Calling someone autistic should never be ok.

Cavesloth·2/12/2018, 2:26:49 AM·6 votes·1,075 views

I'm sick of riots attitude toward this bullshit. It's hate speech plain and simple. As an autistic person, I see this used as an insult ALL the damn time ingame, and yet when I report it as hatespeech I NEVER get a notification the person has been punished. So I'm calling out <removed by moderation>. You are terrible person, I hope you get whats coming to you.

I know naming and shaming is not acceptable on the boards, but I'm taking a page out of RIots book and not giving a shit.

25 Comments

Chermorg2/12/2018, 2:31:32 AM6 votes

I've elected to remove the name from your post instead of outright deleting it. The word "autistic" and similar are considered hate speech and punishable, usually with escalated punishment, by Riot. Trust me when I say Riot does not take people making fun of mental illness lightly. If you have any questions about the removal of the name please do not hesitate to contact us in the Boards Moderation Discord server.

VindicatorOFThey2/12/2018, 2:37:37 AM2 votes

is it reportable to ask people if they are autistic ?

(because i have seen people asking it in half of my games :P)

Alohaxrick2/14/2018, 1:30:10 AM2 votes

Honestly, people in the game (and on the internet over all in some cases) call people autistic as an INSULT. That is NOT ok.

Escheton2/12/2018, 3:04:13 AM1 votes

Ow, and I found an exception. It's never ok to call someone autistic, unless you are their doctor or psychologist and their requested test results point towards it.

Cavesloth2/12/2018, 3:22:48 AM1 votes

Honestly I was more mad about the fact that I got last pick that game, and got stuck ADC, I hate playing ADC its my second worst role behind top. I picked twitch and tried to do my best, but my support was a WW who was afk for the first minute so I got poked out of lane, then had the balls to be first to ask for a surrender because it wasn't going well and our mid was feeding hard and being toxic, and our JG wasn't doing so hot either.

So it was a shitty game from the get-go. After 5 min, we were all beat (except our Sej top, she was a rock I honored her for being tiltproof) had basically given up including myself and our mid threatens to INT if we don't surrender and goes full toxic for the rest of the game. First surrender vote fails.

By then ALL the wind was out of my sails and I wasn't even trying, I just didn't have it in me, because even if I was in a role I'm good at, on character I'm good at, we were just way too far behind.

Second surrender vote succeeds and we are about to go our separate ways, when the asshole Vlad from the other team whose name was deleted above, starts talking mad crap about me being "a right clicker" thinking I was an ADC main like the judgy moron he obviously was, taking all his hate for ADCs out on me before confirming that I was in fact an ADC player at all. I tried explaining this fact to him, and says "don't talk to me you autistic fuck" and promptly bails.

Vapor Wave Vibes2/12/2018, 3:29:04 AM1 votes

But what if they're actually autistic? If I call you autistic is that hate speech? Autism is a medical term it can't be hate speech. Does your doctor say you don't have autism to not offend you

Friendly Ram2/14/2018, 12:26:23 AM1 votes

But i like to say thanks when people can accurately diagnose me over the internet. [sg-lulu]

Escheton2/12/2018, 2:51:37 AM1 votes

Notifications only pop up if they got disciplined right after your report. Usually it takes more than 1 report for that to happen. So the chances of you being notified aren't so high. Doesn't mean they don't get punished, but fyi.