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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Second Life virtual world....addiction and/or obsession |
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Posted: 13 Oct 2007, 8:39 am
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| I DO appreciate your help. Thank you. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Second Life virtual world....addiction and/or obsession |
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Posted: 12 Oct 2007, 2:20 pm
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To Deus_ex_machina...
I do appreciate your input....but I was really trying to get some info from parents, that is way I posted int eh parents' discussion. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Second Life virtual world....addiction and/or obsession |
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Posted: 11 Oct 2007, 7:23 am
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To MishLuvsHer2Boys
Yes......Absolutely.....keep your sons away!! ! It is terrible. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Second Life virtual world....addiction and/or obsession |
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Posted: 11 Oct 2007, 7:19 am
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| Oh I realize....I am NOT looking for someone to agree with me. I don't need an agreement to know what is going on in my child's real life. Second Life was/is ruining my child's life. For some, it may be OK. For mine, it overtook everything.....school, family, friends, sleep, hygeine....and caused an... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Second Life virtual world....addiction and/or obsession |
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Posted: 10 Oct 2007, 7:12 pm
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| I AM the parent of an aspie.....addicted to Second Life.....that has now intruded into my teen's real world. I understand that sometimes people on the spectrum cannot deal in the real world...but SL is dangerous. I rather my teen find something else to focus on.....and we are working on that while b... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: School pictures |
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Posted: 09 Oct 2007, 8:36 pm
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| I think many young kids smile like that whether they are on the spectrum or not. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Second Life virtual world....addiction and/or obsession |
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Posted: 09 Oct 2007, 7:24 pm
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| Yes.......I absolutely agree. I had to become extremely tough and it was not pleasant and still is not. I banned my teen from this site and others and the internet in general. It is going on 6 months and the few times I let my teen on (with supervision) I can see the anxiety reappear and the meltdow... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Second Life virtual world....addiction and/or obsession |
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Posted: 09 Oct 2007, 6:53 pm
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| Does anyone have experience with their teen becoming addicted or obsessed with Second Life? |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Teen Second Life Addiction |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 1:21 pm
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| Yes, it is an addiction. 6 or 7 hours per day??? I wish. The child has been up all night, sometimes on 12 or more hours per day, stopped doing school work, stopped caring about looks and family members and friends, shakes when we disable the internet. My child does have freinds the "real world"........ |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Teen Second Life Addiction |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 10:59 am
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| Someone can form an addiction because they become so engrossed and hyper focused on the virtual world that it can become their real world. Not that different from a drug or alcohol addiction. Add being an Aspie to that equation and it multiplies in intesity. |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Teen Second Life Addiction |
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Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 9:59 am
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| Hi...Is anyone experiencing this with their teen? Second Life is an online virtual world and it is all consuming to the exclusion of everything else. Worse than any past interest. Of course we can just disable the internet connection, but we are taking "baby steps" so there is not a full blown melt-... |
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