Mute / block function

I wil miss you if you leave, but I understand why you feel the need to step back and I totally share your feelings about some posters and wishing not to see them, I agree with OVerwhelmed, that it's long past time we had such a function.

I feel like I don't belong here a lot too, I mean I must be the only person here who's never read or watched Harry Potter! I feel like such an outlier here, so few of my interests interest others and I often feel othered by the tumbleweed drifting across thread I've tried to start. I wonder if we need a room or forum for those of us who are a bit older and maybe have had many years of living undiagnosed? I really notice the difference between us latelings and older people and the younger ones who've know since childhood, I think we should mix as we can all learn from each other, but it would be nice to have a place to be old and grumpy.

I actually think there is room for debates here, otherwise it will like a newspaper problem page and we may as well just have FAQ's rather than real interactions.

I wil miss you if you leave, but I understand why you feel the need to step back and I totally share your feelings about some posters and wishing not to see them, I agree with OVerwhelmed, that it's long past time we had such a function.

I feel like I don't belong here a lot too, I mean I must be the only person here who's never read or watched Harry Potter! I feel like such an outlier here, so few of my interests interest others and I often feel othered by the tumbleweed drifting across thread I've tried to start. I wonder if we need a room or forum for those of us who are a bit older and maybe have had many years of living undiagnosed? I really notice the difference between us latelings and older people and the younger ones who've know since childhood, I think we should mix as we can all learn from each other, but it would be nice to have a place to be old and grumpy.

I actually think there is room for debates here, otherwise it will like a newspaper problem page and we may as well just have FAQ's rather than real interactions.

I haven’t watched Harry Potter either. I read about 5% of the first book several years after publication but I just couldn’t get into it. At times I too have felt this isn’t the right place for me as some of the posts seem to be littered with nuances that I don’t understand. Like many autistic people, nuanced language is not intuitive for me and sometimes I wonder how many autistic people feel unable to respond and feel excluded. I agonise over some of my replies and posts, and I keep checking the rules. Over the short time I’ve been on this forum, it seems to me that some posts and or threads break the rules, but they weren’t moderated or marked as such, but others were, and this confuses me. I hate breaking rules and I am frightened of getting moderated and marked or deleted. I think debates are important but I am yet to decide if this forum is the best place for them. Perhaps we need a separate area or section allowing an “agreeing to disagree agreeably” section, as in “The Rest is Politics” (Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell Podcast”)? We could be careful not to allow any rude name calling of particular politicians (which is something Alastair & Rory definitely haven’t managed) or of contributors, otherwise we could be open and blunt about the things going on in the world that matter to us.