Post: #1

My experience with aspies, I notice they often wage grudges over minor things such as saying their hobby is boring or because they dislike how you speak and dress. This is especially true over the internet where most of the people who cyberstalked me and waged online feuds to the point of death threats even though I ignored them have 99% of the time been self-admitted aspies.

I actually knew an aspie who held a grudge against a jock irl in high school because of disagreements in politics. He started bullying around the jock, throwing items at him daily and even sending death threats, a few times shoving him in the hallway, until the jock got fed up and apologized. Seriously the jock was already about to get the police involved because the aspie has been doing illegal things such as vandalizing personal items.

A more recent incident was I rejoined a gaming forum I left years ago because a self-admitted hardcore gamer with asperger syndrome was constantly harassing me in the forums and in PMs. Even though I changed my MO (such as hobbies I chat about, avatars, writing style), he still spotted me and was attacking me in public until the admin had a nice little talk with him.

Why? Why do so many of them have to HATE others just because they disagree science is a fun hobby? How come so many spend whole hours, even days (YES I wish I was making this up) stalking someone on the internet and sending harassing messages both in private and on the public forums? Even doing outright illegal acts such as death threats and doxing over a small sarcastic post?

I though aspies were supposed to be logical? It seems they act by emotions due to their tendency for feuding!

NOTE: I'm not saying all people with asperger syndromes is like this. But MY GOD, the worst cases of cyberstalking and unwanted internet feuds I've ever unintentionally found myself a victim of were perpetuated by folk's with asperger syndrome! I'm still very pissed how one aspie at a Saint Seiya forum hold's a grudge simply because I never followed up my promise on guess what? A Pegasus Seiya cosplay! Of all the things to start a fight about!

Post: #2

You should be grateful they didn't launch an entire meme war against you...

Post: #3

(03-06-2017 10:53 PM)Wrangler29 Wrote:  My experience with aspies, I notice they often wage grudges over minor things such as saying their hobby is boring or because they dislike how you speak and dress. This is especially true over the internet where most of the people who cyberstalked me and waged online feuds to the point of death threats even though I ignored them have 99% of the time been self-admitted aspies.

I actually knew an aspie who held a grudge against a jock irl in high school because of disagreements in politics. He started bullying around the jock, throwing items at him daily and even sending death threats, a few times shoving him in the hallway, until the jock got fed up and apologized. Seriously the jock was already about to get the police involved because the aspie has been doing illegal things such as vandalizing personal items.

A more recent incident was I rejoined a gaming forum I left years ago because a self-admitted hardcore gamer with asperger syndrome was constantly harassing me in the forums and in PMs. Even though I changed my MO (such as hobbies I chat about, avatars, writing style), he still spotted me and was attacking me in public until the admin had a nice little talk with him.

Why? Why do so many of them have to HATE others just because they disagree science is a fun hobby? How come so many spend whole hours, even days (YES I wish I was making this up) stalking someone on the internet and sending harassing messages both in private and on the public forums? Even doing outright illegal acts such as death threats and doxing over a small sarcastic post?

I though aspies were supposed to be logical? It seems they act by emotions due to their tendency for feuding!

NOTE: I'm not saying all people with asperger syndromes is like this. But MY GOD, the worst cases of cyberstalking and unwanted internet feuds I've ever unintentionally found myself a victim of were perpetuated by folk's with asperger syndrome! I'm still very pissed how one aspie at a Saint Seiya forum hold's a grudge simply because I never followed up my promise on guess what? A Pegasus Seiya cosplay! Of all the things to start a fight about!

Aspies are not logical - not in the sense you're proposing it. You're essentially assuming someone with Asperger's is capable of common sense, capable of judging what's appropriate behaviour in a social context, capable of judging whether an issue can be let go or not.

