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Social media and working on myself

Jenisautistic

Jenisautistic

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Hi everybody, I’ve been considering going on social media to share my story and help other people feel heard and also maybe even to heal myself

However, a lot of my let’s say extend extended family or out of range family has been trying to contact me and I’m not sure how I feel about that and my family doesn’t want me really to contact them and I don’t think I do either to be honest, but I still want to post on social media because I don’t wanna be in a cave as a hermit forever
Also, my family really doesn’t want me to post too much info, but I’m not sure where to draw the line when I do post


Do you have any thoughts or opinions on this?
 
Jenisautistic said:
Hi everybody, I’ve been considering going on social media to share my story and help other people feel heard and also maybe even to heal myself

However, a lot of my let’s say extend extended family or out of range family has been trying to contact me and I’m not sure how I feel about that and my family doesn’t want me really to contact them and I don’t think I do either to be honest, but I still want to post on social media because I don’t wanna be in a cave as a hermit forever
Also, my family really doesn’t want me to post too much info, but I’m not sure where to draw the line when I do post


Do you have any thoughts or opinions on this?
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I am no expert in social media, but I am very careful not to let my personal information out into public. People can steal your bank accounts, IDs, etc.

I would also say it depends on what your goal is. Who do you want to reach and why?

Have you spent time on any of the social platforms to see what they are like? Are you looking to post on Facebook or Instagram, You Tube and I know there are a bunch of others? I would spend a lot of time “lurking” on a platform before I would venture to join or post.

A potential problem is opening yourself up to public criticism. Some platforms allow the public to give “thumbs down” and even say nasty things about you.

I agree with you that your generation really has a strong interest in social media. I hope you can work something out so you can stay safe and still participate.
 
I agree that it's a risk to put yourself out there on some of the major forums, and learned myself how complicated it can get to be on social media. Maybe a small online support group where you can express yourself and get to know people, something that has formal moderators. I think AANE is pretty safe and they have support groups about all kinds of things--where there is some consistency.
https://aane.org/
I had a good experience with them personally: We all have a need to share our stories and find healing and help others who are going through the same things--finding the right listeners is important.
 
I’m talking more about posting things on my Pages on Instagram, etc., to the people that I know who our friends on my page if that makes sense

I just don’t wanna live in a cave
When I post on YouTube, I usually don’t use my full name no a little different because I’m posting the people I know


If any of this makes sense

I want to share my life with the people online who Im friends with

But unable to bewhen it comes to being in person
 
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