My particular brand of learning disability comes with a difficulty reading/understanding what I’ve read/remembering what I’ve read.
This means that I often find myself struggling to keep up with terrible grammar and spelling. This is in no way meant to shame anyone who can’t keep up with spelling and grammar - we all have our issues with learning (or rather, some of us do.) I am not blaming the people who aren’t great spellers or don’t know how to use commas.
What I’m saying is that I can’t roleplay with them. I can’t understand what they’re trying to get across because my brain won’t let me. I’m not being an elitist asshole when I say I want fluent grammar and spelling. I’m saying it because if you put dessert when you mean desert, I won’t understand. It’s not because I think you’re stupid, it’s because I am.
Type however the fuck you want, spell however the fuck you want - but if you want to roleplay with me and I say no because I can’t understand you, don’t scream at me because I’m a bitch who doesn’t care about your learning disability.
No, I’m a bitch who cares about 1. my own enjoyment of roleplay and 2. my sanity when it comes to reading these posts that are jumbles of random letters, words and punctuation marks that don’t ever tell me you’re speaking. I can’t infer that shit. I get confused when people use italics for thinking sometimes.
This is literally an issue of it’s not you, it’s me, but don’t get fucking mad at me because I’m too dumb to understand what the fuck you’re talking about in your post. I have every right to tell you I don’t want to continue an RP for any reason, especially if it’s nigh impossible for me to do.
Do you know why I have a huge vocabulary of small words? Because they’re fucking easy to remember and spell. Did you know I sometimes forget the word “the” when I’m writing? THE! For fuck sake it’s a common fucking word, but I look at it and go “what the hell does the mean?” Notice the part where I use “the” in that hypothetical sentence? I’ll still be confused as hell after saying that out loud.
When the red squiggle appears under a word, I spent time looking up what I might have meant because if five words pop up, did I really mean “punctuation” or did I accidentally mean “population”? what is it you want brain? Other than to make me more confused than I deserve to be!?
So no, I’m not an elitist asshole, but also screw you.
