Should I stop posting here?

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What about me?
Should I stop posting here?

No, why?

Just kidding, I wasn't thinking of stopping posting here.
I am not so thin skinned that I stop posting when people disagree with me.

Ok, I didn't get the joke. Yes, plenty of people have had not-so-good reactions to my posts. It does upset me when others are hostile, though.

I think threads for should I stop posting or should I leave the forum or I am going to leave forum are just attention-seeking. If someone really wants to leave, they should just leave. If they want to stay, they should just stay!

No

I think that depends on the person. Remember that some of us are trying to figure out just where we stepped in the interpersonal doo-doo so we can get wiser next time. I think that's where Ezra was coming from.

I think OP and "btbnnyr" should stop posting here.

I'm one of the people who's disagreed with you, and I say that you shouldn't leave for my sake. I'd hate to drive you away from here just because I disagree with you.

If you are finding posting here too stressful, and you need to take a break for your own sake, go ahead. But don't leave because you think we don't want you here. That's not the case at all.

Aww please don't leave!
People can't agree on everything; that's impossible I think.
I don't know what happened, but I think your posts are interesting, and I enjoy reading them, but then again I also think that you should post because you want to not because people agree with you. That might seem hard to do though. But either way i would hope that you and everyone else that felt they wanted to, stayed.
As long as people try and be polite and civil I see no reason as to why we can't disagree in harmony XD
However, I realize that is being a bit idealistic in some cases.....

No.

I really like your posts, so I'd like you to stay.

I don't see how someone having problems handling disagreement would be any of your responsibility though.
I don't see how you would be driving them away, they would be choosing to leave themselves if they leave.

I have decided to put this thing behind me as if it never happened.

This is the first time I have ever had a problem here. Others have talked about unpleasant experiences here, arguing, name calling, strife, but up until now I was oblivious to any of that.

I realize what my big mistake was. I viewed the members here as being the same as my classmates. But there is a difference. My classmates were all diagnosed in childhood. Also in my school you actually do have to be "autistic enough" to gain admittance.

So there really isn't anyone there who doubts their autism that I know of. Certainly not in a way that some adults diagnosed later on in life experience. My classmates are much less insecure in such things. So there is a lot more talk of "posers" and "wannabes" and autism being over diagnosed and such. Usually in regard to some people who are on social media like Tumblr and the like. Areas adult members probably never access.

I've come to see that the only member of this same mindset here that I know of is also a teen and has also had similar problems and confrontations with WP members because of it.

I am not particularly thin skinned that I know of. I just did not want to continue here if most everyone considered me a trouble maker.

I'm sorry that this was a bad experience for you. I don't know if you do, but I tend to get quite upset when people are hostile towards me, even online. It can affect me for many hours afterward.

It's good that you are putting it behind you. I think most people here probably like you.

Hmm, I think that's a different issue. I was at a "special" school for a while when I was a child too, and ironically enough found that more difficult to handle than sporadic attendance at a regular school. Admittance was based on the fact that you were not coping with regular school, based on grades and so on. It was not invalidating others who could cope perfectly with regular school and accusing them of faking their autism. It was just about placing kids where they could receive more assistance with schooling if they had problems that were impacting their schoolwork, which it sounds like is the same for your school. They take students based on their level of functioning and acknowledge that these kids might need extra help. It's basically more assistance for lower functioning people.
"Not autistic enough" is the attitude that high functioning people are faking, basically, and that low-functioning autism is the only "real" autism, and so called high-functioning people are posers. Special Schools don't make that judgement, they just offer more help to kids who need it.