Airsoft

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.

In other words, they find you vulnerable and useful. It's what I said from the beginning.

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.

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.

In other words, they find you vulnerable and useful. It's what I said from the beginning.