You can all call me an old cow but I'm fed up with SN board being used as resource for general advice

[Davros]

We seem to have had a spate of threads started by parents who have worries about their child's behaviour and development. Most of these don't seem to have looked through the SN archive (although I have told Tech it only goes up to D it certainly covers Autism, Aspgergers, ASD). I don't want to be totally horrid but I wonder if people could have a little sensitvity into our situations and check the archive or simply post in B&D where I think most of these threads would be more appropriate.
I wasn't going to say anything as I thought it was just a phase and would stop but then two more appeared.
OK, call me an old cow.

Please just get rid of it. I haven't posted on here and don't want to get drawn into it, but I do know that if a thread like this had cropped up when I first joined I would have logged off and never come back.
I would hate to think that other SN mums out there are going to be deterred from using this (and other) boards in the way the are intended, and are normally used.
Please Lou33 or tech, delete this and lets put it behind us and forget it ever happened.

I don't have the capabilities to delete threads, you have to email mn at the address i gave you and ask them to do it,sorry.

It doesn't mean they will though.

Right, well let's hope it can be deleted but Lou has some fair points. So for now the only way to make this go away is to stop posting and push it down and out of sight. So please, don't post, not even to say you agree or you'd like it to be deleted. Let's just let it die and concentrate on nicer things.

TC x

We hear what you're saying about deleting this thread. We're discussing it now at mumsnet HQ and will let you know what action will be taken, if any, later in the day.

Huh? I went out this morning feeling enthusiastic about hatching proposals for a FAQ and thought that, in the end, something positive had come out of this and we would do something practical. When I came home and read this I decided to wait before posting, have a graze around the rest of MN and watch a bit of Mildred Pierce instead of "firing one off"!!
I'm tempted to be my usual flippant self and suggest we not only delete this thread but the whole of SN and just put CynicalSara's email address as she offered.
I suppose I'm going to be branded the trouble maker for starting this thread but I still stand by everything I've said on it.... and I'll be blamed for prompting Jimjams to flounce
I still think some people aren't reading the whole thread or aren't reading it carefully enough or are just overreacting, I can't think of any other explanation.
So in the end all I can think of to say is No 4! Take a chill pill, there are more important things to think about.

davros, probably shouldn't put my head above the proverbial here, but just to say I think there's been a huge over-reaction too. I can quite see where you are all coming from, so what if you want to blow off steam and say you are p**d off once in a while? Everyone's human.
I speak as someone guilty of the voyeurism that makes fio2 so uncomfortable - but of course that's not confined to the SN board. And its part and parcel of the internet imo.

I'm a shocking lurker and have to admit to lurking sometimes in Relationships and Feeling Depressed .... that is another world to me (so far!).

Oh FFS, no some people aren't reading all posts carefully, that's the trouble, they have read some and have come away feeling they can't post on S, which I none of us want but it does seem to be a strong feeling for some posters. Many of the things pople have said on here have left people feeling uneasy, unwelcome or just given them a bad taste in their mouth. Right or wrong that's how they have felt. Let's not get carried away again and talk about wanting to delete the whole of SN! Jesus, can't we just leave this alone.

some of us cant obviously

oh bollocks. i can't be bothered.

anyway i was just venting this morning, out aloud, which i shouldnt do. I really shouldnt have made people feel uncomfortable. i have suitably had the piss taken out of me on msn, people asking if they need membership to chat to me

I really must be having a bad year or something, accept my flippant apologises everyone

Oh no, smacked legs. I was out until 2pm today.

Fio One of the points of sn though is that you should be able to vent on here. Life is just so stressful

obviously whispering very quietly because I've flounced- but surely fio shoudl be allowed to vent.

And really I've spent 2 years on here hopefully being of help to some in the process (although certainly not been on here for mother teresa reasons- I've had an awful lot of help as well). I thought i was taking time earlier in this thread to explain why I find it difficult to carry on as I have been at the moment. Namely 3 months old, new jobs and of course the constant severe autism. These are my problems - not yours- they're not saying you shouldn't post because that will make me feel bad- it won't it's my life that makes me feel bad. Funnily enough I actually feel encouraged when I hear wonderful stories - have been quite literally drinking in the ones on the RDI list now (davros you'd have a field day )

But oh no I wasn't explaining was I- I was making you all feel uncomfortable. So who do we turn to when we've had a bad day? At the moment - when I'm scared that ds1 will be chucked out of his wonderful SLD/PMLD school (probably worrying needlessly but still) - I cannot do the fluffy school of SN. Sorry can't- I can't come on here and say it's all wonderful when it isn't.

Thank you to those who have recognised that I am human.

Actually would prefer not to flounce, but will crawl away licking war wounds quietly to a corner somewhere. I suspect that mumsnet is like RL- I don't do that very well anymore either.

I already regret posting that.

You should not have to regret venting on sn

Jimjams you have been helpful to me.

Yes anyone can say anything they want but when people are being made to fel they can't post on mumsnet becasue of certain comments I want to step in and say enough is enough. Of cousrse you come on here and say when it isn't all wonderful, and why do you think you make people feel uncomfortable????

Why are these comments and lets delete the whole of SN being thrown around.
Why are people feeling they can't post in SN/

It's getting realy, really silly now. Honest to God.

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Oh blimey. I suppose a group hug is out of the question?!?

I think if people are being amde to fell unable to post on sn then they have misread the opening post.

made to feel, even

nobody should be under pressure to answer anything anywhere on mn, probably least of all here.

Neither should anyone make others feel they can't post anywhere on mn, probably least of all here.

Some people comments made others feel they can't post at all or can't post certain things.
That isn't what this thread was about but has kind of turned into that a bit.

I'll continue to post what I like and where I like but others don't feel quite the same way it would seem which is sad.

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have we all calmed down yet

heres something to chill you out some farm animals