it. Most people who come to this particular section of wrong planet probably aren't coming here so they can see a post about how annoying the threads here are. I know when I post here I am not trying to annoy anyone, seek unessisary attention or anything like that...so if you don't like it this is a big website with pleanty of other sections to post in.

That sounds reasonable. Who would go to an AA meeting and complain that everybody talked about drinking? If you don't need to be here, go somewhere else.

I don't think it would be so much people complaining about drinking; it's more how it's expressed and what they're complaining about.

Some people post messages about the barriers they encounter being on the spectrum; others seem more interested in complaining about their partners (who might or might have ASD) or how their children's teachers don't treat said children like special snowflakes.

I can understand the frustrations and need to vent of the former; the latter might be better off talking to marriage counsellors and the appropriate staff at their offspring's school. I suspect that they sometimes post here because the people in their lives have got tired of listening to them.

At times, it's a challenge to wade through all of the angst to find a conversation that has real substance.

You are all absolutely right...Sylkat

Well I can sorta see your point but......who are you to decide what is angst and what's a conversation that has real substance. Also based on the nature of this section of the site I was under the impression this is the place to vent about things one is upset about, frusterated about, stressed about ect. Like when I post here its because I'm really feeling down, anxious stressed ect. So I am more focused on venting and maybe getting some advice or at least a little support then making sure my thread will provide conversation with real substance.

Also about people having gotten tired of listening to them, it is unfortunate that people are so quick to abandon someone just because they are struggling and thus not in the most pleasent mental state....but it is a possibility. But it could also be maybe they just don't have anyone to talk to about it.......and maybe they can't afford to go talk to a counseler or whatever.

This section as the title implies is meant to be a safe haven.

Having said that we cant keep track of every post made on this website so please feel free to use the moderator attention thread to report an incident where a member is attacked on this section to a mod.

That's why I quit AA:)

Actually, went to a lot of meetings during one period of my life, and it wasn't talk about drinking, it was lots of self absorption and self pity, which is everywhere. Just so you know

I sometimes think there are people on here who don't read other forums out there and don't realize that this site is not really much different than the rest in that there are the rude, the self absorbed, the nice, the supportive, the smart, the smarta$$es, people looking for a fight, people looking to be understood, etc etc etc.

People are people wherever you go....... Even if they feel like they are on the wrong planet

The thing is, sadly, that people get frustrated when someone talks about how bad they feel all the time because they really can't help you, even if they want to. I realized this and started hiding my depression. Medication is the only thing that changed anything and that was no panacea. Therapy helped some but only after the meds kicked in. I also lowered my expectations for myself. There are some things I just can't do. So be it.

I always feel the same way. I always wish I could help someone.

I'm not saying I or others don't wish they could help.