What Katawa Shoujo means to me.

I feel like this is a horrible idea, but the game hits me pretty hard. I'm not disabled like the girls are, but I am still disabled.


Seeing a kid getting his life overturned by his disability is all too familiar. The meds he has to take, trying to fit in, all of it is too real for me.

In fourth grade I was diagnosed with ADD. Then I was sent to the principal's office for a week straight. Eventually I stopped going to class, knowing that I would be sent to the office anyway. I was pulled out, and spent the rest of the year being homeschooled. For fifth grade, i was sent to a experimental class at a different school district. Because of that, socially I was behind a year. When I returned to my home district, I was alone without any friends. At this point, the diagnosis was changed. In eleventh grade, I was moved to yet another school. In the following fall, I was kicked out, and returned to my home district. It was in my 11th grade year that I finally got into my first relationship. It is going strong to this day.


Now, finally the diagnosis was named. PDD-NOS. Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. In other words, I am an anomaly. I have all the qualities of autism and it;s spectrum, but not suffering from it.

What really hurts is this. For eight years, no one has been able to pinpoint what to do with me. Not even my psychologist father knows what to do.

This is the short version. No teacher has been able to handle me. I have no diagnosis, and socially I can't read people's emotions.

For more info, on PDD-NOS, consult medical journals and even ask me, or search it in a web browser.

Thank you for your time.
Please know that this was very hard for me to write.

Man I have not played this game yet but I want to, and to what you just said I cannot totally relate but I will tell you this, if a game or any other kind of material be it books, movies, even hentai, if they make you think about life in such a way I say that they are masterpieces. I gave you + rep also because I have those kind of experiences and they leave me thinking, and I know a little about your situation because I was diagnoised with ADHD I know they are different but they are similar and I was never as much as an outsider as you claim to have been but you said you had a long lassting relationship to your gilfriend to this day and I know that good relationships: friends or dating, are hard to come by and are a wonderful thing to have. So in all your story makes me think that I need to get this game when the DDL links are back up are I support you and your life thank you for making me that much more excited about this game.

I have PDD-NOS as well, I know where you came from. I am 24, it was diagnosed on my 11th year.

I love it when people open up like this, and I'm kind of surprised this is in Random. What Katawa Shoujo means to me is a little different then what it means to you, as I am mostly normal physically and mentally (least that's what they tell me), BUT how I see this game is that it shows that people do not have to be defined by their disabilities, they should be defined by who they are as a person. To somewhat contradict that point, when I was in 7th grade I had a massive crush on a girl named Hannah, she was really cute, outgoing, fun to be with, just all around a great person. Her and her sister were born conjoined at the hip and as a result they both lost a leg and had to wear prosthetic. Mind you this was back in middle school, aka the worst years of your life, and everyone is a jerk to everyone else if they are slightly different from them, but I didn't care, I really liked this girl and that's when I realized "Oh she's not just somebody with a disability, she's a person who thinks and feels like me." Well anyway that's really how I see this game and why it does somewhat appeal to me more then to some other people.

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hmmm well I really can't go against what he says.

Wow, that was actually pretty touching. In Random of all places, who would've thought.

Thanks for sharing.

But I wonder why it is moved to Random.
The game is just touching, I can't say more since I just played 2 hours of it and it's already touching