Published on 12, July, 2020
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.
Threads I miss seeing and that seem to be getting rarer:
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?
Sometimes when I find myself bored (which is rare - I like a life of 'classic plainness'!) I try to remember a quote from a episode of Northern Exposure: 'You're bored because you're boring' and then I try to assess if I have indeed become so and what might be done.
Having said that, I do think the forum has lost some of its fun and vitality of late. I think things go in phases/cycles though, and maybe those heady days of patterned randomness (all time highlight: Sparkly's Microwave Dinner thread) sparking unexpectedly oblique ways into communicating, without siloed effort, our individualities may return again. It just requires the right conditions. Time will tell,.. it always does.
Shardovan said:I do think the forum has lost some of its fun and vitality of late. I
There was a bit of horse play recently
https://community.autism.org.uk/f/adults-on-the-autistic-spectrum/30971/medicinal-cannabis/354544#354544
It starts with Amerantin's high horse and then goes rapidly downhill.
I needed some Epsom salts to calm me down after those shenanigans t'other night
I didn't know you could speak French.
The gravelly tones of our Rod Stewart are most definitely, exquisite.