My view on neurodivergence is manifold: It can be severely disabling in our neurotypical world and comes with massive health risks, depending on your support network and needs. But it often also brings positive or quirky things.
Today I’m having a particular bad day and would like to help everyone who is in a not so great mood to focus on the good things for a moment. When life can seem harsh, we can decide to focus on the good things, just for a moment and deal with hardships later.
My personal superpower is building things. I have very strong spacial thinking and love to build things, be that computers, Minecraft stuff or machines. I get a lot of positive feedback for this and i consider this my greatest skill.
What is your superpower, your favorite skill, the thing that makes you unique or just different?
Thats awesome! Maybe I should have thought of geophysics as well.
The awareness of buildings is something peeps usually look at me funny for. I cant tell you the names of my teachers or classmates from high school or elementary school but I can tell you what each room looked like, where it was in the building and probably how thick the walls were.
Have you ever tried minecraft? It’s kind of my go to thing to get my brain worked out a bit in that department. Building complicated structures and machines.
I‘m thinking what other hobbies might benefit from this type of thinking.
I have an immaculately sorted Lego collection. It’s like Minecraft, but older ;)
I don’t play Minecraft but I understand the appeal. I spent far too much time basebuilding in No Man’s Sky, which has a similar gameplay loop. :)
I used to play a lot of Descent. I don’t think anything like it truly exists in modern gameplay, where you’d have zero reference directions – not even up or down – when entering a level. Figuring out how to map the levels was always my favourite. In Descent 3 online multiplayer, I’d run spiral patterns around people in dogfights using the flightstick, and they could never keep me targetted. Six degrees of spatial freedom of movement and you can create the weirdest rollercoaster of a flight pattern. Sure, they could corner me in a tunnel or something, but in an open space dogfight, I was king. I miss that game.
I’ve always wanted to try Portal but don’t have time. Can’t consume all the things and run the business…
That sounds very cool! I loved lego when I was young.
Havent played no mans sky but I can see the appeal as well. I play x4 which is similar but more automation focused afaik. You start by flying your own ship, dogfighting, accumulate more ships and build a fleet, build dozens of space stations that produce stuff, ships that transfer and sell the stuff, have interstellar allegiances, wars etc etc. you basically go from nobody to ruler of the solar system so to speak. Pretty insane. German game, a little jank here and there but I love it.