by Miyazaki » Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:05 am
Hey. I hate seeing people so upset. It's pretty obvious you didn't want to offend anyone. And we weren't trying to offend you either. Everybody makes mistakes. I've made a huge mistake concerning art, I made an "evil MLP" without knowing anything about MLP, I thought it was all sunshine and rainbows (wrong ;p). I didn't mean to offend anyone, I just wanted to do something different. But people took it seriously, and weren't very nice, even a friend of mine, who told her friend and her friend wrote this big lecture for me. Someone even said that "It was obvious I was a kid". Which I was, but that's still mean to say, and they said it very, very rudely, along with so many other rude things. Around the time that happened, I was really, really sensitive. I'd just come out of fifth grade, where people teased me every day. I yelled a lot, and I made a big deal out of everything. If I look back on that now, I just notice that I've really improved a lot in how I react to things.
After that whole incident, I wanted to quit CS, too. It turns out I just needed time to cool down. I had nobody to talk to though, my friend wasn't being helpful. I took a break for a little while, then came back, and was more careful about what I said. Now, I just try to stay calm and think "what would I think if I saw this message as another person?" It's hard to imagine, and when you're chatting online, you can't hear someone's tone of voice, so it can be harder to understand what they mean.
Everybody screws up. Don't feel bad.