Anyone know what's happened to WrongPlanet?

[qwerty]

I think I saw it sinking off the coast when I was walking on the beach this morning. Hiya tally, it's great to know there are some familiar faces here

 

[Aspergirl4hire]

I thought about joining there, but the atmosphere...just not what I was looking for.

 

[qwerty]

I got very tired of WP. I am hoping this place is better, seems friendly

 

[Hurting89]

I remember browsing wrong planet all the way back in 2007 but never joined. I made an account a couple years ago and hung around for a few months posting every now an then. Until the day I made a thread questioning the site owners "diagnosis" after listening to him speak in a youtube video and was instantly banned (passive aggressive much eh?).
I still stand by my original suspicion though... Alex just doesn't seem afflicted in any way and I know we're all different and how much symptoms vary, but I am not getting the vibe from him.

seems like a completely normal young man. The speech patterns (and I don"t mean monotone voice) and body language are usually the giveaways for an ASD always no matter how mild there is usually some subtle evidence of it when observing the person no matter how much therapy they're getting or have had. I am NOT seeing any of these behaviours with him.

 

[Venk]

I remember browsing wrong planet all the way back in 2007 but never joined. I made an account a couple years ago and hung around for a few months posting every now an then. Until the day I made a thread questioning the site owners "diagnosis" after listening to him speak in a youtube video and was instantly banned (passive aggressive much eh?).
I still stand by my original suspicion though... Alex just doesn't seem afflicted in any way and I know we're all different and how much symptoms vary, but I am not getting the vibe from him.

seems like a completely normal young man. The speech patterns (and I don"t mean monotone voice) and body language are usually the giveaways for an ASD always no matter how mild there is usually some subtle evidence of it when observing the person no matter how much therapy they're getting or have had. I am NOT seeing any of these behaviours with him.

I havnt and cant watch the above clip but I just need to say: actually, there are aspies that can appear "completely normal" for anything from 5mins up to several hours and in rare cases, even days at a time. Very very few people who meet me in real life peg anything as being 'wrong' until I run out of energy and have to drop my 'normal' façade and revert to being my aspie self until I can rest and get more energy to pretend to be normal again (re-energising can take me days, weeks even, after a big event of pretending to be 'normal').

I think this is due to A) having a mother who put A LOT of effort into training eye contact, speech etc from a very young age (we didnt know I had autism, but she knew something was 'wrong') and B) being female so socialisation (where one is forced to practice speaking and looking 'normal') was probably higher then it is for blokes (even though I hated people, it was something mum said I "had to do" and made me go to lots of classes for music or dance or art etc if I wanted to or not).

So yea, im an aspie, and I can present as 'normal' for a limited time; however it comes at a very high cost and can lay me up for days or weeks where I cant do anything but stay home, shuffle around the lounge and grunt occasionally etc. Im not agreeing or disagreeing or putting any thoughts forward on his diagnoses or lack there of as I havnt seen him, dont know him, havnt talked to his Drs etc, its not my place to make that call.

 

[SignOfLazarus]

Eh. If someone came here for a different experience it's probably best to engage with what is going on here and not spend energy on critiquing another website or its founder(s). It seems like a waste.

There's a lot of good stuff going on at AC to attend to. :]

 

[qwerty]

I havnt and cant watch the above clip but I just need to say: actually, there are aspies that can appear "completely normal" for anything from 5mins up to several hours and in rare cases, even days at a time. Very very few people who meet me in real life peg anything as being 'wrong' until I run out of energy and have to drop my 'normal' façade and revert to being my aspie self until I can rest and get more energy to pretend to be normal again (re-energising can take me days, weeks even, after a big event of pretending to be 'normal').

I think this is due to A) having a mother who put A LOT of effort into training eye contact, speech etc from a very young age (we didnt know I had autism, but she knew something was 'wrong') and B) being female so socialisation (where one is forced to practice speaking and looking 'normal') was probably higher then it is for blokes (even though I hated people, it was something mum said I "had to do" and made me go to lots of classes for music or dance or art etc if I wanted to or not).

So yea, im an aspie, and I can present as 'normal' for a limited time; however it comes at a very high cost and can lay me up for days or weeks where I cant do anything but stay home, shuffle around the lounge and grunt occasionally etc. Im not agreeing or disagreeing or putting any thoughts forward on his diagnoses or lack there of as I havnt seen him, dont know him, havnt talked to his Drs etc, its not my place to make that call.

i get sooo exhausted trying to play the nt role too.

 

[Hurting89]

I havnt and cant watch the above clip but I just need to say: actually, there are aspies that can appear "completely normal" for anything from 5mins up to several hours and in rare cases, even days at a time. Very very few people who meet me in real life peg anything as being 'wrong' until I run out of energy and have to drop my 'normal' façade and revert to being my aspie self until I can rest and get more energy to pretend to be normal again (re-energising can take me days, weeks even, after a big event of pretending to be 'normal').

I think this is due to A) having a mother who put A LOT of effort into training eye contact, speech etc from a very young age (we didnt know I had autism, but she knew something was 'wrong') and B) being female so socialisation (where one is forced to practice speaking and looking 'normal') was probably higher then it is for blokes (even though I hated people, it was something mum said I "had to do" and made me go to lots of classes for music or dance or art etc if I wanted to or not).

So yea, im an aspie, and I can present as 'normal' for a limited time; however it comes at a very high cost and can lay me up for days or weeks where I cant do anything but stay home, shuffle around the lounge and grunt occasionally etc. Im not agreeing or disagreeing or putting any thoughts forward on his diagnoses or lack there of as I havnt seen him, dont know him, havnt talked to his Drs etc, its not my place to make that call.

of course. Some people can ''pass'' very well but with this guy I'm beginning to think he falls into a category of those that have been potentially misdiagnosed. It's jut a hunch I have, Iam by no means suggesting he's faking it.

 

[KinksFan]

I came here because I was tired of getting into arguments with some of the people there, none that I started. The place is also getting very buggy and it's imposable for me to change my avatar, because of a bug that they're dealing with.

 

[King_Oni]

Can't really imagine something constructive coming from this post, especially since it's gone far astray from the opening post.