Quote Originally Posted by Awha View Post
:P I never said what degree of functionally my friends have, and that is by in large the issue with ASD in general I get it. For the most part people only see high functioning like myself who have gone to school have degrees and a career or low functioning that always have a caregiver around all the time. This is the issue it leaves out those middle of the pack.

I have never fell victim to this cause generally I am leery of everyone. Thing is what I am saying if a person says they are a certain age, it is hard for some to to see through the signs that may be giant red flags for someone else.

While I have never ran into issues like this, I have screwed up when it comes to reading the room and signs that are normal and have found myself in trouble because of it. What I am saying age should not be a factor in the legal sense, I get it is the easiest metric but it loves leave others to fall through the cracks.



Given my other posts I figured it a given that I did not mean in terms of FFXIV. Though my other post had more so to deal with general online interactions they have had with people. For some it is easy to read the signs of a kid lying about their age verse someone that is truthfully the age they say.
So... your friends are functioning enough to have lewd conversations and simultaneously not aware enough of the fact that people lie? Actions have consequences. Damage is done even if you don't realise you are being lied too. If your friends are of an age where they can have such conversations and desires. You should know the universal rule of the internet and life. People lie. It's easy to lie online, everyone knows this. If they have not learned it now they should, you cannot know a person onlines age for certain so you best not engage in sexual conduct with them. For yourself not being duped and for the sake of a young person not being exposed to content that they are not meant to be.

Age absolutely should be a factor, I was a "mature" child in the sense I could hold conversation well with older people. I still was not ready for a 26yo man to send me a full frontal nude of himself when I was 14. He was more concerned with his own wants, much like the ERP defenders. Total apathy towards the kids they could be sexting with because they want to get off. A child can be as "mature" as you want, they literally have not mentally developed enough to properly cope with these situations properly. Your friends are adults, they have the same responsibility as any other sexually active adult. If they have not met the person and know their age for sure. Don't go anywhere near sexual conversations. Really not hard and it's not hard to understand even if they cannot get the social ques or catch a lie. THAT fact is something they should have no problem understanding if they are functioning enough to have these convos.