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Is it getting a little bit boring around here?

Peter
1 month ago

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?

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  • 1 month ago
    Peter said:
    Ah but in the process do you not make it unsafe place for people with controversial opinions?
    I Sperg said:
    a few others here, MIGHT benefit from my most recent thread

    This is a more appropriate site, the one that ISperg is frequently referencing, and does so here on his 'most recent thread':

    https://community.autism.org.uk/f/miscellaneous-and-chat/36575/watch-and-learn

    People who needed this resource have been driven away from the support  the site offers by the controversy that you deem so precious.

    Why do you persist when it's not welcome by the majority of members and is harmful by isolating people even further?

    There are other, better places for this sort of thing.

  • 1 month ago in reply to Debbie

    No there aren’t. I know from personal experience. The place where I felt most free to be myself was taken away from me and I have never found anything else like it. These better places you are referring to are empty rooms with no activity and no people; tiny corners of the Internet that no one ever goes on. Were I to post there I would be talking to myself.

  • 1 month ago in reply to Peter

    Try Truth Social.

  • 1 month ago in reply to Peter

    Whatever.  I'm done.

    There are more uplifting and constructive threads to focus on.

    This one was always going to be a visit to energy vampire land.

    I have been foolish to linger so long.

    So long.

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  • 1 month ago in reply to Peter

    Whatever.  I'm done.

    There are more uplifting and constructive threads to focus on.

    This one was always going to be a visit to energy vampire land.

    I have been foolish to linger so long.

    So long.

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