[quote=@Oliver]
Hello, newbie here. 
Just some background info on me: I just turned 13 a few weeks ago, and I'm a writing enthusiast. I'm new to play-by-post RP, but have a few months of experience with GURPS, D&D and other tabletop systems.

I've been trying to get into RPing for a few weeks now, and one thing I've noticed pervades this forum is a strong sense of entitlement by seniority. A lot of the users here are several decades older than me and have vastly more experience in the play-by-post world. I've been told no less than four times, all by different people, that I should stick to Free RPs for "a few years" before moving onto more advanced RPs. A lot of people have also told me that I lack the emotional stability to "handle" the social expectations of Casual or Advanced RP. 

But the thing is, I'm linguistically advanced enough to handle postlengths of up to five paragraphs, and the grammar standards of Free tends to allow for a level of newbism that is not my own. I get that I'm young and mentally challenged and not always easy to get along with, but it's hard for me to find RPers in my age group who are on the same writing level as me. 

So what I'm basically trying to ask is, should I dumb myself down for the sake of not annoying the older and more socially advanced members of RPG, or is there a way for me to RP with older people without getting on their nerves?
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No, you should never have to dumb yourself down. I started role-playing here when I was fourteen years old, I wanted to start when I was twelve but got intimidated. I tried a free game when I started. Very dissatisfying for me personally. Next thing I knew I met my role-playing crew. [@Byrd Man] and some other players like [@HenryJonesJr] were immigrating from their own internet home of many years and set up shop in advance.

I was terrible at first. God awful. I think I still an in some respects. But playing in advanced does not take a lot. I've very rarely not played in advanced, actually. You'll get better as you get older. You'll get more ideas and yours skills will level up. Not that I'm writing you off for now, it's just that you're always getting older. I never could've imagined I'd be seventeen so soon. Makes me wish I would've wrote more when I was your age.