It doesn't work like that. One of the key symptoms of Asperger's is delayed social maturation and social reasoning. That is, they come with a small supply of the grease that oils human relationships. This leads to difficulty with communication and therefore difficulty making friends, which is a self-reinforcing process: if you haven't got any friends, it makes it harder to learn how to get them, which in turn makes it less likely that you'll have any friends. Being pedantic and obsession with certain topics also comes with the territory.

Add this to the Internet, where there's only artificial social interactions and people can say whatever they fucking please basically without consequences, and presto, online asshole.

If you twang on their "special" (read: obsessional) interest, it's a direct hit to the autistic amydgala. The obsession - anime, cars, science, whatever - serves a number of functions in the Asperger brain:

To overcome anxiety.
To provide pleasure.
To provide relaxation.
To ensure greater predictability and certainty in life.
To help understand the physical world.
To create an alternative world.
To create a sense of identity.
To facilitate conversation and indicate intellectual ability.

We're talking people who see shit in terms of black and white. Twang an Aspie's amydgala and you are Bad. And you're in a place where there's nobody around to say to them "Um, it's probably not a cool to be messaging this guy 24 hours a day."

Odds are on the guys you're dealing with might have been diagnosed with Aspergers but have never been properly treated for it. Indeed given their disclosure I'd be betting they don't believe they have a problem. The trouble with Aspergers is that unless it's coupled with being a literal retard (a horrifying combination) you can generally get along in life on your own, and the Internet doesn't do much to encourage offline interactions with people.

God save us from people who mean well. -storm

Post: #4

(03-06-2017 10:53 PM)Wrangler29 Wrote:  My experience with aspies, I notice they often wage grudges over minor things such as saying their hobby is boring or because they dislike how you speak and dress. This is especially true over the internet where most of the people who cyberstalked me and waged online feuds to the point of death threats even though I ignored them have 99% of the time been self-admitted aspies.

I actually knew an aspie who held a grudge against a jock irl in high school because of disagreements in politics. He started bullying around the jock, throwing items at him daily and even sending death threats, a few times shoving him in the hallway, until the jock got fed up and apologized. Seriously the jock was already about to get the police involved because the aspie has been doing illegal things such as vandalizing personal items.

A more recent incident was I rejoined a gaming forum I left years ago because a self-admitted hardcore gamer with asperger syndrome was constantly harassing me in the forums and in PMs. Even though I changed my MO (such as hobbies I chat about, avatars, writing style), he still spotted me and was attacking me in public until the admin had a nice little talk with him.

Why? Why do so many of them have to HATE others just because they disagree science is a fun hobby? How come so many spend whole hours, even days (YES I wish I was making this up) stalking someone on the internet and sending harassing messages both in private and on the public forums? Even doing outright illegal acts such as death threats and doxing over a small sarcastic post?

I though aspies were supposed to be logical? It seems they act by emotions due to their tendency for feuding!

NOTE: I'm not saying all people with asperger syndromes is like this. But MY GOD, the worst cases of cyberstalking and unwanted internet feuds I've ever unintentionally found myself a victim of were perpetuated by folk's with asperger syndrome! I'm still very pissed how one aspie at a Saint Seiya forum hold's a grudge simply because I never followed up my promise on guess what? A Pegasus Seiya cosplay! Of all the things to start a fight about!

I had to google this because I had no idea what the fuck you were talking about, you are into some faggy anime cospay?

Post: #5

Autism/Asperger's is moderately correlated with gammaness, and gammas are very stubborn. Stubbornness is pretty much *the* reason people have grudges.

Put it this way, a beta autist(or rarer still an alpha) will likely not hold grudges like that, but a gamma neurotypical dude will.

Post: #6

Was going to say OP sounds pretty autistic himself, holding grudges about online anime fetish arguments to the point he feels compelled to whine about the injustice of it all on RVF -- but apparently the banhammer beat me to it.

Post: #7

Glad some other people in this thread know what an aspie is, because I had no idea what you were talking about.

Hint, always clarify what an abbreviation is or stands for before you run with it. I suppose that will be hard with the ban and all.