@JKER said in On the utility of Logs, Receipts, and Proof:
That said, you’re free to remain as bigoted against neurodivergent players as you like.
Hi. I’m GF. I have brain problems. I chose those last four words very deliberately, because the brain problems I mentioned? I have them. They’re mine. They belong to me. They’re not anyone else’s responsibility. If they contribute to me being an asshole, then that is my responsibility too. Others may choose to offer me correction (several people in this forum have done so at various points), and I am grateful for their emotional labor when they do it, but they don’t owe it to me.
Nor do my brain problems absolve me of the responsibility I hold for the outcomes of my actions, because whether or not I intended to be disruptive doesn’t retroactively make the things I did not disruptive, and it won’t prevent any future actions I take from being disruptive. Only not being disruptive will cause my actions to not be disruptive.
I would personally feel deeply insulted, and more than a little hurt, if I found out people were making allowances for me due to my brain problems, because that would infantilize me. It would imply or even outright say that they have no faith I am a competent adult capable of learning from my mistakes and making appropriate changes. I’d rather be kicked from a game than treated like that, because at least when I get kicked off I have the cold comfort of knowing I’m not doing any more harm to people I don’t wish harm upon. I can’t imagine feeling that IoleRae’s hypothetical staff policy toward me is a form of bigotry.
But then, I can’t imagine feeling anything about IoleRae is bigoted toward neurodivergent people because we talk sometimes and she just seems like a super chill person who thinks her positions through and always keeps an eye on the moral and ethical implications of her actions; so maybe that disqualifies my opinion from mattering.