I started that thread, to which I've linked above, PURELY to pass on a new video (to me) of John Elder Robison, talking about the HUGE benefits he's gained from TMS Research, which he has very willingly taking part in.
John has Aspergers, and is also the author of 'Look Me In The Eye'- his autobiograhy, which is a brilliant and informative book..
I put it in here PURELY because I know there are many people in Mudcat who either know children/people who have Autism, or who have chidren/relatives themselves on the Circle..
Yes,I know others call it The Spectrum, but I call it the Circle...
INSTANTLY dave came on with a link to a thread which he KNOWS caused a great deal of consternation in here, whilst he chose to make NO comment on the videos I'd posted whatsoever.
What dave does NOT know is that in the thread he linked to, where I fought off a great deal of downright unpleasantness, I also wrote a message about how it feels, for some, to have Aspergers/Autism..and that one person, whom I will not name, contacted me about a member of their family who had seen that post and had been able to see themselves in that message, which they felt was of great help to them.
That ONE message to me enabled me to throw away all the SHITTY comments in that thread, because if I was able to help just ONE person, that was enough for me.
dave, if you do not believe me, then you can check with Bruce, because he knows. I trust Bruce more than anyone else in here, and I know that he would never reveal any more details, but he will be able to verify what I say.
In a recent thread about the odious Jimmy Saville dave did EXACTLY the same thing when I left a comment saying how this man had always made my skin crawl, even as a very young person...and how revolting he was etc...He then chose to call me out as being someone who had said that women themselves caused rapes to happen..and that it was all their fault, again, giving a link to a thread from AGES back, just as he did in the link above...and taking what words I DID actually say, TOTALLY out of context, to portray me in the WORST possible way he could.
Of course, he also stated in that thread, which was about Saville dying, and NOT started at the time the TRUTH about him was coming out, how much he liked and admired Jimmy Saville...
No comment...
Also, he loves to continually call me 'Liz'...a name I have REPEATEDLY asked both he and Greg (also in the thread I link to) to NOT call me, as it is a name that has very personal connotations for me and has only ever been used by those for whom I have a deep love, like my Darlin' Dad, or by those for whom I have the utmost respect, such as Bruce...Yet over and over and OVER he has gone out of his way to refer me to thus, stating it's his 'schoolboy humour'...
No. It is the humour of Bullies, actually...
I am now SO sick of him, of Greg and of Spaw too, who has at times, been outrageously rude to me, but because he's considered the Mudcat Darling has NOT been called out by others....
I don't care if others 'go off me' for if something is wrong, then I'll darn well say so...
This place has come to stink, I'm afraid...
The Bastards drove me out of the Music Section, but even that is NOT enough, for they simply want me gone from everywhere...
Well, they've got their wish on Mudcat...for I now find this place SO unpleasant...and part of that is also because one mod in particular who lets these bastards CONTINUALLY get away with things, whilst calling ME a troll (Jeri, are you listening?!) gives out the VERY WRONG MESSAGE over and again and that is that it's OK for those SHE likes to pour shite over those she DOESN'T like....
I kept quiet about her for a very VERY long time, because she is the friend of someone else, but I no longer choose to do so anymore, because she ENCOURAGES these fuckers to do this in her 'put downs' of me all the time. Others see her opinions as correct PURELY because they know she's a mod...
Well, fuck that...
John protected me, as did Joe... Joe has my full permission at all and any time to look through any PMs sent to me, or that I have sent out...and that also protects me..
But now, I've had it....
It's REALLY sad, because backalong I LOVED coming to Mudcat, talking about the music that I loved, but they even took that away from me, targetting any musicians whose music I loved with ridicule, making THEM feel bad and hoping I'd stop talking about them...
They'd drag up post after post, thread after thread, because these guys have it all stored and saved on their computers, probably all cross referenced too, because THAT is how sick some of them are, how deeply they hate me, how deep their desire to get others to see me through their bitter and resentful eyes..
I find 'dave' to make my skin crawl in the way Savile did, but for different reasons, for, to me, he has a VERY UNHEALTHY obssession with me, as did some of his former buddies, one of whom was bordering on the insane in my view, SO obssessive did he become about me...
I'm done here.... So are many others...
It is the fault of those who run Mudcat for ALLOWING these bastards on here in the first place, for choosing VERY BIASED mods as well...
But it's there site..nowt to do with me...
However, it IS sad to see it go the way of the BBC board, year by year, because so few people, especially NEW people post here now....
I'm off
Have a good life....
And with thanks to John for being a decent mod...and to Joe Offer too, for they may have issues with me at one time, but once they came to understand me, to see with their own eyes what was going on, they became very decent towards me..and I'll never forget that...
And with thanks to Bruce too, who worked so hard to try to get others to see me with different eyes..I always appreciated that Bruce and loved you for it too..You're one lovely fella, as well as a bloody brilliant singer, songwriter and musician... xx