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12 Oct 2012, 7:38 am

I don't understand where this idea that they're a hate site comes from...?

Is it just sibling rivalry between AFF and WP? :p

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12 Oct 2012, 11:46 am

Feralucce wrote:

Chami wrote:

I love that site. It is not hateful at all, it counteracts NT hatred.

No... it doesn't... additional hatred does not counteract hatred... it begets more

How is autism advocacy and standing up for ourselves hatred? How is exposure of what is being done to us hatred? Are we supposed to just say "Oh, that's fine, hurt and discriminate against me some more and I'll accept it passively and say nothing about it"?

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13 Oct 2012, 1:26 am

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I just went and had a look around for 1/2 an hour and it seems fine to me, not militant at all. Maybe its changed.

There have been drama fests there off and on. I remember the major one in 2008.

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13 Oct 2012, 6:11 pm

Feralucce wrote:

Chami wrote:

I love that site. It is not hateful at all, it counteracts NT hatred.

No... it doesn't... additional hatred does not counteract hatred... it begets more

What do you mean by "additional hatred"? Aspies For Freedom is not a hate site. I don't know why it considered to be such.

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13 Oct 2012, 9:02 pm

thomas81 wrote:

Just curious if anyone else uses this forum.

I am a member there but I haven't made many posts.

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20 Oct 2012, 5:36 am

I think people take NT basing way too seriously. I feel like after years of being spotlighted for my nervous tics, people looking at me strangely for my fixations and clumsieness, NTs can be told off for what illogical beings they are

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20 Oct 2012, 5:42 am

Ztrain wrote:

second that motion

i dont believe all or even most nt's are bad and the ones that are were victems of others abuse before they became the abuser.

but that being said: i have been hurt enough by nt's that im not crying my eyes out when people bash

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20 Oct 2012, 5:20 pm

vermontsavant wrote:

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I also agree. Given that many people on the spectrum have been victimized and discriminated against by NTs so much throughout their lives, I think that some degree of resentment towards them is acceptable. Obviously, outright Autistic supremacy is not.

I don't really see what this has to do with Aspies For Freedom, though. The moderators and administrators there advise against NT bashing. I've seen much more severe NT bashing here than on AFF.

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24 Oct 2012, 1:21 pm

vermontsavant wrote:

i lurked there a couple of times.its reputation is that of a hate site,i dont realy know

How is it even a hate site? I've been there since 2009.... and honestly.... it prohibits NT bashing......

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24 Oct 2012, 1:25 pm

Isn't WP and AFF from the same culture form known as Aspergia?

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27 Oct 2012, 4:47 am

Genesis wrote:

Isn't WP and AFF from the same culture form known as Aspergia?

Actually, I think you're talking about another aspie forum called Aspergian Island. Both Alex and Gareth Nelson (the founder of Aspies for Freedom), were members there before the forum was closed. Then after it was closed they independently created Wrong Planet and Aspies for Freedom, at about the same in 2004. Prior to that, Aspergian Island was one of the only aspie forums on the internet.

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29 Oct 2012, 7:40 pm

Jono wrote:

Genesis wrote:

Isn't WP and AFF from the same culture form known as Aspergia?

Isn't Amy the founder of AFF?

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30 Oct 2012, 5:23 am

Genesis wrote:

Jono wrote:

Genesis wrote:

Isn't WP and AFF from the same culture form known as Aspergia?

Isn't Amy the founder of AFF?

Yes, I think Gareth and Amy Nelson are both founders of AFF.

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