Unsure of who is a troll and who isn't?

Agree!

Oh! I didn’t see the thread about gun violence!

I still do the odd shift in the dementia nursing homes. I don’t work too much, largely because I have two young children and my youngest daughter who is nearly 3 was also diagnosed as autistic in August, she’s still pre-verbal apart from the odd word so I need to be mostly at home for my children. My husband works full time hours as a MH nurse so I can only work when he’s at home to look after the children.

Sorry to hear that you came close to needing to ring the crisis team, what happened? Tbh since my diagnosis at the end of last year, I mostly do have autistic friends, which works a lot better. I started a local social group for autistic ladies back in March which helps with linking up with other autistic women and helping them to do the same. Are there any autism social groups near you that you could attend?

I might be a tad clairvoyant, but it doesn't ever put any real money in my bank account. Michael was a person worthy of some respect. Something a punk like Murdoch would never be able to figure out. I daresay I might occasionally be termed an amateur bantamweight troll, however. ;-)

there should be!

Personally i'm  hoping the guy who wants to mete out gun violence is a troll rather than a genuine Autistic.

Thanks! Nice to see you again too!  Are you still involved in mental health nursing? I think it was either start posting here again or ringing the crisis team for me. At least i've deleted fb again. Noticed a slight benefit already.  Maybe i'll have exclusively autistic friends in the future and finally give up on NT'S.

I find it harder to keep track when there are so many using NASXXXXX names.  Is there a requirement to switch from these (temporary?) numbers after a while? 

There does seem to be a disproportionate number of trolls on here recently, unfortunately! I can only assume that the children are bored due to the holidays so they thought they’d come on here and annoy the autistics, having nothing more productive to do with their time! Good to see you on here again after a long break btw!

I actually admire Foot a lot.  I have an excellent biography of him on my shelf.  I also have one volume of his own writing on Aneurin Bevan.  I did wonder if you were trying to troll me by mentioning it but how would you possibly know what i have on my shelves? :)

There are probably those who think I'm a troll. And I've met a few online entities on here that perhaps have a few troll-like tendencies. But ......  Sure, I've never really had much idea who or who isn't a troll myself. I can only say, that just like most people you have to live and learn as you go along. In which case, I probably have a bit more idea than when I was younger. But it's a bit like reds under the bed and rabid right-wingers. They probably want us to believe they're trolls, in much the same way that Superman wants to be viewed as superhuman. But I don't think we really gain anything by buying into their crappy mythology. And our less than lovely political parties all seem to be in a complete tiswas about how much trollism is acceptable to the fickle electorate. Populism and trollism seem to have gone hand-in-hand since Michael put his Foot in it by wearing a supposed Burberry 'donkey jacket' to Remembrance Day at the Cenotaph. I wonder a bit if the term 'android' isn't better. We've had a succession of androids as PM since then. ;-) Androids hired cynically by our crappy newspaper barons. Murdoch and Maxwell are/were undoubtedly trolls. :-)