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Hi-

Is anyone else in here uncomfortable with NT's who come on here to try to find a way to make a dollar off us?

I see no one has resonded to te same request on different posts.

Anway, I am not trying to make any feel bad, but this pisses me off. I came in here to get away from curious NT's who find us so fascinating and freakish.

Yea, no kidding.

THIS IS NOT A ZOO.

Don't feed the bears

I've been known to respond to a few of those NT's, really just to get them to shuttup and leave me alone.

I wouldn't take it so personally. Nature of the internet etc.

I don't like the type who try to interview us. Leave us the heck, alone!

They must all have the exact same problems...NOT!

I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!

Yes, you are - you just walk on two legs and don't have wings.


M.

As long as there's a $100 bill in the arrangement, why not?

Make a dollar how???? They can't publish any results they're gleaning here, mainly because no one in this community can be VERIFIED as having AS unless we provide written proof, which is our own private business. I don't buy magazines and books online, either and if I need a book, I go to a local bookseller like Barnes & Noble or something. This is a public site, though, so NTs can sign up. I never thought of this place as a 'private club' per se, but I don't like the idea of being analyzed and found wanting by silent NT eyes, either. Those posts I see on occasion by researchers who are supposedly gathering data for an article or paper do concern me. I get this feeling that they're braving the wild and living among us to gather data, like Diane Fossey (sp?) and her gorillas. Something about that does sort of rub me the wrong way, though. No academic institution or publication would give credence to any data gathered here. They have to use documented case studies to provide data, not just a bunch of people online. If they do, they're stupid. Once exposed, their reputation will be toast.

When and where has this happend on here?

I agree. At least they are taking time to try and understand us better, the least we can do is help them out a bit and lead them away from misconceptions and whatnot. I admit it is akward at times responding to NTs but I wont discriminate against them.

I don't mind NT's who come on here and are upfront with wanting to interview AS people for studies. I mean they are being honest. However some of them are creepy like the dude who claimed to be a doctor and wanted to meet AS people in person and alone at a private location. I did allow a researcher to interview me numerous times for a book since I am one of the few diagnosed adult AS women on here. However I think its rude that this researcher nor any of the others pays one red cent to all the people they research. Think about it if the book is successful and makes them famous its the people they interviewed that helped them get where they are.

I also interviewed 5 yrs ago for a non-AS book that just got published which has a chapter about me in it. Its tactless that the author didn't even give me a free copy of the book. Yet she wants me to appear at an upcoming book signing. Yeah right!

am can think of the different sides to this one,and think theyre both right..in a way.

am agree its not nice when they arrive,dont allow to get used to them,and then after all that they disappear.
but on another disability related forum am use,every day there are researchers joining up just to ask questions for their homework or whatever and many of the users there are fed up with it,they have written rules just for researchers [though am cant remember what] and theyre going to be used.
there are some good researchers on here though,like Sophist,and RDOS [who does it for his test] they are regulars who dont just post to research,so am think research can be good because the community is full of autistics all over the spectrum here,
as well as NTs and others with similar conditions,it could help with making things better.