OP of the thread... this was the kind of person i was complaining about, and the reason why the buttons even began to annoy me in the first place. plenty of people use the buttons for reasonable purposes. time zone, pronouns, et cetera. disclosing conditions in general isn't a full-on, blanket-statement Bad Thing, and as other people are discussing here, it 100% has its social place and can often be a GREAT thing, leading to conversations & friendships that may not have blossomed otherwise. Flight Rising has an awesome community in a lot of ways, and it's nice to know things about fellow players at a glance - but after a while, for me, it went Too Far. i place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the "Cosplaying Disorders is Cool" crowd. seeing the buttons now is like seeing a red hat in public - "is this going to say what i think it's going to say?" i feel awful for people whose conditions are popular targets for malingering. i wanted to start this thread with a tone that was exaggerated for humor, because i'm not trying to take a swing at people who actually have, for example, a dissociative disorder. but admittedly it is the DID fakers who have me reaching for my block button most often. i do a lot of giveaways on the forums, and i just plain Don't Want To gift stuff to people who choose to present themselves as FR user The(___)System (multiple real users like this) (one of them with that username style literally has a clan info section that says "we're a DID system but we wont really talk about that here" like??? if that was true then why name your entire account like that, shaking my damn head)
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plenty of people use the buttons for reasonable purposes. time zone, pronouns, et cetera. disclosing conditions in general isn't a full-on, blanket-statement Bad Thing, and as other people are discussing here, it 100% has its social place and can often be a GREAT thing, leading to conversations & friendships that may not have blossomed otherwise.
Flight Rising has an awesome community in a lot of ways, and it's nice to know things about fellow players at a glance - but after a while, for me, it went Too Far. i place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the "Cosplaying Disorders is Cool" crowd. seeing the buttons now is like seeing a red hat in public - "is this going to say what i think it's going to say?"
i feel awful for people whose conditions are popular targets for malingering. i wanted to start this thread with a tone that was exaggerated for humor, because i'm not trying to take a swing at people who actually have, for example, a dissociative disorder. but admittedly it is the DID fakers who have me reaching for my block button most often. i do a lot of giveaways on the forums, and i just plain Don't Want To gift stuff to people who choose to present themselves as FR user The(___)System (multiple real users like this) (one of them with that username style literally has a clan info section that says "we're a DID system but we wont really talk about that here" like??? if that was true then why name your entire account like that, shaking my damn head)