Anyone in the UK feel like me!

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Er, wow.

First of all, I did read your whole post. I quoted only the part which I wished to comment on. That is a common practice on Internet forums by people who wish to avoid irritating others by cluttering up the page with things that are not relevant to our reply. We select only the part we wish to comment on. Assuming that people have only read the part they are quoting is a very wrong assumption to make indeed. I assure you I read everything. I am a very fast reader. Even if I don't quote it, I've read it. I'm hyperlexic.

Nonetheless, in case you should accuse me again of not reading all of your post just because I choose not to quote all of it, I'll quote all of it this time. In the process, I will, of course, be needlessly cluttering up this page and annoying other users by making them read exactly the same thing twice, but hey. Appreantly the only way to prove I've read what you said is to quote it.

Secondly, I didn't make any comment about the IQ level of Brits compared to Americans, either. I merely pointed out that you had made a racist statement about British people, and pointed out that it was offensive. I'm aware that there is a proportion of WP users who are from other countries than the US and the UK. I am not small-minded at all. I have lived abroad and have mixed with people from many other cultures. I'm aware that there are people of many races on here, and have interacted with some of them. But how is that relevant to your racist implication that British people have low IQs? It isn't. It's just a distraction technique to try and take the focus away from your racism.

Thirdly, IQ does not measure emotional intelligence. Since you are apparently so intelligent, I'm sure you know perfectly well that it stands for "Intelligence Quotient." It's no use trying to back down and say "I was using a word that is stated in the dictionary to mean XYZ, but inside my head, I was using it to mean something else." No. You know perfectly well what you were saying. If you had meant to refer to emotional intelligence, you would have done so, but you didn't. You said IQ. You were insulting British people, and calling us all thick. That is racism. If somebody said "black people all have low IQs" that would be racist. Likewise, saying that British people all have low IQs is also racist. If you talk like that, you are a racist, pure and simple.

Lastly, who are you to tell me to go away and use another forum rather than this one? Who are you to patronise me and tell me where I fit in, and where I don't? This forum is supposed to be for ALL autistic people. I am welcome here as long as I abide by the rules. You are also welcome here as long as you abide by the rules, so I am not going to respond in the rude manner that you did to me, and tell me to go away and post somewhere else that would be more suited to my (what you perceive to be) lower, "British" level of intelligence. You should not be doing that to people. Only mods have the right to tell people to go away and use another site instead, and you are not a mod.

You should not be sneering at people and telling them they aren't clever enough to post here and answer your comments just because they are British. If you write comments here, people are going to see them, and respond to them. Telling me I am too stupid to be posting here and should go somewhere else, where the low IQ British people are, is wrong.

1. It's a personal attack. 2. It's very racist and rude.

Firstly you have attacked all British people in a racist manner and implied we have low IQs, and secondly you have sneered at me and implied I don't belong here and should go and post on a lower-level intelligence sort of forum, just for pointing your racism out.

That's not very nice, is it?

I like the mix of people from different countries on WP - it makes for far more interesting and intelligent discussions

In my opinion the IQ level plummets on UK-only sites

Quit with the insults or you will find yourself banned from this site.

And are you a moderator?

I am entitled to my opinion

I see you are in France so less qualified to know whether my opinion is correct anyway!

I do feel to a certain extent that too much of the help offered to people with AS in this country is for children only. Once you hit 18, then it seems you are just thrown out to face the world alone, ready or not.

I think it would be great to have some country-specific forums here for meetups and discussions about how to navigate that country's health system and so on. Most of us really need that kind of thing because we are so hopeless at connecting with anyone. I looked for a UK section as soon as I arrived and was disappointed there wasn't one.

I wonder how well that would work - if you break it down there probably aren't a lot of WP members in each region.. Maybe SW/SE/NE/NW/Wales/Scotland?

Oooh you missed out Northern Ireland. They exist, too!

"Scotland" and "Wales" are not "regions," any more than England is. They are constituent countries of the UK.

Funny how people from England like to divide up the whole of England into categories, yet they lump "Wales" and "Scotland" into whole categories. (I'm assuming based on your post that you're from England. Do correct me if I'm wrong).

English people try to justify doing this by claiming that England is a lot bigger so you can't/shouldn't lump it into a whole. But you wouldn't like it if Scottish or Welsh people referred to England as a "region," would you? Saying "England" is far too vague. Well, so is saying "Scotland" and "Wales!"

Anyway, it's not that much bigger, really. Fun Google fact: England is only 1.66 times bigger than Scotland.

Scotland probably should be divided but I've not heard of it being done in the same way England commonly is, possibly because it only has 1/10 of the population, and that's clumped together in a few areas.