when I was in middle school I racked up over half a YEAR playtime in Minecraft and gave myself carpel tunnel. I only played Minecraft 1.8.9 which was at least 10 versions out of date by that point. I never even made anything I just played on Hypixel.
I did get full superior dragon armor in Hypixel Skyblock by spotting that you could buy a fish for 2 coins but sell it for like 20 coins if you craft it into bait because people are lazy. So I bought and sold millions of fish 2,500 at a time.
I later found that you could just craft dragon armor using shards and sell them on the auction house for about 100k profit and made BANK before other people caught on.
I loved finding those little market loopholes. Sad that nerds eventually caught on and made websites to automate it, and that the game went pay to win. Those were some good times though.
also hot take but dwarvern mines ruined the game. It’s “SKYblock” not “infinite land block”
not every weird thing is because autism.
- Not every weird interest is autism
- Not every habit that disrupts your productivity is ADHD
- Wanting things to be tidy / clean / organized is not always OCD
In 2000, mental orders were under discussed. In 2015+, people are obsessed with labeling themselves as some sorta broken.
Statistically most of you guys are just slightly nerdy, lazy, and picky. Not autistic / adhd / OCD.
That’s like going to a UFC match and telling the audience that statistically 51% of them are female. Might be true on a global scale, but where you collect your sample matters.
I bet the demographic on lemmy skew much higher for neurodivergent people than in general population (kind of like how UFC fans skew more male than in general population), and even more so on lemmy.blahaj.zone (you know, because of the statistics on blahajs selected demographic).
the irony is that you can find this comment under any post about autism, which sure seems like a hyperfixation to me.
But this one is
The ADHD people play good games instead
Of course not, but “restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities” is one of the key traits of autism observed by non-autistic folks and one of the major criteria/requirements for diagnosis, and playing a specific video game over and over can certainly line up with part of that
Does this make someone autistic, no, but if that person’s seeing this, pretty heavy social communication differences with others, inflexibility with routine, nonverbal communication differences, atypical sensory sensitivity, and all this has been since an early age, they should probably start considering the possibility
