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Guru said
I guess I don't get it. I'm not familiar with that particular Anime. Anime has never been my thing. XD And ummm... thanks? I think...That's how I always imagine myself... >.>

One of the better ones, though a serious mind fuck train for the uninitiated. Neon Genesis Evangelion.

You're... Tolerable. From me I suppose that means a lot. I wouldn't... Appreciate most of the forum's populace as moderators. I just don't like people getting power in general unless I know them very well. So.

RPing characters with mental illnesses

Kaga said
Pardon me for being pedantic, but I'd at least like to point out that, as someone with ADD (which is basically ADHD without the hyperactivity), writing large amounts of text isn't as impossible as you seem to be making it out to be. Sure, I do get distracted while writing a long response to something and my mind definitely wanders, but I'd hardly call it . Just takes me a lot longer to write one than if I were on my meds. In fact, if anything, I'd say it's quite possible that my ADD causes me to write responses, actually, since due to that I often repeat myself and make the same point over and over, sort of rambling. Basically, it makes it harder to be concise, which makes sense. I'm not going to argue with you about how it does seem unlikely that one person could have all these - honestly it struck me as unlikely, too - but at least consider the fact that just because he has any one of these disorders doesn't mean he has the most case of a disorder. If my ADD was more severe, would I fit your description? Maybe. And while mine isn't bad, it's still present enough that I have a diagnosis for it and meds that I take - although I don't even take them every day. I'm not even on them right now. :/

Unlikely? No, it's... Quite literally impossible.

And read what I wrote again, Kaga. Nearly impossible--not outright--and to write large sums of text without being distracted and forgetting what you were doing.

You could totally write a giant paragraph, but you might repeat yourself four times because you got distracted writing something else and forgot what you had previously written. It's not a barrier towards writing large things, it's a barrier towards coherent things--just like my own disorder is a barrier to coherent things.

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Though, I do see how in hindsight, I might have come across that way. Sorry.

The Isla Visa Shooter, Elliot Roger, was disturbing to the highest level

mdk said All of them.

WHY YOU LITTLE--

mdk said Everybody. People are not a nice creation, once our illusions of order are taken away. The only people 'Incapable' of a mass killing are the ones with poor aim. But look at the bright side. We've gotten at suppressing our violent tendencies. We've come a long way since Eye for an Eye. Heck, even people in the army are more likely to die in a motorcycle accident than they are to get shot. We've got an impressive society, and these breaches only emphasize that fact. Human nature is ugly and we have made ourselves awesome.EDIT: This may seem in poor taste. Let me know if I've been a little too blaise, I'll..... ech. My instinct now is to take it down but I think I'll leave it here until/unless someone asks, and then I've got no qualms deleting this post.

--Oh nevermind. Actually no I completely agree with you.

As for the Isle Shooter, he was massively unstable, and no amount of help was going to stop him once he went beyond the threshold of seeing other people as beneath him. (Especially scapegoating his own personal feelings of inferiority onto a group of people who had utterly nothing to do with him.) There is no saving someone who willingly drinks in their own image from the pool of narcissism in the desert of insanity. All you can do is wait for the inevitable breakdown and do what you can then.

Unfortunately, this guy had a breakdown and got his hands on some weapons instead of psychiatric help.

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Yo nerds, post some music

Still addicted.

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Lucian said
My sides hurt

RusalkaRabbit said
This is one of the best things I've seen in a while.

It gets better.



@Guru: No seriously though congrats. Not the best mod ever, but, as a consolation prize, I can certainly think of quite a few worse choices, myself included, so... Congratulations!

Heck yes!

RPing characters with mental illnesses

Okay, no, stop. I'm sorry just... No. Enough with claiming all these mental disorders. One of these would be enough to cripple you. I know this, personally. Gwazi knows this, personally. A few other people on this forum know this, personally. The vast majority of the time we don't mention it because it's not something that is comfortable to talk about, but since people seem to be believing you, I guess I have to deconstruct just how silly this claim is.

