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This bold part is what incited all of this... I was on a website a few days ago. They had a term for everything I said. Word salad. Pity ploy. Emotional blackmail. Misdirection. Playing the victim. So on and so forth... One even accused me of using other accounts to pretend to be emotionally tormented by the things I said in order to upset the rest of them. I have no idea what they were talking about, and they refused to tell me. Ironically, they agreed with a lot of what I said before I told them my diagnosis. Still... It's hard for me to believe that a simple word can have such an impact on people... If I actually wanted to wreak havoc, all I'd have to do is say, "Hi, I'm Michael, and I'm a psychopath," and whole communities are left in ruin. It's happened a few times before... I don't intend to do this. But is it still manipulation because I know it's likely to happen and it does hurt people? Would it be more or less wrong of me to hide my personality? Faking emotion and that... Isn't that basically manipulation because I'm making people believe I'm someone that I'm not?
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No Michael I don't think you should hide who you are. Its not your fault you were born this way. When you 1st came here I remember your wife was in labor and I was supporting you. I didn't know your diagnosis and when I did find out, it wasn't a factor affecting my opinion of you. I feel you're fair but can stick up for yourself but you don't get out of line. I treat people based on how they treat me, not what their diagnosis or someone else says.
I also think you try to understand yourself and are even puzzled sometimes with peoples complicated emotions. Now if someone was an admitted pedophile I don't think I could be fair nor would a person like this be welcomed here. You have the same right as anyone else to get support here.