Threats

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Some kid was fooling around with a group of friends and I was nearby. Somehow it escalated into "joke" threats. One looked at me and threatened to harm my family. They found it silly but...it hurt me.

I have paranoia something might happen now, and that doesn't work well as I'm enjoying life and don't want it taken away or ruined. But everyone I've talked to tells me not to worry because he probably was trying to scare me off.

I'm not a lovable person... but would someone risk their life, respect, and reputation to hurt me? I hope not, it's foolish and... I fear threats when they sound bad. Just...unsure here.

There are laws that protect people from threats. You do run the risk of making the problem worse. However if you really feel it is a threat, do something about it.

I would let it drop, if indeed it was some kind of joke thing.

Look most everybody in the world worries to some extent about family and safety. It isn't just you, it isn't just being an Aspie. It isn't easy to let such things drop, I can be very thin skinned and dwell on things, as well. But time has a way of taking care of it.

I've heard more nasty terrible threats and insults in my life than you can imagine, and not "joke" threats either. Not because of anything I ever did or said, but for who I am. The only think that is a joke about them is that they are empty and I know those who said them would never be man enough to live up to their words.
I dont take threats seriously. As most of them are just empty words, they dont get to me at all, and I dont value my life enough to take them serious even if they were potentially harmful.

In an age of mobility, mass media etc etc... people seem to have developed some sick and cynical tendencies [myself included], just coping with modern life means some people become this way as a coping mechanism, however in an age of mass media this becomes culture, look around, to say 'hey, f**k with me I kill all your family' s**t, I must see things of that kind on TV alone a dozen times a night and I try not to watch that kind of crap.
I wouldn't take it too seriously, people talk s**t, especially young males staking a claim, this was probably some primal piss on the post urge the kid didn't even understand the 'real' meaning of, or for them it was funny, they got a rush of power from your momentary fear or whatever, you will probably be ok, peace j

I agree people always make what is called "empty threats"...meaning that they will threaten you but not actually go through with what they threatened you with. It can be hurtful but often people say things in anger or as a "joke" that they don't mean. I am going to kill you is an example of this I have said this many times and never meant it. Unless they have the intention or equipment to go through with it dont worry about it.

I once made a jokey life threat; I said I would shoot a person I knew, who happened to live in America (other side of the Atlantic from me.) My father heard me and gave me a long lecture on Californian gun laws, in an effort to discourage me from commiting this crime. I don't even have a gun...

Ah, threats. Seldom do they carry substance. Empty threats are a final resort of the pathetic. When made online, then you know they're extremely so.

- D

They would take you very seriously. The reason being is because for example, when I was in high school someone wrote a bomb threat in the bathroom and the school had to have a lockdown.

Be careful of what you do. It just might get you into trouble.

I don't think you realize how serious my high school was.

I do realise thats why I said you wouldn't say that sort of thing (about bombs etc) at school in this day and age crazy. But getting angry occasionally is another thing we all vent sometimes and say things in the heat of the moment. Also in Australia where I live to be charged with threatening there has to be intent, motive and proof you would carry out your threat. I hear people say s**t all the time they clearly don't mean it so you aren't going to drag them all offf to jail.

In light of the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois shootings, people take threats very seriously.

So it's a good idea to watch what you say.

Even before that, schools took threats seriously.

thats what i am saying at school obviously you don't say stuff like that.