Consequences of Posting on an Autism/Asperger Board

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I have in the past given public speeches about my autism in conventions. I don't feel ashamed of my autism. I feel ashamed of the people who misunderstand me... It is their problem. I pity them in a way.

In fact if I come to meet a sympathetic NT I encourage them to visit this site to "have their eyes opened". They may find it very helpful.

I have an intresting story about this. Over the summer I worked at a sleepaway summer camp in the office. The office manager who worked there also worked part time as a secretary for a doctor who specialized in kids with autistic spectrum disorders. one day it was a few days before the summer camp actually started ( it was staff training week at the time she was telling me how once camp started i couldnt go on myspace anymore on the computers because if someone from outside the camp came into the office it would look like i wasnt doing any work. I decided tis was the time to tell her i had aspergers. I actually told her by saying telling her " Ok Ill just go on wrongplanet.net instead because not many people reconize the site by the webpage or even know of the site, though some people at her other job might. I then explained that my use on myspace was mainly for support groups about aspergers and such and how wrongplanet.net was a site for those with aspergers

The only person who knows about my membership and activity on WP is my mom.

Average Joe's knowledge of psychology and psychiatric issues is usually highly limited - some days ago one gal from my college and I were going to the bus station after lessons and during our conversation I touched an issue of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, informing her my own type is INTJ. She in turn told me that even though I was talking rubbish she's very tolerant so I could think this way about myself if I wanted because she didn't mind it - in one word, her reaction was as if I was telling her about a mental illness I suspected myself of

I don't give a poo who finds out I post on here if they have anything negative to say they can go and romance dance themselves.

I post under the name 9CatMom to protect my identity. I don't want my family or the people at work to know I post here.

Nobody knows I'm on here. It's not like they need to know or anything.

Silver_Meteor wrote (in part): Have you ever encountered people changing their perceptions of you and treating you differently because they found out you were posting on an Autism/Asperger Message Board?

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People are people with their good and bad qualities. That can happen.

At the same time, one does not have to advertise that they post occasionally at message boards like that. It's no one's business but your own.

Posting at message boards can have its advantages (possible learning situations/new insights).

I don't tell my parents about it, because I don't want them to know the hidden feelings, and interests that show up, here. I also don't want my mum to be saying, to her friends, "I've found out how my firstborn daughter thinks, about my swearing. I thought that she was a lot stronger, than that." or "She's still upset about the Pete Quaife thing? Thats it! I'm taking her Kinks stuff away from her, because she's not "Healthy", right now!" On the flipside, she could end up, crying about the things, that I've posted here, since the beggining of March, and wonder why she didn't get me hooked up, with the local Mental Health system.

Most the time, no. I don't want them to read what I post on here and know that I posted it.

Never. I don't tell anyone I have AS so they wouldn't know I come here.

It suck if my mother caught me here because she happened to be lurking and it be obvious who I am.

i am not autistic but wp isnt something i talk about anyway except to my SO, and he is the autistic one. i doubt anyone else irl would change their opinion of me based on the message board i visit.

something i didnt expect however was to find that some of the people on wp treat me differently because i am not autistic. ive even had my ideas and comments dismissed or non-valued based solely on my neurological status. that and the hostility towards non-autistics that some autistics exhibit were both quite a shock to me. it just makes me more determined to be sure my son experiences the world and people in it in a positive way. i know i cant be there in every situation, but i can try.

Yeah, the NTs do that to us, too. At best, there's a culture gap; at worst, outright prejudice. That doesn't mean it's impossible to bridge the gap; after all, many cultures have done it.

But you do have to admit that if you're not autistic, you can't make claims about what autistic people think and feel, unless an autistic person told you.

I maintain as much anonymity as I can online and it's only other Aspies who know I post here.

I don't care who knows I post here.

I'm now trying to keep private matters off public boards.

I kinda wish my family would find out.. it would make "coming out" much easier.
I don't really care if other people know.