How do you know if someone you know isn't on WP...

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Joe90
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19 Dec 2013, 5:26 pm

....unless you asked them, that is. This is a rhetorical question, by the way. It's a question to make you wonder, not to exactly give a logical answer to.

But I just had a thought. What if somebody I know, like a close friend or even a relative, is actually a member on WP but neither of us knew each other were a member? I don't talk about WP to other people, but I bet I'll be quite surprised if I had somebody turn around and go, ''oh, I go on that too, I've been a member for X months/years''. And it doesn't always have to be an Aspie either - there are some NT members here with an Aspie relative. You never know, my own brother could be a member here and neither of us know that each other is a member, but rant about each other on here. I might have replied to him going ''tsk, your Aspie sister sounds like a jerk'', or he might have replied to me going ''tsk, your NT brother sounds like a jerk''. :lol:
I talk about my thoughts, feelings and perspective of the world a lot, but it still wouldn't scream out my personal identity if a friend or relative or mine ever read it online.

It was just an interesting thought I had. Not that I'm worried about it or anything. It just made me think and smile. You never know. :)


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19 Dec 2013, 5:52 pm

I think anybody I know in real life would recognize me in a heartbeat, because I'm exactly the same here. However, that would be really cool to find out that somebody you know in real life is also somebody you post with on here.


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19 Dec 2013, 5:54 pm

Check on their computer when they're not watching? :P :wink:



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19 Dec 2013, 5:56 pm

Hey Joe, you might be surprised to discover I'm really your uncle - John. :P It's OK, I won't tell anyone. :wink:


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20 Dec 2013, 2:45 am

All of my family members know about this site. I just hope none of them ever come on to see what I'm writing, because they'd know who I was, and who I was writing about, right away...



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20 Dec 2013, 11:37 am

I think a lot about that. I'm actually a bit paranoid about that. I have been very honest about myself here on WP though I don't reveal certain facts about myself because I would hate to be identified here on WP by someone I know IRL. When I use WP I try to hide the computer/mobile screen.

EDIT: wrong spelling fixed



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20 Dec 2013, 12:46 pm

TallyMan wrote:
Hey Joe, you might be surprised to discover I'm really your uncle - John. :P It's OK, I won't tell anyone. :wink:


I don't have an uncle John. :lol:


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20 Dec 2013, 1:01 pm

Joe90 wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
Hey Joe, you might be surprised to discover I'm really your uncle - John. :P It's OK, I won't tell anyone. :wink:


I don't have an uncle John. :lol:


Damn! You would have been freaked out if you had! :P


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20 Dec 2013, 1:20 pm

I actually have an uncle called John. :?



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20 Dec 2013, 2:50 pm

Uprising wrote:
I actually have an uncle called John. :?


Hi there nephew. :wink:


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20 Dec 2013, 3:18 pm

TallyMan wrote:
Uprising wrote:
I actually have an uncle called John. :?


Hi there nephew. :wink:

oooooh Konnichiwa!



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20 Dec 2013, 8:22 pm

i would get one of those wrongplanet messager bags if i didn't have a messager bag already.


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20 Dec 2013, 8:25 pm

I've only told my psych about this site. So far, I have met nobody who's on this site in person, yet.


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20 Dec 2013, 8:52 pm

A few people in my life already know about this site, so I wouldn't be surprised if they made accounts here.



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23 Dec 2013, 5:28 am

I'm pretty sure nobody I know is on WP because where I kive nobody even knows what asperger's is, and to most people here autism is just the "sitting-in-the-corner-rocking disease". I'd actually be glad if somebody else knew about it.



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23 Dec 2013, 8:35 pm

I have fears that someone I know could be on WP without me knowing it.


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