Anyone you know ever find you on WP?

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I think I might actually be happy to discover that someone from my real life had found me here - if they were not treating me worse as a result. It would be nice to find out that someone from my real life knew I had AS and was treating me the same, or better (due to better understanding).

It would also save me from worrying about whether I should tell them. The work would have been done for me!

Even if it was the opposite - someone found me here and treated me worse as a result - it would be good to know about it so I could use the experience to inform my decisions about who to tell and who not to tell.

And it's what I did - I went to a site in a language other than my native one. Anyway, even if someone from my college found me here, it wouldn't be a tragedy as we are to graduate from it this year Other people I know, I guess don't know English enough to look for information in this language for pleasure.

I'm being semi-anonymous...if I was REALLY worried about it, I'd disguise my speech patterns/typing habits/etc...post a lot less about my personal experiences/hobbies, things like that.

At least I thought I was only being semi-anonymous, but I've noticed a lot of people here type like I do... ;D

Anyway, I figure nobody's going to go through all the trouble to identify me, and if they do...meh. I just didn't want this site to pop up if anyone put my handle into a search.

They might be inclined to give you free furniture, and help you move it

That's pretty much what my attitude has been, and I hardly ever use pm's so don't have that worry.

The other thing which seems really important for my peace of mind is that I be honest.

So long as I am as scrupulously honest as I can manage in my inevitably, ( because human), regularly self-deluded state the prospect of ever being identified feels occasionally challenging, but never alarming.

I feel the same way =) .

Well i have defiantly given out enough info that if someone who knew me stumbled onto the posts, they would know its me, but I don't think someone who doesn't know me. For example, I did an oral presentation a few weeks ago on autism. If I had told the class about my suspicions of having HFA, and they came to the site ( I did plug it once or twice), a few of them might be able to pick me out. Someone from my math class,Foundations of Ed, or Sign Lang probably wouldn't.

That being said i don't think I'd like others finding out. Mostly to due with my not being 100% sure of it myself.

I kinda have a fear of someone from my school trying to find me here.

Good god, I hope not.

I banned him... he clicked the site... and I started yelling "off, off, off" into the phone (and he's still my bf, great huh?)

he was a fairly new BF at the time... I have trust issues.... there are things on WP (like me freaking out about having a date with him for the first time) that he just doesn't get to read... someday perhaps...

Hopefully not.
Although by my screen name, if someone who knows me did come accross me on this website, they would know it was me straight away.

When I was initially registering and it said username, I thought it meant just a log-in name and that you got to choose a different screen name...what an idiot!