My name is Tagora, and my son, RabidKoala, is a ten-year old boy who has Autism. RabidKoala has always been a sweet and non-violent child. That is why
it was so distressing when notes started coming home from chadz, creator of the cRPG mod for Mount and Blade: Warband, stating that he was having violent outbursts, including him
hitting his teammates and delaying.
Something was terribly wrong. I felt I was beginning to lose my son – that these outbursts were changing his very nature. I knew my son. I knew this wasn’t him. I knew I had to find out what was happening in cRPG that was having a
dramatic impact on him.
On the morning of Friday, February 17, 2012, I wired my son so I could listen to him play cRPG. That night, when I listened to the audio my life changed forever. I heard my son being bullied by the entire cRPG community including chadz and all of the server admins.
The
six and a half hours of audio I had proved that my son wasn’t tking and delaying because there was something wrong with him - he was lashing out because he was being
mocked, mistreated and humiliated. His outbursts were his way of expressing that
he was being emotionally hurt in cRPG.