Parents
  • From the article:

    The cure? His parents helped him to detox from Mercury and heavy metals injected into him by “Science.”

    Parents. stop jabbing your children. They are coercing you and tricking you into killing them with these toxin filled shots they call vaccines

    I see no evidence of peer reviewed research and just anecdotal claims of a massive conspiracy by the people who swore an oath to "do no harm".

    Can you please add some context before posting this conspiract theory material in future?

  • I considered it, but decided not to. 

    I wanted people to have their own reaction to the bare information, not sell them what I think. 

    It's an unusual approach these days I'll grant you.

    I think I know what you don't like, and I'll be happy to add an "Iain warning" in future if you as a courtesy to yourself, if you'd find it useful.

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  • I considered it, but decided not to. 

    I wanted people to have their own reaction to the bare information, not sell them what I think. 

    It's an unusual approach these days I'll grant you.

    I think I know what you don't like, and I'll be happy to add an "Iain warning" in future if you as a courtesy to yourself, if you'd find it useful.

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  • Personally, I get a sense of someone.  There aren't particular parameters that I am concious of when realising that I have started to feel like someone is a friend.....in this place, I can really only conceptualise the members here as "souls" rather than people.

    Let's face it, I am a bit odd.

    I've known you for ages and I consider you a friend.  I trust and understand you.  We are both men of a certain age from England.  We PM quite regularly but you don't appear on my "friends list" coz all that type of stuff is WAY too close to social media for my taste.  Yuk !!  Most people with whom I PM regularly do not appear on my friend list.

    There are various other souls in this place that I have never PM'ed but whom I sense as friends here too.  By your mates Rik assessment......I reckon me and Roy would happily meet that test, and there are newer members here (always) with whom I feel an affinity.

    We're autistic man !!  This stuff of "friends" is all just agg and nonsense.  That's why we struggle.

    BED !

  • It occurs to me that if a topic attracts negative voting it would be easy to automatically flag it as "contentious"

    it would create a halfway house between legitimately contentious issues which some seem to enjoy or get something out of debating, but which don't actually violate the rules.

    Since the voting system is pretty transparent here, for those of us who are serial offenders, it would provide an easy metric as to just how "objectionable" we actually are, (or find other people to be!) and either annoy us, or give us an easy path to "cleaning up our act", as we choose. 

    A lot of us love stats, right?

    I've got an accidentally huge friends list here, I'd love to have their upvotes available to see, even better if I could jump to the post and refresh my memory. Maybe over time I could use it to learn a bit more about which of those "friends" does seem to really like what I write, and I could then legitimately make friends here. 

    Autism seems to make recognition of genuine allies, A.K.A. "friends" difficult and prone to error. Any help we could get in managing our relationships has to be good. I wish I could have "tagged" my friends with why they became my friends in the first place, because I am sure they'll remember but to my shame I won't.

    I've taken to P.M.ing people who ask to be my "friend" 1. Because I never get to read the whole of their intro message and as soon as I say "yes" it is lost to me... 2. In an effort to provide a reminder so I can answer any mail they might send to me...

    I'm sure there must be some people who have asked to be my friend and have since experienced "buyers remorse", and I'd so like to be able one day to send a broadcast to my friends group inviting such people to "unfriend" me without feeling "guilty" at all.

    In real life your "friends" list is quite small for most people with good reason, It's those people according to my mate Rik, it's the list of people who you can call at 03:00 with a personal housing or accomodation emergency and they'll be glad to have answered the phone.. For me it also involves a process of getting to know people well enough that no matter how nice they are, (and my friends in real life are very nice and patient people indeed).

  • I’m bipolar as well as autistic and my bipolar community has a contested section for posts such as the original post not that posters always use it.

  • I think I know what you don't like

    I do like anything claiming to be scientific research that affects the life of others to be reviewed by qualified professionals to a universally agreed set of principles (scientifc method) rather than using one study of a 3 year old to make a case.

    If you prefer to post articles of pseudo science which are without any credentials of professionalism and with wild claims then please do add an "Iain warning" so I can ignore them.