I have this unfortunate knack

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Of starting threads very few people want to reply to. It's like I don't know how to post the right things.

I do that too.

Looking at some of my recent posts.


A question for the non/self diagnosed 0 49
How we could make cannabis safer for users 0 44
Correspondence with the Aspergers service 0 108
Early diagnosis is bad? 0 183

Autism camouflaging and late diagnosis did well.

Don't we all....I find it's hit and miss. Feel like the unpopular person on Facebook sometimes.

zebra mussels can lay up to a million eggs in a single year.

if they all made it, we'd be up to our noses in them.

I guess,in fact I know, I'm insecure. Few replies has me thinking "unpopular". It's something that stems from few friends,teenage peer rejection and a chronic difficulty with fitting in .

The problem is that you've used a very small set of data to support your theory. You've also missed out posts that you've made that have been popular within the time-frame given in your example dataset (one of 15 comments, one of 55, and one of 23). Looking at your posts for this year:

You have made 52 posts since January the 1st 2017 (62 days). That's 0.83 posts per day, 10.29 comments per day, 12.26 comments per post.

This is ignoring any replies that you've made to your own posts - I may be AS but I'm not daft enough to filter all those out

3 Do you eat enough fruit and veg ?
6 A question for the non/self diagnosed
5 I have this unfortunate knack
0 How we could make cannabis safer for users
15 Dysgraphia, anyone?
4 Typing speed,how fast are you?
0 Correspondence with the Aspergers service
7 Dyspraxia associated with autistic traits in adulthood.
55 Autism camouflaging and late diagnosis
8 Spoken directions/information
23 The 16 Most Controversial Pizza Toppings
8 Cat ownership-mental health problems,not linked.
6 Another reason not to trust?
0 The alt-right guide to fielding conference questions
3 The practical application of intelligence
0 Early diagnosis is bad?
3 Disorganised but not disorganised speech/thought disorder?
0 Something for those interested in Astronomy
1 Brain training games
7 Autism more common in people whose brains anatomically male
2 Social anxiety and social and communication difficulties
11 Fine motor skills(mouse control)
1 Anxiety and cognitive issues
0 Exceptional minds
5 Cognitive speed
10 I have a confession to make
1 New essay collection challenges 'nature-nurture' debate
1 A common medication restores social deficits in autism
27 Theresa May: Urge Donald Trump to repeal ‘global gag rule'
2 Schizophrenia and neurodiversity
22 Stand up comedians
3 Autism diagnosis spike linked to change in understanding
6 Trump declares world war on women’s health with abortion ‘ga
56 How were you at maths?
7 Rural America and the repeal of Obamacare
1 The Observer view on bullying, aggressive, nationalist Trump
2 AQ- False positive/negative
59 Stop saying identity politics caused Trump
5 The downsides of positivity
4 The ultimate culture fair IQ test
9 Removing a condom without permission-rape?
23 How well do you draw? (31 votes cast)
21 Children who believe they are transgender 'could have autism
54 Robert Kennedy Jr. and vaccine safety review
7 The curious connection between autism and cancer
37 What are your favourite colours? (176 votes cast)
4 Green and brown > yellow
9 Slo cooker/crockpot talk
1 Save mental health reform
38 Republicans wrong about Obamacare
54 Is there a degree of elitism at play ?
2 Blank white page-search results

This is what happens when typical Asperger traits and statistics get together and party

Dude- all of those threads you started were only started in the last couple of hours.

You cant expect responses that soon.

You live in the UK. Most of the English speaking world is in North America. Ergo most people on an English language website are not gonna see any post you make until four to eight hours after you post it (ever hear of time zones, and of a little thing called the "Atlantic Ocean" that is four time zones wide?).

Its five AM here on the east coast of the USA.

And one of your topics- make pot smoking safer- theyve already made great strides in making e-cigarette type devices to enable you to "smoke" the stuff without actually smoking it and hurting your lungs.

If you need validation by seeing folks respond to what you say then just post something (anything) about Trump.

"Trump is our savior!", or "Trump is a cretin and a knave". Either one would get 47 pages of vitriolic response in a heartbeat. Doing that would not improve your life in any way. But you would have the fun of seeing a lot of response.

It is called loneliness - you need to get out more.

I'm supposedly a "popular" member of WP.

Every time I start a thread, I get very few responses.

I don't cry over it.

You're probably a less insecure person than me with a healthy measure of self esteem ,rather than the low self esteem I have.

I am often surprised by the lack of or number of reply's to my threads

To get replies to your threads you need to be on the ball with other people's threads and posts, all the time. That's what I was told when I last made a thread asking this same question.

But I've learnt not to take it too personally if I don't get replies. WP goes hot and cold; sometimes threads I make do get countless replies, then other times they don't. But at the moment WP is rather active, therefore I do see more replies.
It seems harder to get replies if you start threads in the social skills and making friends section.

There is only one member here I tend to skip, but it's none of you. He never contributes to anyone's threads, and he's been known to trick members into giving him money. But, let's not get right deep into that. I don't skip anyone else's threads, even if I have been attacked by the OP of a thread in the past.

All that work and I get nothing!

I dont start threads very often. But when I do most crap out after only a couple of responses. The ones I initiated that actually went on for several pages number around three total (and thats over the several years Ive been on WP).