Contrast wrote:Does that mean you're still hawking over the subforum, Eight? The way you mentioned participating if you see anything just made me wonder-- Is that really any better, besides maybe allowing your ego some breathing room by being able to say you don't participate?
Nah. Don't go there unless someone draws my attention to something, or unless OneRinger posts there - he and I are discussing stuff and there's some crossover.
It isn't about ego, Courtier. It can be about appealing to my baser self, though. The shadow. And that's what's most disconcerting to me right now, and really what five was touching on. I don't deny it but I don't have to cultivate it either. So, nah.
Related to this subforum but still not related to this thread (I'm getting there!), two dxed NPD members who (used to) frequent that subforum still read it on a daily basis without posting. I think because, in the same way, it embarrasses them to be associated with and engaged in the petty nonsense that goes on. They cant pull themselves away though. No less shameful since the investment is still the same, in my opinion.
And you know this how?
Drama can be a pull. FOMO is a draw for some. Life-lacking is another reason - some people's stories are pretty dismal when you're allowed to see behind the curtain of their forum presentation.
I can't really see the appeal, though, of reading without participating, except for the above reasons.
In any case, Eight, you're missed-- and you're missing out on all my progress. Jomp had to take on a patriarch role for me after you left a vacancy there
Thanks. Guess you'll have to come to NPD or SPD or JFF to get your dose of me.
Poor jomp.

Maybe as patriarch he'll have more success than I did as matriarch with you. Do you have daddy or mommy issues - which? I can't recall.
As for your progress, I am interested in that - you know that. You'll have to find another way to inform me if you want me to know.
I completely glossed over the fact that I sympathise with you. Just got caught on a detail and forgot to mention it
As someone with no diagnosis and no PD that I can detect, I've wondered what you are doing in AsPD. Do you know? Do you care? Similar perhaps to five, I know you can relate somewhat there but not enough to call that place home, I think. Why not spread yourself around more? Or do as he did and leave.