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09 Jan 2015, 10:24 pm

Do you ever wonder if people on WP are secretly people you know in real life? Or other sites? I'm not saying that I trust it, but I was just thinking...



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09 Jan 2015, 10:26 pm

You never know....but I believe the likelihood of one having known somebody on WP before one went on WP is pretty miniscule.

That would be cool, though!



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09 Jan 2015, 10:32 pm

Sometimes, but I doubt there is anyone I know here.


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09 Jan 2015, 10:48 pm

Real life, not a chance.

From other sites... possibly. Although not very likely.



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09 Jan 2015, 11:03 pm

I wonder sometimes, but am always proven wrong thus far. Other people, I wouldn't know enough about them IRL to identify them on WP.

I know a fair amount of people IRL who are either on the spectrum or have family members on the spectrum. I don't know if they know about WP. But I'd be letting myself out of hiding if, IRL, I suggested they join...



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09 Jan 2015, 11:26 pm

I'm a bit paranoid about it although I don't think anyone on WP is someone I know in real life. For that reason I never mention on WP some of my personal info that could give a clue to who I am.

I don't know anyone IRL who is known to be autistic but you never know who might use WP for whatever reason.



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09 Jan 2015, 11:30 pm

There's always a possibility.

What if people are here are the animals from the video game series Animal Crossing???


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09 Jan 2015, 11:31 pm

No, never crossed my mind. Nobody I know knows I'm on here, and I doubt they're bored enough for a scheme like that.



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09 Jan 2015, 11:34 pm

Not unless they've come across my bedroom in the last 20 years or so. :-P


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09 Jan 2015, 11:46 pm

Yes, k do think I might have met some wp'rs IRL but have never spent much time with them. Just in passing.



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10 Jan 2015, 12:52 am

The title of this thread is a bit weird.
Do you ever wonder if people on WP are secretly people....

Do you ever wonder if people on WP are secretly people....who eat other people?
Do you ever wonder if people on WP are secretly people....disguised as zebras?
Do you ever wonder if people on WP are secretly people....who are half cyborg?

There's more chance of that ^ than of them being people I know irl.


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10 Jan 2015, 1:35 am

Sometimes I think there might be people I know here on WP but most of the time I think its unlikely to be true.



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10 Jan 2015, 1:40 am

Someone on WP once bumped into on youtube.


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10 Jan 2015, 1:52 am

It's irrelevant.

I don't care whether I know them or not.

What matters to me isn't the identity of the poster, but the content of their posts.



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10 Jan 2015, 2:08 am

I sometimes wonder if any of my old schoolmates have lurked here and if any of them have signed up here or just lurked.


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10 Jan 2015, 5:52 am

Yes, I often wonder if someone I'm related to could be here, like my own brother. He doesn't have AS, but he suffers from depression and low self-esteem, and he spends a lot of time on the internet. He might have found this site and thought it might be a comfortable place for him to share his feelings, none the wiser that his own sister is also on here. :lol:
It would be funny if my brother was here and he posted something like ''I have an annoying younger sister...'' and I replied with sympathy saying ''I have a depressing older brother...''

Unless you tell others that you use WP, you never know if you are sharing this site with your own friends or relatives! Think next time you badmouth or complain about your friends or relatives on WP, and also think when reading a post about someone badmouthing or complaining about a friend or relative with AS/Autism...it could be your own friend or relative talking about you... :lol:

OK I don't mean all that in a serious/offensive way. It's just something that sometimes crosses my mind.


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