WP is too huggy-wuggy for me

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I was gonna let it blow over and let it irritate my thoughts for a while but yup, my sentiments. Them call it scatty https://duckduckgo.com/?q=scatty+ across the pond http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/i ... +pond.html

....how all melons should be

You don't want nice? Well then, how's this? GET FU@CED!! !
Just kidding but... I had to quote what you said because I'm too inebriated to remember what you were on about.

Well, I've had a few meltdowns since being an adult but the people I was having them in front of could see 'my point' and although we were in a mental hospital and I was heavily sedated on meds for depression and OCD, I still fought for what I believed in. I was frowned upon at the time but it made sense.

What was the original question? Ah, the 'original rude Aspies'. We're not rude. We simply cannot lie. We give the truth, sometimes bluntly but we always say it like it is. I can't speak for anyone else but that's the way it is for me. Sometimes, I wish I could buy an Aspie filter - something that filters what comes out of your mouth before you say it. I'm getting better with age but still now and again, something will come out and I'll think, "Why in the hell did I say that?"

I digress - as I usually do. I still don't know what the original question was or whether I answered it or not, let alone answered it well enough but I hope that'll do because that's all I have left!! !

Poop poops.

LOL

I hope they don't ban you. You're a great source of entertainment if nothing else.

I agree with ImAnAspie. I cannot tell a lie to save my life. I'm blunt with basically everything I say, but I try to say it in the nicest way possible even if I'm feeling angry.

Getting mad at strangers is something that I never did and still would not do. It seems mean to take your anger out on someone you don't even know for no reason. When I'm pissed, I put my earphones on and some relaxing music, it usually helps.

Some of the posters on this forum remind me of a kindergarten teacher or parent putting little gold star stickers on a child's horrible dinosaur drawings and calling them genius. In reality, the drawings suck, but we just keep telling the kid how smart and great they are because they are not ready for real criticism.

I agree. I am one of them. I want my gold stars.

-delivers a smooch

What the begeebus is rude anyway?
Most of the things that people say are rude on wp, I don't find rude.
I wouldn't notice anything rude if someone doesn't point it out.

Neither

I haff star. I r da best!

Judging from some of the emails I have received lately, WP members seem to consider it rude when someone disagrees with them, especially when their opinions are proven to be factually wrong. Another bit of "rudeness" seems to occur when one member refuses to accept the beliefs of another member as facts. Finally, simply asking for "Evidence, Please" seems to be enough to set off a flame war.

"Rudeness" therefore seems to be little more than a mis-applied label for non-acceptance of another person's opinions.

I see.
I hate this behavior too: calling someone rude when they disagree with self.
It seems socially manipulative, like the person is trying to use social conventions against rudeness to censure another.
It is still better than sickly sweet fakeness though.

You know what I think?

We have to find a happy medium between extreme "huggy-wugginess" and rudeness.

I, personally, don't mind it if somebody disagrees with me; disagreement is inevitable.

I don't mind it if people kid around with each other with irony and sarcasm--as long as the recipients gets that it's irony and sarcasm.

I don't mind it if somebody gets on my butt a bit if I'm seeming like I'm lazy and not doing the best I can.

But I don't believe we should stop caring about each other, just because such caring might be "phony" to some. Autistic people respond to people who care just as much as NT's. Without caring, people get depressed and get lonely. You see depression and loneliness all the time on WrongPlanet.

I don't believe Autism precludes one from being caring and empathetic.

I believe, at times, that there might be a "disorder" in cognitive empathy amongst autistic people. I don't believe the vast majority of autistic people are incapable of caring and empathy.