Meryl Alper
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323 appearances
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first heard Jan 2024
last heard Jan 2024
Meryl Alper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For boys in particular, gaming itself is where there's a lot of hanging out happening that maybe, I mean, gaming has been around for a long time.
you know, the after school in person gaming.
But in a time when people are so over scheduled or people don't live necessarily right next door to one another to go over to one another's houses.
the remote space of gaming, the socially networked gaming, is another really important, especially for boys, kind of social space.
Now not all of these kids though, especially neurodivergent kids, are necessarily doing that social gaming, but for some who are, it is a really important step for them.
In belonging and being connected.
Now, for ones who aren't necessarily gaming with kids that they know, and we're thinking about the kind of platforms where those might be happening, the heightened risk of being the victim of aggression and being sort of made to feel lesser than is a real concern.
And that's something it wasn't kind to some platforms in the book.
I I think there's a lot to be said.
said about Roblox and as a platform that to me I consider to be like the YouTube of gaming, and we don't just let kids do whatever on YouTube or we shouldn't.
I don't think.
So there's a lot that is not for kids in a really explicit way.
Like Roblox when I was I don't know if the thing was been cleaned up, but there were games where you could simulate dating.
And there was definitely adults intermixing with kids in these games, or games where super violent, like prison breakout games.
I saw one, was watching two autistic brothers playing, and it was like somebody like shiving a guard, like just
truly explicit stuff, but you think Roblox, it's blocky, it's like Minecraft.
It's not like Minecraft.
But parents don't always know these things.
Because they're very immersive, those kinds of experiences, they are highly exciting.
And when you're more excited, you're more likely to be gripped and it staying on screen because all of the sort of interception is telling you to sort of be be right there.
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