Important Crap! by Sprucetail

Do any of you RP a character with 'problems' (i.e. depression, anxiety, schizophrenia)? Chances are a few of you do. Anyway, what I want to say is: PLEASE. RP. THEM. PROPERLY. I'm getting really tired of seeing people with mentally unstable characters because they want to be 'edgy' or play the 'poor misunderstood character' card. Did you know that depressed people are not always self-harming? Or that anxiety comes in different levels of anxiousness? I see so many badly RPed characters >>

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23 Dec, 2012, 6:06 am
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Ice Cold

23 Dec, 2012, 6:11 am

I RP.....is that bad? mine are for meeting new oc's.

Sprucetail

23 Dec, 2012, 6:14 am

with disorders. It's not funny. I want to facepalm every time I see an 'insane' character with a badly written abusive past, or an 'emo' depressed character. You know what? The way these characters are portrayed might actually hurt the feelings of people with those disorders. They might trigger people who have actually had a bad past. If you don't have the disorder, you NEED to research it first. Your anxious character with OCD might be making someone out there upset. I would know. In my eyes and with my experience, depressed and anxious characters are usually RPed wrongly. Be careful. P.S.: 'Insanity' is a catch-all word for mental health disorders, or to indicate that you are 'lol randumbz XDDD'. Please research insanity before you claim to be 'insane'. Thank you for reading, and I hope I wasn't too harsh.

crazyshade56

23 Dec, 2012, 6:16 am

i have those stuff irl and it shames me to see RPers misrepresent people like that. and thers nothing edgy about it .
IT SUCKS!!!!!!1!

Sprucetail

23 Dec, 2012, 6:16 am

Oh hey, Ice :) I'm not saying RPers are bad (I RP too), I'm just urging people to research disorders before roleplaying a character with the disorder.

Sprucetail

23 Dec, 2012, 6:17 am

Me too, crazyshades. I know exactly how you feel. :c

Jalapeno24

23 Dec, 2012, 6:21 am

And all of that usually leads to stigmates.

crowcorvidae

23 Dec, 2012, 6:34 am

Please revise this as it c9ntains triggers and check y9ur privelege

crowcorvidae

23 Dec, 2012, 6:35 am

that's a joke i mean who even types os with 9s

Ice Cold

23 Dec, 2012, 6:36 am

Oh XP

Sprucetail

23 Dec, 2012, 6:41 am

Hello, Homestuck c; I'm very sorry if this does trigger anyone, I can always take it down.

crowcorvidae

23 Dec, 2012, 6:41 am

kankri does

crowcorvidae

23 Dec, 2012, 6:42 am

anyways i agree with this I was totally joking in every way possible//not quite but still

crowcorvidae

23 Dec, 2012, 6:42 am

exaggeration SKILLS

Sprucetail

23 Dec, 2012, 6:47 am

I kn9w y9u're exaggerating, Mr. Vantas (:B I'm just afraid I might actually trigger s9meone else.

Viviyan*KpopGirl

23 Dec, 2012, 7:34 am

I have all these disorders but the worst one people do is bipolar (which i also have) and it jusr makes me want to walk away because its like "i dont act like that what so ever!" 3:

Natzu-Chan

23 Dec, 2012, 7:39 am

i dont think that we RPrs should stop pullin the insane card cuz A. look at soul eater when maka went into the insanity and went crazy. so does that mean they shuld cut the show? and B. peeps with those d-orders shuld know that the other RPers mean 0 offence and that it is not representing any1's real personalitys. Am i wrong?

Natzu-Chan

23 Dec, 2012, 7:40 am

i meant No offence to anyone

Viviyan*KpopGirl

23 Dec, 2012, 8:09 am

Then they should just be insane for the RP, not diagonsed with something that normal can be clinically diagnosed with, and noone's saying it needs to be taken out it just needs to be represented correctly thats all.

Sprucetail

23 Dec, 2012, 4:50 pm

You guys are right c: Don't worry. And Kpop, I know how you feel with the wrongly RPed disorders. It can actually give people bad ideas about the disorders.

crazyshade56

26 Dec, 2012, 5:00 am

animeL] first off maka did go cray-cray BUT they represented it properly as extreme paranoia and labeled it as such. im not saying rpers should stop,simply that they would do enough research about that disorder AS to accurately portray said disorder, and hurt no one.

o-w-o

30 Dec, 2012, 5:39 am

I actually might be getting OCD xl but I dont mind if ppl make fun of it, but I know how it feels. I actually have a bad-ish past.

ravenflight

01 Jan, 2013, 5:51 pm

Yeah I agree I hate ot when people make bipolar, Add, or Adhd Characters. I admit, I've made depressed or somewhat insane characters but I would never label them with a disorder.

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