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04 Apr 2008, 12:20 am

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04 Apr 2008, 4:10 am

So not true. I know so many NT males who are into computer games.


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04 Apr 2008, 5:13 am

I saw the headline of this in a newspaper that someone else was reading yesterday and wondered what it was about. The headline made it look as though becoming addicted to computer games made someone develop austism-spectum traits, which would have been interesting. But I see now that all it really says is that people who have those traits often like computer games. I don't think that really merits a study.


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04 Apr 2008, 10:35 am

Don't know that it means anything, but I don't even like multiplayer games. I don't like having to interact with random people, or the random stuff they do or say (and don't enjoy the gameplay as much anyway).

I'm more comfortable with myself that I don't really do anything socially. It bores me, and I don't want to! I would like SOME though (I used to worry about it, but really now I realize it's a choice to an extent, it's work to be social, and just feels like a waste of time and boring).