I am a nasty horrible narcissistic bully who deserves to be shot. Maybe I should do everyone a favour and end it all. I hate myself. I really do hate myself.
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Do I have to get on my knees to get through to my haters?
This is a time honored technique:I am a nasty horrible narcissistic bully who deserves to be shot. Maybe I should do everyone a favour and end it all. I hate myself. I really do hate myself.
Please don't label me as attention-seeking though. It's just I'm very weak with dealing with hostilities right now. I think of all the things others said to me on the other site and I'm starting to believe they were right. How do I sleep at night knowing I'm a bad person?This is a time honored technique:
Berating oneself in public in the hope that other people
will come to your emotional rescue by denying the negative labeling.
Some people who I thought loved me just turn against me.You do not have to get through to your haters at all. I wish I could talk you into ignoring them and focusing on the ones who do love you.
It is. I'm just in a blind panic because I hate hurting people yet I keep inadvertently doing it online. I really shouldn't be online, except on Facebook, because I just can't deal with the drama I seem to somehow get myself involved with. All I want to do is chat to people but I can't even do that without hurting someone else.I am sorry you are struggling with this, this must be so hard.
It happens online. If it makes you feel any better, some people online also jump to my throat, when I say something that is quite neutral. I'm no poet, but my writing skills are okay, and I'm polite. Sometimes people accuse me of being one thing or another, but I see this problem as being in those people's perception. If you're doing fine offline, perhaps it's an issue of being online. Online communication is known to involve a lot of hate.This only happens online, around Aspies.
Yes. All this drama I've ever been involved in online doesn't happen offline. But it seems I lack empathy on forums but offline empathy comes so naturally. I don't get why.It happens online. If it makes you feel any better, some people online also jump to my throat, when I say something that is quite neutral. I'm no poet, but my writing skills are okay, and I'm polite. Sometimes people accuse me of being one thing or another, but I see this problem as being in those people's perception. If you're doing fine offline, perhaps it's an issue of being online. Online communication is known to involve a lot of hate.
Communication through text has its problems, both ends don't see the body language, don't hear the tone of voice, it might be difficult to judge the emotions with which words are paired and hence to judge intentions.But it seems I lack empathy on forums but offline empathy comes so natural. I don't get why.
I think JSilver has a good point about treating the online conflict as something that is awful, but happens all the time, not just to you, to many people, and perhaps talking with people with whom you don't have that problem. You can make great friends online, but tbh, most of the good stuff happens in private convos with them or in small groups.You do not have to get through to your haters at all. I wish I could talk you into ignoring them and focusing on the ones who do love you.
I am sorry you are struggling with this, this must be so hard.
Some people who I thought loved me just turn against me.
It is. I'm just in a blind panic because I hate hurting people yet I keep inadvertently doing it online.
I've been a member on autism sites since 2010, but back then it seemed easier to express myself and have a voice without other people choosing to be offended. Maybe it has something to do with cancel culture becoming more of a thing than it was 12-13 years ago, I don't know.I'm an online veteran all the way from the days of IRC and Usenet. Trust me, almost everyone does that. And I imagine it is more magnified on a forum dedicated to supporting a development disorder that, among other symptoms, is characterized by lower ability to judge other's intentions.
The recent thing that happened to me online was from the best of my intentions by trying to please two people who hated each other, because I cared. But without thinking, my unintelligent actions spoke louder than my kind words. It's difficult when you're caught in the middle of two enemies. Now I've just dug myself a hole. I'm so stupid it's unbelievable.If you could build more confidence in yourself that you are communicating with the best of intentions, then it is easier to recognize that you cannot control other people's reactions to your words. But that doesn't make it any less easy when these posters, well, "cancel" you.
I just envy people who have never been too involved in the internet world. They seem a lot happier. I envy my autistic friend, she was a member on autism sites for quite some time too but she's given up on internet forums altogether now and only chats on email to one or two people from the forums. I'm thinking I should do the same.But yes overall I agree with @vergil96 . The Internet should be approached as a place where you make a few good friends among the masses. Being popular among the masses is a losing game that requires you to sacrifice your own authenticity.
Okay, it's just it looked like you were saying I'm attention-seeking at first but it seems like you were just confirming what I'm feeling. That's okay.I didn't put any label on you.
You do that yourself.
Berating oneself in public typically results in people
assuring the individual that he/she is an OK person,
and shouldn't feel unworthy.
I never used to be like this online, believe it or not. For like 12 years I was stable and happy and any conflict I did have with people online just washed over me, they moved on and I moved on, no harm done.You really do get carried away with that line of thinking.
That place is the worst. The same people who bullied you also bullied me and didn’t want me to have a girlfriend. I want to prove them wrong.But since the other site got cliquey and nasty and accused me with bad words several times, I've suddenly started questioning myself and worrying that I'm really a psychopath who has no regard to anyone's feelings and I'm just a fake manipulator who has believed I'm nice all this time.