PS. I've just been a good little spazz and checked out the forum rules before posting.
https://www.autismforums.com/threads/general-rules-guidelines.3/I'm a tad concened . I mean- they seem to be overly concerned to present a smooth, friendly surface and divert all ripples to mods and PM. Past experience tells me that this kind of policy is apt to unwittingly promote and sustain the development an underground bullying culture, especially if it happens that one bad apple suceeeds in becoming a mod. One problem being that your typical bully is usually very adept at presenting as a victim instead, especially around socially naive spazzes. Such tricks become obvious when exposed to a wider audience (even a wider audience of spazzes) and open to critical evaluation. But the rules preclude that.
I'm surely not saying that they actually
have such a culture (how would I know?) just that they're wide-open to that, as is almost every other Autie board; and i've tangled with that actual scenario too many times over, in the past, not to take the "friendly, supportive community" bit with a pinch of salt. A good resource for sharing relevant information and experiences, I should think, but I believe that
we have more potential to be genuinely friendly and supportive when it matters, over here. Sure, members can act like douches towards you, but neither you nor your supporters will be silenced for saying so; and thus the douches are apt to lose credibility and power. The chances of somebody's self-esteem and/or reputation being torn to shreds by PM are consdiderably lower on this forum than on your typical, polite, rule-bound forum. So we get straight-up honest support, when we get it at all, and not a pretense of it.
In short, I
2 still gets my vote, between the two.
Interesting that Scrap recommends that forum. I wouldn;'t think that a forum where you're not allowed to publically criticise the Admin or mods would be his sort of thing at all
What gives?