Anybody struggling to find their place here on WP?

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I don't feel like I fit in anywhere. I don't expect it will ever happen. It just hasn't been a consideration for a long time already. I often feel like I'm shouting in a soundproof booth, but that's nothing out of the ordinary. As long as I find the stuff around interesting or relevant enough to me, and the people around are not hostile toward me, it's okay.

I don't expect to make friends, and to be honest I'm not even sure I would have place for another one. I have two who I message occasionally (both also have ADHD, which seems to be a practical requirement for "relatedness", though definitely not enough on its own). I think two is about as many as I can manage to maintain. Maybe three.

Intricate observations regard human relations , I wish I could keep that in the forefront of my mind in dealing with day to day issues !

There's nothing very intricate involved - just recognizing which value system is being applied from a choice of two. A pet is treated like a family member, but most animals are killed without remorse, as belonging to the commons. Still, in the heat of daily moments, tactics are more useful. I could only invoke explanations like that if the other party was already familiar with the idea of two moral codes.

This reeks of pessimism,, I think most people interact without knowledge of the 2 systems being employed .
Many people seem to value their owns pets above human life , sadly enough for one or the other of the two humans interacting . Pointedly posing the question , whether either or of the parties in employing the systems being used .
(What you have written bears merit although ) Just my humble opinion. You seem to be an exception .
Or have learned some extraordinary concepts but , yet this is merely my opinion. Pardon my direct opinion.

A bit.

But I will say this place is better than Reddit.

True but the people interacting have better 1 st hand knowledge on these topics , I think cause this is a pretty exclusive site for aspies , , I think ? ???? And generally better informed on certain topics , I feel !

Personally, I must admit that one challenge here on WP is becoming disorientated when discussion threads get too long and/or too cumbersome in scope to follow and understand.

As I've mentioned, I've felt awkward in just about any type of environments - hence challenges in establishing that niche.

I feel it's important to become increasingly proactive in addressing HFA related concerns. I've felt that posting here on WP is like a "balancing act of sorts. For example, WP is a very important resource for HFA - yet, after awhile, posting to WP begins to feel like some tiring exercise of semantic gymnastics a.k.a. spinning our wheels.

In becoming proactive regarding friendships and (HFA), I wanted to add that "speed bump" of sorts to this active discussion thread- WP LINK 'Who "Broke The Ice" In Encouraging Friendships?'
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The purpose of enlightened discussion or I would hope for finding commonality in friendships and discussion..
Just my own
Point of veiw

Did not mean to Rangel any feathers here on WP apologies as appropriate .

Human behavior is a different kettle of fish. Looking back, I can see that I never would have made it as an academic regardless of external factors, not that I couldn't play the game...I didn't even recognize there WAS a game.

I was reminded recently of a job that I applied to, and was invited to interview for, but I didn't go (plane ticket too expensive.) I would have loved that job. But, looking back, I probably could not have done that job.

Back to human behavior, I am not sure that I see only two moral codes. I see a muddled mass of moral conflicts and even a total lack of moral code by most people. I've always had a moral code. I feel like I was born with it, but it is probably just my aspie wiring.

I would miss you if you decided to leave here, even if you don't feel like you fit in.

Back to the OP, we are still discussing fitting in. There are so many ways autists don't fit into NT culture and morals, we are very familiar with the sense of not belonging.

Not a 100 sure, tbh. Maybe.

I call it "trying to decide whether I'm doing anything productive here" rather than "finding my place." I've left WP without comment several times, but I thought maybe this thread in which people have commented that white privilege is bs was the last straw:

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Everywhere I go online, I have to deal with ignorance of racism and hostility or dumb criticism directed towards anti-racist discourse (people saying they don't have or haven't benefited from white privilege just because they've had problems in their lives is an example of what's dumb. And I don't care whether people are hurt that I call their comments dumb).

To have to face that on WP, too, along with living with actual racism, is about the limit of what I'll put up with. It's like a kind of gaslighting, to have people make a description of racism all about their own unrelated life problems or how it supposedly "divides" people to mention that racially privileged people are racially privileged.

I don't need the frustration of trying to have conversations with people like this or reading their stupid comments. Whether it's ignorance or hostility, I never know when one of those is going to spill over into some other conversation.

But today I noticed that one of those people supposedly left WP and other people in the thread addressed the dumb comments, so...I don't know. There is other crap on WP. I'd rather not waste my time here. When people are different enough, it's pointless to interact with them. There are pros and cons to being on WP, but I've kind of reached the point of being literally disgusted with even exposing myself to some of what's on here.

Oh yes, been there!

I've felt caught in "a void of sorts" so to speak in both NT, and Autism Spectrum orientated environments, and of course sometimes here on WP.

I was just reporting, not thinking of bolting. If I ever do find a fit, though, I'll fade from here.

Actually, the newer model has three levels of "severity," and an ASD diagnosis is also supposed to be specified as being "With or without accompanying intellectual impairment" and "With or without accompanying language impairment."

The DSM 5 allows for all possible combinations of the three severity levels (based on autistic traits per se) and the presence or absence of each of the two possible accompanying impairments. Thus the DSM 5 allows for a total of 3 x 2 x 2 = 12 possible categories of ASD.

I relate to this strongly, I've observed this for a long time, it started in politics (I think) and are now taking hold everywhere. So much me,me,me and to little me&you.

What do you research, do you have any handouts of it?