Things you have learnt on WP

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Good gracious Istomin Fan, I didn't know that.

But I do see lots of toxic stuff on news sites and the like. Seems like some people are really scumbags behind the anonymity of their keyboard.

This is a support site for the spectrum so we do try to keep things clean and to remove offensive stuff. Impossible to see everything so rely on all members to notify us if they see something crossing the line!

The rules change based on the staff team here because of the different interpretation of the rules.

There are hidden rules here that are under those rules but you have to actually violate it to find out that rule after being warned or reminded. This was my experience when we had sinsboldly and lau and Maku.

The operative word here is "had", as in past-tense possessive. The current crop of mods seems much more reasonable.

I see lot of NTs doing this too which is why people remain willfully ignorant. This is a human thing and a bad one.

I notice it seems very difficult for many people to get a different perspective until they experience it themselves to understand. Like someone who has never been poor will probably never understand why poor people can't just stop being poor or why they can't just buy in bulk to save money or buy when things are on sale or just learn to cook to save money and so on. If people are able to understand by reading other stories and changing their perspective, that must be some gift they have because many people seem to lack it.

Yeah I agree that staff team was bad. Many people had problems with them, they either got banned or they left the forum.

I fell for this once as a teen. I was first learning about Asperger's and that was my diagnoses I have and I was learning about it and I thought I had to be Asperger's. I thought I had to unlearn everything and get special privileges and not have all the rules apply to me. Part of it was because I grew up seeing disabled kids getting away with things and not having every rule apply to them so I wanted the same thing and reading stories online about autistic children getting their way so I wanted that too so I wouldn't have anxiety. This was a big problem in my family and it took for my therapist to tell me all those people were wrong. It never occurred to me those people and teachers could have been wrong by letting the kids get their way because of their disability. Now I think part of it is picking their battles like is it worth dealing with a meltdown in the middle of the night and my other kids don't get their sleep and they are tired for school just because my autistic son didn't get his glass of milk? I will just go to the store and buy a gallon, that is easier than a meltdown and keeping everyone up at night and then I am tired and sore from holding him down. This was all too abstract for me to understand as a teenager but I was able to understand "They are all wrong for doing that to those kids" part.

I try to take the experiences of others into account, as well as my own, when making posts, as well as when deciding what option to take when viewing members' posts which seem to fall in that wispy grey area between acceptable and offensive.

Since we all have different experiences, we are constantly learning from each other.

That it's okay to be different from the other kids, I mean members.

Americans don't use words such as learnt, dreamt or leant.

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the last one I have not seen coming from the MAGA brigades, but I myself have used the first two.

Some American dialects, like in the South, use "learnt". But in the main Americans say "learned" for the past tense verb (rhyming with 'earned"), not to be confused with the adjective (used for an erudite text or person) which is pronounced "learn ed".

I learned from WP how Brits master, or fail to master, something called "maths".

Still sounds a bit laughable to me to put that 's' on the end of "math".

But Americans do say "ceramics", and "electronics", and "economics". So there is precedent for either sticking the 's' on to math, or for leaving it off I suppose.

I've now learnt that some Americans do use those words, thanks to auntblabby and naturalplastic.