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For many neurodiverse people, 'The Sims' has been a lifelong comfort
- dqpb 4y agoEveryone is “neurodiverse”, no?
- 9991 4y agoIndividuals can’t be diverse. Only groups.
- barry-cotter 4y ago
- ethbr0 4y agoDefinition of intersectionality: the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intersectionality https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intersectionality
- bawolff 4y agoThe word diverse can mean "different" (implicitly, different from "norm") which individuals certainly can be. Other comments are saying things like woke people are redefining terms, but this is not a new usage. Wiktionary has quotes from the 1700s using it https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/diverse https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/diverse
- 2fast4you 4y agoI think they mean neurodivergent, which makes a lot more sense
- faeriechangling 4y agoIt's supposed to be the counterpart to "Neurotypical". Neurotypicals are especially more neurologically typical than average, and the Neurodiverse are especially neurologically diverse. While we may all be unique, some are less unique than others. I tend to hate woke disability jargon like this because jargon has the incredibly ironic flaw of being less accessible to people with learning disabilities, who are ESL, or who are young. Neurodiverse is one of the more common bits of jargon though, wiki has a big page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity
- DaiPlusPlus 4y ago> Neurotypicals are especially neurologically typical than average, and the Neurodiverse are especially neurologically diverse That's a tad too tautological.
- bawolff 4y agoI dont think that's expressed particularly well, but that's pretty much how all variable traits are. E.g. Normal height people are closer to average than abnormally tall people.
- jdgoesmarching 4y ago> woke disability jargon It’s just a label used to describe people with similar or overlapping developmental disorders. The word could be more concise I suppose, but then you’re just waging this tiny cultural war on words being too big. I’m starting to think the anti-“woke” crowd are just people who get offended at any vocabulary that gains popularity after their early 20s.
- faeriechangling 4y agoNo it really is specifically about jargon. Also Neurodiverse was coined in the 90s, it's pretty old now. Also within these communities, ND/NT are not very verbose, because they can be abbreviated like that. Have you looked around in tech? There's tons of people who lack a full command of English. There are tons of "barstool conservatives". Using words like "neurodiverse" is like shooting myself in the foot before I even get started. I'm not consistent about being concise and not wordy, look at how I write in general, it's really not that accessible but it's hard to write accessibly but an easy way to do so is to avoid jargon. I'll use these terms within these communities where necessary, but not outside of them, notice how the mere use of this word caused a shitstorm in the comments.
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- blooalien 4y agoThat gets kinda to the heart of the problem of "labels" right there. It's just a way for people to label groups of "other" to make them easier to target for fear and hatred. Everyone is different (even so-called "identical" twins), and you can group 'em together a billion billion different ways.
- the_omegist 4y agoSounds like newspeak to me...
- smegsicle 4y ago> “The Sims” is an open-world game, meaning there is no right or wrong way to experience it that's a 'diverse' definition, maybe confusing it with the concept of 'open-ended' ? (the sims is not generally considered an open-world game)
- kastagg 4y agoThe Sims has only very weak goals and scoring and functions perfectly as a sandbox.
- RosanaAnaDana 4y agoThats not what open world means. My sims can't walk or explore in seemingly endless directions.
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> My sims can't walk or explore in seemingly endless directions. That isn't what open world means either. There isn't a game on the market where you can do that, though it is most of the concept of No Man's Sky. All game worlds are tightly bounded so that they can fit on your computer. The edges of the world are always obvious. Open world is generally used to refer to a game where you are allowed to walk from any part of it to any other part. Compare Doom, where level 1 and level 2 are completely separated from each other. The only way to get from level 1 to level 2 is to beat level 1. There is no way to get from level 2 to level 1. (Granted that Sims would never be called an open world game. The player isn't even present in the game world.)
- RodgerTheGreat 4y agoGames with procedurally-generated worlds larger than the player could ever explore are rather common: Minecraft, one of the best-selling games in history, comes immediately to mind. Massive procgen galaxies far predate No Man's Sky as well- see the original Elite and Noctis IV.
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- burnished 4y agoSame reason you use whatever labels you prefer; to express themselves both as an individual and as part of a group.
- jamiltron 4y agoNeurodiverse is a wider collection than autism. It's useful to describe a variety of circumstances without needing to enumerate through them.
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- the_omegist 4y agoAnd it also sounds more classy than "handicapped" or "deficient"...
- gruez 4y ago>Why do people constantly invent labels to comfort themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_treadmill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_treadmill
- faeriechangling 4y agoIf you say you have Aspergers on certain forums nowadays people will flame you, call you a Nazi, and mods will ban you. In these same communities, without exception, neurodiverse is totally safe and won't raise an eyebrow. People go with what's practical. Also "Neurodiverse" is just a group label for the "mentally disabled" as a whole, and also non-disabled people with disabled characteristics, and for disabled people who hate the word disabled because of the stigma attached to it.
- serf 4y agoa great franchise ruined by DLC release strategy and generalized EA-scumminess.
- mattigames 4y agoPretty sure even the first version around 20 years ago had expansion discs filling the exact same role, perhaps less insidious as there weren't that many available. You could say they just copied Barbie's™ timeless upselling strategy, doesn't make it any better of course. Just out of curiosity I checked and it costs around $840 to buy Sims 4 with all it's DLCs, just... wtf.
- drawfloat 4y agoTo be fair, the first Sims also went in for a lot of flack for its expansion pack money making.
- nix23 4y agoAnd Doom too.
- realjhol 4y agoNeurodiverse isn't a real medical term
- machinawhite 4y agoThe Sims is not a medical device
- wsostt 4y agoThe article defines it as “non medical”. And that doesn't mean that people can't find identity in it.