Is there life after WrongPlanet?

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Some people have moved on, and that happens... I know that I will likely move on, although I do intend to stick around and help the new guys out when I can, there will come a point where this site is not important to me any more.

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Oh, jeepers, I am here, Greentea. I do post everyday, but sometimes the rate of posting one day is less than others. I do read your interesting topics. I love them. And this one is excellent.

There are some names there that I have not found abundantly. I think they may post more in the Off the Wall forum .

Also, I do currently view this place as a home, but only because all my real socialising gets done at home, and that is what I come here for.

How do people expect to form bonds if they're constantly moving on? This reminds me of a similar comment in The Little Prince by A de S Exupery.

Everyone is constantly moving on, starting a new phase, going somewhere new more appropriate to their current point in development. How come this never happened to me that I felt like leaving some person or community because I felt they were my past?

Hey Sue! Glad to see you and acacia here!

What is the Off the Wall forum?

There's a line in the song that states "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."

In Memorium topic

I am sorry to read about your mother passing, Greentea. I hope she did not suffer in pain. My own mother died some time ago, and I was not told until a week after she died. Anytime I called during that time I would just get her answering machine. My immediate family is toxic.

I guess the thoughts of death are still fresh in your mind. It is very sad to lose a loved one, I know. Loved ones always live in your heart, so I hope this is comforting.

The Wall topic

This forum is in the Off topic area, between Random Discussion and Members Only Discussion.

The bonds people make are important, but if those bonds cannot transcend the moving on from one phase to the next, they were never that important in the first place. It is like when 2 people get married, they will eventually move into the next phase of life, but if their expectations for the marriage are still those they had when they first met, and have moved beyond that, their marriage will fail, as their relationship didn't transcend moving on. They are still stuck in one phase while they moved into the next, so naturaly, they will seek out some way of connecting to someone on the phase that they are looking for, and the relationship ends. I have met people online that have moved on from where we met, and we still talk, and are friends, as that friendship transcended the moving on.

^ How interesting, Padium. I think I am pretty static. Perhaps this actually explains a lot..

I do a lot of studying on dynamics of people, and people in general... It is somewhat of an obsession for me, I cannot know enough about people and psychology of human dynamics, and of people I know.

HI Greentea. I don't fit in much anywhere else. and i do not feel as if i fit with WP. i was so intense with WP for the first few months and then i got upset by a few things and i also started reacting quite vehemently to some posters...particularly when i was coming off antidepressants whic i am now off. I then decided to pull back and put that same energy back into my painting.

Now i am checking in here and there - maybe once a day briefly and i usually just look for posts and threads that appeak strongly to me. and i look for my WP 'friends" and their posts and try to steer clear of posters who i do not like.

I also found the energy was getting too socially complicated for me. I felt it was getting too busy and too complicated for me - and that is the story of my life re people.

i do think people come and go. i have made some email connections with a few people. Neshamaruach has become an email pal and i follow her blog aspergerjourneys.com which is excellent and much quieter. I suspect you would really enjoy it, too.

the main thing for me is that WP gets too socially overwhelming. just too many people at times. Now i am trying to come to it with a much narrower approach and that is better for me.

I come and go as needed. I might find a person amusing or annoying but I try to avoid anything more personal. They simply don't feel real most of the time on the internet, yet for some reason they can make me really angry. So there's not much benefit in my getting too involved with people here. I have a small family of my own and do very little socializing outside of it. For whatever reason, my need for that seems to have dwindled in recent years, possibly since my talkative oldest kid got old enough to carry on a conversation. There's too much room for misunderstanding in social situations, even typed ones. And no matter what group of people I'm around in one way or another, even AS people, I always manage to anger someone and leave in humiliation. I have gotten so that I frequently avoiding reading any thread I have posted to in case I have replies from self-righteous people, or from instigators who like to argue just for the fun of it. I do not find it fun. Supportive threads get me down. I even started one in a moment of weakness last week and haven't gone back to read it.

I generally just come here to read the thoughts of people as different as I am, occasional toss in, and visit art and movie folders.

I know there is a life after WP, I was posting way too much and getting carried away, letting things get
to me, but I took a break, and cut back on the hours I spend here. Most of the posts are rehashing the
same old stuff, and it tends to get boring, I think alot of members are realizing that too. I am only here
a few hours to see how people are doing, don't say much of anything and leave.

rather applicable to you, tim tex...

this often becomes a special interest for many AS people. it has been for me.
i would presume you approach any situation involving people from this vantage point, Padium?

I still come here daily but I am not posting as much because I'm not in much of a posting mood and I don't read every single threads here or posts but I still post daily. I get lazy to even make posts. Some names you listed, I still see posts by them all the time.