Is it wrong to screen legitimate autists, as in medically-diagnosed or self-proclaimed ones, out of my games? If not, how do I do it?
I've just had a fuckton of problems with autistic players not realizing when they've fucked up, endlessly fixating on a particular obsession, and annoying the rest of the group. They're also flaky as shit and don't show up on time.
Sidenote, please don't talk about how you're an autist and perfectly fine. I don't care. The nature of your illness would prevent you from realizing the effect you have anyway.
Oliver Adams
>posts loli >complains about autists screen yourself senpai
Mason Jones
dumb animeposter
Zachary Brooks
Screened. Screened. You're okay.
I think it works.
Liam Barnes
>complaining about anime >on Veeky Forums
Found the autists.
Logan Sanders
>complaining about anime on Veeky Forums
It really is fucking summer.
Nathaniel Gutierrez
I am a legitimate autist. If my party were to screen me, they'd have no one to DM.
Jonathan Hernandez
What makes autists flaky? Maybe it's because I only have Asperger's and no life, but among the groups I play with, I'm the least likely to have a reason to miss a session.
Oliver Perry
Yeah, in my experience autists are the exact opposite: they always get ridiculously invested into the story and can be counted to always be there.
It's the non-autists that think the game's not important and flake out on a whim.
Wyatt Rivera
It depends on the type/level of autism.
HFA is usually coupled with things like ADD/ADHD, depression, anxiety. Basically the person swings back and forth between functioning and being a wreck, has too many interests and not enough time, which means they tend to never get enough sleep because there's just too much to do, but a lot of the time they don't have the energy to do it, but they want to, so they stay up all night waiting to do something they want to do. Usually they end up getting bored and switch to something else, getting burned out in a matter of minutes to a month depending on the subject.
Michael Bailey
>That feel when not autistic but fit that description perfectly. Don't even have an excuse for being fucked up, GG me.
Henry Clark
Have you been examined by a professional user?
Christopher Johnson
My boyfriend and best friend (as well as another two members of my gaming group) are all medically diagnosed autists at varying points on the spectrum, but they're functional about it; frankly, I'm more of an issue with they are, since I have chronic anxiety and depression issues stemming from self-worth problems and a martyrdom complex to cap it all off.
Dylan Edwards
You have to consider whether or not they'll have fun and how it'll affect the group dynamic.
It sounds tough but screening them out isn't a bad thing if you feel like it'll either deteriorate the group experience and they won't blend, or if you feel like they won't enjoy it.
Jayden Diaz
>legitimate autists, as in medically-diagnosed >self-proclaimed ones Pick one.
Also, legitimate autists won't show on your game, so... yeah, go fuck yourself, OP. The "autism" meme was a mistake.
Jayden Anderson
School summer break starts next week, so prepare yourself.
Dominic Taylor
More then once, no 'tisms to be found
Connor Gutierrez
But a lot of general -isms.
Colton Martin
It's your game and you've got a right to screen anyone for any reason.
I've got aspergers and ADD, I've spent my freetime the past half a decade rotating between worldbuilding half a dozen settings, each of them a different genre. One day I'll write a book set in one.
Thomas Gray
Oh fuck really?
I've been out of school too long.
John Smith
>has too many interests and not enough time, which means they tend to never get enough sleep because there's just too much to do, but a lot of the time they don't have the energy to do it, but they want to, so they stay up all night waiting to do something they want to do. Oh fuck, that's me alright.
Matthew Lewis
Final exams just ended last week in the Netherlands, summer has started, friendo.
Xavier Miller
>A girl with mental health issues dating an autist
never breed, your children will have weak genes.
Dominic Harris
Easy. Talk to them. If you can't tell, they're not autistic enough for it to be relevant.
Jackson Jenkins
/polr9k/ will never breed.
Joshua Nguyen
>It's your game and you've got a right to screen anyone for any reason. What this guy said. The diversity police aren't going to kick down your door because you don't have enough autismos in your game taking grumpy dumpies because you dared to make their character take damage.
