Consequences of Posting on an Autism/Asperger Board

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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?

I don't want anyone to know...so I don't let them know. Of course, they could search the computers I use, but I won't use it while someone's watching (e.g. in a library).

I wouldn't tell anyone... personally... I don't know how they would find out? .. unless I actually met someone here and got to know that person in real life and he/she were to say something to someone else (like one of my NT friends)... I hope that wouldn't happen.. that would be bad for me... alot of people would not understand...

My paranoia tells me not to to reveal my loony self (for very good reasons ). This is probably normal for AS. I so want to be to a LOONY.

I'm terrified of people knowing who I am. Because of the possibility, there are still topics I refuse to discuss just to be safe.

What good could possibly come of telling people about it ?

I tell everyone I have Aspergers and try to explain abit about it if they're interested. I find It makes life easier in the long run.

My mother told my cousin about wrongplanet [I have no idea why ] and said that I was posting on it. My cousin came and asked me if I were ret*d. Just shows how immature he is...I didn't take offense.

I don't care who knows if I am posting. Isn't it better to educate oneself than be ignorant?
I don't know if you realise this but you are really helping me by answering my questions

If I know a person well enough to trust them, I usually tell them I have AS. It's better than having them think, I choose to be some kind of wierdo. I am perfectly comfortable, having others know I'm autistic. It lifts alot of pressure.

>>>>t's better than having them think, I choose to be some kind of wierdo. I am perfectly comfortable, having others know I'm autistic. It lifts alot of pressure.

So what is wrong with choosing to be some kind of wierdo? Is that somehow not a valid choice to make with ones life. If being weird makes you happy then do it.

I'm a proud member of this online community; I very much like the people in this place; I have found minds and souls of great caliber here. I have never found another person quite like me, but many of the closest I've found have been friends I've made in this place.

Not only do I make no effort to conceal my frequenting of this place, but I often direct people here to read my ramblings towards gaining a better insight into how I work.

I maintain my view that AS and HFA are not a disorder or a disability, but are a difference. For me, this place is about understanding difference, my difference and the different differences I discover in others. (EDIT: In deference to KingdomOfRats, changed this to specify "HFA" rather than just "autism"; I do not think it is incorrect to consider MFA or LFA as a kind of disability; for the record, my son is low-functioning autistic, and does get benefits.)

I do not go around telling people I have AS, for I am not entirely sure that I do, though I do find the condition highly descriptive of me. Generally speaking, I prefer the looser term "crazy".

Good fortune,

- Icarus can find no shame in who he is...

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Only my kids know. They talk to their friends on MSN so what I do is no different. At first they wondered whey I did not find someone real to talk to and I told them I could not find a real person close to me. You do what you have to.

I would never tell anyone at work what I do. They would not understand.

Cheers to everyone here at WP.

I'm not letting people know. Some time ago, I had offline people manage to track me down by piecing things together; the information was used as much as possible to bully me out of the workplace.

Since then I've been grafting into posts random minor false facts that don't change their real significance but that do discourage those trying to trace me down to a real person - like saying I'm right handed as part of something else which happens to be true.
I guess, that this being an American forum, the chances of running anyone I know in real life here are extremely low. . . but, just in case. . .