Players with disabilities, represent & share your feels!

[Jkap_Goat]

I am legally blind and I have bad eyes, everything is too bright sometimes. I also had a small bowel resection last year due to a gallbladder removed ( looking into the case), so I have to eat slowly and drink plenty of water or I can have a bowel blockage ( blockage in small intestine due to the adhesions of the surgery)

I always say," why me " but then I look on this thread and I feel like I'm not alone anymore.

[RyuuSkyez]

I have severe degenerative damage to my spine and nerve damage in my neck and both arms. If I sit and play for too long (a few hours at best) I end up in a LOT of pain. Also the nerve damage makes it very hard for me to spam buttons. (such as in the shinryu fight) At times I will hit a completely random key on my keyboard. This is not something I can control.

Still, I do ok. Macros and hotkeys help. What helps the most are my friends in the game. They know I'm disabled and cut me some slack. I'm on Leviathan and it seems to be a nice server. I like to play healer but speed runs are more than I can handle on most days. I make sure to tell this at the beginning of any run with a new tank and have had very few who are jerks about it.

You should try to use a controller instead of a keyboard/mouse, and sit in a comfortable reclined chair, this might help with your back and neck problems. I personally don't have any problems, but i have an uncle that has a few problems, but still tries his best to play video games. Often he sits in a reclined chair and plays with a controller on a big screen TV connected.

[Gihwezi]

I don't have any physical disabilities, but my mental health at best is a straight up molotov cocktail. I won't list it all or go into too much detail, but I do have 2 personality disorders, adhd, and am schizoaffective. I think currently the biggest thing that affects my gameplay might be a combination of my adhd and shizoaffective....ness. Hyperfocus is a big problem of mine (recently I've holed myself up in Eureka for days out of nowhere) and my mood swings sometimes get so bad that I'll also randomly stop playing the game for days on end. Or it'll bore me, like everything else I've ever taken joy in all of a sudden, and I'll find it hard to find fun in the game out of nowhere.

And as far as the personality stuff goes, I'm always inwardly thinking about coming off as an entirely new person so I'm always thinking about trying my hardest to stay cohesive in that regard. It's just a lot, but I'm still here and playing!

[micropanther7]

Same here and don't want to play alone anymore

This might be of help, I think they are still running, and people always re-invite if a link has expired The Nervous Eorzean Discord, I should join it myself really Don't be put off by the fact it's a discord channel, everyone is in the same boat and want you to feel comfortable, so no pressure to chat and join in, not until you are ready to do so

[SerLuke]

This might be of help, I think they are still running, and people always re-invite if a link has expired The Nervous Eorzean Discord, I should join it myself really Don't be put off by the fact it's a discord channel, everyone is in the same boat and want you to feel comfortable, so no pressure to chat and join in, not until you are ready to do so

Ask and you shall receive

https://discord.gg/DjEv5R

[micropanther7]

Ask and you shall receive

https://discord.gg/DjEv5R

Bless your heart, there you go, someone heard me lol

[SerLuke]

Also I don’t think we ever voice chat just text, we’ve also been known to share lots of cute pictures of animals, otters in my case.

[LeonTrifang]

I have autism spectrum disorder and ADHD.

I’ve gotten therapy so while the social aspects have improved for me they aren’t perfect. I used to offend people without meaning to before I got diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder knowing this has helped deal with people and also explain that I don’t mean to offend people if someone takes offense by something I said that wasn’t intended to be offensive.

With ADHD I have bad hand eye coordination and reaction time when learning new content I can grasp most none ex savage content in the harder end after a few times, I’ve cleared all the Stormblood ex trials but most of them I’m thankful to my friend calling out mechanics over voice because it made it easier for me to focus since a lot of times I tend to razor focus on one aspect and not focus on others.

This is me as well.

[Alestorm]

I have Asperger and a few anxieties and I can play most anything to a decent skill. I usually prefer make a few runs on any new content as a DPS until I grow accustom to the mechanics/what to expect and then I'll heal it. (my friend being my tank the first few runs to help me out)

I also have tons of self esteem/confidence issues and I have to say this game does a lot to make me feel appreciated/respected just with little things like saying my character is cute looking or they like my glamours.

[LilySkye]

I play red mage can I post here?