Confusing

Amy said:

A bit of both Scorpion0x17

I found the fourums were confusing at first and it took me a long time to work out how to make a post at first. I had to ask someone to help me how to fill in the profile too. 

Don't worry - most people find forums confusing at first, but the more you use them, the more you get used to them - but, having said that, and as I said before, I read and post to various forums a lot, and I initially found these forums a little confusing.

Is their anything else in the community section other than these fourums?

Not really - you can look at a list of members, and a list of some other autism related websites, and that's about it.

Which I think is a real shame - one of things I had hoped when I first came on here was that it might provide a way of meeting other people like me, in real life, rather than just being sat at home, by myself, typing messages to faceless and largely anonymous blocks of text.

I sometimes get the feeling that the NAS isn't actually for us, the people on the Autistic Spectrum, but rather appears to be run largely by, for, and to meet the needs of, neurotypical parents and carers.

I did mainly mean the whole site though. I struggle to find any information and so I ended up having to send in a question about it. But even doing that was very hard and again I had to ask someone to help me. 

I agree with you that it is hard to find information because the structuructure is confusing or not sign-posted.  

Yeah, it's a good illustration of the differences between an autistic and a neurotypical mind, in very generalised terms - neurotypicals, it seems, like lots of shallow information pools, all jumbled up, and presented at once, with little to no coherent structure - the autistic mind thrives on coherence, structure, and in-depth singular information streams.

Amy said:

A bit of both Scorpion0x17

I found the fourums were confusing at first and it took me a long time to work out how to make a post at first. I had to ask someone to help me how to fill in the profile too. 

Don't worry - most people find forums confusing at first, but the more you use them, the more you get used to them - but, having said that, and as I said before, I read and post to various forums a lot, and I initially found these forums a little confusing.

Is their anything else in the community section other than these fourums?

Not really - you can look at a list of members, and a list of some other autism related websites, and that's about it.

Which I think is a real shame - one of things I had hoped when I first came on here was that it might provide a way of meeting other people like me, in real life, rather than just being sat at home, by myself, typing messages to faceless and largely anonymous blocks of text.

I sometimes get the feeling that the NAS isn't actually for us, the people on the Autistic Spectrum, but rather appears to be run largely by, for, and to meet the needs of, neurotypical parents and carers.

I did mainly mean the whole site though. I struggle to find any information and so I ended up having to send in a question about it. But even doing that was very hard and again I had to ask someone to help me. 

I agree with you that it is hard to find information because the structuructure is confusing or not sign-posted.  

Yeah, it's a good illustration of the differences between an autistic and a neurotypical mind, in very generalised terms - neurotypicals, it seems, like lots of shallow information pools, all jumbled up, and presented at once, with little to no coherent structure - the autistic mind thrives on coherence, structure, and in-depth singular information streams.