Is WP the only message board you feel comfortable on?

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With the name ZeldaPsychology I tried a college psychology board and got a rude reply. I'm really into Pokemon X currently so outside of WP tried to find an online board and chose Marrialand I PMed some members there but my first thread on "Is anyone trying to catch them all." Got locked. I asked if someone was trying to catch them all and relayed my Pokemon gaming experience played R/B/S/ Black and now X and have just now started the idea of "catching them all." Guess NT's don't want "your experience or saying random things" So I changed and made a 2nd topic "Has anyone tried to catch them all? I am in Pokemon X" short to the point but IMO sort of boring!

College doesn't help either. Interest in killers and media stuff side of Crimnal Justice things and was told "I shouldn't be in Criminal Justice in any way shape or form and should go be a serial killer groupie." That hurt even my fellow ONLINE students who I'd assume would share my CJ interest don't think I should be in CJ.

Yet WP. Here you are. I can mention Pokemon. Go off on tangents while asking 1 question and get replies. Sometimes a lot sometimes a few but from surfing the boards Marriland seems to block things that aren't narrow specific.

I feel bad a basic question to get a conversation going is "wrong" yet OMG! IV's this and Shinies THAT! are clogging up there boards.

Thanks WP.

To answer your main question, yes. I feel like I can talk about almost anything here and it won't be censored.

The was one called 'Autisocial' started by a WP member that was very friendly, but it never quite took off and now it's gone. It didn't have Wrong Planet's random thread Que and I think that's one of the things that makes WP so user-friendly, there are always random new topics popping up right there on the home page, which is well suited to people with various levels of ADHD.

Those are the only two forums I've ever actually joined.

I am on two big teen discussion forums and have had much success with both.
I am as comfortable on them as I am on WP.

Yes. Everywhere else I've felt hopelessly different, and unable to blend in. I'm always being misunderstood, and having to apologize for accidentally offending someone.

WP is so much cooler, because if you say something that comes across wrong, people generally accept your apology without further argument, and it's understood that we're not all social geniuses.

No. The people on the the spacial interest boards I have been have been older in age and more mature in attitude then most of the internet. They were there for that interest.

Yes this is by far the only place I feel comfortable posting. Other forums are just too stressful, there's just too much emotional drama and subtext going on and I feel like I have to read between the lines of everything people say. People here mostly say what they mean and mean what they say and it's all very straightforward. And people here also take what I say like it is straightforward. No one tries to read any bizarre hidden meanings into what I write.

On other forums I've had people assume I was being sarcastic, when I was being totally sincere. And vice versa they would also misread me as being sincere when I made a tongue in cheek comment. Sometimes other people have argued with me that I said something other than what I said, like they couldn't read the actual words I used.

Some forums have very cliquey and/or hierarchical behavior and I don't see any of that going on here. I like it here because it feels like everyone is on equal, neutral terms with each other. I don't know if that is how everyone here feels about it, but it seems that way to me. I don't see people ganging up on each other too much here, or taking sides against each other.

I also like it that most threads stay on topic here. And when people occasionally go off topic they are very polite about it. On other forums people will start chatting back and forth in the middle of a topic in a way that makes it hard to read the thread or reply properly.

Also I like it that when I post here, it's rare that anyone tries to discuss back and forth with me in particular. I find it totally suffocating on other forums when one person singles me out in particular and keeps replying to my posts. And I can't stand to be involved in a debate. I will say what I have to say once, or maybe twice, but beyond that it gets tedious to keep restating things or drilling things down into more and more detail.

Most of all I love it that I can write about my real feelings and experiences here, and no one tries to "fix" me, or tries to bond with me emotionally over it. I can just say what I have to say and usually no one really replies to me in particular.

Nowadays, with the various life issues I have and such, WrongPlanet feels like one of the only online forums where I feel I can be taken seriously, and not have people brush me off as a lazy, overgrown adolescent. When I was younger and didn't have so much personal stuff I wanted to talk about, I frequented a number of other online forums, mainly gaming-related, as well as Yahoo Answers and the forums on DeviantART. I'm 20 years old now though, and a lot of people feel that at this age I should have no excuse to be whining about "teenage" issues, so whenever I bring things up about my life on other forums, I tend to have people telling me that I need to grow up, get used to things, and whatever else. The worst though is that whenever I tend to ask questions or reply to people on other forums, I often get ignored since people seemingly can't comprehend what I'm saying, or they simply don't care.

Here, I can talk to other non-neurotypicals in various walks of life, everybody seems to be straightforward, non-judgemental and friendly, and I can actually talk about things in my life and get legitimate responses from people who can relate.

So far, WP has been the only forum that has any kind of life to it. AspiesCentral doesn't seem to have much going on, Spectrumville no longer exists, AFF is defunct, and GRASP is starting to be so heavily moderated that it is beginning to be not worth the time reading any replies, since everything gets rehashed.

I feel comfortable here and on forums that are dedicated to my special interests. Honestly, when it comes to my interests, I almost always go to dedicated forums, but I also feel like I need to censor myself on them which is kind of annoying. I feel like my interests aren't really shared that widely here though--I don't think I would get many replies if I started talking about the grain structure and heat treatment of 52100 and 1095 on Wrong Planet.

I enjoy yahoo answers and empty closets.

A year ago, I was active on Social Anxiety Support. It's actually not too different from this board-main topics just revolved around social anxiety instead of ASD. Their posters were definitely friendlier than on other boards I've tried (I swear I'm never going back to Yahoo Answers). I feel equally comfortable on here and SAS.

WP is the board I post on most frequently these days. I am not really comfortable on the other boards.

I can talk naturally here without being socially crucified...i think.

Not really. I am on a few others, and I feel just great on those boards as well.

use wp,just starting back on the social network of mine after being detained in hospital without access to it for four months,a social network for people with intelectual disability,one intelectual disability forum and facebook groups.