This has been my experience, too. The turbo-autists I've gamed with have always been on time or early, and were always very apologetic about missing games for any reason. It's the more well-adjusted normies who have been flippant about being punctual and rarely, if ever, gave reasons for not showing up.
Levi Gray
/pol/ is southern fucks who know not what a condom is.
Brayden White
>Is it wrong Why would it be wrong?
Gabriel Torres
>The diversity police aren't going to kick down your door because you don't have enough autismos in your game taking grumpy dumpies because you dared to make their character take damage. Unless OP is an European, in which case this is very much possible.
Jack Johnson
They're only capable of breeding through rape, which is why the south hates birth control.
Aiden White
On one hand I fully support a GM's right to pick his players. But you gotta admit that OP sounds like kind of a dick.
Ethan Thomas
>Unless OP is an European The marxists in Sweden are getting their ideas from American "academics", and even in Sweden universities don't have safe spaces yet.
Also, Europe isn't a fucking country. I dare you to try and pull that sjw shit in Poland. Even in France a lot of the shit that America pulls doesn't fly because the state is "colorblind'.
Kayden Bailey
How many autists ever feel the need to say they are autistic? And what you describe here are not real autism syndromes.
Hunter Barnes
>They're only capable of breeding through rape >which is why the south hates birth control. Nah, you're thinking of the Muslim.
Thomas Cook
What about all those peps in twitter claiming they are autists and complaning about neuronormative people?
Carson Bailey
>How many autists ever feel the need to say they are autistic? There is this whole "proud to be an autist", "there is no cure for autism because it's not a disorder" et cetera movement nowadays. This is the age of identity politics, remember? The age where everyone is otherkin and a man who cuts his own dick off can be called a woman and wrestle real women at the olympics. Autists joining in isn't surprising.
That said, personally I hate being deficient and want as few people as possible to know about it. Only my parents, my therapist and a close internet friend know about it.
Jacob Butler
It's tricky. I find that testing for extreme political views is a good start. Not all autists are political, but their brains can't comprehend complicated issues so the latch on to one ideology whole-heartedly, and treats everyone else like they're literally the worst thing in the world.
Nathaniel Scott
>Is it wrong to screen legitimate autists, as in medically-diagnosed or self-proclaimed ones, out of my games? If not, how do I do it?
Good bloody luck. It's a hell of a wide spectrum and two people might not be remotely similar in how they handle it.
Mason Robinson
When vetting potential applicants, I've found one question separates the good from the bad like no other:
"How many push-ups can you do consecutively?"
Parker Ortiz
Well, THOSE if anything deserve to be screened.
Jaxon Wilson
Are you going to pretend all the players you dislike must be autistic?
Mason Jenkins
>Bringing up a strawman version of transexuality in a discussion about autists players in /tg
Tyler Bennett
This shit may have started in America, but it was European countries like Sweden and France that pretty much opened their borders and their legs and let anyone run the rape train on them. >Poland Poland is inhabited by Poles, it's already beyond salvation.
Angel Rodriguez
I agree. Even sedentary non-autists don't let their bodies atrophy that much. I am lenient as a GM so I only set the minimum at 10 but 25 is a reasonable number.
I'm morbidly obese and diabetic and I can pull off 30, as far as I'm concerned no one has an excuse.
Evan Lopez
Nigga you can't "screen" autism like that and you have little idea of what autism is. All you are doing is creating an autism boogeymeb to shoehorn everyone you dislike.
Caleb Bennett
>but it was European countries like Sweden and France that pretty much opened their borders and their legs America has four states that are majority Latino, overwhelmingly Mexican, and as a whole only Mexico has more native Spanish speakers than America. This is worse than the pot calling the kettle black, it's straight up denial of how demographically fucked America is.
Lucas Mitchell
I want /pol/tards to leave. Or kill themselves. Or both, preferably.
Kevin Reed
Both fit.
Lucas Torres
Are you sure you aren't just seesawing on your stomach?
Alexander Collins
What kind of retards would want to play with a DM litteraly thinking internet autism is real and you need to do push up to prove you don't have it? Why does overly scrutinous jerks always think they are worth this kind of bulmshit? I'm not gonna play mind games just to play D&D with you.
