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<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 681713" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>We have tried and tried to get Pat into ANYTHING other than video games. Video games have their place, but when they are the be all and end all to the detriment of everything else, including nutrition, hygiene, and ANY true social interaction, they're not a reasonable activity.</p><p></p><p>We tried... bowling, since he seemed to like it (too expensive to do very often), model building (no interest), puzzles (no interest), cars (no interest), radio control cars (no interest), bike riding (little interest), music (no interest), sports (softball was good but as he got older fewer teams available and when they have 90-minute games at 9 PM on a weeknight when you have an infant... uggghhh), cooking (some interest but wouldn't stay to learn if it took more than 5 minutes tops), even playing his video games with him (DISASTER).</p><p></p><p>I always played by myself, as an only child with few friends and no close cousins. Then I got into reading. I loved reading the way he does video games. But... I also wanted to live up to my parents' expectations and was a people-pleaser. Less so, now, but still some. I'm still an introvert - text, email, facebook me and I'm good, call me or do the in person thing and... Uggghhh. It's hard for me to be "ON" all the time. So I do understand not wanting to be around a lot of people all the time... But a few would be good for him. He just "stalks" them and they run the other way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 681713, member: 6705"] We have tried and tried to get Pat into ANYTHING other than video games. Video games have their place, but when they are the be all and end all to the detriment of everything else, including nutrition, hygiene, and ANY true social interaction, they're not a reasonable activity. We tried... bowling, since he seemed to like it (too expensive to do very often), model building (no interest), puzzles (no interest), cars (no interest), radio control cars (no interest), bike riding (little interest), music (no interest), sports (softball was good but as he got older fewer teams available and when they have 90-minute games at 9 PM on a weeknight when you have an infant... uggghhh), cooking (some interest but wouldn't stay to learn if it took more than 5 minutes tops), even playing his video games with him (DISASTER). I always played by myself, as an only child with few friends and no close cousins. Then I got into reading. I loved reading the way he does video games. But... I also wanted to live up to my parents' expectations and was a people-pleaser. Less so, now, but still some. I'm still an introvert - text, email, facebook me and I'm good, call me or do the in person thing and... Uggghhh. It's hard for me to be "ON" all the time. So I do understand not wanting to be around a lot of people all the time... But a few would be good for him. He just "stalks" them and they run the other way. [/QUOTE]
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