Video game: POV being neurodivergent in a neurotypical world

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A new video game challenges players to experience the neurotypical world as someone who is neurodivergent (e.g. autism, ADHD, dyslexia). Video by the University of South Australia

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00:00So the game Life Resounding is designed to explore being neurodivergent in a world that's

00:05designed and created for neurotypical people.

00:08As neurodivergent people, it's kind of hard for us to exist within this world that has

00:12been designed by neurotypical people and to neurotypical standards.

00:17So what the game does is it kind of puts you in the perspective of somebody who's growing

00:21up neurodivergent in this world and lets you kind of feel and experience some of those

00:27challenges and how they might affect you as a neurodivergent person.

00:31How your emotions are impacted, how your actions are impacted by the way in which you're living

00:35in a space that your brain wasn't designed for.

00:38The game hijacking your camera, trying to make you look out the window rather than writing

00:42lines in your diary as a punishment, to trying to put rubbish into bins and constantly turning

00:49around seeing the rubbish is there again.

00:51I'm really hoping that neurotypical people play the game to gain an understanding of

00:55what it's like to be neurodivergent.

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