Published on 12, July, 2020
I was diagnosed with high functioning level 2 ASD about 6 months ago. I started tagging around some online and RL communities, but I quickly noticed that all the autistic spaces I interacted with are mainly geared towards the more severely disabled. Users there are totally infantilized, mods behave like nurses in an assisted living facility.
I understand that higher support people deserve to be protected, but I feel like I am living in a nursing home. Everybody tells me to "unmask", but how can I unmask if I have to walk on eggshells to avoid traumatizing some low-functioning user?
Is there any place that caters only to high functioning people? This forum is just unusable, forums and communities online are dead, and Reddit... well, it's Reddit!
I am open to suggestions
Judge Dredd said:This forum is just unusable
Judge Dredd said:95% of the people here are people that I would avoid in real life. I am already forced to interact with unpleasant people on the job, why should I suffer that during the leisure time, too?
Judge Dredd said: I do not know about you, but I am not interested in interacting with deranged people.
You've been saying this since you 1st joined this forum.
Why do your persist posting here then?
I hate to call you a Troll and I understand that you are suffering but this does look very akin to trolling to me ...
Try to read the first post. I was asking if anyone knew a community more geared towards high functioning people. Maybe I should make a new subreddit
I think that you are confusing the concept 'high functioning' and the desire to interact with 'people who think like me'. They are not the same. If the concept of 'high functioning' is accepted as valid, then I'm probably very high functioning, but I find many of your posts inimical. The vast majority of autistic people posting on this forum are 'high functioning', so you have found it.
Good luck in finding a community that is on the same wavelength as you.
Stop posting things that I find require a level of refutation or counterargument and I would be happy not to interact with you.
Please.
Leave.
Me.
Alone.
I.
Already.
Asked.
Several.
Times.
It is a public forum. If you post something, it is public and any member may respond. This is how public fora work. If you want to pick and choose who you interact with, you need to access something different. In reply, I consider you to be, if not a fool, then often wrong-headed and overly opinionated.