AUTISTIC PEOPLE ON THE (N.A.S.) INTERNET, AND "HOW-TO" USE IT.

Good evening. If you are reading this, then I have succeeded in doing as you suggest... and it even worked concerning "Related" subjects (!!!)... Thank you for your suggestion, yet only time (and "views") will tell anyone, concerning it being success or worthwhile or not.

So far, all of this is good to bring to light, here.
if only:
1- I myself had a faster/bigger device?
2- If NAS themselves were reading all of this...!?

I may indeed "start a New Thread" after all... yet NAS themselves should be doing this, surely...

Again, thank you all, for posting... (puff gasp wheeze)...

Yep,  including trying to reply to this! Got here from an email notification (pretty personal to my account), pressed reply and promptly got flung out to the sign in screen, it then says 'sorry can't find page' and you have to go rummaging around.

Beyond frustrating and I don't know anything else that behaves like this.

May be best to open a thread with the same name + #2! That would make it easier to find new entries and the old one should still pop up under "Related" in case someone fancies reading. Most of the time the threads popping up there have nothing to do at all with the thread you are in, but for once this function might actually do what it's intented for.

That seems like a problem you get on any device, at least with any browser. The whole signing in thing seems a bit clunky - can't think of any other website that needs to think for so long to sign you in...

Most annoying when you have typed something, forgot to sign in and then press Reply - and it's gone... Suppose everybody has had that one.

My other problem is signing in.

I can only sign in at the top of the page.  When I try to sign in when prompted, such as when replying to a post, it fails.

To one and all in general...
Many things occur in recent days, which compel me to grudgingly write this post in some haste, as though this were a "BLOG", which it isn't (because I do not entirely know what a blog is and have never seen one upon this NAS website)...
This post is mainly to apologise to anyone for my having done something possibly inconsiderate (e.g. accidental dislikes or deletions), which may display upon their own devices yet does not display upon my own, and so I can't know whatever I might have done (!)...

1- The devices which I use are "old" (five years and more), and so I am having more and more trouble accessing anything, including this page. I have had to switch off "Notifications" or "follows" or other such like, due to software errors. I don't want to, but I have to.

2- Sometimes, in this touch-screen reality, I press an awful lot of buttons which then change to do something else - just as I am pressing them. Or sometimes, I am attempting to type or to scroll-the-screen, and suddenly -- blam! -- a button flashes up to entertain mischief, by never specifying what it does, or where it went, or by blocking another button...

3- Friendship requests. The very first time I saw these, on the "profile" pages, I cannot help but say that tears welled up in my eyes, at the idea of REAL PEOPLE wanting to "friend"...ME!?!
But the reason for this post looms large. I already said earlier that I could not reply, private message, email, or engage in any such "social media" things, and that I had to TRY it in order to find out how or why I could not do so. The more I try, the more I find out... about how much I cannot do... due to lacking the "latest super swanky bigger shiny upgrade mega super giga" whatever-device.

Closing. - I may also have to wind down my own posting so much, even upon this thread, because this thread is simply becoming too long for the "old" devices I started it with to be able to handle.(!)
As if to change the subject... society is trying to force *everybody* to "go online", which is why I came here; and I have tried it for almost three weeks now, and the whole business for me is as if to choose... between the hammer and the anvil/a rock and a hard place/the frying pan or into the fire (delete as preferable)... ふっ...

On my phone too replies appear and disappear with no apparent logic, it is better on PC but can still be a bit weird.  Also, the threading may allow me to answer you here easily but the overall lack of clear timeline makes long threads all but impossible to read/follow.

Pretty much like real life, isn't it? Something doesn't work / isn't right and others may experience the same or not, but either way they don't get the problem, because they decide it isn't of much significance overall, so they can just ignore it and expect us to do the same.

Replied to the previous post, at "Robert123". I should very much state a "Thank you", for your expressing support, of what I said just there, and then for the content of your reply.
A lot of what is brought to light upon this "thread", is a socially accepted thing, like a "just-shrug-shoulders-and-carry-on-regardless" thing; where some people cannot actually do that while the majority cannot understand the problem as it does not happen to them. All of what you stated there is that. (Which is the reason for this "Thank You"...)

You are not alone.

I am assessing this site from a 5.5 inch smartphone.  And I have many of these issues.  Especially the problem where some reply disappear.  Or don't always appear.  Then they are back. Then I can't see them.   "?!??!!

This is a sort of reply, to 'Elephant-noone-Elephant', but I can also use this reply, to make a couple of points/notes for myself, or for anyone else, or for my own Autism, or again about the Internet in general.
Thank you, for understanding what I said then...

