It's also worth mentioning that like any savant, handicaps can also turn into strengths.
My vivid mind's eye makes me an excellent photographer. My inability to stop thinking about things makes me an incredibly detail oriented and thorough worker. As a coping mechanism for endless " noise", I can follow multiple conversations in my head and around me. Usually I have five "mental tracks" at once, and can describe what I'm thinking, seeing, and hearing completely separate from each other. Which makes time in loud, busy places quite tiring.
OCD is very often the mental opposite of ADD, though I suppose it's not impossible to have both, I have trouble understanding how someone would. Like trying to force two magnets together. :)
Folks, please try not to use OCD as a buzzword for "completionism". I'm not a "cleaner" and I've never scrubbed my fingerprints off, but that's the level of severity we mean when we talk about suffering from it. I'm thankful that video games have always been an escape from compulsions, and not a manifestation.
@CleverNameHere Yes. It's pretty awful to always fear that one is a closet sociopath. To be repulsed by violence and cruelty, especially to animals, while having sleeping dreams and waking visions about murdering bullies and letting family members die, and also wanting to be dead ourselves because it's impossible to understand these demons... it's a horrible kind of childhood. But we make it through, somehow.
Seeing these struggles in game form is quite inspiring, but the imagery may be too much for me to try myself. They too will become intrusive. Sharing someone else's horrific visions is not really part of any healing process I know of.
@Emerald_Scott I appreciate the appeal of being a devil's advocate, for lack of a better term. But if you're going to spend your energy hypothesising such things, thinking one step ahead to the most logical rebuttal will make your original post both more balanced, and more interesting to read.
And it was less about sarcasm and more about a great opportunity for an inconspicuous Pabst Blue Ribbon joke (something we appreciate at GB). ;)
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