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Computer games

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over 2 years ago

Hi,

I was recently diagnosed with ASD and am still coming to terms with it. I have some reading materials that I'll try and look at over the Christmas period but I can't guarantee being able to focus.

I wanted to understand if anyone else finds certain computer games a welcome break from the world, and that they are soothing? Most computer games are a sensory overload for me and even when they aren't I often get a headache after 30-60 min. There are a few which are nice and calm and help me when I feel overloaded. I like a game called Skyrim - it has wonderful repetitive soothing music and an open world, so you can just walk around and explore, and interact with people only when you want. The dialogue options are nice and simple too. I sometimes also play turn-based computer versions of board games. There are some available on Steam that are fun, like Gloomhaven. Am I alone in this? Does anyone else have this as a hobby / decompressing activity?

Hope you are all doing well.

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  • over 2 years ago

    Skyrim is way too addictive if you are ND.  I spent over 3000 hours playing it, maybe 100+ builds, learning to do everything as quickly as possible, doing all the different character builds, and then at 2900 hours I finished the game and got all the achievements done.

    I can tell you how to make money quickly and easily, how to get atronachs really early in the game by using the atronach forge under the college at winterhold, bound bow is a really powerful bow you can get early, and much more.

    I had to stop playing it because I had burnt out from playing it so much.  But I did the same with Fallout 4, 3000 hours or so and never finished the game.  Just tweaking the minutiae to the nth degree.

    Currently obssessing over Dying Light and waiting for Stalker 2 later this year.

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  • over 2 years ago

    Skyrim is way too addictive if you are ND.  I spent over 3000 hours playing it, maybe 100+ builds, learning to do everything as quickly as possible, doing all the different character builds, and then at 2900 hours I finished the game and got all the achievements done.

    I can tell you how to make money quickly and easily, how to get atronachs really early in the game by using the atronach forge under the college at winterhold, bound bow is a really powerful bow you can get early, and much more.

    I had to stop playing it because I had burnt out from playing it so much.  But I did the same with Fallout 4, 3000 hours or so and never finished the game.  Just tweaking the minutiae to the nth degree.

    Currently obssessing over Dying Light and waiting for Stalker 2 later this year.

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