How's my driving? (Or lack thereof?)

[semper_cogitans]

So, uh, typical HMD post here. I think I have all the settings right (anonymous posting on, IP logging off, screening on)...

I'm really new to Luceti, and I've never done any kind of roleplay like this before. AND I'm using an OC. So any kind of constructive criticism is totally appreciated.

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[semper_cogitans]

Good point - and again, this ties back to me sounding like an ignorant fool about autistic spectrum disorders in general. I guess I just... assumed other people would know (which is my main mistake there, I'd wager), and didn't bother to explain... which was incredibly stupid.

I guess I mentioned it purely because of the fact he was going to behave neurotypically, because I felt playing him as a social butterfly while simultaneously having him with the inability to perceive social cues very well would be prohibitively difficult. Which... it might not have been and I just made a bad decision.

... After the experiment ended - and even sometime before, though the stuff that was supposed to occur at that time never happened yet - Robert was going to realize that what he was saying was completely preposterous. He's... already kind of got that feeling that what he's going on about makes no sense. But again, you're right, I did not explain that well. If I even explained it at all.

And no, you're absolutely right to say this. I haven't mentioned it before - I even forgot to include it in the app, yes - and this might be because I'm not sure if he even really fits an "official" Asperger's diagnosis. He's... similar, at least, and a few people I know (including a mun who has it) peg him as Asperger's, but I'm honestly not sure, and I'm ignorant enough to say that I probably don't know enough to be certain, though he is at least tending in that direction. (Is that enough to say he has it, though? Possibly not.)

Again, this... is mostly a failure on my part to think anything through properly. And, quite frankly, I completely understand why you're upset at me. I'd be upset at me too, if I was a third-person individual not knowing what I was thinking when I wrote the stuff I did.

[semper_cogitans]

DA

I'm glad someone else brought this up, because I was also uncomfortable with your use of autism in the event but didn't feel qualified to say something about it.

If you plan on continuing to include an autism spectrum disorder in Robert's character, I would strongly encourage you to speak with the mods about it first. Ideally, I would like to see you reapp as someone might for a canon update, because I'd like to see some written proof that you've thought through this decision and have integrated it into the rest of Robert's history and personality. It seems extremely disingenuous to me to say "Whoops, I forgot it, but it's here now!" when it's a major trait that you did not app for.

[semper_cogitans]

Well, anons, I'm still truly sorry if I hurt or offended anybody by this. Though it wasn't my intention at all, it definitely came off that way for reasons I can see now, and I apologize. I'd make some kind of public apology, if it wouldn't be seen as untoward.

And I will definitely, at the very least, speak to the mods about this. You're probably right in that I should reapp/canon-update him, though; I'll see what the mods say in that regard.

I hope I've made myself look a little less like a prat by outlining my thought process, but again, you're still completely justified in being upset. I definitely won't do something as stupid as this again in the future.

[semper_cogitans]

Okay, so, second anon - a bit slow here, but I did talk to Masamune. To quote him in the conversation we had:

"Masamune 3:02 pm
Hmm. I think reapping would be a little much. Lots of times characters in continuous canons will have some new aspect of them revealed or explained and they don't have to canon update to account for that.
But since he's an OC and your app is the only source of information on him, it couldn't hurt to update the app, but post it in your journal."

He also said:

"Masamune 3:05 pm
Aye. Just feel free to elaborate on as much of his canon and personality as you want in his information. The only thing to remember is just, you know, don't do anything that conflicts with the character you originally apped."

Because it was a matter of forgetting to include information, this isn't a conflict, and therefore it seems that it's all right in the eyes of at least one of the mods.

If you want me to upload the chat log in its entirety somewhere as proof, or anything like that, I will, but this is pasted verbatim from it.

Again, I'm sorry for any offense I caused, and I hope this goes some way towards resolving the conflict. In future, I'm going to think a lot more about how I use terms like "autism" - as well as other (dissimilar or similar) terms and group names - before I do anything involving them, so I don't repeat these mistakes.