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Re: Is Eric abusing his parents, raping women, molesting children, ect...IRL?
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| Larry Hoover 2004-11-20, 11:34 am |
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"Linda" <Linda@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:1100924477.IGiv6O0V0SZN+HITCuBeww@teranews...
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> "Larry Hoover" <larryhoover@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Nope.
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> Because for the last 4 and 1/2 years I have personally eyewitnessed Eric
> habitually attack, harass, and heap abuse on legitimate posters of ASD-med
> (especially female posters).
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> Furthermore, I personally eyewitnessed Eric continuously avoid responsibility for
> his aggression against other posters, by Eric forever hanging DSM labels to
> publicly libel anyone who confronts Eric about his aggression against other
> ASD-med posters.
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> Having personally witnessed Eric employ this tactic against dozens and perhaps
> even hundreds of posters on ASD-med; whether or not Eric is employing the same
> tactics on people he commits aggression against IRL is a FAIR question.
Maybe. Maybe it's a reasonable question, but hardly a fair one, as I tried to make
clear with my example, above.
In real life, I'm very different than I am online. And I don't mean that in any way
that I'm taking advantage of anonymity, or distance, or anything like that.
Communication via text messages is fraught with difficulty. It is so easy to
misunderstand someone, to think they meant something sarcastically when they were
serious, to miss humour when something is said "tongue in cheek", and so on. In real
life, you simply adapt the conversation as you go....it's pretty obvious if you're
being taken as you intended (or not), and you have all the extra clues to use, like
eye contact, body language, facial expressions, tone and volume of voice, and so on.
And if a do over or apology is necessary, it happens on the spot. End o' story, ya
know?
On the Internet, you really only get one chance to make your point. So, my internet
style has developed to be forthright, strongly expressive, clearly phrased, and
perhaps a little bit over-powering, at times. I don't want anybody to doubt what I
meant. In a forum such as this one, I'm not here to make friends. I hope I have
gained a touch of respect, here and there, but I'm not here for ego strokes, or
praise, or commaradery. There are other internet venues I use for those more social
aspects of interaction.
By the same token, I grant Eric, and you, Linda, your online personnae. You've
adapted yourself to this medium in your own ways, just as I have. I no more would
expect you to interact with me in real life the way we do here than I would expect
you to fly a broom <sarcasm>. <eye twinkling> See, in real life, you'd have known I
was having you on, for a second.
I'm not excusing what he's said or done in the past. He can be a real XXXXXXX. He
says so, himself, so I don't even feel like I'm labelling him to agree with him. The
only question I'd have for him, rather than the ones you have asked, is why he feels
it is an effective strategy to adopt this aggressive and adversarial personna. Who
is he really angry at? And calling everybody he doesn't like a bipolar is growing a
little thin in tooth. How about calling them a Republican, instead?
Lar
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