Airsoft (which is like paintball, only better!) is one of main interests. Does anyone else play? If so, what style of airsoft do you prefer, e.g. MILSIM, CQB, skirmishing, speedsoft etc? What do you like about airsoft? What guns and gear do you use? I look forward to your responses.
Hi. New guy here, and right off the bat I'll respond urgently to this thread. Please don't go discussing your preoccupations with weapons on the Internet. and on a related note,do not discuss your diagnoses or relationship with your care providers. Very sadly, there are people in the world who will take advantage of your communication issues and if, for example, they call your care provider and claim that they are perturbed by your discussions online you can be subjected to grave mistreatment, and you are the one with a "condition" and communication problems, to boot. Do yourself a favor, for your safety and peace of mind, and don't make your particulars available for someone else to identify you personally, or to retell or reframe your narrative to someone who has authority over your care.
Hi Sunspot, I think you might have misunderstood what Airsoft is. Airsoft is a harmless sport similar to paintball. Airsofters (especially in the UK) don't tend to have any sort of fixation on weapons. In fact, airsoft replicas are legally classed as toys and are specifically designed to be safe and legal to shoot at one another provided of course you are wearing appropriate eye protection.
It doesn't matter what they're legally classed as. The entire point is that people achieve illegal objectives by lying, and when they do it, they choose vulnerable people to do it to, so when you go telling people you're into MILSIM, they can spin that in ugly ways, and suggest that you go traipsing around a simulated battlefield because you're a bad person. I know it's ridiculous, but it's also what people do, because they're insane.
Yeah, it was horrible. And, as I said, I think the people who do that sort of thing know exactly what the dynamic is going to be. They're going to emotionally perturb someone who naturally comes off as a weirdo, so the only thing the entire world sees is a perturbed weirdo. They abuse psychology in order to try to engineer profitable accidents for political gain.
That sounds awful. The irony is that you need to surround yourself with people who understand you and whom you can trust but how are you supposed to do that when you have such trouble understanding who is trustworthy and your mannerisms and communication issues cause people who don't know you to distrust you and not understand you?! A terrible paradox.
I had some terrible things happen. I had to deal with people denouncing me to psych purely because of the politics surrounding me, and then when I went to try to share it with people, they wouldn't listen to me. I was chased out of churches, I had police called against me, I had people tell me they found me threatening, when I was the one being victimized in a heinous way. You absolutely are vulnerable because people will ignore your suffering, and they will reinterpret everything you say because they don't connect with any emotional content. They're not looking at your words to see if they are true, they're looking at body language and expressions you don't possess, and when they don't see them, they think something is wrong, and they discriminate against you spectacularly.
I think you give people too much credit and perhaps yourself not enough. You're clearly not a fool and anyone that takes you for one probably isn't all that bright themselves! Social interaction is an exhausting and anxiety-inducing ordeal for some of us but those people that it does come naturally to tend to just do it instinctively.
I think you give people too much credit and perhaps yourself not enough. You're clearly not a fool and anyone that takes you for one probably isn't all that bright themselves! Social interaction is an exhausting and anxiety-inducing ordeal for some of us but those people that it does come naturally to tend to just do it instinctively.
Yeah, it was horrible. And, as I said, I think the people who do that sort of thing know exactly what the dynamic is going to be. They're going to emotionally perturb someone who naturally comes off as a weirdo, so the only thing the entire world sees is a perturbed weirdo. They abuse psychology in order to try to engineer profitable accidents for political gain.
That sounds awful. The irony is that you need to surround yourself with people who understand you and whom you can trust but how are you supposed to do that when you have such trouble understanding who is trustworthy and your mannerisms and communication issues cause people who don't know you to distrust you and not understand you?! A terrible paradox.
I had some terrible things happen. I had to deal with people denouncing me to psych purely because of the politics surrounding me, and then when I went to try to share it with people, they wouldn't listen to me. I was chased out of churches, I had police called against me, I had people tell me they found me threatening, when I was the one being victimized in a heinous way. You absolutely are vulnerable because people will ignore your suffering, and they will reinterpret everything you say because they don't connect with any emotional content. They're not looking at your words to see if they are true, they're looking at body language and expressions you don't possess, and when they don't see them, they think something is wrong, and they discriminate against you spectacularly.
