Using autism and cancer in comments and as a derogatory term...

[TemporaryName17122019]

I know making this post will not stop the few of the FFXIV community using comments like this, however, this platform gives me a platform to voice my displeasure.

I am now on my third data centre concerning the NA servers in less than a month I moved to Goblin to be with some old friends in a Free Company to try to recreate with myself a sense of community in FFXIV having previously been on Leviathan but moved from there for different personal reasons, a story for another time maybe.

I am quite frankly used to people saying things like "that's cancer" "what <name> has done is cancer" things of this ilk, I get it, it's fashionable, I am not against fashion.
Just last night I had been settled in a Free Company for approx three weeks happy to with with some old friends I had known for over 4 years and quite obviously greeting new members to the Free Company as well as greeting 'almost' everybody that logged into the game while I was online as long as I wasn't in a dungeon or PVP.

As I was gathering hides to work with things concerning collectables there was a conversation concerning a bad run in something I assume was pretty much a newbie dungeon when someone piped up "you should give them the cancerous DPS chat spam" to which I took no notice of, you know fashion and all that, I get it!
Someone then stated "incoming chat spam", obviously everybody waits with bated breath over what this chat spam looks like. It was a picture made of many punctuation marks etc etc I think a lot of people know the kinda thing I mean of a pig in a bed surrounded by other pigs to which I have no idea of the context it is lost on me with the statement "YOUR DPS JUST GAVE ME CANCER".

This kind of comment I feel is absolutely a lack of understanding, ignorant and quite moronic in my opinion, that quite frankly wasn't the only problem. A few other people I can only claim to be 'morons' were piping up with, "lol" "I have to have that!" "That is awesome!" etc etc I think you get the jist oh actually I think there was one "wtf" but that didn't come from me.

I was doing what I was doing for approx 20 mins just stewing over the issue, this is not fun for me, I wanted to say how I felt but also didn't due to not wanting to make it look like an issue I have personally dealt with but more how someone else might feel concerning that comment but feeling like I'd have a lack of support I couldn't bring myself to say anything.

So I proceeded to put myself to 'busy' and left the mentioned Free Company I was in, I did hang around Goblin for a little while but kept seeing people with the Free Company tag of the Free Company I was in, fearing a potential form of harassment I decided to look into moving to the only data centre I hadn't been on concerning the NA data centres as there are now three, I was quite frankly surprised that I could move again in a short period of time and was actually expecting I wouldn't be able to.

Thanks for the understanding.

[NekoNova]

simply report them.

[Kurando]

I was quite frankly surprised that I could move again in a short period of time and was actually expecting I wouldn't be able to.

I believe there is a 3 day cooldown period between transfering worlds usually, unless you move from a congested to a preferred world then it's 90 days. Might be some other exception as well, but pretty sure that's the gist of it.

[DumdogsWorld]

Words only mean stuff because we attribute meanings to them. Without that, they're merely pixels on a screen, sounds resonating from vocal chords, etc.

With the invention of the internet, every word in existence has a "normal meaning" and an "internet meaning".

When they say something about cancer, they don't mean cells mutated to have uncontrolled cell division.

When they say something about autism, they don't mean the neurological condition by the same name.

[LittleChickenNugget]

This is why I don't talk much in game. I can only feel like I would be reported left and right for one reason or another.

[SerLuke]

Yeah as someone with autism it makes me sad when I see those types of comments

[Gwenorai]

Just how the internet is these days, it's best to wear a tougher skin otherwise it's going to eat you alive and have you sobbing at memes. Ain't the best solution but better than the sobbing alternative.

[Keddera_StormMoon]

This trend to user the most hyperbolic words possible is causing said words to lose all impact. I find it rather annoying.

It's like nobody knows how to express in shades gray anymore - people just want to talk in extremes in a pathetic attempt to get attention/clicks.

[griffinborn]

Report them and they're donion rings.

[DumdogsWorld]

Thanks for that, doesn't stop people from having 'real' experiences in 'real' life and having 'real' feelings.

Don't assume that I have no real feelings or no real experiences. I have my fair share of both. Quite a bit.

People will say stuff like that no matter what you do. I decided a long time ago that I would lose my mind if I let it bother me as much as it used to. I came up with an intellectual reason in my head to separate those cases of misfortune from the shallow words of an internet troll.

If that makes me insensitive or whatever, so be it. Doesn't change the fact that my life is not fine and dandy.