{"id":291,"date":"2015-02-13T18:24:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2015\/02\/13\/this-isnt-a-hate-message-this-is-a-neutral-party\/"},"modified":"2015-02-13T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:24:29","slug":"this-isnt-a-hate-message-this-is-a-neutral-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2015\/02\/13\/this-isnt-a-hate-message-this-is-a-neutral-party\/","title":{"rendered":"This isn&#8217;t a hate message. This is a neutral party simply inquiring and offering a bit of insight into what I&#8217;ve noticed you&#8217;ve been having a problem with for a while. Specifically about people that only roleplay selectively; like I do. I&#8217;ve ignored messages before, but its not out of spite. I only ignore them because I have extreme social anxiety. Telling people &#8216;no&#8217;, telling them I don&#8217;t want to RP with them is something incredibly difficult for me. Not all of us can be so direct or honest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear you. It&#8217;s not something I can understand easily; my social anxiety isn&#8217;t that intense.<\/p>\n<p>I would suggest to you, and others like you, though &#8212; if you are going to put yourself in a situation where you must interact with others, such as rp, even selectively, being able to tell people &#8216;no thank you&#8217; is a place you should push yourself. Yes, it will be hard, god it&#8217;ll be hard. But you will not get better without trying, and you&#8217;ve already made a huge effort in being a roleplayer at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear you. It&#8217;s not something I can understand easily; my social anxiety isn&#8217;t that intense. I would suggest to you, and others like you, though &#8212; if you are going to put yourself in a situation where you must interact with others, such as rp, even selectively, being able to tell people &#8216;no thank &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2015\/02\/13\/this-isnt-a-hate-message-this-is-a-neutral-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This isn&#8217;t a hate message. This is a neutral party simply inquiring and offering a bit of insight into what I&#8217;ve noticed you&#8217;ve been having a problem with for a while. Specifically about people that only roleplay selectively; like I do. I&#8217;ve ignored messages before, but its not out of spite. I only ignore them because I have extreme social anxiety. Telling people &#8216;no&#8217;, telling them I don&#8217;t want to RP with them is something incredibly difficult for me. Not all of us can be so direct or honest.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,33,2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}