Treatment of High Functioning Vs Lower Functioning on W.P

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Wow that story's horrible from the LFA person on the other site.

I think that kind of troll should def be banned. Maybe we need to be more vigilant for it? I'm not sure how.

I find it hard to PM with people. I've had negative experiences on other sites with PMs. And I feel like it has to be more tailored, more NT, more 'on' in terms of socialising than just writing my opinions/experiences on a main forum.

I do like it - it just feels harder work.

I think we need to avoid thinking entirely in negative stereotypes of NTs. But being allistic/autistic is closer to gender than it is to sex - ie, it's a mental difference between people rather than a physical one.

Mental differences between people are easier to 'stereotype' in terms of mental traits. Just as physical differences between people are easier to stereotype in terms of physical traits.

I think it's possible, therefore, for one type of personality (such as a masculine personality or a NT personality - OR a feminine one or an autistic one) to have within it certain tendencies towards the negative. As well as certain positive traits. Stereotyping, yes, but 'in general'.

At least we're not pathologizing them. Or if we are (we shouldn't), at least that has no impact on them in society at large but, rather, is more of a case of parody based on how we're treated irl.

It's like saying 'don't say cis women are shorter than cis men, it's not always true'. Might not always be true but it's fair to say 'this is what I've generally observed'.

I do though (shrug emoji)

Wow! I remember all these users from WP, so this is where they have gone. I didn't realise (naively) that WP is perceived to be so toxic

Yes please be nice to us

Good post

Yes. That story of online bullying is quite shocking. No idea how to prevent it. Private messaging can be a scary thing to attempt.

Part of that thread turned into gossip where they actually mention actual WP usernames. Nice knowing that I don't exist because someone called my account here a troll account.

WP is what we all make of it, each according to their ability.

That story of Toothless is, to me, tragic. I wasn't a WP member back then. I read more recent posts and, well, some remarks were hard to disagree.

Please, report suspicious PMs.

I even wonder who that member is that bullied her. I wish all those PMs were reported and that troll and their sockpuppets.

I've reacted badly to people targeting me in the past. The result my account got suspended while no action was taken against the bullies/trolls. That was on forums run by mental health charities. The message being bullying/ trolling was acceptable behaviour,but having a stressful reaction to it was not.

I'm really trying to do better than that. Sometimes it's so hard to tell what is what...

She is really special! I am so happy that you have each other.

Sad thing I had realized online, when a drama breaks out on a forum and the victim reacts, it makes it very difficult for mods and admins to tell who the victimizer is. It's a skill to learn to not react and to just report the post only and learn to use the block or ignore feature if available.

On another forum, someone insulted me so I reacted badly to it and my post was removed and theirs was not because the admin didn't see it as an attack. I even reported the post too. But no warning was given of course.

This.

We even more or less have such a subforum for the most high functioning - 'In-Depth Adult Life Discussion'. It's not all inclusive for the most high functioning autistic people either, because it has an age restriction as well and it may or may not be for specific topics only - I've not actually had a look at it - but it definitely isn't for anyone with less high functioning autism or severe comorbidities. And if having subforums was harmful segregation, that'd apply to that subforum and the women's subforum as well.
If we have a subforum to ensure the discussions between the most high functioning isn't disrupted by less high functioning, there's certainly nothing wrong with having a subforum for mid and one for low functioning people. Though the boarders wouldn't necessarily have to be strictly along functioning labels. There have been several people with type 1 autism or Aspergers who don't have 'normal' lives because of autism or comorbitities who have complained about more high functioning people insisting that autism isn't a disability and that any problem they have isn't due to autism but due to not trying and a subforum for mid functioning people could include them.
Making new subforums would leave the rest of WP intact and merely be an additional option for those who feel more comfortable talking specifically to the people who can relate instead of to everyone.
Subforums is definitely better than sticky threads, because, as soon as there's a high number of people wanting to discuss their issues, doing it all in one thread would get confusing.