I played ORGs for 10 years and in that time, the people I played in games with have repeatedly attacked:
*My family life
*My family.
*My religion
*My physical appearance
*My weight and my boobs.
*The fact that I am supposedly a dumb Mormon who doesn't have the right to ask questions about gender politics,
*My disability, saying I use it as a crutch or accusing me of faking it to get attention.
*The fact that I am on government assistance financially because of my disability making it hard for me to find work.
*The fact that it is hard for me to make and keep friends
*My YouTube Channel and all the videos I make.
*My college and university education.
*They say that I am gay even though I am 100% straight.
*My taste in movies and television shows.
*Videos and photos I have done for various ORGs (I believe that memes have been made of some of them to this day.)
*My ability to create and host ORGs.
*People have threatened to go to my church bishop and badmouth me over what has happened in ORG's.
*I have been hated over company I kept even after I was no longer friends with them.
*The fact that I reconciled with Sandy Pomales after having a brief cold war with him. We have been friends for 10 years and I hate that he gets trashed for being who he is.
*The list goes on and on and on....
All these things have made ORG's very hard for me to enjoy and hosts have done very little to protect me, but when I stand up for myself as viciously as I am attacked, I am accused of being a bully and viciously ostracized.
ORG's are supposed to be games and they are supposed to be fun, but they haven't been fun for me, which is why I left. I have seen the true characters of people I thought to be friends emerge in ORG's simply over what happens in them. There is life after ORG's and people seem to forget that and trash me day and night.
I have shared the bullying with my mom and she thinks I need to stay retired simply because the ORG environment is too toxic, as are lots of the people within. Sadly, I do think she is right and the crap that goes on in ORG's is equal to online bullying and we all know some of the devastating consequences that can come from online bullying, now, don't we?
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We didnt say you fake your disability, we said you use it as a cop out for everything. Thats not an attack thats stating a fact!
My moms friend lost her youngest son to bullying/hazing in college. They found him hanging in his room. 馃檨 Please don't let it get you down. If you need to step away from Tengaged altogether, nobody can blame you.
