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Computer addict

Johnsmum

My son spends several hours every day on his computer, mostly playing games or music, though I have a suspicion he may have viewed porn as well. As he is a teenager, it's probably too late to start imposing a time limit on computer time (besides which, if he weren't on the computer, he would only be watching TV).

Do others think that too much computer time is not good for our kids? I would love him to be making friends but he never invites anyone home from school, and they don't invite him. If they did, of course, they would end up playing computer games together! But at least it would be social.

We have very good provision in our area for social activities for kids on the spectrum, but I get a feeling he doesn't want to go to something that is especially for kids like him.

Would love to hear others' thoughts on computers, socializing, etc, especially for older teenagers.

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  • Thanks Longman for your reply and for calming this discussion down a bit. Unfortunately, though, we have felt it necessary to delete the previous comment.
    We want to ensure that the community is a welcoming place where people can air their views and ask questions without being insulted. Of course we encourage exchanging views and are happy for debate to happen, providing users involved respect the views of others. We would like to remind users that it is fine to ask more about other people's ideas and to express your own differing ideas, however we cannot allow users to be offensive or insulting.
    If anyone has any concerns or suggestions about the process of approval and publishing of posts then please feel free to discuss that in the "Problems and Suggestions" section.
    Of course people will have different views about what is and is not acceptable in terms of amount of computer use and the positives and negatives, and I look forward to hearing more about how other users view and deal with this.
    Thanks everyone.

    Sandra

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  • Thanks Longman for your reply and for calming this discussion down a bit. Unfortunately, though, we have felt it necessary to delete the previous comment.
    We want to ensure that the community is a welcoming place where people can air their views and ask questions without being insulted. Of course we encourage exchanging views and are happy for debate to happen, providing users involved respect the views of others. We would like to remind users that it is fine to ask more about other people's ideas and to express your own differing ideas, however we cannot allow users to be offensive or insulting.
    If anyone has any concerns or suggestions about the process of approval and publishing of posts then please feel free to discuss that in the "Problems and Suggestions" section.
    Of course people will have different views about what is and is not acceptable in terms of amount of computer use and the positives and negatives, and I look forward to hearing more about how other users view and deal with this.
    Thanks everyone.

    Sandra

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