This post is replied to a post which contains naught but an EMOJI; and - this emoji does not show up upon all of the devices which I use, and only erratically upon the "home" screen... a lot like itallics, bold, or underlines. (When "new" Emojis are released, it seems that I must update my own software, and I cannot afford (money-wise) to do that.) On my little iPod, this reply is completely blank.

--- A change of subject, yet discussion upon either subject is welcome/noted.
When it comes to certain devices, especially *small* devices...
When it comes to "replies"...
...And then more replies...
...And then more replies...
...what
happens
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this!

...Even typing THAT was difficult, and it may not show up correctly. Basically, the TEXT is "JUSTIFIED" to the right-hand-side; and so that is yet another "difficulty" concerning using the Internet.
I do not recall where, but I have, at times, seen it as bad as...
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Imagine having to read whole sentences like that? In this language and Country, anyway...
...again, I hope anyone else understands. (It has nothing to do with NAS, just a difficulty about using the Internet and such in general.)

I may write about this again, in a later post, for this post is a quick(-ish) answer... I do not usually post anything during "Internet Peak Time"...

Although I myself made the mistake, and next stated that I did not expect it... as I say, I am learning about the INTERNET in general... But I *do* see a logic to censoring certain words.
Concerning the q---- word which I used; I can see that it was censored *out of context* (based upon the word and not the use or meaning of it); and the fact that it was censored at all, then causes the word to be considered again, in this new completely different context, from that which I had originally intended to use it for, there.
(............!!)

There is no real logic to what words that NAS have censored...

q u e e r, l e s b i a n etc are no no’s 

but other words are fine? , 

Yikes. On my E-reader, just viewing this last post... there is a word in PROPER ENGLISH which is posted as "***"... !!!

If you can read this, here, the word was "Q-U-E-E-R", meaning as in "peculiar" or "awkward". But that the previous post censored the word (on my E-reader at least) ... is kind of one of the things about what is allowed or not, which this "thread" was started for... very confusing.

About "likes" and "liking"... without punctuation this is going to read as VERY *** in real English - with regards to "liking myself" especially (!).

I cannot upon this e-reader, always see like or dislike. When logged in, it shows up as, for example:

like/unlike. [up arrow] 0 [down arrow]

The number "0" changes if I press either like or dislike (up arrow or down arrow).
But it also changes if I scroll the screen up or down, or switch pages, or just put the Virtual Keyboard up ...!
So I can't always follow/understand it. The "home" page is not much help, either.

With regards to liking in general, I suggested in an earlier post to "like" anyone or everyone, please... but on my own device most of the time, what it shows is information concerning MYSELF ONLY: what I liked or disliked, or other dislikes at myself...

With regards to liking myself (...)... I do this because I have noticed that my own "offensive" post ("Dog for Autistic Child") is still much disliked (the number is currently -2 .). And, coupled with seeing that too many ( -2? ) dislikes seems to draw the attention of NAS, then I did not want to be "banned", "thrown off", "deleted" or any of that.

Lastly, even after all of this, I explore much of the entire (NAS) forum and I *still* see people thanking other people very much, and yet the like number is still 0 (zero). I cannot follow it insofar as it all being so contradictory and/or unfair. (--- By thanking and unfair, I mean as in people disliking you and getting thrown off immediately, ...but other people giving a reply saying "Thank You!!!" yet not liking you... that sort of thing.) ん.

PS.: The Vote Up thing is presumably to indicate that you like or agree with what someone else has written. On Facebook it's often a collection game and a means of showing bullies that they are popular in order to not become their victim, but here it's mostly quite genuine. So not sure what the benefit of liking one's own comments is.

Not really sure what the intention behind introducing those "achievements" was - presumably to encourage people to post more, maybe because it was all a bit dead here a couple of months ago. Perhaps that was supposed to appeal to autistic people (as they all like collecting things, you know...). No idea if anybody gets competitive about it? I'm finding it all a bit strange, slightly patronising (given that kids can't join this forum) and something best be ignored, it's just a distraction they could have done without. Don't think it's really worth exploring this much deeper.

But to answer your question: No, I can't explain it.

Yet another post from me, "the starter".
I should point out (again) that, one of the main reasons for me starting this "thread", was in, perhaps futile, hope that NAS THEMSELVES might pay it an attention, towards highlighting points concerning the topic of:

"difficulties which Autistic Persons themselves may have in using the (NAS) Internet".

There ARE plenty of manuals/guides/websites out there, detailing how to use "Social Media", "Facebook", "Twitter", etc., in general... but such places are not going to mention the likes of what ASD, AS, ND, or NT actually mean, are they?