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Playing League of Legends with Asperger Syndrome

Pestering Jester·6/19/2015, 9:15:32 AM·3 votes·1,729 views

Hi. I hope that somebody in Riot just clances at this post can somehow relate or something...

I have been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome and when I started to play this game with my friends that has been the greatest experience I've had in years. I have conquered my own depression and learned how to act more nicely towards other people. I have gained more empathy in my personal life by playing this game by noticing how bad other players can be sometimes.

I know that everybody has a bad days and they want to play league ot release that bad day. Sometimes I wonder if that is right solution. I prefer more playing normal games more than ranked because in ranked playing is more tense and people are more aggresive in chat and do not think straight.

The problem is that I can't climb in elo ladder because of my syndrome. It is really hard to focus on playing the game when I have to keep track my other (not personal friend) team memebers does. I have habit to loose my concentration when they accuse me for doing or not doing something then just starts to troll other team member when I'm clueless what just happened.

For that reason, I mostly enjoy playing jungle/support because you get less yells or at jungle. You can freely choose what to do and when to do something. It's really hard to play Top/Mid/Adc because if you make one bad mistake whole team just gets salty and blames. I personally just ignore when others does that and keep my own words in my side of the screen. I was wondering if Riot is even thought that certain people with disadvantages can't have a better score because these troll/salty people just makes my and other aspies playing completely useless.

I just want to make an exsample how my game goes when other team members starts to argue with other team members.

  1. I loose my focus on the game and I start to get pissed off that they argue over small thing.
  2. I can't play my fullest if just someone just wants to ruin my game and we end up loosing because of him (40min games are really hard to sit...)
  3. Recarding that second reason. I have some standards that makes really hard to focus on game. When I just want to take a 10 min nap to release my worry seeds it's very hard to write to riot member who just sees me as a team member that did not join to team fight. It's really hard to say that I have asperger and when I can't focus on game I get slobby and I don't have energy any more to focus on the game.
  4. When I loose my focus and energy, I get angry and start to point out more problems with player (this happens very rarely). I know after the argument or game has ended what I have done.

So... How can I climb elo while my own problems make it hard. This is like anchor is just pulling me down and I can't do anything but just go with it down to bronze 5 and stay there. Lonely and Sad. Oh hey, my depression is kicking back again... sigh...

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...well i hope you got my point...

1 Comments

Damagefox6/19/2015, 9:55:05 AM1 votes

Ahh someone else with aspergers. I know how it is This is exactly what its like for me. I was diagnosed early in childhood. Sinse then it has pretty much ruined this account. because of how I tend to react. I see things very differently. It gets under my skin when people refer to me as "some kind of aspie" or "what are you? a downs kid?" It drives me up the wall. Because these people think they are funny or somehow amusing

in anycase, this is exactly how it is for me. Maybe more people will try and understand instead of flaming. But then again...this is league. Thats like hoping it will snow on the sun.