flippantHippo

So interesting to me how many comments here, which are intended to be critques of the game, unknowingly end up giving insights into the autistic experience. I'm not sure if this is intentional, but there's some elegance in how that's played out.

  - I don't like the choices given
  - Why did both options, make my x score drop?
  - I don't understand how this game is scored
  - I don't agree with how this game is scored
  - That's not what masking is/everybody has to do that

In my experience at least, these are the responses to the real world that are at the centre of autism - especially for those undiagnosed / late-diagnosed. Why don't I understand this thing that everyone else seems to, and nobody understands this thing that I've clearly explained 3 times now? Why is x that is so easy for everyone else so hard for me? I don't understand what I did wrong.

Games like this are never going to be perfect simulations of even a single person's experience, but are great for demonstrating that others might not experience the world in the same way as you. And the more people understand that, the more empathy and less conflict there will be in the world.