ems wrote:robysue wrote:I'm not going to ask you all to lay off Enchanter. But I am going ask: Why do you continue to respond to his threads if you don't have anything useful to say to him? What skin off your nose is it if I try to help him when I can see that he's making an effort to listen to me?
And I would ask those of you who continue to tease or make fun of Enchanter to think about this: Will our treatment of people like Enchanted make confused, sleepy, tired, and exhausted lurkers who are grappling with the idea that they may have OSA feel like they will be welcomed or ridiculed if they finally get brave enough to post something with a title along the lines of "Might I have apnea?"?
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for saying what many of us have thought in reference to Enchanter and so many others who have come here for help, understanding and guidance; only to be met by mean, nasty, unkind ego maniacs!
Sleep well... you sure deserve it!
Totally agree. Sometimes, it can be frustrating, but the questions seem sincere to me. It reminds me of a lady I met a couple years ago. Really nice, lots of things in common to chat about. Met to go to lunch one day, and I realized she must have some type of attention issue. She was nowhere near ready, so I stayed at her place for a couple hours before we finally left. And I think in the 4 hours we spent together, we went through 5000 topics. I was mentally unable to keep up with the changes in topic and the speed of talking as well. It was exhausting for me. And while she was really nice, I couldn't imagine trying to do things on a regular basis with her. Email is facebook is easy for me, but sometimes somebody elses' normal way of being is outside of our normal experience and hard for us to accept. Sometimes, we can find a way to make it work, and sometimes, we have to politely walk away. I don't think it helps to attack insult as that only scares away other people too.