Re: pissed off about accessibility guides
Is everyone really assuming they know everything about PTSD, or do you have a why me complex and a maladaption to your condition. I'd bet the latter.
Look I'm working with a guy who literally studied the neurology of PTSD victims for his research work, who also suffers from severe PTSD. He knows a lot more than I do but I still feel like I have a valid reason to talk from personal experience.
Here's an abstract he shared that explains why Trigger Warnings don't work: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30664770/
It's because that's literally not how the brain works. The brain just shoots off shit and causes the flashbacks by misfiring basically. Do you get it now? Trigger warnings do jack shit for this. But content warnings in general are just decent and courteous distribution of games.
You can't take one disability and use the way in which you deal with it as a template for how you should deal with all disabilities.
Then why is everyone in this thread doing it? Seriously every single one of you have compared PTSD to blindness. And then made stupid assumptions about it.
The OP isn't about me saying all disabilities are the same, its me saying that the accessibility standards that organizations are using to promote accessibility in gaming are promoting both misconceptions about disability, and promoting design practices that harm disabled players. This isn't implying anything about blind people at all. Sure, you don't have to be invested in it or you can disagree with my opinion, but its almost like you're not reading my posts.
Cam just walked in here and got pissed because he doesnt like me and doesn't read my posts. That's not my fault. I already apologized for being stupid years ago, I can't change the past. Live and learn. Now can we move back to the actual OP or are people going to keep finding reasons to make themselves mad on a Saturday? I'm actually really interested in criticisms but the topic got derailed.
And yes, I have every right to be pissed, this impacts me, and stop telling what you consider "crazy people" that they're not allowed to participate in disability politics, literally every "crazy person" is disabled.
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