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Gaming Friends Lack Of communication

Glitterbel

Hi

My Daughter,  17, has asd,  her communication is really poor. She struggles a lot.

However she wants gaming Friends and I've tried to tell her to ask in college but she just can't. 

Then we've tried discord.

She needs someone who understands the same really,  that her communication is very basic & she talks about the subject she's on,  she doesn't do much chit chat. 

Does anyone have any ideas? She is crying every night she is lonely & I can't do right for doing wrong lately.

Thanks 

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  • What kind of games does she like? Like Mark says, this particular space isn't the best place for your daughter to make friends, as due to the user age restriction almost all of us are quite a bit older. Not to say any of us are dangerous, but it's just that baseline online safety doo da.

    One thing that she could maybe try is looking for streamers for games she likes. If she can get into participating with chats, maybe she'll feel a sense of being a part of a community. V-tubers in particular can be good way to go for people with ASD, because they use on screen avatars instead of face cams, so it takes away from the discomfort of looking at a real person that can be an issue for us.

    If this is something she might be interested in, I'd recommend particularly v-tubers from Hololive English, which is a company that has more standards for behaviour than most strangers, so it would be a very safe environment for your daughter. I know of many v-tubers who have been diagnosed with autism, so the communities formed around them are very open to people with ASD.

    I could offer specific names of such streamers that tend to broadcast during socially acceptable times of whatever region you may live in, if you were willing to disclose what time zone you live in.

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  • What kind of games does she like? Like Mark says, this particular space isn't the best place for your daughter to make friends, as due to the user age restriction almost all of us are quite a bit older. Not to say any of us are dangerous, but it's just that baseline online safety doo da.

    One thing that she could maybe try is looking for streamers for games she likes. If she can get into participating with chats, maybe she'll feel a sense of being a part of a community. V-tubers in particular can be good way to go for people with ASD, because they use on screen avatars instead of face cams, so it takes away from the discomfort of looking at a real person that can be an issue for us.

    If this is something she might be interested in, I'd recommend particularly v-tubers from Hololive English, which is a company that has more standards for behaviour than most strangers, so it would be a very safe environment for your daughter. I know of many v-tubers who have been diagnosed with autism, so the communities formed around them are very open to people with ASD.

    I could offer specific names of such streamers that tend to broadcast during socially acceptable times of whatever region you may live in, if you were willing to disclose what time zone you live in.

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