Well, once again I had to deal with a thief stealing from me, among lots of other pixel artists. Yes, he is autist.
Yes, he immediately brought up his depression and self esteem issues to try to make everyone feel bad and silence us up about the thefts. No, it did not work.
Yes, I tried to explain to him that if he craved fame and attention so badly, he always he could learn to create his own material and make a fresh start elsewhere once he had enough practice and developed enough skills. No, he did not accept that because it was “boring” and he wanted to be famous now, not later.
Yes, he tried to manipulate me into creating pixel art for him, under the excuse that I had made some free commisions for others and I had no problem with them displaying them on their accounts. No, he couldn’t understand that I did that because the other members where friends of mine (and they never passed them as their own stuff either).
Yes, he asked me to be his friend so he could use me and not have problems anymore with “boring” rules he couldn’t understand. No, he couldn’t understand that friendship does not work that way and neither could understand why I had no desire to befriend such a selfish, greedy and idiotic asshole like him.
Yes, he threatened everyone with killing himself for ruining his fun, ruining his reputation and making him look bad. No, neither I, the other users or the staff cared about any of that. No, he still couldn’t understand why.
Yes, he tried to use autistic-like words such as “technically”,“what if”,“how about” and such as he tried to twist the situation to his favor and avoid being called a thief, a liar and an impersonator. Yes, he even brought up his own made up views about politics, religion and “happiness” as well. No, it did not work and he was permanently banned after the local staff got sure to openly expose all what he did, all what he tried to do after being caught and how he was just a completely irredeemable asshole.
Yes, he tried to sneak back in using dummy accounts to steal and troll our galleries out of spite “because it was his revenge”. No, he still cannot understand why his accounts keep being banned as soon he opens his mouth. Neither he can understand how the staff (and everyone watching this dumpster fire) immediately can tell is him.
Yes, he always tries to play victim. No, he always refuses to accept he did something bad and then he made it way worse.
Autists, man.