Why is there so much drama on these forums?

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Drama?

Where?

This board is the least drama free place on the on the net.

Sometimes topics turn into toddler slap fights, people beat dead ponies, and some people get hung up on very tiny detail, but welcome to life!

Everyone has been nothing up nice to me, even if we don't do the group hug/we agree with everything all the time.

*shrug*

Every forum has drama. Not all threads here have drama in them. People disagree, people will debate, argue. I know of one forum that removes posts because they want zero drama. It gets annoying because then things don't make sense and you are left wondering where you post went because you don't even know if you have posted it or not and the fact I get a notification saying someone replied to my post and then that post isn't there, utterly annoying. Also there might be more drama on autism forums than other places because of the black and white thinking and not getting different perspectives and some things might be more abstract than others for them to understand which is common in autism.

I've not noticed any particular drama. People sometimes disagree but that seems healthy to me so long as people are reasonably polite about it.

I would prefer a world in which people treat each other with kindness, civility, and respect. I truly don't like drama, and my childhood experience was one of extreme pacifism - of turning the other cheek, and allowing people to abuse me.

As an adult, I am finally learning to stand up for myself. So when I perceive someone behaving unkindly on here (toward me, or anyone else) - I sometimes feel the ethical thing to do is to call the person out on their inappropriate behavior.

I'm trying to learn to do this in a way that leads toward a resolution of the conflict, rather than exacerbating the problem. But I'm still learning, and I apologize for cases where my attempt to 'stand up against injustice' has been carried out in a blundering way, and has only made the situation worse.

I'm definitely guilty of being driven by emotion rather than logic, but that's something I'm trying to work on - and I actually appreciate those who have pointed it out to me, so that I understand how I'm coming across, and where I need to improve.

So I appreciate having a place to practice my social skills, and I've come to understand people on this forum a lot better as a result of some of the more 'dramatic' discussions we've had here. I'm learning to accept that not everyone will share my opinions, or even respect me as a person, but that's okay.

Anyway, thanks for helping me to learn - this is the only place where I try to socialize, and I do appreciate it.

When I see drama going on here, I usually just hit the back button and find another topic to read and/or respond to. If I do read it, I usually don't post a response even if I do strongly feel one way or another because I don't want to get involved in the mess. Luckily, there usually isn't too much drama here (at least not so much that you can't ignore if you don't want to get involved in it).

One word - Anonymity

Disagreement and argument are fine in my view.

Some people here are angry, some complain, some are looking for understanding, some are really actively looking for solutions.

When you ask for help to overcome a precise difficulty on this forum, a lot of people will try to help you.

A lot of the time the drama doesn't make sense to me and I have trouble following the conversation so I reply around it according to the actual topic of the thread. If the drama does make sense to me I tend to just read and watch and process my own reactions. I don't have the energy or the care to get involved.

Are you talking about drama between you and others here, or just other people in general? From the few posts you've made, the responses you're receiving are nothing but support..unless we're missing something.

People with autism(especially aspergers) can be extremely judgmental, critical, sometimes arrogant, nit-picky, overly-analytical to the point where it can overwhelm others.

I myself used to be guilty of this, and have seen it in non-autism forums. My guess is because we are safely behind a computer, have all this rage/build up and then just let our thoughts fly lose.

Haven't seen that at all here however, for the most part everyone is well behaved..probably because we all understand where we are coming from...so yeah I'm puzzled by the OP.

For me,
1) I can read things wrong and that's not good. For some reason, I can invert the meaning of things I read.
2) Some things are, as mentioned before, hot button issues. That will bring out the passion
3) with passion can come bad wording
4) with someone like me with weird communication issues incoming or outgoing, it can get bollixed up even worse.