By SamoanSaysShake • Score: 1 • April 23, 2025 12:04 PM
The way my friends (27-38) and I (24) play is more similar to Game Changers "Sam Says" than the original Simon Says. That basically means, no one is ever out, you just get a point each time you mess up, least amount of points wins.
I am a hot mess medically. I twitch, seize, and tic (verbal and muscular), I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user, I have hearing issues, and cardiac issues and more but that's all that's relevant to this story.
When we play, they originally tried to not count points against me or not use certain prompts due to my disabilities but it felt unfair and I told them to count them against me and use all prompts. It's only a game afterall and playing is the fun part, I'll win at other games. This leads to me commonly getting an absurd amount of points but us also having a lot of fun. For example; "Sam says stay silent" and the whole room will go quiet until I suddenly, and loudly, gasp (tic) and scare the hell out of everyone, commonly causing others to fail as well. That's happened a few times and always ends with uproars of laughter. Or a million other ridiculous things (including one that ended with me juggling). I thought we were all having fun but now I'm second guessing.
Well, recently a friend of our hosts ("J") came to hang out and play as well. She showed up a little late and we were already in a round of Simon Says where I was one of the players. I was fumbling as usual; mishearing directions, twitching/ticcing and messing up the action, and having to interrupt to have someone get me my chair because my heart was getting exhausted. J scoffed at a few things but I didn't realize it was me specifically, I just thought it was how bad I/we were doing.
We played a few rounds, some with me in, some without, and after a while J took me aside and asked me to stop. I explained my disabilities and that I can't stop them but I could sit out if she'd rather. She said that I was just as distracting on the sidelines and said that I ruin the game. That I needlessly gain points to the point that I'll never win and I shouldn't even be trying at all. She said that my friends being this accommodating to me gets old after a while and that I need to find a way to quiet down. She said I'm an 'a-hole' for being so disruptive.
I understand that I'm a lot due to my disabilities and I can be very annoying but I don't know if I'd go as far to saying I'm an a-hole. Maybe I am. I feel horrible for being such a burden. What do you guys think? AITAH?
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