Good Bye Wrong Planet

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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!! !! !! !!

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

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.

How can you have been HFA-AS for only 5 years???.

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.

I have a theory that there is a high turnover of high functioning aspies here. We come in looking for self understanding, find it then move on. There are a number of sad cases here (who according to my theory never move on). Sometimes it made me doubt whether I am actually AS, because my problems are no where as bad as some here.

I know some of you are on meds for depression/anxiety and i know that it effect your erection.

No, not me. None of my meds. do that to me.

Wow! I didn't expect her to reply to this thread so soon!

Before, I didn't think we would ever hear from her again, and now she's saying she'll see us again in 10 months!

Excellent!

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.