Obsessive?

loulabell said:

He Enjoys the YOGSCAST videos, i realised that they dont just do minecraft they have all different games.

Yeah, I know of them. They're not as good as TotalBiscuit and Jesse, in my opinion, but then that kind of proves the point I'm about to make.

I understand your point about my calling it mindless, unfortunatly i seem to have been a little narrow minded. To me all i see when he has is on is a cube land with 2 guys spouting randomn comments about the characters.

After reading your comments i sat down to watch a few with him and he giggled all the way through, i coundnt understand what he was laughing at! But i was looking...he was listening! Thats the difference, these two guys, are amusing in what they say.

There will be in jokes that you won't get, and, yeah, it's just a cube world - that's the style of the game - but, as I think you've now realised, what's going on in that cube world is simply a vehicle for their style of humour.

I find it fasinating that he can watch a tv programme and you can ask him what someone has just said and his responce would be "i dunno!" you ask him what someone said in a 'minecraft' episode he watched 2 hours ago and he relays it word for word.

That's probably because he doesn't find the TV programme interesting and he does with the minecraft video.

We, on the spectrum, are very driven by what interests us, and very little else - in a sense if it doesn't interest us it's as if it doesn't exist.

I wouldn't be surprised that when he's 'watching a TV programme' he's actually not really watching it, but is thinking about something entirely different - I do stuff like that all the time - well, I did when I had a TV - it would be on, and I'd be sat in front of it, even looking at it, appearing to be watching it, but I was actually thinking about, and totaly engrossed in, something else entirely.

I think i was simply worried because it was all he lived to do, he would wake up in a morning and his firsts thought was minecraft, come home from school and it was minecraft. He would watch it in his sleep!! (im being literal there, many i times he would wake up, find his netbook and switch it on while completly asleep!)

Yes, to generalise, that's what we do - think about our special interests all the time - it's not something we can control.

I see what your saying about there being no problem if its something he enjoys. I feel that, i want him to be happy of course i do.

Yeah, don't worry about it - as long as it's not getting in the way of vitaly important stuff like eating, don't think of it as a problem.

One last thing - if you can find a way to 'share' his interest with him (even if that means sitting there and pretending to enjoy it (though, it's much, much, better if you can actually enjoy some aspect of it)) then I'd be willing to bet that it would mean the world to him (though it may not be all that obvious, to you, that it does).

loulabell said:

He Enjoys the YOGSCAST videos, i realised that they dont just do minecraft they have all different games.

Yeah, I know of them. They're not as good as TotalBiscuit and Jesse, in my opinion, but then that kind of proves the point I'm about to make.

I understand your point about my calling it mindless, unfortunatly i seem to have been a little narrow minded. To me all i see when he has is on is a cube land with 2 guys spouting randomn comments about the characters.

After reading your comments i sat down to watch a few with him and he giggled all the way through, i coundnt understand what he was laughing at! But i was looking...he was listening! Thats the difference, these two guys, are amusing in what they say.

There will be in jokes that you won't get, and, yeah, it's just a cube world - that's the style of the game - but, as I think you've now realised, what's going on in that cube world is simply a vehicle for their style of humour.

I find it fasinating that he can watch a tv programme and you can ask him what someone has just said and his responce would be "i dunno!" you ask him what someone said in a 'minecraft' episode he watched 2 hours ago and he relays it word for word.

That's probably because he doesn't find the TV programme interesting and he does with the minecraft video.

We, on the spectrum, are very driven by what interests us, and very little else - in a sense if it doesn't interest us it's as if it doesn't exist.

I wouldn't be surprised that when he's 'watching a TV programme' he's actually not really watching it, but is thinking about something entirely different - I do stuff like that all the time - well, I did when I had a TV - it would be on, and I'd be sat in front of it, even looking at it, appearing to be watching it, but I was actually thinking about, and totaly engrossed in, something else entirely.

I think i was simply worried because it was all he lived to do, he would wake up in a morning and his firsts thought was minecraft, come home from school and it was minecraft. He would watch it in his sleep!! (im being literal there, many i times he would wake up, find his netbook and switch it on while completly asleep!)

Yes, to generalise, that's what we do - think about our special interests all the time - it's not something we can control.

I see what your saying about there being no problem if its something he enjoys. I feel that, i want him to be happy of course i do.

Yeah, don't worry about it - as long as it's not getting in the way of vitaly important stuff like eating, don't think of it as a problem.

One last thing - if you can find a way to 'share' his interest with him (even if that means sitting there and pretending to enjoy it (though, it's much, much, better if you can actually enjoy some aspect of it)) then I'd be willing to bet that it would mean the world to him (though it may not be all that obvious, to you, that it does).