Published on 12, July, 2020
I thought I should share with you my experience using the Hiki app. I joined a day ago. Immediately I was harassed by a male called David even though I said I wanted to connect with women. Said male would prove difficult later. I tried to be polite. I posted images of my art. Which got some interactions. The first of which elicited a long thread I was not aware of instigated by an anti feminist rant by someone named Tom spewing anti feminist hate. Today I encountered a strange account called ‘Uni’ that would later troll me along with afore mentioned David. I asked a David to calm down his messages to me as I am trying to deal with my daughter’s birthday who passed away, he said he didn’t realise I had a daughter that died and proceeded to troll me along with ‘Uni’ about the death of my daughter. I am now left feeling throughly traumatised and somewhat suicidal. I spoke with Hiki for a lengthy period and they paused my account and stopped replying to me. I have never been treated like this in my life. This is the worst timing ever. I’m planning grave flowers this weekend for my beautiful Theodora.
I'm so sorry for your loss and I hope you're feeling better than you were as a result of these scumbags. They don't get to hide behind autism, their behaviour is sickening and I'm glad you reported them. I'm frankly outraged on your behalf that you had to go through this, especially on an app for autistic people. I don't know how these things work but would it be possible to have them removed from the app store? It sounds like they have absolutely no business running such an app and the less people who are able to access it the better, from what I can gather.