soloha wrote:
from somewhere wrote:
This site almost feel like it has been hijacked by suddenly appearing fakes, anyone feel this? I miss those genuine folks who are not here anymore.
I thought maybe you were a veteran when you referred to missing folks where aren't here any more. I'm a little confused by your join date and post count.
I don't know why anyone would want to put time and effort into faking ASD. As others have mentioned perhaps it's a case of co-morbidity. I'm usually pretty cynical but in this case I think, at worst, maybe some people are just trying to find themselves....
Post count can be misleading, I once left for a couple of years, and when I came back, I couldn't remember my old password and had to create an alternate account, so my current post count is off by over six thousand.
OTOH, I agree it would be very odd for anyone to want to waste their time posing as someone with autism, just to have a place to hang out and troll (it does happen occasionally with a solitary post, but they're easy to spot, and most trolls get bored quickly).
I would consider that behavior indicative of some other mental disorder, as well as abject loneliness, (which is actually common here).
It is true, however, that a lot of old regulars do seem to have moved on, but I know for a fact (because I've spoken with several privately) that the reasons generally had to do with rules against personal insults not being enforced, and mods who beat up on autistic members for being too brutally honest with NT posters who didn't want to hear the truth about how their kids were not going to turn 18 and wake up cured of their autism. The overall atmosphere is noticeably different now, less friendly as a community, and overpopulated by the arrogant and angry. So the OP is not entirely wrong.