Things I have noticed about this forum

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I have no problem with threads about people airing their beefs - it's the tone in which it's done that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

If the thread were about "Things NTs do and say that frustrate me", that would be fine. But the thread is taking a condescending "We're better than you, aren't NTs stupid" tone.

I haven't looked at ASPartners, but I do believe you when you say there are similar threads about Aspies there. I take exactly the same opinion about any threads of that nature there. If they want to talk about how frustrated they are about Aspies, I just wish they would do this, fine. But if they start implying "We're better than aspies" or "Aspies are stupid", that crosses the line.

I would feel exactly the same way about comments about race, gender, sexual orientation, or whatever else.

When I'm playing a video game and someone talks about "Ass Burgers", I am very much offended by that, and desperately want to avoid doing the same.

Considering that Lost_dragon is not Autistic in any way will explain many of her blatantly antagonistic responses in this subject. It would appear that her only desire for this subject line is simply to stir the pot and to gain a reaction from many of the ASDs here.

Even if her signature didn't say she wasn't Autistic, I could have told you that she wasn't anyways by the way she tries to dispel any notions that NTs are inferior to ASDs. Not that any of us said we were superior to anyone, aka. she created an imaginary problem and attempted to solve it.

I think she fancies herself as some sort of spokesman for NTs the world over and once again only a troll engages in such activity in a forum dedicated to those of us who suffer from any form of ASD.

Her intent appears to be simple amusement and she's displaying typical bully persona which is something that many NTs suffer from. Her language seems to be over embellished, arrogant and condescending and clearly she's trying to establish herself as superior to ASDs. Obviously, she's working hard to impress but she's failing miserably.

Lost_dragon is just another troll guys, nothing special to see here. Now let's get back to us ASDs supporting each other hey? We don't need any more bullying and hate from NTs whether in real life or on forums.

there's only one person stirring the pot here, mate.

ASPartners is the last thing I want Wrong Planet to even remotly resemble.

I quess some of us complain because we are sensitive about negative labeling of groups of people as we have had so many incorrect negative traits said about our group.

It appears to me. Your profile says have aspergers diagnosed. Lost dragon's says, don't know if I have it or not. For some the area was left blank by them.

I find it somewhat amusing the notion that some here have the attitude they have real autism and others are posers and interlopers or whatever.

If anyone had the "right" to take that attitude it would be me and those like me. When I talk about us autistics, I'm firstly talking about all the dozens of autistics I've been rubbing shoulders with in real life my entire life.

And there is a difference I see between internet autistics and the real life autistics I've always been around.

When I first came on here I was encountering things being said that I never heard in the real life autistic community. And I had difficulty following it. All the "NT's" rubbish for instance We just talk about people in the real life autistic world.

Personally I don't give a crap who's been diagnosed as an aspie ( big whoop) and who hasn't. Plenty here are so relatable, if they're not autistic, they might as well be.

But conversely there are some online who have an offcial diagnosis, who aren't particularly relatable at all. And they are the ones who seem to go on and on the most about the "NT's" and "us" and I find myself rolling my eyes and shaking my head.

Relax if you think I'm talking about you reading this personally. I don't keep track of who is who much and people come and go quite a lot in all the years I have been here, so I don't have any particular person in mind.

One thing people forget ...

"Autism" is a set of behaviors.

A big rock might fall on your head, and you develop autism (the set of behaviors).

I have observable brain damage--that is some other condition.

As a result of my brain damage, I have dx of autism (the set of behaviors).

That is very true, as it is an autism forum.
But I just tend to skip those threads, because I was diagnosed in childhood so I don't really know what the procedure is of getting a diagnosis as an adult or only just realising you might be on the spectrum as an adult.

That and a massive grudge. Some just strike me as just simply being misanthropes with a victim complex. Again a lot of it is stuff I don't come across nearly as much in the real life autistic community.



I take it you mean only quoting part of a post and leaving the rest out *snip*.



Bahaha. "I got an aspie diagnosis when I was 36 after reading so much about it on the internet I had enough clinical knowledge to pass whatever one time test I took. So I blong here with us asd's and you don't" *sarcasm*

I've been tested so much my entire life I've always felt like a lab rat.



I would likey be one of the latter. Meh meh meh NTs meh meh meh. As if they've been around other ASD to any degree to compaire all of us to all of the "NT's". In many cases hey don't seem to realize they are a only comparing themselves personally to everyone else they have encountered in real life.



Hmm not something I have noticed personally, so I don't have a reply to that.




I certainly ran into that when I started on a gaming forum. Even after two years I sill have some difficulty getting some of it.



Same as above.

Same. That and a lot of times it's a gigantic post.

I will say with a few they go through such an extensive list of traits, I kinda wonder if it's a munchausen thing.

But still, this is the place to ask about it.

Yours does say stuff about diagnosis.

I dunno. The last few times I checked a WP person's diagnostic status I couldn't find it. So I got the idea that the profiles didn't have the info anymore. Must have had a brain fart.

So I stand corrected. You CAN still tell someone's diagnostic status and where they are the spectrum if they don't leave it blank.

HEY!! !

I did NOT have a brain fart!

There IS a reason I thought that!

Look at Joe90, and LoveNotHate.

Their profiles do not mention "diagnosis".

And I don't mean the word diagnosis is listed, but left blank.
I mean that the word, and the option to fill it in is not even there!
So some profiles are one way, and some are the other way!
So WTF is THAT about?

There is a checkbox:
I want to display my diagnosis to the public?
in the Profile preferences.

I think I read somewhere about there being a profile glitch. Plus there's just glitches overall. If I try leaving my age blank it defaults back to saying I'm 16. And sometime before that it defaulted to saying I was 45 lol. And if I leave my location blank it defaults back to "Misfitopolis" which is something I entered years ago.

Last edited by EzraS on 20 Dec 2017, 6:38 am, edited 1 time in total.

This is a large place. Each of us resonates with certain posters while not connecting with others.

So instead of creating threads to complain about other posters, why not ignore the ones you don't like and communicate with the ones you enjoy?

I'm not changing my style to fit someone else's ideal.

Believe it or not - I actually defend the people's right to talk freely on ASPartners.....although many of their partners appear to be sociopaths.

Okay. Makes sense.

I guess now I do kinda remember checking (or deciding not to check-whichever option allows it displayed) that box back when I set up my profile when they switched around to this current set up a couple years ago.