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Video game problem...anyone else?
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| Patricia |
Posted on November 11 2011 08:17 PM
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I'm not a video game player on the average, but sometimes I like to play the little demo's in my not-a-smart-phone cell phone (too cheap, and not interested enough to buy the full version).
My problem comes in when I have to get to one side or the other. I see that I need to go right, but I push the left button on the controls instead. Or vice-versa.  By the time I realize my mistake, it's too late and I get eaten, or the world gets blown up. 
Anyone else have this problem? |
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| justfoundout |
Posted on November 11 2011 11:36 PM
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11/11/11
I don't have trouble with my rights and lefts, Patricia. My problem is that I seem to have slow reaction time to what I see on the screen. This is strange because I drive a car just fine with apparently normal reaction time. - jus' |
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| dandy22 |
Posted on November 12 2011 12:17 AM
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Hey patricia and Jus, I have both of those problems. All of my friends are good at video games and they want me to play with them sometimes, but i'm too embarrassed. So I just tell them that i don't like video games.
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on November 13 2011 01:37 AM
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Jus, maybe it has something to do with the fact that somewhere in your brain, you know that driving a car has real life or death consequences, so your reaction times are better? Versus a game, which you subconsciously know has no real impact on your livelihood.
I personally am awful with my lefts and rights. But interestingly, I don't usually have a problem if I change the joystick controls to inverted. For example, when you play Halo, if you push the joystick up, the screen looks up (it's a first-person shooter game). If you press the joystick down, the screen looks down. But if you invert the controls, then when you press down, the screen looks up, and vice versa.
I don't know why, but for some reason the inverted controls make a lot more sense to my brain than the regular controls. I always look the "wrong" way if I have the controls set to normal mode, but if I set them to inverted then I usually have no problem pointing the screen in the direction I want it to go.
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer |
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| Imayhavedyscalculia |
Posted on November 13 2011 06:23 AM
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Grr! I have directional problems too! I absoloutly hate mirrors for that reason lol XD
I alwaus had problems with this. especially when I was in ballet. I al ways got told "sweetheart your supposed to turn ovet your right shoulder!" Lol. |
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| heathermomster |
Posted on November 15 2011 12:42 AM
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My 12 yo with dyscalculia plays on the WII and PS3 during the weekends and school vacations. He plays a 1st person shooter game where he drives a jeep. After playing that game, he slips over to a racing game and experiences problems only because the controls are different. He corrects between the games fairly easily. He also plays an NCAA football game.
He plays trumpet and types 40 wpm. He reads maps very well and has no problems with locations and geography. Sometimes he has to stop and think about his right and left. Video games are not a problem. |
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| justfoundout |
Posted on November 15 2011 03:45 PM
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Kat, the same thing happens with the Eath Google maps. When you've got the little 'yellow man' standing on a street. I don't trust my memory right now as to whether you push 'up' or 'down' to see the treetops, but whichever it is, I usually have to play with it for a minute before I can get acclimated again.
Imay, I didn't have trouble in ballet with right and lef,t, or even with mirror image. My problem was completely not remembering any of the routine I'd just done after we'd been 'taught' a new routine. I practically have to 'talk' my way through a routine, telling myself verbally what I'm doing, in order to have any chance of remembering the sequence of steps. I've been talking in the present tense here, but in truth, I now have a bad knee that sometimes has me walking with a cane. I hurt it when I was young doing acrobatics. Please be careful and don't damage your precious body trying to do things that are extreme. - jus' |
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