I had an exchange with someone once on how aggravating it is to find NT "issues" for why aspies don't behave like NTs. I bit my lip and accepted it when the mod explained (with patience, and I appreciated it) that NTs come to the board to understand, and that it's good to try to help them. "Power is goodness," says Lao Tzu.
After some effort on my part, mostly by helping out with greeting duty and first time posts on days when I had the energy and patience, I got comfortable with the newcomer who is going to "stay" for only long enough to figure out their issue. As the moderator commented, it's actually commendable that a person does make an effort to do that. If they stay longer, that's a nice benefit.
I'm still struggling with the idea that NTs will come to the board with an attitude that I interpret as "there's something wrong with you and we're going to 'help' you." Or with long-winded posts that start with a false premise, bad data, or an assumption presented as a fact, and then use poor logic and ignorance to arrive at a self-congratulatory conclusion, with a few spiteful asides to show off a modest grasp of wit and no grasp at all of the issue.
I, personally, can, will, and have bought far more qualified and sophisticated advice than I can get from some stray from the Web. As have so many people here. Sometimes I think aspie people here know more than the average junior counselor about what we endure. The wisdom of the board seems utterly lost on people who are only waiting their turn to scatter pearls before swine, without noticing that their pearls are glass. Meanwhile, far from their cheap shine, King Solomon himself would envy the wisdom literature that can be found here, once the dross is sorted from the chaff.
After some effort on my part, mostly by helping out with greeting duty and first time posts on days when I had the energy and patience, I got comfortable with the newcomer who is going to "stay" for only long enough to figure out their issue. As the moderator commented, it's actually commendable that a person does make an effort to do that. If they stay longer, that's a nice benefit.
I'm still struggling with the idea that NTs will come to the board with an attitude that I interpret as "there's something wrong with you and we're going to 'help' you." Or with long-winded posts that start with a false premise, bad data, or an assumption presented as a fact, and then use poor logic and ignorance to arrive at a self-congratulatory conclusion, with a few spiteful asides to show off a modest grasp of wit and no grasp at all of the issue.
I, personally, can, will, and have bought far more qualified and sophisticated advice than I can get from some stray from the Web. As have so many people here. Sometimes I think aspie people here know more than the average junior counselor about what we endure. The wisdom of the board seems utterly lost on people who are only waiting their turn to scatter pearls before swine, without noticing that their pearls are glass. Meanwhile, far from their cheap shine, King Solomon himself would envy the wisdom literature that can be found here, once the dross is sorted from the chaff.