Jason Turner
This to you too, now fuck off, I will not tolerate "muh white nationalism" and "B-but all xenos are rapist" here in /tg
Aiden Robinson
No gaming is better than bad gaming.
Gavin Stewart
You must be, because that's not what OP asked. I'm assuming he's the DM, and wants to screen autistic players out, which has nothing to do with the game you DM.
Spotted the spergs.
>ridiculously invested into the story
Yeah, because we needed to hear every single day about how you want to talk to this one particular NPC again and you get butthurt when we don't devote an entire ingame session to you writing them a letter and wanting to split the party to see them and talking endlessly about fucking pokemon OOC when we're not doing stuff that involves you.
Basically in my experience autists get ridiculously invested in their own character, don't interact with anyone else except for one NPC they'll fixate on, and talk endlessly about minute details of what they want to do with their character at the expense of the party and story. They also tend to make characters that don't work well with a group.
>in b4 the Autist Internet Defense Force all asserts that they're model players who dindu nuffin ever.
Jayden Bell
Do you need to vent, user? Come; post a story.
Joseph Flores
Holy shit, leave your basements for once you welfare NEETs.
America is huge, and unfortunately 99% of the media comes from California and New York and their particular culture, which gets spread onto college campuses that don't even reflect the towns they live in.
Easton Smith
It's hot outside in Texas.
Basements are lot cooler
Michael Turner
That literally is happening in the olympics.
Owen Moore
>/pol/ is southern fucks Do you sincerely think that /pol/ is a bunch of rural rednecks shitposting and meming?
Jeremiah Carter
ITT: Angry autists and triggered snowflakes.
Christopher Cruz
>Yeah, because strawman Can you not address the argument without twisting it to the absolutely opposite extreme? Can we have no middle ground on the Internet? Or would it make it too hard to argue with a bunch of spergs? If so, what does that make you?
Logan Anderson
Not wrong but the a lot of correct ways to do so and even more wrong ways to do it.
I find it easier to screen them out when taking new people by asking them meme questions and see how they react in front of the entire group. If they react appropriately, they are in and the entire group help out in the character creation and introduction. If not, we apologize and move on.
Meme questions such as: >Japanese katanas/Falchion are fucking superior to any shit western/eastern arms ever produced. Yeah? >Firearms are so stupid/so cool and shit/awesome that bows win/lose 10 out of 10. Am I right or am I right? >Man, those furries are disgusting/cool. What's your opinion?
Carter Clark
An autist in my group is in the hospital right fucking now because "she" slashed "her" wrists after her character was scarred by acid.
I'm with OP. You tismniggers need to go.
Robert Reed
But how do you get them back after they walk out in disgust?
Jack Barnes
This.
>invite players over at different times so they show up one by one. >leap out from behind the door at each one wearing a business suit and a Trump mask >if they scream, shout something about nazis, or show any sign of distress, tell them they're fired and send them home >if they approve they get to stay
Doing this from now on.
Henry Taylor
Spotted the /pol/ack.
Samuel James
As an autist, I voted for Trump. Probably because my brain can't comprehend complicated issues so I just latched on to one ideology whole-heartedly.
John Davis
If autists walks away on their own rather than forcing us to chase them away politely using various relocation tactics, it's a win in my book.
If you are triggered, you need a mental health check. Normal nerds don't.
Noah Turner
>Everything I don't like is /pol/.jpg
Lucas Campbell
I was here whole winter as well also you two fell for it
Lucas Gomez
>Everyone I don't like is autist.jpg
Michael White
Yeah, because non-autists TOTALLY start sperging out about/praising furries with no provocation.
James Jackson
You seem autistic there, son.
Nicholas Jenkins
Brilliantly refuted, how will I ever recover
Sebastian Morris
>Ask a question >Is considered sperging
You have a problem.
James Clark
>I don't know >I guess firearms can be quite cool? >I don't care about furries, just keep that shit away from me. Am I good?
Zachary Turner
Well, I guess that's one way to make sure you don't accidentally play with sane people.
