Games ---> to some kind of Autism?

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http://www.gamespot.com/news/6235000.html

What about the sensory and motor difficulties of aspies?

about the study.... correlation does not equal causation, so yeah.

That makes sense to me. I have a hard time, with a lot of computer games. If I didn't, than I'd spend half of this time, playing computer games, instead of posting on WP, all the time.

There was a study some years back reporting an association between television viewing in infancy and autism, and I recollect that the authors suggested a causal relationship between exposure to non-reacting human faces and social development (i.e. baby gurgles / calls / cries and has no effect on human, baby does not correctly assimilate human interaction).

Yeah, well, I can correlate cat ownership to autism, too, but it's pretty safe to say that cats don't reach into people's brains and tweak the neurons into an autistic pattern. (Autistics probably own more cats because, unlike dogs, cats have a more comfortable and less demanding style of interaction. But plenty of us have, and like having, dogs.)

I think autistics are drawn to computer and video games because these games have solid, concrete rules to them, which is quite reassuring to anyone who has to live most of their life in the crazy NT world. Computers are a great relief to the logical, detail-oriented brain when you've just spent your day with people.