Why do some posters NOT read the full thread.

Who’s laughing at your disability?

My adhd and dyslexia has resulted in me being labelled as stupid at school, leaving school with no GCSE's and struggling in work. Consequently, I suffer with crippling anxiety, low mood and just generally just feel pretty crap about myself.

I actually just successfully completed a part-time degree with the OU so I clearly am not stupid, but the fact that people view me as such still hasn't negated any of the above.

It would have been fine to discuss this subject in a more respectful way without resorting saying that people like me are lazy or stupid. I suspect the OP wrote such an inflammatory OP to directly insult people like me, it's just a shame how many people agree with her comments

That's happened today. Straight at the top, the child was y3.
How old/ what year are they in?
And repeat.

If the thread is quite long (and especially growing fast, I'll tend to read the first couple of pages, the last couple of pages and "see all" OP's posts. That way you can see which way it's gone, pertinent updates, if OP is still engaging (or lost the will to live) or if it's just descended into a bunfight between two posters on a random sidenote.

I can keep up with the responses just fine. I personally don’t keep up with what usernames are posting what - does anyone?! If I see one post from Inks that I perceive as funny am I truly supposed to scroll back up and see if Inks has posted anything else which might change my mind? Is it really that serious? 😅 I didn’t even look at your username when I read it and laugh reacted. Because it was not personal.

Anyway I have now gone back and checked, and I only laugh reacted to your ‘OP won’t return’ post and put a laugh emoji in my reply to you. That is it.

I remember I got rounded on once.

WHERE DOES IT SAY THE CHILD IS 14? IT DOESN'T SAY THAT IN THE OP

It was in the thread title, so some people don't even read that properly

My post was literally the 5th on the thread. If you can't keep up after just 5 posts then maybe I am not the only one who struggles. You have left laughing emojis to a couple of my posts.

And it is personal when you are laughing at my posts

Right.

I will read the original post a few times before posting.

I’m often baffled by some of the responses and will re-read the OP’s first post and the next ones wondering where some posters got their information from. It’s often obvious which ones are major projections.

I wouldn’t read every posts though depending on the length of thread. Plus, often many posters only read the original
post and not the later ones, asking questions that were already answered or adding things that the OP never stated.

Nobody keeps track of all of the specific usernames that write separate replies on the same thread. Of course I’m not going to notice that ‘Inks’ has responded 3 different times saying 3 different things, and link them all together to somehow understand that I shouldn’t laugh react to a funny quip about OP’s never returning to shit show threads?!

You can’t police what emojis people want to use either. Stop taking everything so personally.

You could always just read OP’s posts?

It’s the posters who don’t even read them that get on my nerves, they reply to the original post that was written 2 days ago.

It's really sad, that on a website that I ordinarily find to be one on which women support other women, you are laughing at my disability.

I genuinely feel pretty crap about myself already. I know some people think I am stupid or thick, and maybe I am. I just wish people would stop and think about the fact that there are real people behind the user names, with real feelings

Some threads are really very long, so after reading the OP's message, I'd try to respond to a question or address points raised in it on assumption that the OP still wants comments/responses.

I laughed at your post saying you bet the OP won’t be back, I found that funny as it’s often the case that OP’s don’t come back to threads like this and it descends to madness.

I didn’t laugh at any of your other posts about ableism or you specifically being neurodiverse. Don’t act like I was laughing at your disability which I didn’t even know existed 🤣

If you want to know what we are up against, people like @loropianalover have left laughing faces on my posts, I am literally being laughed at because I have a disability.

It’s extremely annoying. If a thread is 16 pages long, clearly a lot of discussion has gone on. Why would you think your bog standard ‘LTB!’ reply is anything other than redundant?? You don’t have to comment.

A lot of people don’t even read the original post, never mind the whole thread.

@Meandhimtogether Because we clearly don't have as much spare time as you ?

If its already big, I just read Ops posts because undoubtedly it will answer something obvious that needs clarification or has not been mentioned/drip fed.

The ableism on this thread is appalling.

It's the ones that comment, who don't even properly read the OP that annoy me! They then comment, with a completely different scenario! Reading the comments sometimes, it's like you're in a parallel universe!
It's one thing having misread a couple of words, but to read the whole thing, then twist it and come up with another story, is quite baffling!

@lnks If you haven't RTFT, your engagement is unlikely to be useful to the OP.

So you are suggesting only people without disabilities should be allowed to engage with threads

Sometimes I have such a strong opinion on a subject I dive straight in. Most of the time I do RTFT or OPs posts