Most useful single piece of advice you got from Wrong Planet

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Sorry that I can't remember who you are, and thanks for giving me this one piece of advice, which has helped me the most:

In conversations, stick to the "One Fact Rule" - I think you suggested this to someone who sought advice about how to stop unintentionally going on too long so that dialogue with someone else became monologues, and how hard it was to change that.

Simple as it seems I had never thought of that, and when you pointed it out that's what I started to do, and it works. Thanks.

So I'm interested in hearing from others, what single piece of advice was the most useful for you?

Not to post about Mick Avory and The Kinks, all day long...all day long. My WP family already know about my special interest and my kindred soul/role model/gentle disposition by looking at my avatar, ranking, location and my signature.

Not to make threads with titles asking what other WP members think about my special interests, or else the bright lights will tare me down.

Online dating is pointless and not worth the frustration.

I'm glad to hear that advice has helped you. I still find it hard to follow that advice myself, but it does help keep my conversations balanced.

Yes, Devil Kisses, it was you! I remember now. It was such a simple, wonderfully effective piece of advice, easy to remember, and when I'm in a group I keep flashing it up in my mind, and it really helps. I practice at my Social Anxiety Meet Up group get-togethers. Have you got any other little gems?

If something is not interesting enough or is not getting in my brain because it doesn't seem to have anything to do with my special interests, trying to relate it to my interests in order to learn it. I've been doing it ever since and it works well with academics.

smiling and being pleasant helps socialising with NT's go better

That sounds interesting, can you give an example?

To be myself

To stand for what I believe in and not let others shut me down.

To not accept limits of how lower functioning people are expected to be able to think or do but at the same time to not be in denial or think im faking and how they are seen as in terms of what they feel or if they are as beings or what level by others that it does not mean they are angles pathetic or suffering.

To keep holding on.

To not worry about being the most complex and articulent poster and that posts that are less complex (for lack of a better term) are not inferier or even unarticulant.

To embrace my inner world and special interests .

And more

Okay, say my special interest is autism and I am learning multiple regression in stats. It might seem unrelated but then I could try to imagine a study with different factors contributing to ASD symptoms becoming milder over time, for example, and imagine how much they would contribute to the outcome; I would then put everything I have learned about multiple regression into that framework. Another example: I'm not interested in politics or general history, but then I think maybe a historical figure had ASD traits or imagine how someone with ASD would fare in that time.

I'm more into Deaf culture now, but that's another story. I can think of examples for other interests, like video games, languages, etc.