naturalplastic wrote:
Much ado about nothing.
Half of what you're saying are statements like this.
"I never get anything out of WP, never mind the fact that I never put anything IN to WP to earn getting anything out of it...boo friggin hoo.".
The other half are complaints about how shocked you were to learn that folks on WP are human beings who jockey for popularilty, and that we are attached to our opinons/beliefs, like any other group of humans online or off. STOP THE PRESSES! So you noticed that we aren't robots. Wow.
Admittedly I don't get much fame from posting in WP but that doesn't stop me from enjoying it. The few times I've posted it was always immensely satisfying to receive others responses (positive or negative) and so I've committed to posting more in the coming weeks. I don't despise this website; I simply find that as an aggregate the community at WP functions identically to an NT community in terms of its objectives and methods of socializing (with a sole exception on discussions concerning life experiences with autism, obviously) and because of this the same hurdles and banalities that come through socializing with NTs are also manifest; and so I can't relate to other Aspies any better than NTs in that regard. I feel that a community of autistic people should focus on cultivating ideas and building relationships centred around special interests and passions. However, by the layout of this site (namely, a forum where every post is vying for coverage) it's made strenuous to do so if your passions happen to lie on the fringes of normalcy.
Regardless, I'll continue to use WP and enjoy it in the future, as well as sharing my experiences with autism and advice, even if
my special interests receive no coverage, and no friendships can materialize therefrom.
13 May 2018, 2:58 pm
