I'm bored of this forum

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This forum was very entertaining the first three months I was here, but now it's become kind of boring. It's nothing personal, that's just the way I currently feel about this forum. I think the main problem is that most people here are too undestanding of my condition and that's boring. I need drama. It's like I need to argue with someone who believes I don't have AS. It probably has to do with my sense of insecurity. It could also be that I enjoy playing the role of the enlightened martyr: nothing like the feeling of knowing that you are right when everyone else is wrong. On this forum, almost everyone is right .

Strange compliment, that.

I sometimes get bored here, but mainly for reasons that don't say anything bad about anyone being here. Mainly that I have already mostly been through the whole phase of finding out that I'm autistic and comparing every single trait I've ever had to other autistic people. And that's a lot of what goes on here, so sometimes I get bored.

(Today I was backing up information on a hard drive that took forty DVD-ROMs to hold all the data, so I was on the computer far longer than normal.)

You're a piebald penguin snorfer!

Really, you're much too polite for a life of drama. Don't change. Just go spelunking on the weekends or something.

Spelunking where? I2? Now that would be spelunking into the depths.

whats wrong with intensity

Ha!

I meant it more literally. But if one has a hankering for drama...

Hmm... I've known a few people who liked drama for its own sake. I suppose my ability to get along with them depended on the direction they went to get the drama.

Two or three of them liked gossiping and lying about people in order to stir things up. I would rather not deal with someone who did that kind of thing to stir up arguments between other people.

On the other hand, another one who was a self-admitted drama queen, she had actually stirred up rebellions in a psych ward she'd previously been in. That's a kind of drama-loving person I can deal with.

Try believing that Aspergers and HFAS are artefacts of political oppression!
The "theory of mind" for example.Which has actually only been shown to exist in its absolute form in children under about 3/4. After that it is just a question of degree, very difficult to show conclusively ( psychology researchers/professionals are still arguing about whether it has any validity, and what the "tests" measure, if they measure anything!!) .
It's alright for adults to completely lack empathy for children, ( though lacking empathy for other races, sexes, or genders is now "not ok") but for children to lack it is inacceptable. It's like when a woman could be locked up or have her womb removed for " acting too like a man".

PS: just noticed the thread going about "theory of mind" a bit lower on General Discussion page. Very interesting comments, Anbuend. It's only this morning i started to link weaknesses in that with my political oppression idea. I had heard from a psychologist friend that there are serious holes in the whole theory of mind theory, not least the testing process.

Yeah, Mw99, there's plenty of drama ! ! Stick around.

mw99 , if you want drama , go to the wp chat room , theres always something going on there ! !

Or you could go into the Politics and Religion Forum.

Maybe hang out at Autism Speaks for a while.

Actually, no, don't.

Of course, in politics, not everyone is right.


There's your answer right there!!

I think that happens to most people. you enjoy yourself here for awhile, then getbored, come back...

Yes, and assert you're a creationist, or maybe that you've just joined the KKK. Then, watch the sparks fly...

When we're bored, we are lacking the necessary challenge to inspire us. Don't stay bored, it's depressing and therefore debilitating.

Examine your strengths, if you're AS, then examine what you're hard-wired for and play to that. There's plenty of challenges all around us in the existence, but sometimes we have to challenge ourselves and look for it (that is supposed to be one of our strengths).

For myself, I used to have a boredom problem before I found out not only who but what I was (I'm personally partial to what I hypothesize was our original name, Brahmin)

Now, Brahmin's have duties in this existence, and following one's duty fulfills one, so one doesn't get bored.

My "duty" is that of defending truth; this plays to my hard-wired strengths. I do the best I can at it, knowing that I'll stumble with me tongue from time to time, when I momentarily fail to listen to my heart, and my head goes astray. And, the search for understanding and synthesizing the truth is always an ongoing process, it's a journey, not a destination.

And, being an 'aspie', I, for one, don't find anything boring about defending truth.

You need drama? Try "Titanic".