gooblax
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I used to be a member of a youth-oriented support forum which had its good and bad points, but I found it relatively easy to relate to the other members. I'm now outside the age bracket so have had to move on. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find anything that's come close to replicating what I used to get out of being a member of that forum.
I've tried two others since then, but neither of them work for me at all.
I need to get a handle on the rage that this has been inducing in me. But I don't think it's unreasonable to want to find an online community where I can share the good and bad parts of my day and have people be interested, and vice versa.
I've tried two others since then, but neither of them work for me at all.
- One of them was fine if I felt up to talking to other people on their topics and didn't need timely responses, but the way it was run and the way people posted there was infuriating. Long posts that were barely on-topic and just felt overwhelming to try and respond to. Posts that were held back for manual moderation before being posted. The last straw was having a post rejected for being "illogical or irrelevant" in a last-post-wins thread - talk about illogical.
- The other one, I can't relate to anyone. Although not the focus of the forum, most of the members are middle aged women who have experienced trauma. Seeing that I don't fit either of those criteria, it's a tough ask to begin with. I can't be of any help to them because I have no idea what their experiences are like. They can't be of any help to me because I keep feeling angry when it seems like I'm being ignored, which is ever-escalating due to not getting replies in an environment where the most pathetic, whiny, pleading post leeches all the attention.
I need to get a handle on the rage that this has been inducing in me. But I don't think it's unreasonable to want to find an online community where I can share the good and bad parts of my day and have people be interested, and vice versa.