I’m sorry, but something like this has to be said!
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Taylor 🩷💀
Taylor 🩷💀
Little hunter frost
Rachel K
Rachel K
Little hunter frost
Francis Cole
Taylor if you’re reading this, I understand what you’re saying. If you think I’m using that as an excuse, it seems like it, but I’m actually not. All I wanted in the moment was people to have a better understanding of who I really am, and these rumours being a complete misunderstanding. The reason why it seemed like I kept moving myself out of the Hangouts and back in, was because, I just got this up a few days ago. I messaged someone who was in the hangout, and thinking that pressing on the hangouts tab would take me back to the hangout, it disconnected me. And the times that I got disconnected, I thought the app was glitching. I didn’t know it was because I was removed from the hangout initially. So that’s my side of that story. Like I said earlier, all I wanted to do was make conversation. 
Matthew Jon Moran
Taylor 🩷💀
Some people call it beating down, other people call it advice. If you don’t care at all what people think of you, and that’s valid by the way, then that’s fine, but he’s clearly upset about it and it honestly needs to be said. This is a wider discussion in our culture that needs to be had, because too many people excuse bad behaviour with neuro divergency. Not all people get to hear things like that in their lives, but it’s worth hearing because you’re not beyond growth if you have autism. There are things you can’t change about yourself, but there are things you can do to make sure you and another party both feel neutrally comfortable and understood. It’s damaging to tell anyone that they can’t change or improve themselves, and I honestly don’t want people thinking that autism is the same thing as refusing to learn what makes people uncomfortable and selfishness. Not saying this is him, I mean I don’t know him after all, I’m just saying it needs to be said, and this thread is as good as any to say it where somebody is clearly upset about these misunderstandings that they’re having.
Rachel K
Brandon Cross
Matthew Jon Moran
Brandon Cross
Alex Chapman
I swear I got that audiobook ages ago and never got round to listening to it LOL 
Matthew Jon Moran
Francis Cole
Taylor 🩷💀
Brandon
Taylor 🩷💀
Alex Chapman
Allie Turner
Look, I was in some drama in the past, so I get where you're coming from, but like others have said, you should have just worked it out with the indevidual one on one, or just not said anything on here at all, because yeah, this is one way to start drama. Like I said, I get where you're coming from, but this isn't the way to go.
Keri-Marie Kelly🩷✨
Alex Chapman
Francis Cole
To answer your question Justin, no, that wasn’t me. The only times I raised my hand was I came in for a bit earlier in the morning for me, I did raise my hand once, then went back to sleep. I came back again, then I raised my hand, and that was it. Those were the only times I did that. I’m not one to do that more than twice.
Matt Cooper
Justin T
Were you the one that kept raising your hand over and over Francis? If not, this other person went bythe name Shaff. Yes, if this is not the case, I wanna clear that up and apologize if I have assumed anything wrong. But if it is, your point will not be taken very well and come across as very immature and spammy, there’s always a bad apple somewhere.
Brandon Cross
Goldfingas
Matt Cooper
Alex Chapman
Francis Cole
Justin T
Another thing I must say is to gently remind people hangouts are public spaces and moderators have discretion to do as they please. Sometimes it sucks, most of the time it’s great, but my advice is to learn to expect that.
Matt Cooper
Justin T
If this was the hangout that was happening just last night, the person that wasn’t allowed to join was constantly spamming the raised hand feature over and over and over and over and over again. That’s how I say on the matter, which would make it extremely childish just to get a reaction 
Bran
Gordon hit the nail on the head here with his comment. Sighted community ftw. I will add that another blind community problem is the people love to preach about how good and cool they can be, but if they hold some sort of grudge, rest assured that half a decade later or longer even, they'll bring it up simply because they can and it makes them look cool or some such thing. The irony there is definitely something but I've accepted that the community is like this. Just ignore it and move on. I have learned over the years that most often those who judge you have some of their own baggage they don't want to see in the mirror so they deflect and take advantage of another fallen soul to stomp on. But anyway, with that being said, I will also have to agree with Goldfingas. If you didn't want to spark something, it would have been best not to post this. I'm not discouraging you by any means, better to speak your mind than to not in my opinion.
Francis Cole
Hunter I understand what you’re saying. If you wanna know, I did try to message this person when she said that she had heard stuff about me being a quote, creep, which wasn’t true. Basically I messaged her and said to her what makes you think I’m a creep, and then after that I proceeded in messages to tell her that the rumours about me supposedly being a creep is a misunderstanding and it was not true, but the message failed to send, which indicated that she had blocked me and didn’t want to hear the truth about those rumours being spread about me. Usually, I can accept not being invited to join a hangout, but if it’s because of some rumour that was told about me, that’s when I have an issue, but often times if it’s just that they don’t wanna talk to me, then I’m fine with it. A similar thing happened on Tuesday with someone else who thought I was a creep, which I wasn’t too happy about, but I didn’t really give that much of a crap because that was someone who I know who is known for believing stuff that isn’t true. All I wanted in this moment was for people to understand me for who I really was, and not for who other people say I am. Did I make you cross? 
Little hunter frost
Little hunter frost
Francis Cole
Penny
The best thing to do is create your own hang-out and meet people who don't know you! Not everyone here knows what rumors out there are about you. So just let people get to know you and stop caring about what others think.
Rachel K
Keri-Marie Kelly🩷✨
Francis Cole
Goldfingas
The way to avoid drama is to not even post shit like this in the first place. I'm just saying. 
Gordon
I've never understood why some blind people are that way. That's one of the reasons I've never really fit in well with the blind community is because I'm more used to the sided community. And a lot of the side in world, people aren't as likely to just believe something without seeing some evidence for themselves. But often times in the blind community all you have to do is say something about someone and everyone will avoid that person just because of what you said. It never has really made sense to me. I think some of this might have to do with the small social environment that some people grew up in at the blind schools and they kind of had their very small clicks that they were a part of and just aren't really willing to advance themselves. This does not apply to all blind people, but definitely sums for sure.