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Is it getting a little bit boring around here?

Peter

So cut me some slack because what I'm about to say is likely to annoy some people but it's not an accusation against any one as such. But don't you get tired with the threads here. 60% seems to be parents going 'my child X please help.' Even if you restrict yourself the autistic adults forum so much of it is so trivial and boring every day. I've started clasifing the difrent classes of boring threads I'm reading, they are so predictable.

  • Hey I'm autistic and I have trait / experence X! do we all have X? what about you?
  • Here is a random piece of prozaic infomation about how my day went I just want to share incase it interests you.
  • I don't like how autism is portayed in the media.
  • I'm nervese about upcoming diagnoises
  • I did / didn't get diagnosed
  • Should I get diagnosed?
  • random pets / animal memes / pictures thread.
  • Help there is trouble at work (valid to ask for help of course but it gets tirering giving the same advice over and over)
  • advise me what resonable adjustments I should ask for
  • Random quiz thread. E.G. 'what is your favorite X,' 'do you have X type of thing.' etc.
  • Here's a random long artical / youtube video (usuall with no scientific evidence) about autism I think you should see.
  • Life sucks because X (again very valid but all too often it's in a way that doesn't really open a discussion, it's just for sympathy)
  • I have a Problem please help (but gives almost no detail or context for the problem so it's hard to say much).
  • How do I deleat / please deleat.

Threads I miss seeing and that seem to be getting rarer:

  • I have controversial opinion X and here are my reasions; lets talk about it.
  • I have a novel problem X and here is a lot of detail can you help me brain storm.
  • What would make life better for autistic people is X, do you agree? How do we work towards it.
  • Curent afairs / polotics thing X is an issue for autistic people what should we do about it?
  • Thing X that autistic people tend to strugel with presents a moril / pholosophical chalenge for autistic people how should we adress it?
  • Here is a news artical / press release / peer reveiwed paper relevent to autistic people.

I'm not saying everything has to be like a oxbridge debating sociaty but it would be nice if we could have a few more meaty discussions around here. I'm surely not the only one who feels that way?

Parents

  • Quick simple answer to question....YES!

    I think that the forum platform / technology doesn't help with its limitations and that can make the place become a mass of regurgitated same old questions and issues.

    Having said that, I think that especially with people about to have or recently had a diagnosis, the whole world of Autism can be very daunting and distressing. This place is as much theirs as it is yours or mine.

    I tend not to post much (certainly way less than many others) for a number of reasons.
    One of those reasons being my lack of interest in many of the topics/themes such as "What is your favourite [insert item here]?"
    Maybe I'm that older generation that doesn't use social media / forums for that kind of things.
    Not wanting to offend anyone, but to me those sort of threads do not help me in any way whatsoever with my living with autism.They serve no purpose to answer important questions about out autism. 
    To me they seem rather childish and sometimes posted just for the sake of posting something!

    But then I understand that some people with autism have deep interests in what could be considered (certainly in mainstream NT world) as things that are aimed / marketed with children as the intended audience. And those people have as much right to post about their thing whether that be Pokemon, Disney, My Little Pony, etc as as I do about a topic that may be of special interest to me.

    I could go on and on, but will leave it at that....for now.  

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  • Quick simple answer to question....YES!

    I think that the forum platform / technology doesn't help with its limitations and that can make the place become a mass of regurgitated same old questions and issues.

    Having said that, I think that especially with people about to have or recently had a diagnosis, the whole world of Autism can be very daunting and distressing. This place is as much theirs as it is yours or mine.

    I tend not to post much (certainly way less than many others) for a number of reasons.
    One of those reasons being my lack of interest in many of the topics/themes such as "What is your favourite [insert item here]?"
    Maybe I'm that older generation that doesn't use social media / forums for that kind of things.
    Not wanting to offend anyone, but to me those sort of threads do not help me in any way whatsoever with my living with autism.They serve no purpose to answer important questions about out autism. 
    To me they seem rather childish and sometimes posted just for the sake of posting something!

    But then I understand that some people with autism have deep interests in what could be considered (certainly in mainstream NT world) as things that are aimed / marketed with children as the intended audience. And those people have as much right to post about their thing whether that be Pokemon, Disney, My Little Pony, etc as as I do about a topic that may be of special interest to me.

    I could go on and on, but will leave it at that....for now.  

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