Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

[Arch0wl]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

I got a 4 how am I this normal

the average is 16.5 so by definition you're abnormal, just in a different direction

[devonin]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

I wonder, for anybody that scores below the average, how they'd do on a test to see if they were a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) (I expect they'd test low on this as well)

I feel like anybody who finds it -so- easy to interact socially and be involved in groups and communicate must also not be overly empathetic either, or the input would just overload them.

[Calcium Deposit]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

People taking my normal joke too seriously

[Arch0wl]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

@devonin

the HSP test is more like affective empathy. I have high cognitive empathy ability and can have high affective empathy if I need to, but I also have the ability to completely shut down my responses to affective empathy emotions as you could gather from my anecdotes in that life story thread.

[devonin]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

High functioning sociopaths of the world unite.

[Wayward Vagabond]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

[Arch0wl]

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thankfully the times I have done this have (mostly) been unintentional; I would do it specifically when I felt like some ethical principle was being threatened, but after enough instances of this I recognized what I was doing and prevented myself from de-empathizing

but yeah, if for some reason I'm ever cornered emotionally (e.g. "look at how threatening he's being") I can throttle this by manipulating my disgust response / hate response to something ("do you fucking seriously think this is threatening you fucking idiot, you have the worst criteria for this shit ever" is what I feel reflexively), then making the hate response internal (i.e. you still feel it but you're not visibly mad, you look like you're being contemplative), then using breathing techniques to calm myself down and projecting positivity over it ("joe, I love you bro, no threats here <3"). but when I do this I still have that very subtle ambient layer of anger fucking with my ability to be empathetic toward that person

[Reincarnate]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

Curious, Arch, how would you describe your parents?

[Wayward Vagabond]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

thankfully the times I have done this have (mostly) been unintentional; I would do it specifically when I felt like some ethical principle was being threatened, but after enough instances of this I recognized what I was doing and prevented myself from de-empathizing

but yeah, if for some reason I'm ever cornered emotionally (e.g. "look at how threatening he's being") I can throttle this by manipulating my disgust response / hate response to something ("do you fucking seriously think this is threatening you fucking idiot, you have the worst criteria for this shit ever" is what I feel reflexively), then making the hate response internal (i.e. you still feel it but you're not visibly mad, you look like you're being contemplative), then using breathing techniques to calm myself down and projecting positivity over it ("joe, I love you bro, no threats here <3"). but when I do this I still have that very subtle ambient layer of anger fucking with my ability to be empathetic toward that person

totes do this

[Izzy]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

Agree: 2,4,5,6,12,13,16,22,23,26,43,46: 1 point
Disagree: 8,11,17,25,34,38,40,44,47,49,50: 1 point
Score: 23

Hmm, very borderline on everything really.

[Arch0wl]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

Curious, Arch, how would you describe your parents?

My mom is ludicrously nice and insanely frugal. She will freeze milk, for example. But if you go to her house she will make you feel insanely welcome. Her heart is so huge. She's amazing.

However, my mom also has negative long-term memories dominate her life. We both have ridiculously good long-term memories but not very good short-term memories. She will rehearse the things that have traumatized her by retelling the same stories, she will hold grudges as a result of this, and she will dwell on things. I've picked up all of these habits and have had to slowly shake them off -- especially the last one. She picked up these habits, though, because of her insanely traumatic childhood. Way way way worse than anything anyone has posted here.

I often feel guilty because she has never been able to have an entirely stress-free life, and I want her to have one soon. I resent the fact that I have so many financial obligations at the moment because it would be so great if I could make her life easier.

My dad is one of the most 'alpha' people I have ever met in my life. Think Gordon Ramsay-tier. In fact, he could probably beat Gordon Ramsay in a shouting match and I say that as someone who is an enormous fan of Gordon Ramsay. In terms of the way my dad carries himself I am ridiculously like him, almost a carbon copy -- the males in my family tend to be that way. He's 6'3" and has a thunderous voice. I have not, at any point in my life, met someone who yells louder than he does (although apparently his brother does).

He's mostly a conditional asshole, e.g. he will be very nice to you if you aren't interfering with his bubble or routine, but if you become a problem with him he will be the biggest dick in the world up to the point where you're no longer screwing with his shit.

Otherwise, he's pretty jolly.

However, there are several bad habits I learned implicitly from him as a kid, and had to correct when I got older:

1. He feels entitled to voice his anger or annoyance about anything in the most obnoxious way possible. He'll spill something on his table, for example, and it's this thunderclap of "FUCKING SHIT!!!!"... you do not need to take little things like that so angrily. That's unnecessary elevation of stress levels.

2. He gets on the defense about things and angrily jumps to blaming people.

3. His rhetorical strategy is like 2/3 intimidation, 1/3 everything else. He will resort to yelling *first*, then you have to whittle him down to being a reasonable person by being unphased by it.

Especially #1. In college especially, I remember getting furious at really little things a lot because I internalized this way of acting. This is actually a really harmful way to live, but everyone in my family hugely overreacts to obstacles so I didn't know it could be done any differently.

The past year or so has been me realizing what habits I got from my parents and how I could get rid of those. When I'm around my parents lately, I'm zen by comparison; they are so easily stressed out, and I can see how that made me, as their child, someone who would later be diagnosed with generalized anxiety.

[ninjaKIWI]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

Agree: 4,12,16,21,46: 1 point
Disagree: 10,14,30,34,48: 1 point
Score: 10

neat

hi arch

That was a pretty interesting read about your parents.

[Izzy]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

Probably are the only one. With the kind of niche hobby ffr is it wouldn't be that unlikely for that kind of person to excel at it. There is no chance that he is saying anything bad about autism or about ffr.

[devonin]

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Am I seriously the only one one that thinks devonin is a DOUCHE BAG for trying to make this correlation?

I didn't make this as a thread, it was split off from another thread about someone sending hate mail to the mother of an autistic child, seeing as it was basically a bunch of people who play FFR mentioning that they had various kinds of ASDs.

And as someone who myself plays FFR and has an ASD, I hardly think I was trying to make a negative connection between the two.

[Staiain]

Re: Rhythm Gaming/ASD Correlation?

Well
Agree: 2,4,5,6,7,9,12,13,16,18,19,20,22,23,26,33,35,39,41,42,45,46: 1 point
Disagree: 1,8,11,14,15,17,24,25,27,28,31,32,36,37,38,40,44,49,50: 1 point
Score: 41


Score: 41



Not really surprised, my fascination for numbers got me far I guess