Published on 12, July, 2020
Just a general question for anyone else like myself who has an obsession for gaming. One of my obsessions is football so I enjoy playing an online football game against other gamers my only problem I seem to struggle with is my game play is slower than others and no matter how hard I try to rectify this problem I just cannot seem to fix it.
I've been playing on consoles/PC's for over 30 years. It gets to the point where I'm just annoyed and infuriated. Could this possibly have any link to my ASC? For example my brains processing speed.
On the other hand I have played games in the past like football managing games where I just end up winning everything and any simulation games I'm just really great at.
I'm still trying to figure out a lot about myself since my diagnosis last year.
Anyway I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe through these tough times.
As far as I can measure, it's all about stress and the overwhelming desire to reduce it and take control of your environment. When you play a game you're good at, you're in control of the whole experience - there's a lot of satisfying chemicals buzzing around your body.
When you're on-line playing others, it's something you should be good at but the limitations of your machine, connection and maybe lack of skill will frustrate you and spoil the experience.
It's the same reason people do model railways or play with Lego or read books - it's total control of the environment and therefore zero stress!
I still like Quake 3 - it's challenging enough to get the adrenaline going but I can master it and win.