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One thing that makes me kinda sad is seeing people who feel like TTRPGs just aren't for them because they bounced off of some element that is clearly just a symptom of them trying out D&D5e. Like people who have had a hard time with learning the rules would probably do well with any system where the rule formatting and play culture around learning them aren't a mess. One friend of mine didn't like waiting a long time for turns to come up in combat, not even knowing that many games don't even use a turn-based structure.

Hey, it’s ok to not be a “productive member of society.”

it's hard to explain to people that there's a point where fatigue genuinely causes severe suffering because the natural response is "couldn't you just sleep?". But sometimes you can't sleep. Sometimes you've already slept for 16 hours and you're too restless to sleep more. Sometimes you have insomnia. Sometimes the amount that your body wants you to sleep is dangerous because it doesn't leave you enough time to care for yourself. So you're just stuck in this limbo between being awake and being asleep where moving feels so horrible, your body is turning on every alarm bell it can to get you to stop, but you've stopped all the things you can stop. Pretty much all I can do when I'm like this is lay still and watch youtube videos and even sometimes the sensory input is overwhelming.

By the way. The whole “oh, well some of us have to push through our disability because we don’t have the option to be that disabled!” isn’t even laterally ableist, it is just ableist. Like, punching down, deeply fucking ableist, and I am so sick of it.