Autistic Xbox Player's Mother Admits He Cheated
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Oh my god. This pisses me off so much. That kid is going to get older and realize, if he hasn't realized already, that his mom is a lying asshole, who will publicize his disability so she can manipulate people with it.
I have Autism and I get almost nothing. No one has ever given me much of a break for my disability. In fact I have been punished for it, because I could not do the same things as someone who does not have Autism. I have also been targeted by predators who could see I was different so in their minds that meant I was weak and they had every right to abuse me. This kid did not know he was breaking the rules. And mom should have known about the consequences of giving anybody the right to mess with an account that is so highly valued. This mom was simply not internet or video game wise and should have settled things with Microsoft before going to the Media.deth2munkies said:
The kid totally knew what he was getting into. His mom is making our industry look bad by falsly accusing Microsoft and hiding behind her son's disability as a safe cover during all of this. If you don't know cheating is against the rules you probably shouldn't be playing.
So, back up here -Tom Goldman said:
1) You're saying it didn't matter, UNTILL you got called out for cheating. Yeah, welcome to video gaming, lady - would you belive it, developers don't really like you fiddling about with their software to make it easier for yourself.
2) So, even after she admits that her son was called a cheater because, ya know, he fucking cheated, Microsoft is STILL going to give her a free month? Honestly, I'd be more impressed - and so would quite a lot of other people, who kind of don't like it when people say "OH HE HAZ ASSBERGERS IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING" - if Microsoft offered her a chance to shut the fuck up and nothing else.
Honestly, though, I dislike the mother much more then the kid. I question why the kid, if achivements mean so much to him, decided to use an external source to get the things, (and a really crap one at that - I mean, getting online achivements offline? I don't think even I would make that mistake.) But whatever. This probably would have blown over, if the mother hadn't decided that it was clearly discrimination instead of the fact that her son, ya know, Cheated?
Hope your son enjoys the month's free Gold, if he takes it, lady - after this crap, I'll be amazed if anyone will want to play with him at all.
Wow lady, thanks for giving autistic gamers who aren't cheaters (flesym sa hcus) a bad name. Asshat.
No doubt, I can admit I don't have Recon nor do I have any plans to acquire/wear it.Irridium said:
OT: Well the rules are there for a reason, sure he was young but sometimes you need to think things through before you continue with them.
I remember when I figured out how to mod my own profile. I never did because I knew the consequences and I didn't want to mess with my reputation.
Oh well stuff happens, not much they can do now.
Microsoft came out of this smelling like roses. Not only were they right about the cheating they gave him a free name change and a month gold membership. Kudos to them for sticking to their guns and being nice.
Some parents. Even if her story of 'it wasnt anything important so I thought it was okay' was believable-she knew it WAS cheating in the first place, and yes kiddies-most stories that mention nothing of solid fact except the kid isnt healthy in someway shape or form is called a 'Sympathy Card'!
So not only did the son cheat and lie about cheating, the mother was helping him lie about cheating. And of course, we were supposed to go for the knee-jerk reaction, which was to feel sorry for the autistic kid and rage against the EEEEVIL mega-corporation.
While the truth was going to be exposed sooner or later, this story irks me as yet another example of political correctness gone mad.
While the truth was going to be exposed sooner or later, this story irks me as yet another example of political correctness gone mad.
Eh, not surprised. It sounded like the kid might have cheated (I wasn't sure though) and the parent either didn't know or was lying. Plus I couldn't help but wonder if the mother was just using here son's disability (for all we know it isn't that serious, I have high functioning autistic friends who are pratically normal) to garner a bit of sympathy.
And sure he didn't do anything horrible, but then of course he just lost some worthless points for a online gaming profile and got the label "cheater". All evens out in my eyes.
And sure he didn't do anything horrible, but then of course he just lost some worthless points for a online gaming profile and got the label "cheater". All evens out in my eyes.
This is somewhat off topic and a matter of semantics, but can we stop referring to Aspergers children as being autistic? Being generally weird, unsocial, and behaving obsessively over achievements is not the same thing as being autistic. When I hear autistic, I imagine a developmentally disabled person, someone who can't talk or read, completely doesn't understand facial expressions and body movement, and spends (or spent as a kid) most of their time glazed over and unable to connect with any other person (including close friends and family). I don't know this kid at all, but if he can play video games, knows how to cheat, and understands what he lost, how is he intellectually disabled? I know, I know, he's "high functioning" but still. Medicine needs sharper definitions of this condition. Otherwise people panic, throw the word epidemic around, and have paranoid delusions about vaccinations.
A dishonest mother has a dishonest son. Sadly, not surprised. Lamentably, anything that she's told the media, including her claim of her son's autism, also comes off as suspect. It's a little disappointing not to be able to take someone at face value, bit in her defense, she was highly biased.