Is WP the only message board you feel comfortable on?

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I use 3 others (2 political ones, 1 about rollercoasters) and feel just as comfortable on those

Being autistic doesn't preclude anyone from being a bigot. It's not mutually exclusive. Bigotry often results from limited and bad experiences with a certain race/ethnicity/sexual preference/insert other classification here. Education is what can help overcome it.

Yesterday was Abraham Lincoln's birthday in the US. Lincoln was an outright racist for many years---a true racist who thought that blacks were intellectually inferior to caucasians What changed him was coming into contact with intelligent and educated African-Americans like Frederick Douglass.

Yes but mostly just because I don't like change.

I feel nothing when I post out in the open. I post here and on a Star Wars forum.

I was kicked off several around a decade ago. I'm a little more mellower now regarding calling stupid people stupid.

This is the only forum where I haven't had the strong urge to call people stupid frankly.

People say plenty things I may disagree with here but usually it's not ridiculously stupid.

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I used to call such people neanderthals, then I realised I was being insulting to the extinct neanderthal population by doing so.

(Aside from which neanderthals were not really less intelligent than us anyway).

Yes, I've been a WP member for over 7 years and have been comfortable on here since.

Yes, it is, but after I read a thread here that happened to detail communication problems I had on other forums, I stopped trying to socialize on non-ASD forums, so I have very little recent experience to compare with WP.

I never had much interest in participating on topical forums/boards; I mostly hung out in discussion forums. I've grown weary of the endless nasty undertones, people who don't actually want to get to the bottom of anything but just want to 1+up each other and see who can come up with the funniest/most creative insults, snark (and hating myself for being drawn into it), and dismissals, and (ironically, now that I think of it) people continually assuming that I'm trying to be mean to them, that I'm posting in anger, that questioning them implies that I disagree, that I always have some ulterior motivation, and ignoring what I actually say in the process. That happens here, too, but far less often.

I feel more comfortable here relative to other forums, but not completely comfortable; the anxiety that my comment is going to be misconstrued and make someone angry lives on within me due to years of that experience, and, being now more aware of all the snarky subtext that tends to go on online, I sometimes get paranoid that it's happening in a thread to which I'm subscribed and I don't see it. Also, when I don't understand people I like to ask a lot of questions, but I don't think most people care to go into that much depth, especially on "light" topics. But that's true of most places online.

If you don't mind my asking, do you remember what thread it was? I'd like to read it. I still think about things that happened on other forums all the way back to over 10 years ago trying to understand what went wrong.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp4871492 ... t=#4871492

This one was also interesting:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp4510185 ... t=#4510185

Thanks very much! Yes sounds like all the same things that get me into trouble on NT forums.