The damage is already done? What damage? Have you and I been sharing the same planet all along or is it just an alternate, pro-choice, feelings-over-facts reality you live in Tyani?
What are you rambling about? Honestly, I cannot wrap my head around your (and others’) reasoning for wanting an auto squelch implemented.
Friends, what sort of people are you surrounded with? What sort of life you have gone through? What is this PTSD level of anxiety at the sight of an emote?
I’ve struggled with severe social anxiety and diagnosed with mdd at the age of 20 and I finally weaned off drugs after 5 years. Took me 5 years to recover from the fear of illogical repercusions by the hands of ‘normal people’. Being-or feeling an outcast, my biggest fear was to be smeared, laughed at for my opinions, and even mocked for voicing it in the first place. So I kept it to myself all the time. I was extremely sensitive during those times so I can relate to others who suffered from the same illness/disorder.
Don’t go around assuming that everyone has skin as thick as the layer of the earth’s crust. This is a god damn online game, through which you interact with other PEOPLE. Real living human beings who come in many shape, size, background etc.
If this sounds like too much to handle, then feel free to play solo adventures as I’m sure that’s where you will feel right at home.
You got it all wrong. Not everything has to be a clash of realities, preferences and whatnot. You make it so because you choose to be offended by sentimentality.
If I-and many others who suffered from mental illnesses can grow a thick skin, so can everyone. It’s not game’s duty to teach you to grow a thicker skin, I do not argue that. What I’m saying is this: go out. There is a life with living, breathing, breeding people outside; interacting each other without conceding their rights or ideals, while not infringing others’ or at least, that’s what majority of people living in civilized societies who grew up in civilized environments and manners do.
If you had told us that someone offended or verbally assaulted you with mean words, I would be on your side (even though, in my world view, you need to learn to acknowledge that you are responsible for the betterment of yourself alone and nobody is entitled to respect you for it’s something to be earned) but if an emote in a video game where you play with other people gets you all worked up and shrivel, I would say you have some problems that you must address before spending time on-line with your self-entitlement.
And no I’m not your doctor or life coach. Sorry if this sounds condescending, but it is what it is. You are concerning yourselves over a video game far too much. This is not healthy, whether or not you are an introvert.