I don't think the behaviour you are talking about is NT behaviour though, I think its how people in general behave. I don't believe that people with AS are superior to the rest of society and so above certain types of behaviour.  I think you are always going to get people taking the piss or being more forceful in their arguments with others online simply because its so far removed from real life- people have a web persona and a lot of the time its hard to get past this and see the real person behind it, so people behave differently than they would in a real life situation. Alsobecause of the limited range of ways of communicating online people can also read messages differently- i.e. see a light-hearted joke as a nasty attack.
this is a perfect example.
i am not sure if any two people have gotten as frustrated with each other as PI and myself. Â we have argued bitterly and not seen eye to eye several times.
but, i am not sure if there is another member of this board that i respect more. Â
it may seem like bullying. Â but what we are really doing is sharing ideas. Â and sometimes ramming them down each others throats.
esme, you say that you are too sensitive for this board. Â well that would have to be a judgement that you make for yourself. Â
but let me state my own personal experience:
once again i will use Purposeful Insanity. Â no one has made me feel more insecure about myself than she has. Â i don't know why. Â others have definately gotten the better of me (everybody but peagai, actually
), but i am always interested whenever she makes a post. Â even more interested when she challenges me. Â even more so when she makes me look like a jerk.
why?
because i learn about myself that way. Â and as i side benefit i learn about others as well. Â i get out from under my theory of mind issues, and see the worlds views from anothers eyes.
I would not learn a thing if i lived my life under comfortable surroundings. Â a place where i preferred to have
kind people coddle my sorry arse. Â a place where people tell me what i want to hear and do not challenge me with all they have. Â a place that is censored and people must act under certain rules.
my phrase of the day is: Fuck That Shit!
i want to learn, i want to experience what others see. Â and i want the truth.