Good Bye Wrong Planet

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I wanted to say Good Bye to Wrong Planet because I probably never will be coming back. Not because of people being mean on here. I am a high-functioning Aspie, and most of these people haven't improved themselves, and I can tell that they are a lot worse than I am with Social Skills, emotions, etc. I wish you all good luck on getting your Social Skills and your emotions better.

Emily

Well thanks, Emily. I too am HFA but I haven't been here long and this site still does a lot to fill the social void in my life. Also, having lived a long time I feel like I might have things to offer. Best of luck in whatever you do next. I'm sure you'll be very successful. Drop us a line now & then, let us know how it's going.

-Mark

No, please do not leave!

You have been a great contribution to this website!

If you really feel the need to leave, then I wish you luck and I hope things go well with you.

You always had good thoughts for us on this site.

Maybe I won't leave.

Excellent!

I am still thinking about it. We'll see in a few days maybe.

Ok

I don't understand why you were leaving anyway.

These may be my last words:
I was leaving because most people on here haven't made improvements like I have. I have been an HFA-AS for about 5 years. Some of these people don't have good social skills like I do. Some of their emotions are horrible. Most of them have been diagnosed recently. I have showed my grandparents (my father's parents), and the other ones at school that I can improve. You can do it if you set your mind to it. Good things are worth waiting for. Good Luck to all!! !! !! !!

Emily, you have to remember that at your age your brain is like a sponge and is actually wired up to learn faster than more mature brains. Also, there's a reason why it's called a developmental disorder. All of us around here are developmentally delayed, slow learners in some respect or another. Some of us have multiple disabilities. We're all late bloomers, but it's the flaws, like mixed metaphors, that make diamonds beautiful.

Captain_Brown

Even I here and there have taken a little break from the Wrong Planet Myself it does not mean I would want to leave permanently though Myself. I have come back here and there to see what was going on here at the Wrong Planet. Maybe just take a break here and there then You will see the Wrong Planet in different light then in the end.

I have also thought about leaving, though there are a few people here I'd like to get to know better first.

Whatever you decide.. I hope you find a place that suits you and wish you the best of luck for the future.

Capt. Brown.

Please, restore your moorings and power down your engines. Your work is only just started, here.


Emily,

Everything you stated in this post is a reason to stay, not a reason to go. Can you imagine how much faster you can 'improve' Yourself, if you have a few negative examples to bounce away from. Not to mention the fact that you will most definitely inspire others in your peer group to extrovert themselves to some degree. Helping others is a most wholesome endeavor, which always does the ones helping as much good as the ones who are helped. The wonder of sharing your knowledge is that you can give as much as you want and you have not lost anything, only Gained, in the big picture.

I'm older than most here, and wish I could do something for the ones who are accepting, but I fear that my posts are too far away from the youngsters' experiences and mostly skipped over, anyway. The ones who can be helped will need your insights as they progress.

Permission to disembark denied, Captain. Please, report for duty. (just kidding!)

If you decide to go ... please, stay safe and check in, once in a while.

That's a strange reason to leave. Aspies don't come here necessarily to improve themselves. I suppose in some instance... subtled, which of course if a good thing.

It indeed is great to be able to discuss issues among those on the spectrum, as well as those that know someone who is or if you believe you may be an aspie, etc.

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I can see Captain Brown's point to an extent.

I'd agree it isn't helpful to oneself to hang around with people who are miserable and negative all the time. But not everyone at WP is like that. The ones that are, can be avoided fairly easily.

If Captain Brown is more socially adept than some of the rest of us, then Captain Brown has an opportunity to be our teacher. And there are good ways and bad ways of offering advice. Good ways - mean that people are generally pleased to receive it. Bad ways make people defensive and angry that their flaws have been pointed out. Learning how to offer advice in a way that people are pleased to get it is good social training. Teaching others your skills also helps enhance your skills even further.

And I think Captain Brown could also learn a lot from WP about social appropriateness. Wasn't it Captain Brown who posted that she had no trouble with her penis (caused by meds) - um. Yes of course, girls do not. Posting that in a thread about men's bits (malfunctioning due to meds) isn't what I'd call appropriate. I think Captain Brown can still learn from Wrong Planet.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/asperger.htm ... ht=#266921

I think what you might like to try, Captain Brown, is visiting less often for a while, and maybe only making posts in threads that really interest you after you have read and understood what the initial post is about, and some (most or all) of the rest of the discussion. 11 years old is very young to know everything. Most of us don't reach that kind of certainty until we're 16. And then when we get a little bit older, some of us learn that the more we know, the more we know that we don't know.

I also hope you are asking your therapists to give you reasons for what they tell you. Ask them "why" about everything. Often they will only be right about you and not everyone else. And I'm sure they're not always right about you either. You will know when something they say makes no sense to you or feels uncomfortable or wrong.

Or another quote, "Come Tonto, our work here is done
Hi Ho Silver, away!"

I understand completely.

Pop back in from time to time.

I'm glad our path's crossed.

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