Acceptance for my special interest

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25 Feb 2011, 7:17 pm

I'm 21, and I love computer games. Played them all the time when I had nothing else to do, up until I was about 14, then I started doing all the normal stuff like going out, getting drunk and stuff like that. In the last year or so, I've started getting really into playing games again.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's a hobby, or special interest. Just something I love doing to pass time. I remember counting down the days until Fallout: New Vegas was released, and was so excited :lol:

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25 Feb 2011, 7:18 pm

hale_bopp wrote:

/shrug I play video games. I'm 26 next week, its really pretty normal in this day and age. Whatever women you're talking about must live in the stone age. I used to work at a video game developer where half the staff were in their 30s. It's normal.

ok now im curious. what games do you play and whats the name of that company? Never heard of a kiwi game company

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25 Feb 2011, 7:21 pm

Dantac wrote:

hale_bopp wrote:

ok now im curious. what games do you play and whats the name of that company? Never heard of a kiwi game company

I'm not going to say the company name but it did games mainly for xbox, ps3 and wii. Personally, I play nintendo games RPGs and stuff. I also like Wow.

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25 Feb 2011, 7:30 pm

Was it Sidhe?

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25 Feb 2011, 9:00 pm

Chronos wrote:

I don't know a grown man who doesn't play video games.

It's a pleasure to meet you.

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26 Feb 2011, 5:58 am

ASMJT wrote:

Chronos wrote:

I don't know a grown man who doesn't play video games.

It's a pleasure to meet you.

I also don't watch TV.

Anyway the OP said it's his special interest, therefore (if he's anything like me) he thinks about it constantly to the point where it can take over his life sometimes. To me so-called special interests are not always a good thing. I have a problem with the attitudes of some in the "Aspie" culture in general who seem to consider obsession a virtue.

From the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for AS:

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B.Restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities, as manifested by at least one of the following:

(1) encompassing preoccupation with one or more stereotyped and restricted patterns of interest that is abnormal either in intensity or focus

Maybe we should start calling them 'abnormal interests', or 'abnormal obsessions'. For me there was nothing special about the occasions when I could talk about little else besides my interest.

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26 Feb 2011, 12:28 pm

emlion wrote:

My boyfriend plays video games (he's over 20) and so do all his friends. It's a pretty acceptable hobby.

Exactly. Pretty much everyone I know plays video games, I'm actually the odd one out for not liking them

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26 Feb 2011, 12:29 pm

Asp-Z wrote:

emlion wrote:

My boyfriend plays video games (he's over 20) and so do all his friends. It's a pretty acceptable hobby.

Exactly. Pretty much everyone I know plays video games, I'm actually the odd one out for not liking them

How can you not like them?!
You strange, strange person. :wink:

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26 Feb 2011, 12:35 pm

emlion wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

emlion wrote:

My boyfriend plays video games (he's over 20) and so do all his friends. It's a pretty acceptable hobby.

Exactly. Pretty much everyone I know plays video games, I'm actually the odd one out for not liking them

How can you not like them?!
You strange, strange person. :wink:

I like ones I can pick up and play for a few minutes at a time, like Angry Birds, but I can never get into the big ones like console games.

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26 Feb 2011, 12:36 pm

Asp-Z wrote:

emlion wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

emlion wrote:

My boyfriend plays video games (he's over 20) and so do all his friends. It's a pretty acceptable hobby.

Exactly. Pretty much everyone I know plays video games, I'm actually the odd one out for not liking them

How can you not like them?!
You strange, strange person. :wink:

I like ones I can pick up and play for a few minutes at a time, like Angry Birds, but I can never get into the big ones like console games.

I just like to pretend i'm a soldier and blow people up. :oops:

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26 Feb 2011, 5:56 pm

CoalBogey wrote:

I also don't watch TV.

Likewise. I also do not listen to the radio; or hardly music in general regardless of the media used to listen. I do not watch films either, except for reference material and research purposes only.

emlion wrote:

How can you not like them?!

I used to be obsessed with them when I was younger. My brother still enjoys playing them. Sometimes I will indulge in Solitaire on my laptop while I am waiting to download or upload a file, but that is about it.

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26 Feb 2011, 6:09 pm

The only problem I've had recently re: video games and girls was my crush trying to get me to talk about video games, and me trying to avoid the subject. I'm really trying to avoid boring her to death with the tales of a green-clad boy and his quest to save his kingdom.

>_>

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27 Feb 2011, 2:07 am

emlion wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

emlion wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

emlion wrote:

My boyfriend plays video games (he's over 20) and so do all his friends. It's a pretty acceptable hobby.

Exactly. Pretty much everyone I know plays video games, I'm actually the odd one out for not liking them

How can you not like them?!
You strange, strange person. :wink:

I like ones I can pick up and play for a few minutes at a time, like Angry Birds, but I can never get into the big ones like console games.

I just like to pretend i'm a soldier and blow people up. :oops:

haha..then here's a free MMO for you:

Battleground Europe.

No CC needed for the 14 day free trial..after the trial is over you either sign up (monthly fee) or you can play only as a rifleman for free...which many people find very enjoyable.

small in-game film I made with a paratroop sniper ... the graphics have since then been significantly updated too.

(watch in 720 HD)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dMjEri5TI8[/youtube]

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27 Feb 2011, 10:45 am

emlion wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

emlion wrote:

My boyfriend plays video games (he's over 20) and so do all his friends. It's a pretty acceptable hobby.

Exactly. Pretty much everyone I know plays video games, I'm actually the odd one out for not liking them

How can you not like them?!
You strange, strange person. :wink:

I don't like them either. However, I easily admit I am strange/weird . . . hence the moniker TheWierdPig.

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