Things you have learnt on WP

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Being on this site has been a real learning curve for me, especially since I have a different culture from the majority of posters here.

I was wondering what you have learned from this site, if anything, that has been a real eye opener for you.

I've learned not to post about my special interests so much.

Just because someone is expressing how miserable they are, it does not mean that they will appreciate any helpful suggestions on how to be less miserable.

When you've seen one Aspie, you've seen one Aspie; but a troll is a troll is a troll...

Thou Shalt Not Taunt Ye Moderators, for Thou Art Smalle and Crunchie and Thou Goest Great With Brie!

No matter what position you take on any given subject, there will always be those who would willingly spend their entire life's savings to buy a raffle ticket that would grant the winner the sole privilege of kicking your butt over it!

No matter how simple the explanation, there will always be someone who will either take offense to it, not understand it, or both.

Five years is a long time to wait for a reply.

Just because you are right, it does not mean that anyone else will be happy about it.

You can't cure stupidity.

Neurotypicals are not the only people with weird habits.

Ten years of earned respect can be destroyed with just one posted opinion.

The surest way to never become a Moderator is to volunteer to be one.

Some people just can't take a joke.

Some people are obsessed with what other people think.

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that i'm a pariah

WP is a microcosm of the world at large. Both places are filled with:

Nice and supportive people
Interesting and even fascinating people.
Talented people
Open minded people
Tolerant people


as well as:

Close minded people
Intolerant people
Mean angry people

With all of that said, although I've been here a short time, I have benefited very positively overall in being able to participate in this community. It's THE first community, "real" or cyber in my entire life where I've interacted with people who understand and experience the same things that I do and have.

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A direct, honest, and fact-based answer can get you into more trouble than an evasive and deceptive half-truth.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

For some people, being believed is more important than being factual.

A person makes his or her own luck.

Don’t waste time worrying and moaning about stuff you have no control over.

A "thick skin" is essential for dealing with people who have "thick heads".

Don’t live your life by anyone else’s expectations, taste, hopes or dreams.

The facts, however significant, are irrelevant to those who have already made up their minds.

Tell the little self-sabotaging voice in your head to bug off.

When people tell you to keep an open mind, it's so that they can fill it with their garbage.

Most bitterness and self-loathing is rooted in jealousy.

People are too lazy to do their own "Googling".

Believing in the essential goodness in people does not make those people good.

Some people really will believe anything as long as it is not the truth.

It’s not always someone else’s fault. Sometimes you have to look in the mirror to see whose fault it is.

Most of the time, the best option involves sucking it up, remaining calm, and carrying on as if everything was alright.

If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

The apparent lack of any rational explanation is not evidence of any irrational explanation being right.

People who present themselves as exceptionally sweet and loveable turn out to be sociopaths.

Those who believe in the supernatural often consider science as a meta-physical party pooper, when it reality Science is there to be the Designated Driver.

The only 'normal' people anyone knows are the same ones nobody knows very well.

American hotels have ice machines 0_o
Having never seen an ice machine, anywhere, in my country, this fact really threw me.
I could not conceive of any reason why a hotel would need to have an ice machine and still can't.

non-americans usually have an exceedingly difficult time conceiving of why americans do the things they do

What passes for "Popular Wisdom" is neither all that popular nor all that wise.

People who insist that you keep an open mind are the same ones whose own minds are already closed.

Ignoring the facts does not make them any less factual.

The world cares less about you than what it can get out of you.

People who love to criticize others are the same ones who hate to be criticized themselves.

What passes for patience is, more often than not, mere indifference.

Everything is simple only to those who have no idea as to what is really going on.

Whenever someone says "We should do something..." they usually don't include themselves.

Freedom of Speech does not automatically grant you the privilege of being heard, nor does it protect you from criticism or from simply being ignored.

I should step outside of WP AA more often and then I would find interesting threads like this one.

Love it Mr Raleigh.

Don't have a user name that is easily misread or you could end up the butt of a joke for eternity

^^

I still haven't learnt whether to use learnt or learned.

That I can be honest without being declared a terrible person.

No matter how attractive others may claim to be, there is always someone else who is utterly fed up with them.