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I think I can understand you... It ought to be typical to be for aspies to be rational and analytical even when people can expect a different reaction. I can't understand ideas of head/mind games either... Ability to manipulate seems to be encouraged in society and people in general expect one to be able to read subtle signs. I can't understand why somebody repeats one phrase, but expects me to act completely opposite and then gets upset when I do as they ask.

Common sense is not so common as Voltaire stated, especially when it comes to rationalizing one's feelings and behaviour.

Since my last job I worked at before getting SSDI due to mental defect was delivering pizza, you had to make nice to a customer, even if the delivery was a canary run (meaning, you got a $.01 tip after nearly wrecking your car and risking a traffic ticket to get the customer's order to then in 30 minutes or less. When you get stiffed like that, you turn syrupy sweet and come back with a thank you and I'm sorry I couldn't give you better service. Sometimes, that puts the customer on a big guilt trip. Unfortunately, where I live, you have a lot of German and Scots lineage, which always equals being screwed out of a good tip.

I just saw the Off the Wall subforum for the first time in my time here on WP. It's very active. I saw many usernames there that I see in Random Discussion subforum. Now I realize that they are all playing there while this subforum (Random Discussion) is going very slowly. No one told me about it.

I am sorry jk1, if I had known you didn't know about it, I would have told you. It just seems that some people prefer certain forums, and just hang out in those. Come on over and play

Last edited by Moomingirl on 29 Apr 2013, 2:54 am, edited 1 time in total.

(double post)

I found the off-the-wall games forum pretty quickly, but I can relate. I was used to the Random Discussion forum first and foremost. But that didn't stop me, and it shouldn't stop Jk1 or anyone else from joining us.

I am REALLY plastered, but I have managed to edit this post to perfect legibility.

Sorry, I didn't mean to blame anyone for my not knowing about Off the Wall subforum. After all it's up to each person to explore the site. It was stupid of me not to browse. I'm not much of an explorer and once I find something comfortable, I don't even look at other things. When others mentioned Off the Wall, I wondered what they were talking about. I've been a member for over half a year and I didn't even know other subforums. Well, now that I know it's there, I will join and play with you guys sometimes! By the way, you guys were talking about "sweeping the board". What does that mean in that context?

"Sweeping the board" means when you go through and post in a bunch of threads so that you are the last poster in all of them - usually reserved for when someone does it over a fair amount - usually ten or more threads in a certain sub-forum. Depending on the time of day or night and how active WP is - this can actually take some dedication and time.

I temporarily sweeped the subforums (well, not many), as shown in my avatar

Thanks, Kjas. I got it. It would be fairly easy to do it in a very inactive subforum, but it must be pretty hard to do that in Off the Wall since it seems to be going even faster than General Autism Discussion.

Twice I've gotten my name on every post on the front page of Off The Wall; I've seen it happen a few times in the last week or so.

Generally it happens late at night here (in the US.)

i.e. when I'm not around, lol

You should've taken a screen shot of it. Yeah, I know around 11am my time it seems to be pretty quiet. I think Europeans, Africans and Americans must be sleeping around then.

i have finally become tired of wrong planet. i am one step away from being banned, and i think that is because i have lost interest in posting here, and i am not as averse to being banned as i use to be, so i post without carefully thinking about the ramifications of what i post these days. i have always had a reasonable amount of hostile PM's who want me to retire from this site. some people pm me simply to ask that i do not quote them, and other original posters of threads sometimes PM me to request that i do not participate in their thread any further.

when i first joined (2008), i was full of things to say. i posted detailed and lengthy posts often. mostly what i posted was ignored, and i never really felt i could rise to the social level that this site operates on.

after a while, i realized that most people did not read my posts, and i started to think that it was a waste of time to try to compete with the popular people for the attention of other members. there are too many people on this forum, and the most popular people here are under 30, and there is a whole undercurrent of private exchanges between those people that i was never privy to.

i can not participate in the flirtatious aspect of this site. i have not the inclination or capacity to do so.

i can not participate in PPR. i posted very much in the PPR section at first, but i was roundly rejected as having insufficient education to personally speculate about the topics i posted in. i started to think that many people in PPR were only "google professors", because their contributions to the threads were already established ideas that renowned academics had already thought of.

i did not want to contribute stuff that i had researched by looking it up in google. i wanted to provide my own original thoughts after speculating about what ever matter i was posting my response to, and i always got replies that asked me to provide citations or other evidence that my ideas were valid. when i replied that my post that they questioned was only rooted in my own speculation about the matter, i was told that i did not have the education or the intelligence to consider the matter on my own.

i then felt that they were only competing with respect to how much information they could google from reputable sources. they never actually considered the viability of what i said because they were so cynical that a person like me who is unknown academically could ever think in an isolated yet viable fashion about the subject of the topic.

i decided that they were snobs who really did not think for themselves about the question they were "answering". i felt that they were simply researchers who trawled the internet about information pertaining to the thread they were posting in, and they reworded what they read so as to appear original.

it is very difficult to discern who is really smart these days. before the internet, people were put on the spot when discussions about complex subjects arose, and they could not defer their answer for 40 minutes with indemnity while they trawled the internet for their responses.

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i have been told by moderators early on to stay out of "love and dating" and " the haven" because i have too little empathy to reply in an appropriate way. the bookmark to this site that i have which i click on is "latest posts" and i almost never check which section of the site that the post i reply to comes from. i have mistakenly posted in the "women's section" and the "lgbt" section in the past and i received hostile replies that indicated i was not welcome in those areas of the site by moderators after about 1 year after i joined.

i am now on my last warning and i am going to be banned if i transgress the protocol of this site one more time, so i think my time here is exhausted.

i have no more to say. even though i said lots of things in my first few years here, i have no desire to repeat myself, and my first posts detailed what i thought, and if a thread occurs that replicates a thread which i once posted in, i have no desire to rewrite what i posted a few years ago when i originally responded to the earlier thread.


so tonight i am going to look for other asperger sites that have fewer members so that i may have a valid voice when i post in them.
i am not sure what i will feel tommorrow when i wake up but i think my time on this site is over. i expect that i may recieve a few responses to this post that are in the vein of "see ya later dude" which i will interpret as that my contributions are inconsequential to the main demographic of posters in this site.

i think this site is very much populated by young people who need to display their personalities in order to be validated by other people their own age.

i have found another site which i will now inspect.

I hope you will reconsider your inclination to abandon Wrong Planet. It looks like there are quite a few of us who are "more mature" and I for one am always interested in whatever you are writing.

Also, I can't wait to hear how the duck eggs turn out.

I will be honest... Many of our kind come across as immature... especially when dealing with those who have matured...

You will be missed... would you care to share the url of the other site (in private messages)