Don't waste spoons on people that ask for your advice but don't want it.

There is a behaviour that happens on this forum and it is worse than trolling because the poster may or may not be genuine, and you care about them but then no matter what you suggest to try help them they won't accept it. They might as well preface their original post with "whatever you say I have accepted my fate and it is bad, it just sucks to be autistic, you should feel bad too" and have it over with.
That may not be their intention, but we know intention counts for nothing compared to the result. So here it is the lesson learned today, don't wast your energy trying to help those that don't want to be helped. Yes you are right to care, yes you are right to be confused but you need to recognise the cut off point.
You cannot save a drowning man by reaching out to him if he won't reach back. For our own sakes as autistic people we need to maintain our own emotional energy, and self preservation is not selfish.
Yes there was a specific incident that set off the need to post this, but it's not just about one person, there are others who have and will come in here and engage in this behavior. And whether they mean to or not it harms the community here because it creates the same effect as  feeding-the-doom-trolls-comes-at-a-cost and takes it's toll on our collective mental health.
It's great to care, I wish more people cared, but please keep yourselves safe and healthy first.

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  • The thing is: You don't know how many people are reading who have the same problem and for which your advice IS a lifesaver. 

    And sometimes when you discover that you've formed some of your personality or personal policy on shaky ground and re-evaluate things, then suddenly a lot of things can slide into place, including an understanding of previous advice given that you might have rejected as irrelevant at the time.

    The behaviour that you speak of is detailed in the book I recommend in my bio, It's call "why don't you, yes but" (YDYYB) or something very similar, and the given description of the state of mind of the people who play this game is quite illuminating.

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  • The thing is: You don't know how many people are reading who have the same problem and for which your advice IS a lifesaver. 

    And sometimes when you discover that you've formed some of your personality or personal policy on shaky ground and re-evaluate things, then suddenly a lot of things can slide into place, including an understanding of previous advice given that you might have rejected as irrelevant at the time.

    The behaviour that you speak of is detailed in the book I recommend in my bio, It's call "why don't you, yes but" (YDYYB) or something very similar, and the given description of the state of mind of the people who play this game is quite illuminating.

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