When you look back at your earlier posts...

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I don't like or dislike my old posts.

I did laugh at my reply to a topic "Healthy ways to express feelings":

I don't like my oldest posts. They're written in a kind of sloppy way like lower case i instead of I. And I have changed, what I said about my self then does not exactly apply now.

^ I actually find the opposite. I was an office worker when I started here and i had to constantly watch for typographical errors and present anything perfectly. It has taken me a long time to relax enough to just let erros slide if I am too tired or lazy to fix them. i realised I have to look after myself first and foremost. I have bad hand eye coordination and I find typing quite a stressful thing. I cant really afford to be so worried about making mistakes anymore,not if i want my life to get any better anyway.

I haven't yet, I'm not in the mood for cringing. I think I'm less wall o' text oriented and take myself less seriously. It takes me a while IRL and here too to feel safe enough to occasionally let my inner goofball out.

I became severely disappointed.

I truly believed that all aspies/auties were rational human beings and had no prejudice against other people.

i used to be more defiant and rude. (i got pm's and warnings so i learned to say nothing if i was going to be defiant)
my posts were longer and more detailed.
i responded to things that i would not be bothered to respond to now.
i was much more eager to talk then.
i took time to word my posts in a careful and elaborate way.
i thought much more keenly about what i was going to write before i worded my replies.

I started using proper grammer, lol.

During my early days on WrongPlanet, I was much more inclined to get into political/religious discussions, and I was much more vocal about my political convictions than I am now.

In 2009, I took a three-month long hiatus from this site, until I resumed posting in November. When that happened, I became a little more humorous in my posts, and I started to get a little more.....raunchy, in my posts. That was at the same time that I turned 18, and had gained access to the adult forum.

These days, I'm much more laidback in my posts. I go over to the PPR forum mainly to observe all of the discussions there, and I rarely contribute to any of them unless it's a subject I feel strongly about. I also prefer to be a little more sophisticated in my posts now.

When I first came to WP, I got into several arguments with people who didn't want a cure for autism because I thought they were against any sort of therapeutic or educational intervention. I thought this because in some parenting groups,some parents will say their autistic children are "cured" if their children gain skills such as being able to talk. Parents are especially likely to do this if some doctor has given some gloomy prediction such as "your child will probably never talk". Then when natural development coupled with intense speech therapy brings speech, the parents say, "my child was cured of autism". The child is still autistic.. But no longer non-verbal.

Theoretically I should have been able to abandon this misconception shortly after joining. But in the cure debate threads, there would always be somebody who said "to me, cure just means learning skills and I'm all for that". So when somebody else argued against a cure I would get mad and make an angry "you don't want my child to have speech therapy? Why?!?" post. Not good times.

But I did get it sorted out, thanks largely to some posters with a very precise and analytical posting style such as Callista who made detailed posts about the precise differences between "cure" and "learning skills". It all seems so obvious in retrospect but it didn't at the time. So I got into some very uneccesary debates because of my semantic misunderstanding.