April 3, 2008
Asperger’s and Video Games
What does this say about online addicts (read: Flockers)?
The researchers clarified that videogame addicts “share some of the same characteristics because they find it easier to empathize with computer systems than with other people,” not that they had or were more prone to have Asperger’s, according to a Next Generation report. The results of the study, which covered 391 videogame players of whom 86 percent were male, were presented on Thursday to the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference in Dublin, Ireland.
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a long time ago, I posted links to an online self-evaluation for asperger’s. I’ll look and see if I can dig that up. it might be interesting to see how people score.
that would be fun.