Machiavellian said:
Guessing most of the posters are not parents so something like this is odd or out of their experience. Being a parent, none of the questions seemed cringed worthy but instead just funny because its just the type of stuff a developer would have to expect when you have a bunch of kids asking you questions in a QA such as this. |
Thank you for that post. I'd also like to add that as a parent of an 11 year-old autistic boy who absolutely LOVES Minecraft and who at this stage in his life wouldn't be able to even ask a question at Minecom due to his expressive delays I found the awkward questions from those kids (who all probably have parents who love them greatly and are most likely on the spectrum themselves, seriously did anyone notice the behaviors of those kids?) funny, as I do whenever my son says something off-the-wall or weird because he doesn't have the capacity you and I do for speech. I'm sure the developers took them in stride as best as they could, and I'm also sure this wasn't the whole of the questions they got either.
What I find cringeworthy is the lack of awareness and compassion for people with disabilities here in a community I generally like to say I identify with. Yes they are VERY awkward but to start a post to publicly shame these kids by suggesting that Notch sold Minecraft because some special needs kids asked a bunch of cumbersum questions is low.
And the worst part is there are people actually trying rationalizie it. Seriously, these are children no. 1 and no. 2 while not all of them may have been disabled YOU know there were plenty who are. Tacky, straight up tacky yall.