Jacob Turner
No, urban rednecks memeing.
Internet usage is rarer in rural areas
Benjamin Robinson
Spotted the guy who can't do pushups.
I pretty much told it. The character was a Dragonborn Bard and the player would endlessly talk about how he was a fountain of cheer and this big overgrown kobold ("but you won't like him when he's angry") and honestly the concept was cool as fuck so despite him being a weirdo I invited him in.
He never interacted with anybody, ever. He'd talk about doing random performances and which nu-pop song he should play just...at random. As in actual real-life songs. No, they'd have nothing to do with the scene he was in, he'd just start singing. No matter what was going on or the mood of the scene was. He wouldn't talk to NPCs, he wouldn't talk to PCs, he'd just talk about himself and what he was doing. Except that this one town had a Halfling girl merchant who did moonlighting work playing piano at the tavern who he would talk about constantly and write letters to and had kind of a creepy OOC crush on. Aside from that he talked about pokemon non fucking stop even when nobody cared or played it or wanted to play it.
Christian Martinez
Do you think it'd be a good idea to force autists to namefag about it? That way we'll know on the internet as well and can screen them at our leisure in gamefinders.
Aaron James
>Make insane tests to "detect autism". >Not a retard Pick one. The furry one is the only one truly weird but the whole idea is just plain dumb.
Noah Hall
Short and simple is exactly what we wanted. We are testing for autism and lack of emotional control which leads to screaming bouts which we already endured several times thanks to a law student and an engineering student.
Daniel Parker
With no way to enforce it, how the hell do you think there's even a slight chance of anything good coming out of that?
Caleb Harris
Sounds like you met one autist and decided to generalize everyone from it, the same way a /pol/ack would bump into a black person the one time he dares to go out into sunlight and from there on decide they're all subhuman niggers.
Gavin Murphy
Makes me a badass. Fuck compromising.
Chase Cooper
>Is it wrong to screen legitimate autists, as in medically-diagnosed or self-proclaimed ones, out of my games? No. You, as a human being have tb he right to associate with whoever you please for whatever reason. Some may think it not nice to exclude autists, but fuck those guys. They're fags.
Cameron Hall
Nigga you wot. That's not a strawman when it's happened in both the Olympics and MMA. And there's a fuckton of people who define their entire existence on their mental illnesses or disabilities. There's people who build their whole identity around their autism, people do it for deafness and schizophrenia too. Hell, people FAKE those conditions for the special snowflake points.
Justin Peterson
>simple questions >insane tests
You don't have many friends or contacts outside of Internet, do you?
Owen Harris
The whole push up thing is irrelevant.
Elijah Hill
I mean you can usually tell, can't you? Even ITT it's clear as a day who's the autist and who isn't.
Then the mods can just slap the name on them so that they can't get rid of it.
Hudson Hill
No, autists who can't hide it deserve to be treated like shit. t. autist
Justin Wilson
It fit with every other autist I've gamed with, but this one was just the worst. You are not the Drizzt of Autism, user.
>muh irrational /pol/hate
We must secure an existence for our people and a future for white children, don't you know that?
Charles Campbell
Intent matters.
Leo Lee
I'm posting in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, and everybody I know has internet access. I don't know what you're talking about.
Joshua Jackson
Too bad, it's been here longer than you.
>he doesn't remember the unironic Obama/Tzeentch comparisons
Owen Torres
You see the problem there is that your players might assume you are the autist for asking that shit.
Colton Ramirez
>Then the mods can just slap the name on them so that they can't get rid of it. Spotted the guy who doesn't have a slightest idea how internet works. Anything done by the mods would be trivial to circumvent.
Joshua Martinez
What exactly is wrong with removing players you dislike?
Sebastian Stewart
>Anything done by the mods would be trivial to circumvent Yes, you are quite right that it would be. To a non-autist.
Dominic Torres
IQ is heavily correlated to how much functional autists are so I don't you can say they deserve to be treated like shit because they are more disabled than you
Eli Torres
Nothing except that they will rush to forums like these to complain and whine.