Am i a suitable person for WP?

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It is interesting. I prefer railway history and railway related subjects.

I was getting it every month but recently there are no retailers left in these parts that sell it so I have stopped buying it.

I started out with the GWR, then I enjoyed BR, but these days I love freelance modelling in narrow gauge form as I then decide how my railway will develop. My rules. My little railway!

The picture you showed is one of the GNR Atlantics (Great Northern Railway) in miniature form.

Yes, you are. I appreciate your posts and responses. Did I miss some? I only spend 30 min or so a day on WP, so do miss a lot. Some participation better than nothing I hope. I also tend to make statements and initiate posts that don't get responses. Most of my responses aren't acknowledged or reciprocated. Too serious? Too deep? no action to take or no comfort to be had? too obvious? or there are a whole bunch of ASD folks here without "pragmatic speech" skills (including myself). Hahahahahaha.

If you are not getting the response that you like you can always PM me b/c I am good to opinionate about near anything (esp. when invited), but you may not want my responses (and of course ASD folks don't often solicit others).

What exactly would make someone unsuitable for WP?

You know, besides obvious trolling or having zero interest in ASD.

Yep. You’re suitable….a perfect denizen of WP!

With the amount of responses you get, there should be no doubt in your mind.

Of course you are a good person and are always a great presence here on Wrong Planet!

Your life experiences are inspiring to those who want to seek advice
from members who are full of wisdom!

I find you interesting, you post good topics. Even this one.

I'm not very good at getting my thoughts down on screen so I mostly lurk. I wish I were more verbose.

You obviously fit in.

Not sure why you obsesses so much about replies to your original posts.

It seems to me that your "batting average" for starting threads with original posts is about the same as everyone else's. I rarely start threads, but when I do make an original post it often gets no replies. Only remember a couple threads that I started that went on for many pages, and they were years ago.

You tend to stick to mental health issues in your posts. And thats what the site is about. I myself relate to some issues you talk about (like executive skills), but not to others (like schzophrenic issues -like paranoia ).

Some folks focus on non mental health issues, and talk about general topics that interest them, like hobbies, or politics, or religion, or movies. So those folks cast a wider net. And consequently get more responses. But the responses are not necessarily any more relevant to mutual support in the autism community than the fewer response that you might be getting.

If you posted something about Trump- just said anything at all about Trump (good or bad), you would probably get a big response from the American segment of the WP population. Americans both attacking and defending whatever it was you said about him! So if you wanna just rack up a score of getting responses that would be a cheap and easy way to do it. But what would be the point? If you dont care about Trump why talk about him?

I do not understand the question.
Because this is a support forum, not a popularity competition platform.


But if that's how you feel...
You do fit.

In fact, in some ways, you're more relatable to other members than I do.
So I tend to see you more of being with others in WP.


So you got high IQ scores and unable to translate in real life -- so do other members and practically the majority of those with double exceptionalities.

So you feel irrelevant and feeling very alone -- so do other members. They have the same circumstances.

So you got interests that you thought others are not interested -- so to many members here I'm very sure, longing for someone to listen to their musings and even relate to tangents, when others couldn't or won't.
I don't know the ratio of listeners and talkers -- but I'm sure it's skewed in favor of talkers.

So you got higher support levels despite appearing not to, and others seen to have it easier -- oh my. That's just how it works online.

So your interest is in politics...
I dunno. I'm very sure at least some residents from the UK in WP are kinda sick of US political topics and US based remarks.

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INSECURITY. That's it stripped down. Sorry to all. Thanks for your patience,tolerance and replies.

Thank you.

Firemonkey,
I am glad you are on WP. I like to read what you post.
I am interested to what you write as a reply to other people's posts. You don't have to start your own threads to be part of WP.

Keep in mind as well that the forum isn't terribly active at all right now, so I wouldn't draw too many conclusions based on getting or not getting replies to things currently. The only things that are getting much traction are contentious politics, and whether you have a taste for those or not is purely a personal choice.