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Likewise. I'm totally fine with disagreeing. Life is like that.

I read what you write. Sometimes I feel intimidated from responding, or it doesn't seem like I've anything to offer. Sometimes I disagree, but about many things I agree with you. I read and think about what you say some, though.

I have heard I'm intimidating but I don't know how that is. I imagine it is how I look, but since nobody knows how I look here that certainly can't be it. (I joke that I look like a female ex con due to all my tattoos and my Amazonian stature.)

I don't intend to be intimidating.

Mr. Sly:

I've responded to every one of your PMs.

I like reading you, often it's what I think too, but better said, lol. I feel saying the same as what is said is somewhat useless, and I'm just glad someone else already did. Because it takes me a lot of time writing a little bit of text, spelling and checking and changing and again checking. And not diagnosed I feel mostly I can't have an opinion.

not true I responded to you on the 20th and your last response was the 19th

wheres your avatar from ominous?

I experience the same thing and think it's very common online. There are a couple forums that are an exception, though.

It is kind of discouraging to post much or in-depth when you know it's unlikely that there's going to be much discussion or even a thanks for a heartfelt post offering support. Who knows if it makes any difference?

I notice you around, but it's mostly on the topic of parenting and I don't have any experience in that.

Well, you may have unrealistic expectations of the forum. This happens to me when I post a lot. Like WP is my new best find. Lol
Also, parenting can be a bit cliquey.
And, also, I find it's better to have the attitude of a student rather than a teacher. I've learned a lot here.

Ominous was supposed to send me an Avatar?

I'll have to look at my PM's.

I'll respond to the last one you sent me.

Is this in response to me? I don't think I have the attitude of a teacher, but I do try to offer support to other users sometimes because I know that even a forum can make a difference when times are hard. Generally there's no response at all or no response to me, so I have no idea if it helps, does nothing, or even makes things worse and is annoying.

I haven't seen you do or say anything inappropriate.

Optimistic and unrealistically hopeful, maybe, but not inappropriate.

You are a relatively unbroken individual in a forum populated mainly by the broken and by parents hoping to find a way to spare their kids having to face a choice between being rejected by society at large and joining the ranks of the shattered.

That's bound to be a difficult and painful position.

Thanks for the feedback, traven. I felt that way prior to being diagnosed last year. I spent more time talking online as a parent who loved their autistic kid and didn't want to change him because I didn't feel like I had a right to talk over people adults who were diagnosed.

That's an interesting perspective. I feel pretty cracked and reglued a lot of the time. There does seem to be a lot of broken going on here, but I think that might be a vocal minority rather than a majority. I think most folks here have their @#$# reglued rather well, some appear to have mastered the art of kintsugi with their cracked selves.

LOL...That's a whole separate discussion.....

I was lambasted once for advocating creating a new vase, rather than continuing to repair the old one.

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