GAFF wank, hooray!
Let's assume that GAFF is a fandom, as prior wank did appear here, after all. Uhm, if not, I'll relocate this to otf_wank.

Background information: Allow me to introduce you to Ian Gainsbourough, who made his debut in this thread. Bafflement commenced. Much speculation abounded whether he is a troll. Then, because Ian has clearly learned nothing, he continued in this thread, where he bitched about his condescending, flamey review not being received as the constructive criticism he views it as. Once more, he got lambasted.

Annnnd now the drama culminuates! Wherein Ian declares that he has Asperger's, and drowns himself in a spectacular display of wangst and self-pity:

I’ve had a hard life. I have Asperger’s (quite certain few of you could relate), and I’ve been through a pretty turbulent life: I’ve had to endure careless assholes constantly picking on me through Middle School, I had went through a Depression, and I lost contact from a good friend of mine. And as I write this, I’m beginning to tear up thinking about all the unpleasant things you guys have said to me.

{snip}

Let me say that I don’t mean to sound like an asshole, because, in reality, I’m really not. I’m a gentle and caring guy, that not many would see, because I go unnoticed in my silence. I only say what I must because I want the attention I was never given in my past life. And because I have never come up with this before, I am treated as an outcast to the society of writers.

And on and on. Verily, our Ian's life has been nothing short of a tragedy worthy of Hamlet Titanic something very tragic. But really, he's a nice guy. He's just misunderstood. GAFFers being hard-ass bitches and bastards that we are, the responses are unsurprisingly unsympathetic, although we have Hero weighing in:

I do have sympathy, I really do...it's just hard to listen to a rant like this after we've all gotten so used to continuously bashing everybody's headsd in, that when we see something like this, we have no idea how to civilly respond to it. I still love GAFF, but I suppose we do have our flaw in that we can be incredibly cruel human beings. I guess what i'm trying to say is I'm sorry that we've lost all our emotions to apathy. To this prescribed nonsense.

"I/my relative/my pet goldfish has Aspie too, but you don't see me whining about it!" card is played. Tilly summarizes, and rather better than I can:

"You dun have 2b so mean! I have ASPERGERS OMGOMG!!!"

"STFU SO DO I HOR!!!!!11"

"AND ME!"

"AND ME AND MY BROTHER TOO!@!!!1"

"I HAVE ASPERGERS AND MY DOG HAS IT!!!!"

~~T

Knorg, a resident self-declared troll, consoles Ian:

I wasn't being hostile; I'm serious - We could make a decent troll out of you. Hell, I know a lot of trolls with deep-rooted problems. You have to look at it is a positive, not a negative.

Guts, determination, blood, sweat and tears, Ian. - All have to come from someone else, usually a mod or self-appointed 'royal'. It's just the troll way.

So far, Ian hasn't returned to make a reply, despite his claims of "I'm not a troll! Really!"