Autistic Hedgehog

[Do not make fun | Of the way I talk]

That includes repeating what I said, correcting the way I pronounce something, pointing out how robotic I happen to sound, or mocking the fact that I can’t control the volume of my voice (telling me to please turn down my mic is fine though). 

I game a lot and this is the #1 reason I never use voice chat is because people. make. fun. of. the. way. I. speak. It’s gotten to the point where if I am in a voice chat I avoid speaking as much as possible and sometimes pretend to not have a microphone because I know without fail someone is going to make fun of me. 

And if I say “hey that’s not cool, I’m autistic please don’t make fun of me” it just usually makes people do one of three things a) laugh even harder or b) avoid me after that or c) make excuses and/or accuse me of starting drama.

I’d love to just be able to sit in vent and chat with people like everyone else but with the exception of a very few number, I can’t. Logging on voice chats makes me anxious now. Thanks.

I mean, it’s bad enough that my own family makes fun of the way I speak in the outernet, I can’t even escape from it and focus on killing digital dragons on the internet. This is a thing that permeates even my ESCAPE from everything else.