cutepuppy wrote:
It seems that any forum like this you go to its the same.
I can't speak on this, this is the only forum I "do". Do you mean AS specific forums?
cutepuppy wrote:
What I mean is if you take the 'guy' post and make it into a female version you will end up with guys replying saying 'oh how id like u so mcuh'.
Before long the girl has made internet boyfriends and is likely being bombarded with complements and 'confidence builders'.
She then goes from being low self esteem/depressed to a happy person, because people (guys) talk to her all the time.
I rarely venture here into L and D, but I've only seen one example of this kind of thing that I can think of, (unless the eligible odd bods thread is full of it, I can't say I look at that much, I bet I'm the wrong age demographic for a start). I don't see this as a trend. So I don't think you can generalise about females on WP from that. There's been cyclical outbreaks of "females with AS have it easier than males" threads which tend to get quashed, yes, females present differently in some ways and therefore have different social challenges. So that's that one stopped before it snowballs
As for misrepresentation, that's the more interesting issue. People consciously and unconsciously misrepresent themselves ALL THE TIME, particularly when they want approval or acceptance. When you tend to err on the side of honesty, it is disconcerting when you find other people don't. I have come to realise unless something is an outright lie, the "airbrushing" of reality goes on a lot, and there's not much can be done about it. Sometimes the airbrushing goes on inside their own heads...I gather it's called positive self image:lol:
cutepuppy wrote:
And then these same people reply to posts with their 'wealth' of experience saying how you shouldn't have sex until you know the person for 6 months.
Yeah, personally I'm not sure people with AS are the best people to advise others on how to conduct their lovelives
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