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WCDT Strips 3231 - 3235 (30th May to 3rd June 2016)
Thrillho:
I'm glad that what I wrote resonated with so many of you :)
--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 02 Jun 2016, 07:10 ---go over to Wrongplanet.net and see how many people over there contemplate suicide daily.
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At the risk of immediately evapourating the goodwill I just built up, I found that website to be a malignant cesspit and deleted my account from there many years ago. When I was there, it really seemed like a large proportion of the community on there was a horrible influence on the others.
Case:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 02 Jun 2016, 08:58 ---I'm glad that what I wrote resonated with so many of you :)
--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 02 Jun 2016, 07:10 ---go over to Wrongplanet.net and see how many people over there contemplate suicide daily.
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At the risk of immediately evapourating the goodwill I just built up, I found that website to be a malignant cesspit and deleted my account from there many years ago. When I was there, it really seemed like a large proportion of the community on there was a horrible influence on the others.
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I don't know wrongplanet.net, but "a large proportion of the community on there (being) a horrible influence on the others" fits a lot of online self-help fora, IMO - at least that was I felt to be the case of the (admittedly limited) number of fora I visited.
The "anxiety" and "depression" threads on this forum here are pretty much the only non-medical-expert online resources I visit on a regular basis.
"Growth. Healing." as ZoeB (thankfully) never tires of pointing out.
EDIT: To clarify: I don't intend to dump on the idea of support groups or taking them online - I 'merely' think there seems to be a tradeoff between group size and the risk of unhealthy interactions. Beyond a certain limit, it seems to me that only strong moderation can curb unhealthy interactions running out of control in large groups, but OTOH, strong moderation can easily be seen as curtailing vital self-expression of peoples' experiences.
gprimr1:
I haven't been there in years because of that. Also, the conflict between "Autism is great, aspergers is great, f***k your cures, I'm proud of who i am" in one forum, and then 5 other forums "I want to kill myself because I can't get a job/friends/date/live on my own."
But I digress.
I just hope that things don't magically fall into place for her, because that's not a realistic portrayal of being on the spectrum.
retrosteve:
--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 02 Jun 2016, 07:10 ---I'll be very interested in seeing how it plays out if Braun is on the spectrum or not. (I'm still working on her ethnicity, I thought she was Israeli for a second.)
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To me she looks very Persian. The few Persians I know all look like they could be related to her.
blt:
--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 02 Jun 2016, 10:34 ---I just hope that things don't magically fall into place for her, because that's not a realistic portrayal of being on the spectrum.
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Agreed, but you could also apply this argument to being trans, having a serious drinking problem, or having OCD to the degree Hanners does. It's sort of just the way the comic is.
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