Wounded
CMaximus
Deinonychus
Joined: 3 Nov 2007
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Posts: 387
Location: Calgary, AB, Canada, Earth
I can sort of see how you might have interpreted it as sarcastic at the very worst, but let me assure you, no lashing out of any sort was intended; I meant it constructively, it's just that maybe my entry and prose came off a little bit ambiguously, and I'm sorry if that hurt your feelings. I'm going to shut up now.
aspiartist, I wonder if changing
Bear in mind you fit into a category of people who are famous for dwelling on things to an abnormal degree
to
Bear in mind, that if you have Asperger's Syndrome, you fit into a category of people who are clinically premised as dwelling on things to an abnormal degree
might better convey the meaning intended.
I think that the intended interpretation was a reference to clinically indicated aspects of Asperger's Syndrome rather than aimed at you personally, but that the phrasing is (unintentionally) similar to phrasing often used when singling people out.
I know I have trouble not dwelling on things, both positive and negative.
I see no mumbo-jumbo. What is twisted about replying to a thread, and why would someone start a thread if replies to such are twisted? I do not have a bug in my ear.
What exactly are you trying to prove?
No one posted anything offensive in this thread outside perhaps the seemingly (to me at least) aggressive tone of your own posts. Why do you feel a need or desire to communicate in this fashion to people who are simply posting their thoughts and ideas in a forum intended to offer a supportive environment for exactly that purpose?
Well, I cryed myself to sleep for around 15 years until my tear ducts dried up.
I hit maturity around age 28, started hitting the gym and just kinda chilled out and learned to adapt.
I used a hard drive instead of my own brain to remember the only things that are important to me.
I learned to touch type instead of use a pen because I can't hand write.
I worked out in the gym four days a week, and dated until I found the right woman who could tolerate all my eccentricities and then I moved just outside the city limits into a nice house, with no neighbours, with my wife and just kinda went into early retirement.
Oh and I write when I can think straight enough to transmit my thoughts into useful digital information.
And I avoid any kind of stress I can possibly avoid, that helps.
When the anxiety gets intolerable I take the odd valium. But that's only once every month or so.
I find the trick is to just stop fighting the Aspergers/A.D.D/Twice Exceptionality and learn to work with it. The sooner you stop fighting it the easier life gets. One can fight it for awhile, but eventually it will burn you out.
You guys are so full of it it isn't funny.
The trouble with people who lack empathy, as someone else mentioned, is that they aren't on the spectrum at all. If you want to understand yourselves better, go look up Narcissist and Psychopath. The doctors don't always get it right, not by a long shot. The last place that people like you need to be is around people with autistic spectrum disorders and that's what some folks around here are complaining about. All you really can do is prey upon people and then call it support. You really are sick.
The trouble with people who lack empathy, as someone else mentioned, is that they aren't on the spectrum at all. If you want to understand yourselves better, go look up Narcissist and Psychopath. The doctors don't always get it right, not by a long shot. The last place that people like you need to be is around people with autistic spectrum disorders and that's what some folks around here are complaining about. All you really can do is prey upon people and then call it support. You really are sick.
I am confused as to exactly what is upsetting to you in this thread. If you cannot or will not be clear about what others are doing that upsets you, or is (in your opinion) unacceptable or otherwise uncalled for, it seems (to me) less than reasonable to criticize them for not adopting or adhering to your non-specified standards.
lelia
Veteran
Joined: 11 Apr 2007
Age: 73
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,897
Location: Vancouver not BC, Washington not DC
I have read the thread several times. It seems to me that you are full of accusations and harsh words yet there is no apparent provocation for such conduct.
Because you will not explain what you see to be the problem, it is very difficult to know if you feel genuinely aggrieved, or are merely trolling. If it is the former, it is unfortunate you feel that way, but I see little anyone can do about that when you will not communicate what is upsetting you. Ultimately you have to be responsible for your own feelings.
Regardless of why or whether you feel aggrieved, there are rules that apply to all posters. A thread outlining the rules can be found at the top of each sub-forum board.
This includes insinuation, ridicule and personal insults, regardless of whether direct or indirect. Attacking an opinion, belief or philosophy is acceptable, but attacking the person making the comments is not.
As you can see it is not acceptable to be insinuating that I or anyone else posting here is a narcissist or psychopath as doing so clearly constitutes a personal attack.
I have been here sharing, attempting to listen and learn and also have offered a lot of support as well. The opinions of a few people who want to post on this thread the way you have only reflects on you and really doesn't concern me. You do make it very hard to want to share or even be there though. You guys are incredibly cruel, as psychopaths typically are, and yet don't even appear to know it. That's all part of your manipulation. I look like an easy target to you and so there you are. Don't ask me to make myself even more vulnerable to you. I think you've represented yourselves well enough and don't need any further feed-back from me.
If it does not concern you then it's difficult to not assume you are putting on this performance to be intentionally disruptive. I do not know why you would either want or need to do this, but if that is the case, I would rather you took your aggression somewhere else.
No one other than you has been engaging in personal attacks in this thread. No one other than you has crossed the line and broken the rules. I again draw your attention to the fact that it is impolite, unnecessary, and contrary to the rules of the forum to be implying people are psychopaths.
You look to me like someone who is either being deliberately disruptive, or is having difficulties interpreting the intentions of others. It's difficult to be certain which is the case.
If you feel vulnerable that might explain why you are interpreting things the way you are (presuming that you are not simply being disruptive).
Perhaps it would help when you feel under attack, to pause and ask if there is some way the words you find upsetting could be interpreted in a way that is not an attack on you. I do not see how it could hurt to try this, since if someone is attacking you, failing to respond in kind is likely to upset and frustrate them more than giving them what they want (an upset reaction); more importantly if you choose to interpret comments as not attacking you, then even if it is an attack, in effect the attack fails, and you do not end up feeling unhappy.
I happily stand by my conduct in this thread. I do not see that I have been anything other than polite to you. I do not see that anyone else has attacked you, been cruel to you, or otherwise done anything to deserve having you lash out at them with personal attacks. The fact that you refuse to elaborate on what you find offensive makes it difficult to know whether to take you seriously.
If you honestly feel people have been cruel to you in this thread, that is very unfortunate, but I am not convinced that is the fault or the responsibility of those who have posted here. People are responsible for their conduct, but they are not (and cannot be) responsible for how you chose to feel about completely innocuous and perfectly friendly comments.
Posters do not deserve to be on the receiving end of nasty accusations simply for having posted, and if you make a habit of lashing out at people who appear to have done nothing wrong, while persisting in refusing to describe what your issue with them is, it can make it very difficult for people to take you or your accusations seriously.
If you wish to elaborate on what has caused you offense, then that could be addressed, otherwise there is nothing anyone can do to help you no matter how much they might want to.
Regardless how you feel, you are still not entitled to break the rules, so please desist from personal attacks against other posters. The only cruelty I see in this thread are baseless accusations about other peoples' mental states made (without explanation) by you. I strongly suspect you are not medically qualified to comment on other peoples' mental states and urge you to follow the rules of the forum however qualified you might believe yourself to be to comment on the mental states of others.
