I think Wrongplanet has lost its way

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I'd only really be worried if forums didn 't loose their way. Otherwise it means you're somebodies tracks.

...I'll have to read this ...

Yeah, back in the day I had to walk twelve miles to school barefooted in the snow. That's what my Dad always told me.

uphill...both ways...

For sure!

Personally, I'm not sure if WP has lost it's touch so to speak but, I've been a member for close to a year or more even if I've not made 1,000 posts or more yet, sometimes I feel contented with being here as, other times not so neverless I'll continue to stay unless I wind up inadvertently becoming a burden unto someone..

May everyone find some serenity here...

Having been here nearly from the start I'll say this site hasn't lost it's touch, it's just gotten too crowded to be as effective as it was in the old days.

four years ago I could spend an hour or so and read all the new posts each day and respond to them, and believe it or not, for a while I was top poster here.

Now every time I come here I have to read what seems like a whole book each time I log on, and with a job that drains away most of my mental energy each day, I just don't feel like doing all that reading or posting anymore.

The site is getting very hard to follow, many threads are hard to find becuase of the large volume of stuff.

Perhapes we need to have more subdivisions of the forums to allow the users to make more sense of what is going on. I would also suggest more "members only" forums. If people want to read what is going on here then I am sure that they can join up.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

i have only been here for 5 months, so i can not tell whether the forum has changed.
i see no real particular personality in the forum. each thread has a life of it's own, and different posters of different ilks tend to coalesce in different threads.

i find the forum dauntingly large. it is so large that my efforts to post are like a a mouse sneezing in the grass beside a drag car race.
it is like trying to yell my ideas from the top spire of the empire state building at the passing traffic on the streets below.
(if that renders a notion of superiority then i will rephrase) it is also like trying to scream "i've got something interesting to say" at a jetliner passing overhead at 40,000 ft...it just sails on and on and then it is gone.

even now i am aware i am putting too much effort into my post, but i can not be brief because i need to tie up all my points.

there are so many posts here, that people scroll to the interesting people's posts to read them only, as they have not the time to read posts like mine which get in the way.

if the forum was quieter, then posts like mine would be read more often.

it is not a fault of the forum or the members. it is a matter of population.
if someome goes to a rock concert alone, no matter how wildly they flail their arms, they will not be noticed or remembered by any of the people who went to the rock concert to watch the band.
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people change their avatars too much. i do not remember posters by their name, but their avatar picture.
if a person has a new avatar, i will not recognize them and scroll past them.
i always read posts by avatars i recognize like that "sonny hammond" kid out of skippy, or that girl who is sitting down on the lawn with a hat on, or the person with the black panther head ...etc. i do not remember their names, so if they changed their avatar, i would scroll past them obliviously.
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another matter is that there are some people with subconscious sexually motivated biases.
for example, if a girl who is pretty (proven by a video or some other validation) posts something banal like "omfg" in response to a thread, then they often are quoted and replied to ad nauseum by males who seem to think the girls comment was almost an utterance from heaven.
yet when average people post interesting thoughts, they never are responded to by those males.
i see that as rather like the NT's all around me in life.

it is a shame that people can say they are officially diagnosed in their profile without any proof. there are many people who would not care about lying to attain a false status.

if those pretenders (p1) attain a following of other pretenders (p2) who believe they (p1) are really AS (because they (p1&p2) have no clue as to authenticity), then the real AS people fall into the minority, and are swamped.

i mean.. if there are mostly NT's here who have fooled themselves into thinking they are AS, and they have the "floor" (the respected attention of the majority of members), then their imaginary descriptions of the "AS state" will attain benchmark status, and those like me who really are AS, will fail to achieve the benchmark set by an NT imposter (im-poster).
not fair.
like ants in the innocently unguarded sugar.

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on this forum i feel eccentric and out of place.
i feel as if i am not saying the right words to convey what i think.
i feel that the unwritten rules of this forum are beyond my ability to understand.
i feel like i can not be woven into the social fabric of this forum.

all those things point to one fact.
and that fact is that this forum is predominantly comprised of NT's.

too long. sorry.