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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
D&D has everything to do with it. Look at the efforts to ban it in the 80s. The claims were that it made kids depressed , antisocial, suicidal, devil worshiping weirdos. The truth of course is that most kids who played it were FINE. But a small percentage who already had some personality disorders were affected negatively by playing the game.
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Uhm. No. I hope that I understand what you're saying is that none of the characteristics of D&D players turned out to be true, but in fact even that "small percentage" was only a
single person in reality.
He was an emotionally disturbed person who was paranoid of his mother discovering that he was gay. At some point, he had played D&D and had bought a couple of the books, and that ends his connection to D&D. The "Mazes & Monsters" tv movie later made was only loosely tied to his story.
From that, several organizations were spawned and religious leaders took up the banner as a method of publicly excoriating people who were deemed different and unsuitable for their flock to have contact with.