People with Asperger’s Syndrome tend to make great actors because we’re pretending and lying all our life. It’s very rare for those with AS to actually act like themselves around others.
When you aren’t being you, there’s no concerns – it’s not you, it’s the ‘public you.’ It’s easy to pretend, because I’m pretending all the time.
Another way to put it is that people with AS are like retail workers and the customer service mode. It may not be super polite and respectful 24/7 but AS people have the same kind of mode, and it’s used for pretty much everything that isn’t sitting alone in a room.
I too enjoy discriminating against and alienating the literal majority of my user base to enact draconian rules that won't even address the problem they're *ostensibly* supposed to fix
@staff you feel me? I know you understand, you're totally all about the same thing, I've seen ya do it before old pal
THE BOTS HAVE ADAPTED THEIR CONTENT TO BE SFW
TUMBLR JUST WIPED OUT A WHOLE BUNCH OF THEIR USERBASE FOR A SOLUTION THAT DIDN’T EVEN WORK
It's just as bad now as it was then, if not worse. The level of physical interference on a daily basis has gone down, but the psychological damage has been dealt. I can't think about anything I might want to do with my life without wondering whether it will be okay with my mother, and I'm nearly 21 years of age.
If there was one thing I wish they'd read, it would have been what I wrote back then.
"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"
Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”
I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.
I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”
Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.
Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.
It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.
It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.