Do you feel like an outsider, even here at Wrong Planet?

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Do you feel like an outsider, even here at Wrong Planet?

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No, because at Wrong Planet a poster can generally express their point-of-view (without it being edited).

Have felt like an outsider at other discussion groups where the discussion group would:

Ban a post
Censor a post
Delete a post
Rewrite (edit) a post in part without permission changing the meaning

Greet the post with a criticism or a symbolic toss of a tomato at the poster

Regularly heckle posters

Cuss a poster out - leave that post - then ban the poster/lock out the poster from ever responding

Get all upset if words like Asperger or Autism were used (example - some ADHD talk groups which felt any reference to Asperger or Autism was off topic and any mention of either Asperger or Autism could lead to banning the poster from the ADHD talk group forever)

and so on.

I am going to say no. Mainly because I have been through extensive psychiatric evaluation and have been diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome. That means I do not have to second guess myself all the time, because, after all, this is a forum for people with AS. So if there is one place that I MIGHT actually fit in, its probably here.

I feel like an outsider pretty much everywhere in life, even in my own family, and also here at Wrong Planet.

What's different here on WP compared with elsewhere is that I can understand and relate with a lot of the things people talk about here and I clearly have a lot in common with other posters and I find a lot of topics and discussions here interesting, but just like everywhere else I feel like I'm invisible. I haven't gotten to know anyone here and although I'm sure someone reads my posts, I practically never get any responses.

As for online, I feel a much stronger connection here than with people on social networking sites. But I know there are parts of me that nobody will ever truly understand, but that's okay... I guess.

I feel like an outcast pretty much everywhere.

I love being on this website, but it's not perfect. So yeah, their are times when I am on the outside.

No I feel right at home here ,well except for having poor spelling and grammer most people here
are really good with the english language even in some cases it's their second or third language.
I really worry about people thinking Iam being rude with my poorly composed posts,but if I did try to
getting my post better I would just not bother.
I really don't know how to get across it's the dyslexia I just can not do much better.
Anyways I have been dxed by a couple of profesionals with ASD so I do belong here.
I would like it to be proved a wrong dianoisis but If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck
well
One thing I have to say is how many aha moments I have had here I really get angry that
all the people I thought were so inteligent and educated Did not know or cared to inform me about
my self
how can one not develope the atitude that most people are actualy not that bright

less so here than anywhere else, but see signature

i am the outsider from the dean koontz novel 'watchers'. that's about as outside as you can be.

On every forum I've ever been a member of for a long time people describe feeling a sense of community I never got. Maybe this is rare for someone who spends so much time online but only interactions IRL fully satisfy me on the rare occaison I find myself with an understanding soul. Or I think people I'm friends with online are real friends but I always over-exaggerate how much the friendship means to them. It's nice to be around people with the same disorder but sometimes I feel so different in terms of my beliefs/values/morals it makes no difference.

I'm an outsider to the whole universe.

YEA.

Nobody wubs me.

At the forum no, but in the chat yes. It is like the big crowd, and it is too fast for me, and I don't understand well rules of conversation in chat.

Not in the forum, I feel like an insider but I'm not one of the forum's popular clique.