Sorry for the clickbait title. Have a blurry picture of a cat as an apology.
But as someone who does NSFW art for a living, talking to a client who reads and writes at the level of a 12 year old (and shows the same level of ignorance about the world outside their country) makes me really uncomfortable. Technically they're a legal adult, but I feel like I'm talking to a child.
I like to be friendly and pleasant with clients, but when the conversation feels like I'm explaining very basic concepts like how weather or seasons work in other countries, or how an 8 hour drive isn't shorter because we use kilometers instead of miles, it just feels wrong when paired with the adult artwork I'm also drawing for them.
Like, legally it's fine, but it does make me wonder if it is ok to draw NSFW artwork for someone who doesn't really feel like an adult intellectually.
Also #notallamericans, but I'm sure Americans on here know full well what I'm talking about, and have to deal with it a lot more frequently than I do.
EDIT: This is less supposed to be "Americans dumb" and more like "Some Americans seem to have the knowledge base of a child and that makes it hard to work with them in an adult context." I'm not just trying to start an America bashing thread here, I'm more venting about a very specific problem where I have to create adult art for adults who have the writing style and comprehension levels of children.
That can't be real lmao what the fuck
It might have just been bad wording on their part, but it does remain to this day the dumbest thing I think I've ever heard from someone. They thought that a long drive across the desert would be "shorter" for them because they use miles and not kilometers. They might have meant that it would feel shorter since they're used to long drives, but they also didn't seem to understand that they couldn't just drive across the desert (which is a trip that takes days and requires a huge amount of prep and emergency supplies, there's nothing out there), even if they were used to long drives, so they might have just not understood the distances involved in driving across the country in Australia and thought the country was just much smaller than it is, but they were oddly hung up on the kilometres vs miles part of it.