Blogs! (Not just on here)

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Yeah, blogs

I think blogs are one of the best ways for people with AS and autism to be heard, and share their experiences (along with WP). They allow a much deeper look at individuals, and are more easily seen by NTs than this forum, to raise awareness outside our own community. Sort of like a form of self advocacy I suppose They just seem so much more visible to people than this site. I'm probably explaining this really badly, but I do try.

What do you guys think?

(I've started my own blog at aratherstrangeday.blogspot.co.uk if you guys want to look)

Blogs do have a place in the Aspie-sphere. The advantage of a social message board like WP is that it can draw hundreds of viewers in a comparatively short timeframe, which in turn can drive the "conversation" more than the traffic that (most) blogs get.

A blog has the advantage of being able to completely control it's message, which most social message boards cannot practically do.

That's what I was thinking I mean, I understand that WP is a great place for us to share experiences, and help each other, and reach a wide audience within our own community. I was just thinking that blogs are a good complement (not a replacement!) for WP, as they could reach a potentially wider audience outside the Aspie-sphere, more for helping raise awareness than communicate with fellow Aspies.

WP does not do what a blog does, and a blog does not do what WP does. They support each other.

Of course, the Aspie-sphere is not just limited to Aspies.

I think that, as usual, I'm being pretty terrible at explaining myself

I'm basically agreeing with what you're saying. WP is great at what it does, and blogs are great at what they do. I think there should be more of both. That is to say, for WP to expand, and for more people to have blogs

Damn I'm terrible at explaining these things, give me physics any day...

I, too, have a blog and have been getting some foot traffic from WP as well as other places. I'm definitely not complaining.

That's great That's what I'm after, spreading across multiple media, sort of so we're not just all in one place That way we get the best of both worlds. I mean, as I and everyone else says, WP does it's job great. It just doesn't do the same job as a blog

change it in the signature so it has a http:// at the start,otherwise people will have to copy and paste all the time which is expecting far to much of the lazy arsed ego driven human race.
will have a look at it when am at home,and will add it to the blog roll of mine!

personaly use mine as a mental archive because am unable to communicate verbaly the same way,its also a way of support staff and specialists of mine to see how things are from inside,it has also been used by learning disability teams for training before.

I tried that, and it doesn't seem to want to work -.- I'll try it again though