Oh great mum's probably going to be reading WP now...

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She's borderline between NT and aspie and she's obsessed with autistic people's povs. Mostly just the men who are her 'type' (she likes aspie men they're more intelligent and quirky according to her) and me and the kids she works with.

She won't be on WP though. I talked to her about broader things like how reddit is probably a better site to guide them towards than Twitter or Facebook because you need to put your name and face down on Twitter and Facebook and that's not a good idea with a teenager who's emotionally young for their age. She said 'that's none of our business, that's for the parents to monitor'. She's just being old (as am I, this is technically a forum). She was saying 'social media' to sound hip but she's going to make a closed chatroom with adults present so they can discuss their work.

All her work sounds amazing It's for autistic kids who can't go to school. And not just autistic kids, also kids with mental or physical illnesses. But all of it tailored around the specific child/teenager. She is thinking of me but not me now, the me who couldn't go to school because I was bullied.

She kind of hates regular (non disabled, non artistic, non 'sort of aspie') NT humans. She was bullied a lot as a kid because she's verbally dyspraxic and couldn't talk in a way other people could understand until she was about 15. Even the teachers picked on her. She's always related better to the animal kingdom than to her fellow humans. Her favourite creatures are anything that isn't human and her favourite humans are aspies.

And she never listens to NTs about autism unless they're like her and she really trusts them. I think Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time was by an NT and she wouldn't read it on that basis.

There's lots of Americans on WP.....but I don't agree that it's a particularly "American" site.

There are lots of non-Americans who are prominent members of WP.

The good thing about social media if u have ASD
Is that it can hekp u learn n understand social interactions

I promise that I was like a 10 yr old or less level socially until i had to start using emails to my friends because we moved so we did long email threads
That led to more social media like orkut (back then) msn chat etc facebook. then forums
From the observations n mistakes n outlet these things served as lessons in how ppl talk how to respond how it feels frm both sides etc. How to frame ur thoughts etc
So from that now in real life I can be better socially just from that so it helps u with
Social thinking

I've got used to it now but it was weird at first that every other word I write gets underlined in red. Now I think of it

as pretty decoration that WP is highlighting because of how important my words are

I see your point, Fluffy...

But I still feel----outside the political subforums----that this is an inclusive Site that does not take into account anybody's nationality.

It is very inclusive in fact I'd say welcoming to non-Americans as well as Americans. It's just that the numbers and

set up do give it an American feel. I enjoy the fact that this is a global forum, you're actually the first Americans

I've interacted with other than very brief and rare serving of people in shops/pubs. It's interesting

I'm just meaning based on numbers and when I talk on here I expect things to be most easily understood if they're something an American would understand, even if they're not something everyone in the whole world would understand.

It's the same on all the internet because it's a numbers game unless I'm somewhere specific. It's the same on Alexa's song quiz until you get to a high round then it's more varied because there aren't as many people.

But I've heard 1 person mention the site in real life in the fifteen years I've been open about my autism is what I mean. People are more likely to mention NAS or even say 'I'm autistic too, what are your specialist interests' or 'I'm autistic too...' something else than bring up the site.

Anyway, this is all just a paradiddle because mum's setting up her own social media ish type thing for the kids. A closed site mostly for work with a chat function. I think that's better than encouraging kids who are meant to be learning to be on social type things when all she's really wanting is some form of chat so they can do group work.

These are kids who can't go to school. It provides them a virtual school.

I think anonymous social media is good for aspies but the trouble with non-anonymous types of social media is that it's all so permanent and easy to google. If someone struggles with boundaries or knowing what's appropriate to say, that can damage their reputation forever.