10-24-2010, 01:45 AM
Unfortunately, this was something that started long before it spilled out into the open. She messaged me, and I gave her realistic advice. Unfortunately, she didn`t WANT realistic advice. She wanted someone to tell her that she is great, special, and anything she decides to do is going to go just fine even if it flies in the face of reason and is illegal.
I did little other than point out that it wasn`t a good idea to be an illegal immigrant and that at the very least she should visit Japan before deciding to throw everything away and live here. When the subject of Sashimister doubting her high Japanese level came up - I suggested that it would be very easy to end the whole questioning of level by simply writing something in Japanese. She said that for some strange (excuse-like) reason she could not type Japanese... So I suggested that I could perhaps talk to her on messenger and pass on the proof of her Japanese ability, as it appeared to be a VERY touchy point with her. (Yes, I will admit that I didn`t expect her to take me up on it, and expected some other excuse to cover for not knowing as much as she said, but I was more than willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. What came was some excuses and more hostility toward me being so incredibly lame that I was willing to help her, which was confusing as I thought she WANTED advice and help.)
Anyway, as anything I said that wasn`t what she wanted to hear made her start into a virtual rant about me not knowing anything, trying to keep her out of Japan, thinking I was better than her, etc - I decided that she didn`t actually want advice or help so declined to waste my time answering questions just to receive hostility. In my experience it has always been better to step back from spoilt teenagers on a rampage than try to reason with them.
From what I can tell, more anger at me declining to continue to answer her questions resulted in this explosion.
(I believe that there were some similar communications between her and Sashimister, but I do not know the details. I also heard from another member that she`d pmed them, and gotten hostile when not told what she`d wanted to hear.)
I hope that she has time to calm down, realize that blowing up and behaving like that isn`t the way to get advice and support, and use the experience to her advantage to become a better person.
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Last edited by Nyororin : 10-24-2010 at 01:51 AM.
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