The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)

[Edwardo Piet]

This contradicts what you said on the other thread! Bah. I don't like fakeness.

STFU, I didn't take you seriously in the other thread. I was being facetious. Just because you're having a freak out doesn't mean you should call me fake, disingenuous or say I'm jumping on a bandwagon. Just calm down, dude. You're being a drama queen. Own it.

I am calm although I recognize that I may not seem calm lol.

P.S. I had absolutely no idea you were being facetious. No wonder I got confused lol.

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Hammy is sensitive as hell. But very insensitive when it comes to others.

I'll agree with the latter but definitely not the former lol.

I SEEM senstiive as hell. Because I ACT sensitive as hell. Lol.

It may sound fake to act senstiive if I'm not sensitive. But if I don't know what senstiviity is even like how else am I supposed to cope..... by acting like a monotone robot? I've tried that and it works even less well lol. And since I struggle with balance...... fuck it. Besides, it's hardly a conscious decision: My whole personality has developed as someone who comes across as hyperemotional in order for me to function the way I am. And it's very easy to act overexcited when you have no sadness holding you back.... even if you don't actually feel overexcited..... so again, what's the alternative? Act like an emotionless robot? Nah, fuck that, I gotta function somehow.

I think EP was always jealous how I have this happy-go-lucky enthusiastic attitude that he was unable to sufficiently mirror. But that's another topic. He's a cunt and I'm not. There be the (VERY IMPORTANT) difference between me and EP.

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Just needs a little self-control and fewer excuses, coming from someone who's considered him a friend here. That said, there are people who instigate him whose behavior in that regard isn't much better.

I never understand the word "excuse" and how it supposedly differs from "explanation" besides subjectively biased personal connotations.

I can't comprehend the notion of a sincere excuse. And seen as I'm always sincere... I dunno what "excuse" directed at me is ever supposed to convey. It almost seems like the word "excuse" is used as an excuse to dismiss the actual motives behind my behavior

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That said, autism is not an excuse to accuse people of things or be rude.

I was the one accused.

And as for being rude... rudeness has been happening over AF by many since 2008. But it's only in more recent years that people have started whining about it.

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Blaming it on a diagnosis or getting special treatment because of it is not. No one gives me special treatment for my diagnoses, and I don't ask for it.

It seems to me like there are a few other posters who have wondered if they should treat me differently since my diagnosis. And I said they shouldn't treat me differently. (This is the irony here... it's only other people who seem to be making comments about treating me or not treating me differently now).

But it is rather ignorant, I think, for them to say basically "Should I treat Hammy as autistic or a normal person?"..... my response is.... treat Hammy like Hammy. Whatever weird autistic symptoms I have now... I've had for all the years people knew me BEFORE I was diagnosed as well (all the diagnosis really does for me is make me understand myself better and allow me to get the support I need in RL from my doctors et al)

So it literally makes zero sense to treat me any differently. Treat me as you've always treated me. If I got any 'extra sympathy' beforehand... I should get no more or less after my diagnosis.