Soo, this question has nagged me for a while. ive always wondered, how does riot treat 'special' customers? do they treat them like the everyday person, despite being medically recognized as needing special treatment?
Well, there's no part of the sign-up process or anywhere on your profile where you can jot down things like "suffers ADHD" or "has Tourette Syndrome", so I think the logical conclusion would be those with mental disabilities/disorders are treated just like everyone else.
and how about people, like myself (Adhd/autism) who just.. give up. i know league is all about "oooh dont give up you got this"
But no. in today's snoball meta, you lose one tower before 15 mins? it's over. the enemy adc has 4 kills by 10 mins? it's over.
Well, ADHD sounds closest to that mark (Here's a Wikipedia article - if any information in there is wrong, feel free to tell me), but even then it's not really "giving up", it's losing attention - and it's also possible that those with ADHD can hyperfocus with League. All said, though, I have no real experience with ADHD, so, take what I say here and what I borrow from the Wikipedia page with a grain of salt.
As for Autism - (again, Wikipedia page - ) I don't see anywhere in the symptoms that look like they'd involve "giving up". There's social difficulty and hampered communication skills, repetitive behavior, but, I don't see anything about giving up. (Again, I myself don't suffer Autism and I don't really know anyone who does, so I've no experience with the matter.)
Now - the second line - that's no longer talking about mental disorders. That's talking about the game and defeatist tendencies. The game isn't over until one of four things happen:
- Your Nexus breaks.
- The enemy Nexus breaks.
- Your team surrenders.
- The enemy team surrenders.
Until one of those four criteria have been met, you are to keep playing the game at your fullest.
Soo why give a damn, when i can put in minimal effort, have the game end sooner, and go play a match where, mayybe i'll win.
If you're not going to play at your best, or at least give real effort into winning, why play at all? More than that - if you have that defeatist mindset where the slightest setback in a match has you calling the game, how many matches after the first are you going to half-ass for the sake of the next?
And I mean no disrespect, nor do I mean to assume if you're neurotypical or not, but, at the end of the day, you're still playing with other people who want to win just as much as you - though they want to win that match, instead of giving up and going on to the next one. You got into the match, you have to play it through to its bitter end.
In other words - "why give a damn?" - because you're ruining the match for four other people if you intentionally half-ass it. And that's something that very well could lead up to a punishment on your account.
In short, how does riot treat these people? those who're much less able to controll their impulses, those who really, lose interest fast in a lost cause?
The same as they treat everyone else. You may not be able to control your interest in a given match, but you can control how much effort you give to it. Riot expects everybody to give their all to a match, win or lose.
