#;; Online Interaction ;;

[autistic-duck]

I have a terrible habit of just liking posts on social media and then disappearing. like. no comments, no reblogs, just silence. I am a quiet observer who shows up as a number on your screen and nothing more.

I've never had mutuals I can tag on posts that vaguely remind me of them or just to joke around with. in fact, I've had very few online interactions at all.

so when I post something and people, like, respond? it's baffling.

who are you?? why are you liking my comment? why are you reblogging my post? you're here, and you're just... talking? and you can say anything you want? should I respond? should I keep quiet and disappear into the void again?

who taught you these social skills? who taught you to just... say stuff? how are you so funny, so profound, so human? how do I get to know you? should I get to know you?

there's so many users I'd love to interact with, but the thought of purposefully drawing attention to myself online is wild. it's like I'm asking to be hurt, asking to find the kinds of people that'll know exactly the kinds of words to get in my head, the kinds of words I've spent hours in therapy getting out of my head.

I thought I'd be able to find my place if I spent enough time in autistic spaces online, but then I realized I'd have to be vulnerable with digital strangers. I'd have to share my stories and, even worse, talk to users. anyone could say anything at any time, and I could end up reading things that will never leave my head. that's already happened, but those hateful words were never directly focused on me. what'll happen when they are?

people talk a lot about how a common symptom of autism is our struggles with social interaction, but how often do we bring up online interactions? am I the only one who struggles with this? how many people online are like me, quietly interacting, terrified to be seen, heard, and understood, yet constantly and desperately lonely?

I want to leave room for hope, so I think I'll add a bunch of tags vaguely related to this post in the hopes that people will see this and relate to the things I'm saying. I'd like to leave the conclusion open for discussion.

[tevvyline]

Online interactions

Types of follows: - Follow without follow back (fan) - Follow with follow back (friend) Types of reposts: - Repost without comment - Repost with comment Types of comments: - Good comment - Filler comment

[grey29]

Anyone else find talking to people online scarier and harder than in real life or just me? It feels like there’s even more even subtler social cues online than in person and trying to figure out the social boundaries feels lowkey impossible. Like in person it’s still hard but I feel like I’m the only autistic person I know who struggles so much more with interacting online than in person. It also probably doesn’t help that I’ve been told I text and type like an old person on multiple occasions lmao

There’s no wrong way to interact, I’m just curious if anyone else feels the same way.

[learningfromlosing]

I'm so tired of having to deal with how people communicate online. There is so much aggression. People really don't stop and think about how other people feel at all anymore. It's always a fight all the time. They really aren't concerned with it at all. They want to hurt you as much as they can. It's almost the actual goal of so many people. It made me collapse into myself so much. I feel like I need to keep digging to get as far away as I can from that kind of energy. And I feel so alone in the world because of it.

People have never terrified me more.

[inexplainable-being]

Hey tumblr...?

How do u make friends on here??

I've had tumblr for a few months now and I still don't really know how to talk to people or communicate on here without coming off as weird. This is the first social media platform I've been on so I don't really know how to communicate with people online. And I know tumblr is a place where it's ok to be weird but I still don't really know what I should do when it comes to interacting with others on here.

I wanna try and put myself out there and get out of my comfort zone a bit more (god knows I need to do more stuff like that) but I really don't know how to do it and I'm just very clueless when it comes to making online friends let alone talking to someone online.

If anyone has any tips or some advice that might help me with this please let me know

[elenscaie]

Of course! I love to receive interaction on here! I'd adore it if more people engaged with my tumblr and sent me asks, people sending me asks is one of my absolute fave things on here~😊

inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.

[dirkvl]

New Article: "Beyond Bodily Co-Presence: A Micro-Sociological Study of Online Interaction Rituals" by Jonatan Mizrahi-Werner, Lasse Suonperä Liebst, and Jakob Demant #sssi #sociology #interaction #online #digital #ritual #microsociology @WileySociology https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.1206

We have just published Lonnie Athen’s article “Beyond Bodily Co-Presence: A Micro-Sociological Study of Online Interaction Rituals” by Jonatan Mizrahi-Werner, Lasse Suonperä Liebst, and Jakob Demant. Members of SSSI can access the article HERE and by clicking the image below. To join SSSI and subscribe to Symbolic Interaction from $35 (£30), please click HERE.

[multi-fandom-magic]

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[crushfin]

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[b0tster]

its fucking embarassing having to do this every 6 months. i swear to god.

deadbunny is not a necrophile. he did not desecrate a corpse.

he made an edgy drawing to cope with a death years ago.

it is a drawing.

it will not hurt anyone.

i retweeted bunlith fanart from him forever ago. i left polite replies when he leaves comments on my post throughout the years. we are not besties.

'but he gets off to it' do me a favor and talk to a lesbian. romanticizing death in a theoretical fashion is not new.

stop trying to use this as an excuse to slander me. its pathetic, and sad.

i dont talk about this because i dont want to participate in dragging his trauma up every 6 months but im left with no choice.

i am done with this. do not do it again.

[galaxyspeaking]

I'm more of a lurker than a poster on tumblr because I've completely lost the habit of actually voicing out personal thoughts on anything I remotely enjoy online (most social media turning into ways to find work will do that for you) but I've just realized. I don't need to hide anything here I can just yap and be free. The way tumblr always intended..... no one will mind if I suddenly go on a wild rant about the hyperfixation du jour........

[capyyybaraaa]

[porrigens]

raison d’etre + sushi = profit

[shalom-iamcominghome]

American jews 🤝 Israeli jews

"holy shit, I'm so scared for you in your country - it isn't as bad for me in mine!"