I am a 19 year old teenage boy with aspergers and this is a problem I am going to discuss I have had for the longest time so ever since childhood I have had difficulties accepting losing or failing at video games.
I remember getting very angry and sometimes I even hit myself such as in the head when losing a battle in Pokémon games or in kung fu panda on the Xbox 360.
I am not sure if it's because of my aspergers or if it's simply the fact that I was never taught as a child to accept losses .
There are certain games I can play with no issues and that includes peaceful games like animal crossing new horizons or puzzle games such as professor Layton.
What I can't handle very well are any types of competitive shooters such as tf2 or other competitive online games such as pokemon showdown because not only do I constantly scream obscene words I also frequently use violence and at one point I accidentally broke my glasses because of a severe ragequit in tf2 so I had to lie to my dad that I tripped on the floor and broke my glasses.
What happens to me when I play these types of games is that I also develop a huge superiority complex where I feel the need to insult the opponent by screaming obscenities at them when I feel they are doing poorly or doing better than me but I would never do it ingame because I am not that big of a jerk and I just do it to release my anger onto something outside the game so insulting them in the game is pointless and might get me banned.
It's not just losing games that can cause me to lose my patience it can also be when certain apps act up such as the time I broke the upper screen on my Nintendo 3ds with my kneecap in pure rage because the YouTube app would simply not stop crashing which was eventually fixed in a later patch.
Rainbow islands is an old arcade game I get very violent about when losing mostly because it's insanely hard if not impossible on the later levels even though I practiced on it for over a year getting decent at it and only beating it this year with savestates on an emulator.
Eventually what tends to happen after a while of raging at the game is that I just get sick off it or even better a ragequit and I do something else such as watching cartoons or simply playing peaceful games.
And yes I am fully aware it's just a game
but that won't stop these issues from appearing just because somebody said it's just a game.
At this point the best thing I can do is get help from psychologist because I feel they are best equipped to help people like me.
Are there things about having aspergers that can trigger this sort of behaviour or is it something completely different that I was not aware even existed?
Are there any other people here besides me that have these types of issues when it comes to being a store loser.
In short I have always had an incredibly short fuse in general and I have no idea what to do at this point.
I remember getting very angry and sometimes I even hit myself such as in the head when losing a battle in Pokémon games or in kung fu panda on the Xbox 360.
I am not sure if it's because of my aspergers or if it's simply the fact that I was never taught as a child to accept losses .
There are certain games I can play with no issues and that includes peaceful games like animal crossing new horizons or puzzle games such as professor Layton.
What I can't handle very well are any types of competitive shooters such as tf2 or other competitive online games such as pokemon showdown because not only do I constantly scream obscene words I also frequently use violence and at one point I accidentally broke my glasses because of a severe ragequit in tf2 so I had to lie to my dad that I tripped on the floor and broke my glasses.
What happens to me when I play these types of games is that I also develop a huge superiority complex where I feel the need to insult the opponent by screaming obscenities at them when I feel they are doing poorly or doing better than me but I would never do it ingame because I am not that big of a jerk and I just do it to release my anger onto something outside the game so insulting them in the game is pointless and might get me banned.
It's not just losing games that can cause me to lose my patience it can also be when certain apps act up such as the time I broke the upper screen on my Nintendo 3ds with my kneecap in pure rage because the YouTube app would simply not stop crashing which was eventually fixed in a later patch.
Rainbow islands is an old arcade game I get very violent about when losing mostly because it's insanely hard if not impossible on the later levels even though I practiced on it for over a year getting decent at it and only beating it this year with savestates on an emulator.
Eventually what tends to happen after a while of raging at the game is that I just get sick off it or even better a ragequit and I do something else such as watching cartoons or simply playing peaceful games.
And yes I am fully aware it's just a game
but that won't stop these issues from appearing just because somebody said it's just a game.
At this point the best thing I can do is get help from psychologist because I feel they are best equipped to help people like me.
Are there things about having aspergers that can trigger this sort of behaviour or is it something completely different that I was not aware even existed?
Are there any other people here besides me that have these types of issues when it comes to being a store loser.
In short I have always had an incredibly short fuse in general and I have no idea what to do at this point.