There’s a program for people with learning disabilities near me that I attend events with. It’s a staffed program and the staff do talk down to you. I simply see it as a means of support and socializing.
One event they have regularly is where the participants get together to hang out and play board games and draw. I was there last weekend and I played Apples to Apples with a group. (Anybody here know how to play that?) There’s a bunch of green cards with adjectives and red cards with nouns. Everybody gets 7 red cards. When it’s your turn, you’re the judge. You pick a green card from the pile, and everybody else puts down a red card that they think the word on the green card best describes. Then the judge picks which one of the red cards they like best, and that person wins the round.
When it was one person’s turn to judge, she was looking through the pile of green cards to decide which one she wanted to play. My understanding is that you’re supposed to pick only the top card and that’s the card you play for the round. I told her not to do what she was doing because that was cheating; and she insisted on doing it her way and got all upset. She said things like, “It’s a free country!” and “We’re just playing to have fun!” I agree we were just playing to have fun, but it’s simple logic to me that you play a game by the rules. We talked to staff about it, and they sided with her. Their only suggestion was that we not play together in the future. That’s the route I’m sort of inclined to go.
Does anyone else agree that this person wasn’t being fair?
One event they have regularly is where the participants get together to hang out and play board games and draw. I was there last weekend and I played Apples to Apples with a group. (Anybody here know how to play that?) There’s a bunch of green cards with adjectives and red cards with nouns. Everybody gets 7 red cards. When it’s your turn, you’re the judge. You pick a green card from the pile, and everybody else puts down a red card that they think the word on the green card best describes. Then the judge picks which one of the red cards they like best, and that person wins the round.
When it was one person’s turn to judge, she was looking through the pile of green cards to decide which one she wanted to play. My understanding is that you’re supposed to pick only the top card and that’s the card you play for the round. I told her not to do what she was doing because that was cheating; and she insisted on doing it her way and got all upset. She said things like, “It’s a free country!” and “We’re just playing to have fun!” I agree we were just playing to have fun, but it’s simple logic to me that you play a game by the rules. We talked to staff about it, and they sided with her. Their only suggestion was that we not play together in the future. That’s the route I’m sort of inclined to go.
Does anyone else agree that this person wasn’t being fair?