u/Rappzyspirit786

Young adult who have had a strong passion for gaming for a very long time. I played a whole bunch of single player games to 100% complete them (Never cared for MP ranked). Also Co-op games with online friends sometimes. I would also sometimes stay up late to play games and watch streamers/gaming content. My game time went from 5 hours a day to 1 hour a day.

I started reading back in June this year and I feel like this is my new thing now. I've read some mystery thriller fictions. At first it felt very heavy to read a full novel since I havent done that since school, but I'm finding books that I start to enjoy now. I feel a lot better as well

Only downside is I still sit on my butt most of the day so need to find a physical activity too

M24. It geniounly the worst thing ever. I've flunked mulitple tests and barely passed in high school.

When I was a teen, I would hop on the PlayStation when I came back from school after doing homework and that was the best thing ever. Played and chatted with people irl and online friends too and made good memories. I played various of both single player and multiplayer games and even the "lower" rated games I found enjoyment in. Lot of games from X360 and PS4

Now games kinda gotten boring to me as young adult. Sometimes when I play, I feel like I should be doibg something else and realizing that gaming kinda destructed my social life

Young adult with moderate functioning (level 2) autism. Us people on the spectrum tend to have interests that we get highly focused and hyper fixated on. Mine ended up being video games. Growing up I became deeply attached to gaming, characters, stories, achievements, just all the art forms colliding into an experience. It was a way to relive my anxiety during stressful times and it was a way for me to have some form of human interaction (online) since I had poor social skills irl. In middle school I stopped with Karate practices so eventually I struggled with keeping up with exercising, hygiene and daily tasks etc.. I think when COVID-19 hit and everything closed, my gaming was at its worst. Before that I did more other stuff like traveling and going to events occssionally

All of these things together have prevented me from developing myself, reaching real life milestones, learning new skills and abilites I could had used for. Being an independent adult. Forming meaningful relationships and getting out of the comfort zones to try new things was difficult. Had I been hyper focused on math, science or things like that instead my life could had been better.

However i have improved myself and these are some changes i have done this year:

- Every day I go to the gym for 30-35 min + home exercise

- I read at least 20 pages of a book every day

- I shower almost every day and brush my teeth more often

- I fixed my sleeping schedule. I wake up 6:15 each day

- I try to walk more outside the house

- learned how to cook new dishes

I also want to learn playing guitar, painting, financing and so on. I play games ag most 1 hour ish a day so i can make room for bettee activities