#1: You cannot be diagnosed with multiple disorders under the same family, due to many disorders sharing many similar symptoms. (ex: You couldn't have "PTSD" with "hints of psychosis" or "sociopathy". You couldn't have Bipolar with Depression; depression is a symptom of bipolar. Same goes for mania to the previous example. ADHD's symptom of broken concentration easily fits many disorders. It's one of the go-to disorders to start from before finding something more specific for that reason.)

#2: Psychosis disables empathy and sympathy. It makes it hard to form a coherent line of dialogue. ADHD makes it nearly impossible to write large sums of text without being distracted and forgetting what you were doing. All of these disorders would make you more impatient and more prone to violent or self-defensive outburst.

#3: I'm sorry I still can't get over the part where you apparently got PTSD by being repeatedly beaten in a hospital, and somehow, nobody noticed... In a hospital. Look, some medical practitioners are dicks, sure, but the majority of people who go into the field do so with the intention to save you, and everyone like you. To even pretend that an entire hospital would stand by and let your ass be beaten savagely by security guards for no reason... No. Not acceptable. Not remotely. You need evidence for this kind of claim before anyone should remotely believe you.

#4: It's fine to inquire about mental disorders in RP's, and even to be curious about them, to want to learn about them and try to understand their various symptoms and behavioral mannerisms... But there is no way you would be able to compose a coherent story like that with PTSD. Leave alone ADHD. C'mon man. You don't need to pretend all these disorders, you really don't. It just pisses off people like me and Gwazi, and causes others to look at people like me and Gwazi and go "HEY! YOU ONLY HAVE ONE DISORDER?! Psh! This Wayne guy has like, five disorders, and he's perfectly reasonable and sane! Why can't you be?!" See why lying about this is wrong?

#5: To RP a disorder, Kestrel has it right. Nothing else needs to be said: Do your research, create facsimile, play. I don't mind if you RP someone with a disorder, just get it right. That's all I ask as someone who actually has a disorder.

Alright. Hope that clarifies things for anyone who reads this topic, but just in case, one more time.

You would not be a functional human being if you had a combination of any two of these disorders. You would be, at the very least, clinically incapable of taking care of yourself, and medication would be mandatory just for you to have a remotely coherent thought. Leave alone having twice that many in combination with each other.

RPing characters with mental illnesses

At work at the moment, excuse any typos, but I just had to ask as someone with a mental disorder myself... How do you function?

Aspergers would degrade your ability to understand social situations, adhd would cripple your ability to think straight, DCD is a motor learning disability that is often the precursor to Parkinson's or Cerebral Palsy, PTSD would make you relive horrible traumatic episodes and cause you to have severe panic attwcks in conjuncture with dcd would make you clinically incapable of taking care of yourself...

Depression would at this point be a symptom, not a separate disorder, anxiety as well, and psychosis would make it impossible for you to tell reality from fiction, and disable most if not all of you empathy or sympathy.

Not meaning to be offensive. Its just a rather incredible claim you have there.

As for rping, i will get into detail on that when i get home.

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@Guru: Whether or not it was meant to be taken seriously is irrelevant. I was giving a friendly warning about the content. Personally I think it is mildly amusing, especially since I do have life problems, and I'm not particularly sane. In short: I know how to laugh at myself in the mirror every morning Guru. There are, however, a lot of people who don't, and the majority of people who mentioned this comic to me, did so under the pretense that it was being offensive.

It did make Tempest laugh though, and it did crack a small smile from me, so kudos for that.

@Shon: Well, you had three comic panes. Understand I don't have your knowledge about what references, intentions, and so on that you have in mind making the comic. So all I got to know was this: It is a comic about Renalta. The characters cannot figure out what trees are. They then comment that the GM must have life problems. End comic.

Amusing to me, not to a lot of other folks. That's why I stated the warning.

Intent or not, execution didn't come through this time. Next time, focus on one thing to reference, practice makes perfect. Just like role playing.