Pokemon Relaxes Autism!

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This child took a liking to Pokemon Go and responded to people who were playing, changed his routines, and his parents are thrilled -

Pokemon Go and autism

Sounds like it benefits the kid and his/her parents.

Anything which helps to bring autistic kids out of the fog....is fine by me!

Pokemon Go is also a dumb trend that is getting people robbed and killed and it poses serious questions into things like who owns the digital space around you and privacy concerns. I like kraftiekortie am thrilled this has benefited this family but surely they could have designed something less troublesome. I think Pokemon Go has been more trouble then it has been worth and is clearly a hazard if people are going to drive and hunt pokemon. This may very well be the first game released with a death toll to be brutally honest. Its not great, it was a poor execution of a great idea.

In Montreal, where I live, the authorities are trying to set out a very large and safe place designated for Pokemon Go. The first nomination was Mt. Royal but the City shot that down. 2nd choice: Parc Lafontaine (huge!). No decision yet. It's good to see something sensible being tried. We can't stop them playing, but we could make it safer.

I haven't seen too many Pokemon Go people here, perhaps it being 110F give or take almost every day might have something to do with it. Hopefully this scurge( ) will pass by the time tolerable weather comes around.

Haven't tried it, will probably make me get overstimulated or upset about trying to "catch 'em all."

That's one of a few things that concerns me. Others like already pointed out are safety and privacy. I want to at least wait until things get settled better on it.

But as far as interactive games go, I think the MMORPG I have been playing for a while has benefited me some. But it's also gobbled up a lot of time.

Awww shucks Uncle Scrooge

I really like Pokemon go and it makes me more relaxed and calm when I'm outside. However I have Tourettes too and it suppresses all tics when I'm playing it but as soon as I stop the tics just explode. So it works but it also makes it worse which is really annoying.

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I see where you are coming from, but it has left its impact nonetheless.

that too can be a real problem for me. I am terrible at managing time.

It looks like a fun game. I think it's great that there's a game that encourages people to exercise. This could help end the obesity epidemic.

Unfortunately it won't run on my BlackBerry

To be honest though, if those same people werent getting killed or whatever because of actions taken while playing this, they'd just get themselves killed over something else. Idiots really are idiots no matter what the context, after all...

The game even very specifically warns you to "PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR SURROUNDINGS, BE CAREFUL!! !"

Sadly though, many people just have no common sense.

And for the kids, it really doesnt help that these days parents are so.... lazy. If you're a parent, you need to actually WATCH your blasted kid! Make some rules for safety, and see to it that they are actually enforced. Even just something like letting kids play in the street can be bad. That happens ALOT on the road I live on (and I'm NOT in a well populated area), and these kids are completely oblivious to basically everything. I've had the little morons dash out in front of my car multiple times because some stupid ball or whatever got away from them. Or because they're on bikes. And then the parent later complains at ME for "going too fast". Because yes, 15 MPH done while driving in a totally paranoid foot-already-on-the-brakes-because-stupid-children-are-everywhere is really putting the pedal to the metal, isnt it... As opposed to, you know, telling his stupid kids to PAY ATTENTION and not leap in front of cars. My thoughts on this were "Well, staple your damn kids to the walls by their shirts or something so they stop doing that, because you clearly arent watching them yourself" but of course I didnt SAY that. Obviously not all parents are like that, but it seems the number of them that are grows ever higher.

So now we have smartphones, which take kids like that and make them even more distracted. And parents do nothing about it much of the time. If we'd had smartphones back when I was a kid, my mom would have had a fit if she caught me walking around distracted like that; I'd have gotten quite the yelling-at. Same with playing in the street, it just didnt happen with me or my brother. Or anyone else I knew.

So to me, it's not really the game itself that causes this... it just exaggerates it for some people. Those same people are already getting constantly distracted by things like Facebook on their phones (which can be dangerous in it's own unique ways, too...).

And dont do it at night. Just dont. Even in very rural areas with little/no crime... in places like that (my area) you can run into the threat of wild animals at night (roaming packs of coyotes, where I'm at) instead of criminals. Bad enough to be wandering at night like an idiot; worse to be doing it while distracted by a phone.

If a child leaps in front of your car, who is responsible, you or the child?

I was planning on giving this game a go, I don't mind the odd Pokemon game, but having seen how popular it is and how it seems to be dominating the news and youtube I'll probably not bother now. I had no idea I was a hipster

Well, I seem to lack the ability to use crazy psychic powers to make people dash in random directions, so....