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It sounds counterintuitive but if you're any flavor of Weird Kid you need to spend some time away from the normies and be with your own people.

It's an interesting paradox where you need to learn to deal with normies if you want to be gainfully employed etc but even well-meaning ones don't really have any frame of reference to help you. (Which is why they always give non-advice like "be yourself!")

So the best source of help is people who are also quirked up but less weird than you. Some of the best gamers you'll meet are the ones who can pass for a normie outside the game. Games will also bring you into contact with girls with BPD(who will teach you about sex and heartache) and Asperger's(the true wife material girls of the gaming community).

Games are also great for organizational skills and looking good in work meetings. One of my non-gamer friends witnessed me running a game and commented how good I was at keeping six different people on track and noticing when someone was checking out so I could rope them back in. Not bad for someone who used to obliviously insult his own friends and family constantly.

Pretending to be normal is fucking exhausting

>>98510842
One of my therapists, who specializes in autism and ADHD, has started organizing a game between several of his patients. It's been great and really fun.

>>98510842
I have autism and have played TTRPGs, I’ve enjoyed them but I wouldn’t really call them therapeutic for me. I can kinda believe the study, less so from TTRPGs being therapeutic more so because many conventional mental health treatments actively harm the patient so a lot of bizarre alternative stuff is going to be better.

>>98510842
It's why I recommend /tg/ hobbies to people I know. I'm autistic and I think it's helped a bit as it's a controlled form of socialization. However, the study is a real double edged sword because you sometimes get people looking to play a game as a free form of therapy and they clearly need professional help. Also OP, link the study don't just use an image you found elsewhere https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39166536/

>>98514140
Yeah, i dont see much benefit for me with ADHD either. Its not like learning how to socialize makes my head be less full of static, i guess it would be good "sit still and shut up" practice, but i play online so i just go on my phone

Not that im not paying attention, i can easily shitpost and still track the board state, its just that i dont need to watch everyone else attack for 20 minutes to know that i will attack when my turn comes up again

>>98510842
I attended a Delta Green session this week. It was the first time in many, many years that I've spent hours socially interacting with other people.

>>98514886
Hey man we can hear Genshin Impact coming through your mic, also it's your turn

I daydream about playing games instead of playing them.

>>98510842
Everyone except for one player in my group has autism(but still nd)
I think it's nice to have a regular session to make sure everyone has at least some degree of social life and a nice warm meal together
It's hard being an adult

It can probably be described as therapeutic, but so can most hobbies

>>98514140
This is just therapists trying to justify their existence when they're interacting with people who're just neurodivergent - and so don't actually need "therapy" because they don't need to be "fixed", they need accommodation from neurotypicals - and so they observe basic facts of autistic existence like
>activity-focused socialising is what gives autists the mental boost that neuroplebs get from purposeless "hanging out"
that autists already know and understand, but wrap it up in therapyspeak so it sounds like a profound observation that they've "discovered".

Therapy was designed by neurotypical women for neurotypical women, it's worthless trash for anyone else because its entire premise is
>be more like a neurotypical woman and you'll be happier
which is just a lie for most of the population.